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Young World


September 22, 2007






Student dictionary


Break: Time spent at canteens to exercise your limbs, to bring sense of survival and self-defence.

Class discussion: Some brains talking to the class teacher, other discussing movies of the week.

Distress: A feeling felt at the drudgery of home-work.

Examination: A way to judge how much has sunk into the mind of the intellectuals.

Free period: Dodging ourselves and the teachers every time.

Goody-goodies: Those sweet captive, inhabitants of the Principal’s hall-way.

Killer question: When teachers ask “Have you started your revision?”

Lying: An activity that challenges students’ abilities and sharpens their brains.

Multiple choice questions: Chances of three to be wrong out of four.

Nonsense: The word that overshadows whatever you do.

Oh! But I studied so very hard: The voice of majority of the students at the end of the semester.

Proclamation: Devised to teach humility.

Quiet: Strange phenomenon used by all the teachers all over the world.

Red: The colour 99.99 per cent of the class sees in their report card.

Surprise test: The test, which is meant to surprise the teachers with our abilities.

Talkative: Not many are aware of this word.

Unexpected: Contents of examination papers, and report card.

Vocabulary: Strange sounding mutterings.

Work: At the mention of this work, students are induced into deep sleep.

X-cercise: Act of self survival, which shows the student’s imaginative powers.

Yawn: Jaw bone exercise, practised by quite a few during the first period to relieve boredom.

Zoom: The movement of children after 11:00 am in our school.

Contributed by Mohammad Fawaz



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