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Context: Toyota is dealing with a _______ of complaints because some of its vehicles have sticking
gas pedals.
Defined: 1—barrage, volley; flood, torrent, avalanche, stream, rush, outpouring; 2—downpour,
torrential rain; rainstorm |
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Context: The dogs were too slow to catch the ________ rabbit.
Defined: able to move quickly and easily; nimble, lithe, acrobatic, light-footed; shrewd, astute,
perceptive, quick-witted |
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Context: Parents at soccer games are known to make _________protests when they think the
referee has made a bad call.
Defined: clamorous, vehement; noisy, loud, and unrestrained shouting |
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Context: Once inside the cave, the searchers were confronted with a ___________ that kept them
from finding the wounded explorer.
Defined: a maze; a complicated, perplexing arrangement or course of affairs, morass, jungle,
confusion |
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Context: Greg made a _____________promise to the people of Korphe that he would return and
build a school.
Defined: authentic, genuine, real, true, actual; legal, lawful, legit, real McCoy |
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Context: Jason was so overwhelmed by the __________ of items at the salad bar that he couldn’t
decide what to get.
Defined: an excess of something, overabundance, surplus, superfluity, profusion, too much, too
many |
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