O grade

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noun (formerly, in Scotland)

the basic level of the Scottish Certificate of Education, now replaced by Standard Grade
(as modifier)O grade history

a pass in a particular subject at O gradeshe has ten O grades

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Also called: formal Ordinary grade

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Words nearby O grade

OGO, ogonek, Ogooué, Ogopogo, OGPU, O grade, ogre, ogress, Ogun, Ogygian, oh

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How to use O grade in a sentence

The pale, baby-faced, red-cheeked rapper is furiously puffing away at a hastily-made blunt crammed with low-grade weed.
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I know the verse because Mrs. Bertalan used to have us do it in ninth-grade choir.
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And so the “Glo-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-ria” in this number earns it a spot on my list.
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“By no means are we Grade A professional consultants,” Goff said.
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Craig-Lewis was an 11-year veteran of the Philadelphia Fire Department, a position she had aspired to since grade school.
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Sleek finds it far harder work than fortune-making; but he pursues his Will-o'-the-Wisp with untiring energy.
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O death, how bitter is the remembrance of thee to a man that hath peace in his possessions!
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D'o l'on peut aussy veoir, quelle esperance il y a de planter une belle chrestient par tels evangelistes.
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That they may know thee, as we also have known thee, that there is no God beside thee, O Lord.
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O wicked presumption, whence camest thou to cover the earth with thy malice, and deceitfulness?
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