Assignment and Report

Assignment

Assignment noun - A piece of work that needs to be done regularly.

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Report and assignment are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Report" instead a noun "Assignment".

Report noun - A loud explosive sound.

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Assignment and report are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Assignment" instead a noun "Report".

old	old assignment	old report
good	good assignment	good report
special	special assignment	special report
short	short assignment	short report
Other adjectives: original, single, actual, entire, real, bad, urgent, new, final, boring, next, last, latest, written, undercover, recent.

A usually Played for Laughs trope, this occurs when a character, usually a student, gives a report (or other written assignment) that has absolutely nothing to do with the assignment given.

Source: Completely Off-Topic Report
In another episode, the eponymous Doug is given an assignment to write a report about a classmate's home life, and he's assigned the Sleech brothers.

Source: Anticlimactic Parent
A variation of this was used as the focus of an episode of Stark Raving Mad: Maddie announces that as her last college assignment, she has to write a book report about Ian.

Source: The B Grade

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