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- noun Someone who does not get good
grades . - noun Someone who does not
progress ormove forward ; someone that lacksmotivation .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a student who does not perform as well as expected or as well as the IQ indicates
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Examples
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I shudder to think of a nonachiever, a mediocre person like Gandhi, heading anything whatever; yet this is now a tormenting possibility.
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That’s a slave mentality to be a nonachiever because it’s "acting white."
Surgeon says 'slave mentality’ leads to low achievement in young black males 2005
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That’s a slave mentality to be a nonachiever because it’s "acting white."
Archive 2005-12-01 2005
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