"Clear" things up
If a picture is worth a thousand words...
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Grammar
Word focus & Vocabulary
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It was  ......................  clear to everyone that he wouldn't get the job

*hint (aches & .....)

painfully

100

a word or phrase helpful in organizing essay segments

discourse marker

100

Can this be true?

"for real?"

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A ........ is a word that limits or enhances another word's meaning.

qualifier

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The "material girl's" dancing was great, but her singing was ...... atrocious.

absolutely (or comparable)

200

He made it  .................................  clear that he was not satisfied

*large amount

abundantly

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Where are these two homes located?

A: northern Russia, B: Hong Kong

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Most significant

profound

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In which would you hear the /ya/ linking sound?        A. I am here to stay.                                               B. "I am somebody" Jessie Jackson elocution

A.

200

We use this tense to talk about an ongoing action that will finish before another.

future perfect continuous

300

I thought I made myself .................... clear, yesterday, 

reasonably

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On page 41, what does the textbook author say are the four key elements of an opinion essay?

pg 41

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A very fortunate thing

godsend

300

He forgets most things, but .... ..... .... ..., he always remembers my birthday.

* despite what has just been said

having said that

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The city decided to close the swimming pool ..... .... ..... .... it wasn't making money.

on the grounds that

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The reasoning behind her fashion choice wasn't ..... clear.

*completely

entirely

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What was Zaha Adid's goal as an architect?

To create original buildings that people like to be in?

400

only

sole

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We use ...... ...... and ....... ........ before like, enjoy, and hope to give the opposite meaning.

not really, not particularly

400

We form the passive voice using the corresponding form of the verb ..... plus the ....... ........

be, past participle 

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A problem that I found .......... incomprehensible suddenly became ........... clear.

totally, perfectly

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When ..... started exporting its toys in the 1950s and 1960s, it transformed ....... from a quaint city into a .....

Lego, Billund, boomtown

500

Something that causes change

catalyst

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The choice in intensifying adverbs depends on whether the adjective is ......... or not gradable

gradable

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Change the "voice" in the following sentence

I hate waking up in the middle of the night.

I hate being woken up in the middle of the night.