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Like many people, the
manager is susceptible to flattery. |
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free from |
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easily affected by
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deaf to |
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disgusted with |
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In the tropics, the
natives find sustenance easy to obtain. |
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(A) |
food; livelihood
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(B) |
good weather |
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suspense |
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suspicion |
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All the country boys and
girls envied the young steamboat man when they saw him
swaggering around the town. |
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(A) |
sustaining |
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(B) |
sauntering |
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ambling |
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(D) |
strutting
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They decided to hunt
alligators in the Florida swamps. |
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(A) |
bays |
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(B) |
marshes
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prairie |
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plateaus |
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When I visited him in
the hospital, I found him swathed in bandages. |
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(A) |
mustered |
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(B) |
mutilated |
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wrapped around
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betrothed |
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Think independently;
don't be swayed by his radical statement. |
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(A) |
swarmed |
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edified |
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(C) |
influenced
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eliminated |
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As we cannot afford to
buy an air conditioning unit, we have to swelter through
another hot and humid summer. |
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(A) |
suffer from heat
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(B) |
swear |
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(C) |
swallow |
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(D) |
elucidate |
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8. |
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John swerved the
car just in time to avoid collision. |
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(A) |
emanated |
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(B) |
nestled |
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hinged |
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turned aside
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The peddler swindled
money out of the child by selling him broken toys. |
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(A) |
surveyed |
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(B) |
conveyed |
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cheated
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embroidered |
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The novice made two
swipes at the golf ball without hitting it. |
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(A) |
preoccupations |
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(B) |
sweeping strokes
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(C) |
defenses |
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(D) |
suits |
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Answers 1B
2A 3D 4B 5C 6C
7A 8D 9C 10B |
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