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examination
Noun
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An examination is a formal test, usually important and often at the end of a course.
Did you pass the English examination last week?
OK, class. Time is up. Please hand in your examination papers.
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Examination is the act of looking at something very carefully.
The teachers and parents worked together in a closer examination of the problems grade seven students face.
The question of changing the law is currently under examination.
On closer examination, we found that we had made a mistake.
clerk
Noun
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A clerk is a person who keeps an organization's records.
I called the city clerks office to see if they had a record of her birth.
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A sales clerk is the person in a shop who helps you find things you want to buy.
A convenience store clerk was arrested for selling cigarettes to children.
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A desk clerk is the person at a hotel who registers guests.
The desk clerk called a taxi for us.
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A law clerk is a person, often a junior lawyer, who is the assistant of a judge or another lawyer.
clerk
Verb
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If you clerk, you work as a clerk, especially as a law clerk.
She clerked for the judge in 1992, and says she and her fellow clerks worked "as many hours as we could stay awake, often past midnight and on weekends."