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Monday, November 15, 2010

rebellious

Word of the week: rebellious. It is a formal word. According to COCA, its usage frequency is 3.69 words per million in academic writing. But it is not rare in the spoken language. Its frequency there is 2.07. Also the usage of the word is declining from 3.43 in 1990-1994 to 2.4 in 2005-2010.

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