Unit 1
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Hold the (repast or compress) on your ankle until the swelling goes down.
What is compress?
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Report any (sheepish or adverse) side effects to your doctor immediately.
What is adverse?
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Many view Shakespeare as the timeless (illusion or sage) and constantly use his words to give advice.
What is sage?
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Are we going to allow (elusive or petty) quarrels to destroy a friendship that has endured for so many years?
What is petty?
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We cannot assume that all the people one sees on the streets of a large city are actually (facets or inhabitants) of the place.
What are inhabitants?
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Our puppy's paws and legs are much larger than her body, but she looks adorable as she lumbers around the yard like a huge (libel or oaf).
What is oaf?
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Instead of working so hard to (mimic or ruffle) popular TV stars, why don't you try to develop an acting style of your own?
What is mimic?
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The United States has laws that (restrict or waylay) the numbers and kinds of immigrants allowed to enter this country.
What is restrict?
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Imagine his (plight or ingratitude)-penniless, unemployed, and with a large family to support!
What is plight?
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I keep telling you things for your own good, but you're just too (eerie or headstrong) to listen.
What is headstrong?
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Instead of feeling (forsaken or irked) because you did poorly on the exam, why don't you make up your mind to study harder in the future?
What is irked?
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While some find her smile comical, I have always found the Mona Lisa's smile to be (serene or sheepish) and mysterious.
What is serene?
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No matter what it may cost me to carry out, I will never break my sacred (vow or illusion).
What is the vow?
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A special edition of poems by the noted writer was presented as a (reverie or keepsake) to all who attended her eightieth birthday party.
What is keepsake?
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Although I don't agree with all of her ideas, I must admire her unshakable (fidelity or synopsis) to them.
What is fidelity?
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His notebooks show that Leonardo da Vinci was not only a masterful artist but an (inept or ingenious) inventor as well.
What is ingenious?
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After living for many years in that roomy old farmhouse, I felt awfully (arid or constrained) in that small apartment.
What is constrained?
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To (slake or restrict) our curiosity, you will have to tell us everything that happened during that strange trip.
What is slake?
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We should respect our national leaders, but we should not (idolize or discredit) them and assume that they can do no wrong.
What is idolize?
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"It's your job to help (pacify or fray) the conquered area," the general said, "not to add fuel to an already explosive situation."
What is pacify?
Tell me one synonym for douse.
Possible answers:
submerge, soak, dunk, or immerse
Tell me one synonym for arid.
Possible answers:
waterless, parched, boring, unimaginative
Tell me one synonym for wither.
Possible answers:
shrivel, droop, shame, abash
Tell me a synonym for reverie.
Possible answers include:
fantasy, meditation
Tell me one synonym for facets.
Possible answers are:
angle, characteristic, factor, element