Our history teacher's broad knowledge of the subject encompasses details of life in ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome.

Tomorrow's test will be difficult because it encompasses all the material covered this semester.

Glenville has no shopping center, but the city is growing so quickly that smart entrepreneurs are sure to start up new businesses there soon.

My ten-year-old neighbor is already an entrepreneur. He set up a lemonade stand last summer and sold homemade cookies at Halloween.

In recent years, smallpox has been eradicated--the first time in history that humans have been able to wipe out a disease.

What makes so many people feel they must eradicate all signs of aging? Why should we have to get rid of our wrinkles and gray hair?

The student body at the local college appears quite homogeneous, but there are significant social and economic differences among the students.

"Homogenized" milk has bee made homorgeneous. This means that it's treated so it will be of uniform consistency, rather than having the cream rise to the top.

It was presumptuous of Eric to announce his engagement to Phyllis before she had actually agreed to marry him.

If you ask personal questions at a job interview, you'll be considered presumptuous. So, for example, don't ask the interviewer, "What are they paying you?"

Supermarket tabloids sell well because many people want to know the sordid details of celebrities' addictions and messy divorces.

The reformed criminal now lectures at high schools on how to avoid the mistakes that led him into a sordid life as a drug dealer.

When the company standardized its pay scale, the salary for each type of job became identical throughout all the departments.

If Jamila begins selling her homemade soup, she'll have to standardize the ingredients. Now she just puts in whatever she has on hand, so the soup is never the same from one day to the next.

My stint serving hamburgers and fries at a fast-food restaurant convinced me that I needed to get a college degree.

After traveling during her stint in the aNave, Alise wanted a job that would let her continue to see the world.

Ms. Jasper has the most stringent standards in the English department. Passing her course is difficult; getting an A is next to impossible.

Elected officials should be held to a stringent code of ethics, requiring them to avoid even the appearance if wrongdoing.