PART 1 VUCABULARY (15 minutes, 10 points, 4.5 point each) ]n1D1
1. Reductions in overseas government expenditure took place, but ______and more gradually than now seems desirable.
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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. K*[0dza$
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5. We all buy things on the ______ of the moment; this is what the retail trade calls an “impulse “buy. T?Z OHH8
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6. Nothing has ever equaled the ______ and speed with which the human species is altering the physical and chemical world. 'o7R/`4KR
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7. The second distinguishing characteristic of jazz is a rhythmic drive that was ______ called "hot" and later "swing." 30t:O&2<
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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. h0ZW,2?l
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14. With 1 million copies sold out within just 2 weeks, that book is indeed a ______ success. 7D9h;gsP
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15. As the core of the management hoard, he can always come up with ______ ideas to promote the corporation's marketing strategies. Qcy+ {j]
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l6. They speak of election campaign polls as a musician might of an orchestra ______, or a painter of defective paint. wMR[*I/
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17. Surely it doesn't matter where charities get their money from: what ______much is what they do with it. '@1Q
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19. As he was a thoroughly professional journalist, he already knew the media______. SGT -B.
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20. There was little, if any, evidence to substantiate the gossip and, ______, there was little to disprove it. #esu@kMU`
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