Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.

Our new house is modem but there is no room to swing a cat.

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He was _____________ from the competition for using drugs.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best combines each pair of sentences in the following questions.

This is the battle field. The soldiers fought there.

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He daren’t _____________ his boss for a rise just now.

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The terrible weather may have _____________ the small population.

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Because the traffic was so terrible, by the time we got to the airport, our airline’s check-in counter had _____________ closed.

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The conflict between the two countries should be settled by _____________ means, not fighting.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.

We played my brother’s school at football and beat them hollow.