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1. Reductions in overseas government expenditure took place, but ______and more gradually than now seems desirable. H3-(.l[!b)
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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. T_R2BBT
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4. Some of the patients, especially the dying, wanted to ______ in the man and woman who had eased their suffering. u mT *
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5. We all buy things on the ______ of the moment; this is what the retail trade calls an “impulse “buy. (E;+E\E
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6. Nothing has ever equaled the ______ and speed with which the human species is altering the physical and chemical world. +7\d 78U
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7. The second distinguishing characteristic of jazz is a rhythmic drive that was ______ called "hot" and later "swing." IM% ,A5u
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9. Whatever the questions he really wanted to ask at the reprocessing plant, though, he would never allow his personal feelings to ______ with an assignment. X p] jF^5
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10. His ______ with computers began six months ago.
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11. I like cats but unfortunately I am ______ to them. =n 5n
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12. Some of the words employed by Shakespeare in his works have become______ and are no longer used in the present days. P3 `$4p?
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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. E_En"r)y
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14. With 1 million copies sold out within just 2 weeks, that book is indeed a ______ success. .=9WY_@SZ
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D. ingenious 8'zZVX D<
l6. They speak of election campaign polls as a musician might of an orchestra ______, or a painter of defective paint. Jr( =Y@Z '
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17. Surely it doesn't matter where charities get their money from: what ______much is what they do with it. a3<:F2=~\
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l8. Any business needs ordinary insurance______ risks such as fire, flood and breakage. \"oZ\_
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19. As he was a thoroughly professional journalist, he already knew the media______. ={ )85N
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