used of the second year in United States high school or college
<adj.all> the sophomore class his sophomore year
Sophomore \Soph"o*more\, n. [Probably fr. soph or sophister + Gr. ? foolish. The word was probably introduced into the United States at an early date, from the University of Cambridge, England. Among the cant terms at that university, as given in the Gradus ad Cantabrigiam, we find Soph-Mor as ``the next distinctive appellation to Freshman,'' but the term has now almost ceased to be known at the English university from whence it came.] One belonging to the second of the four classes in an American college, or one next above a freshman. [Formerly written also {sophimore}.]
"Just seeing the convoys terrified me," said a People's University sophomore.
Tom West, a sophomore sports medicine major from West Long Branch, N.J., taped feet, iced ankles and treated blisters from a trainer's table off the dance floor.
He won a tournament in 1984, his first year on the tour, and the next year not only won another but also led in top-10 finishes with 13, an unusual achievement for a sophomore.
The election, using about 70 university-owned or rented Apple Macintosh computers and software written by a sophomore, is expected to cost at least $3,000 less than the $13,000 spent last year.
By face-off time, the high-school sophomore was in the company of some 9,000 other curious sports fans.
In the greenhouse, sophomore Julie Berner watered and fertilized geraniums, some of the 50,000 bedding plants grown and sold by the students.
"We all know what really happened, though," said a sophomore student from Jiangsu province who spoke on condition of anonymity. He said none of the students really believed the official version of the violence.
Natasha Winfrey, an 18-year-old sophomore at the University of California, Davis, said she and her family would have found a way to get her to college somehow, but the district's gift helped eased her anxiety about money.
The operation encountered no complications and Kennedy, a sophomore at Providence College, was expected to make a complete recovery, said Kennedy spokesman Jeff Smith, in Washington.
"The girls' skirts are so short it makes some of us want to run away," says Cho Jeong Hyun, a male Yonsei sophomore.
"Why weren't parents told?" asked Marcia Mann, whose daughter is a sophomore. "Apparently a lot of kids knew all the sordid details.
Kelley, a high school sophomore, had moved out a number of times after conflicts with his parents in the past three years, most recently Dec. 2, the stepfather said.
A high school sophomore who would have celebrated his 16th birthday Monday died after being shot in the face by a 14-year-old friend as they were playing with guns, police said.
Big Audio Dynamite can consider this a rebound from the sophomore slump.
"If the computer detects that it's being tampered with in some manner, it will make a lot of loud noises and alert the poll watcher," said Steven Krauss, elections commissioner and a sophomore.
Lunn is a sophomore at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana.
"Just beating someone doesn't get it any more," says Keisha, a 16-year-old high-school sophomore.
Aldridge had been pressured by two senators, several advocates for the disabled and an organization of amputee athletes pushing for Korslund, who would have been in his sophomore year this fall.
He is interested in accounting, though, and is studying at Lehman College in the Bronx, where he is a sophomore.
"First impressions are crucial," says Melchishaua Person, the well-dressed sophomore.
The sophomore said he worked on a stack created by a senior who left a computer terminal outside his door.
Not only was sophomore Calloway playing before a mostly pro-Hoosier home-town audience, but his missed slam dunk that gave LSU the ball and a 75-66 lead at the 4:38-to-go mark had seemingly sealed the Hoosiers' doom.
"They're both great kids," Stevens said. "You talk about a loss, I mean this truly is a loss for anyone who knew them." Hoyt, an 18-year-old sophomore, was an honor student on a full scholarship at Santa Fe.
"I really don't think you can form any sort of loyalty to a house without pledging," said Steve Colafella, a sophomore initiated last month into Alpha Sigma Phi at Penn State University.
To queries about sophomore Hurley, whom UNLV victimized particularly in the 1990 title game, Coach K was similarly positive.
You don't need anything else." A sophomore album is scheduled for the spring, but Diesel is sure his hoped-for U.S. success won't be founded on studio work.
For instance, 17% of the sophomore class of 1980, a group the government tracks at intervals, failed to complete high school initially.
Vince Mulhern, a sophomore majoring in mechanical engineering, applied for the program, which will accept only two students a year.
The outsmarted part was carried out mainly by Billy Joe Hobert, Washington's sophomore quarterback.
"They have no right to tell us what to wear," says 16-year-old Windy Watson, a Mumford sophomore.