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While your natural instinct may tell you to resist, you will be safer if you just ________________________your valuables to a mugger.

Anita is ________________________ about not wasting her employer’s time. Although she uses acomputer all day, she never sends personal email or checks social media until she gets home.

The instructor was struggling to answer the student’s ________________________question, so she elicited further information to better understand the situation.

In many cultures, ______________________ is neither an acceptable nor honorable cause of death.

Anyone with even a(n) ___________________________ understanding of electricity knows it’s nota good idea to use a metal fork to take a piece of toast from the toaster.

Timmy was _______________________ when his parents, at last, agreed to let him have the puppyhe’d been begging for. He walked around singing and smiling all day.

Match each sentence to its missing word. There is one extra word that does not belong in any of the sentences. 1. Due to the increased [a] of fake news on social media, consumers should be increasingly critical of what they read online. 2. They were best friends in high school, but after graduation, their paths [b](e)d. 3. “Your Social Security card isn’t enough,” said the clerk taking my check. “You’ll have to [c] your identity with a driver’s license and a major credit card.” 4. Since my father suffers from [d] arthritis, he has been walking with a cane for over ten years. 5. Her boss was extremely impressed with her [e] work on the project. It was clear it would be a huge success.

With her two part-time jobs and  full-time school schedule, my roommate suffers from ______________________ stress.

She was late to her job interview because of the rain: her cellular service was  ________________________, so she got lost when her GPS stopped working.

Match each sentence to its missing word. There is one extra word that does not belong in any of the sentences. 1. Even though Warren was rumored to be [a], he actually put a great deal of thought into making important decisions. 2. The town business association has established a scholarship to [b] a needy business student’s education at the local college each year. 3. Nita doesn’t stop her son from  [c]ing away his weekly allowance on junk. She says he’ll soon learn that it’s better to save his money for something he really wants. 4. She [d](e)d her cubical at work with pictures of her family and inspirational sayings. 5. Cora’s failure to send Rachel a wedding invitation was [e]. As soon as Cora realized her mistake, she telephoned Rachel to invite her.