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8 questions that use guided words beyond their original reading. Choose the best answer before opening a definition, then read the explanation.

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Set 109 of 246 / Words 865-872 of 1964. Choose specific words in the dictionary

1A travel diary describes an unhurried morning among orchards, quiet farm lanes, and grazing animals. Which description best captures its bucolic mood?A. A technical account focused entirely on machinery repairs.B. A pleasant calm associated with country life.C. An atmosphere made peaceful only by the absence of all living things.D. The excitement of a crowded commercial district.

2An editor labels a farmer's account pastoral solely because it takes place on a farm. The account emphasizes exhausting labor, ruined crops, and conflict, with no idealization. What weakens the editor's justification?A. Pastoral means that the account has been verified as a historical record.B. Pastoral requires the account to contain no human characters.C. Any text mentioning crops must be pastoral regardless of its treatment.D. A rural location alone does not establish the idealized rural life meant by pastoral.

3For a harvest supper, a host chooses coarse linen, simple earthenware, and unpainted wooden chairs. What unifies this rustic arrangement?A. A requirement that every object be historically rare.B. A plain style associated with country life.C. A preference for ornate courtly decoration.D. A design that must have been built without any tools.

4An adult course covers propagating plants, pruning shrubs, and preparing beds. Which proposed addition belongs most directly to its horticultural focus?A. A practical session on tending seedlings.B. A discussion of the village's voting system.C. A session on interpreting a composer's score.D. A lesson on the historical meaning of place names.

5A report lists every organism found in a sealed classroom terrarium but deliberately omits light, air, moisture, and their interactions with those organisms. Why is calling it a complete account of the ecosystem too strong?A. An ecosystem cannot exist in any space maintained by people.B. An ecosystem can include only animals, so listing plants makes the report too broad.C. An ecosystem is simply a complete list of organism names, so nothing relevant is missing.D. An ecosystem also includes the physical environment with which the organisms interact.

6In an invented island history, a bird lived naturally on the island long before sailors arrived, while another species was brought there in crates. Which claim is supported?A. Both birds are indigenous merely because both now live there.B. The first bird is indigenous to the island.C. Neither bird can be indigenous if people later observe it.D. The imported bird becomes indigenous as soon as it is popular.

7A menu editor calls a pudding sapid solely because its bright color looks attractive in a photograph; no one has tasted it or described its flavor. What evidence is needed to justify sapid here?A. Evidence that the pudding has no visible decoration at all.B. Evidence that the pudding is more expensive than another dessert.C. Evidence that the photograph was taken in daylight rather than indoors.D. Evidence that it has a distinct, pleasing flavor.

8A fictional ink maker mixes water into bottles sold as undiluted ink, reducing their purity. Which description correctly uses adulterate?A. Checking the ingredients adulterates the written label.B. The unopened bottles adulterate themselves by remaining sealed.C. The added water adulterates the ink sold as pure.D. Separating the bottles by color adulterates the shelf.

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