PART 1 VUCABULARY (15 minutes, 10 points, 4.5 point each) V_:/#G]jeG
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2. In fear for their lives and in ______of their freedom, thousands of enslaved women and children fled to the Northern States on the eve of the American Civil War. 5,A/6b
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13. One of the main ways to stay out of trouble with government agents is to keep a law______ away from those situations wherein you call attention to yourself. -0P(lkylf
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14. With 1 million copies sold out within just 2 weeks, that book is indeed a ______ success. <e)u8+(
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17. Surely it doesn't matter where charities get their money from: what ______much is what they do with it. =sFLzAu8
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