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Use a dictionary to look up the meanings of any words you don't know.
1. Which of these would be a spontaneous event?
a. Karen wins a hard fought chess
match.
b. Bill suddenly yells out a rude comment
that he hadn’t really planned on saying.
c. Ryan puts on a puppet show featuring a
play he wrote for it.
d. Paul decides who to vote for after
listening to both candidates speak.
2. Which word is not a synonym of “inspect”?
a. examine
b. peruse
c. scrutinize
d. disregard
3. Which action would most likely be considered to be crass?
a. apologizing for forgetting a
birthday
b. sweeping the cellar stairs
c. cracking all your knuckles during church
services
d. painting your house white
4. If you consider something to be intolerable, you certainly __________.
a. are ignorant
b. are not looking very hard
c. are wearing your shoes upside down
d. are not fond of it
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