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Set 129 of 246 / Words 1025-1032 of 1964. Choose specific words in the dictionary

1A manual section explains how to pack fragile pieces, but a reader asks whether its instructions concern billing. Which statement correctly uses pertain?A. The instructions pertain to billing merely because both topics appear somewhere in the manual.B. The section's instructions pertain to packing rather than billing.C. Pertain means prove that two topics are identical.D. The instructions cannot pertain to anything unless they are legally binding.

2At a tasting, a guest chooses not to drink the offered coffee and takes water instead. Which use of abstain fits?A. The guest is required to consume coffee because abstain means participate.B. The guest abstains from coffee by drinking every sample.C. The guest abstains merely by disliking a drink while consuming it.D. The guest abstains from coffee.

3In an invented tale, performers turn a ritual object they know the community holds sacred into a deliberately degrading spectacle meant to express contempt. Why use desecrate?A. They respectfully ask about the object's history.B. They treat something sacred with serious disrespect.C. They preserve the object while discussing an uncertain claim.D. They decline to participate without insulting the object or ritual.

4At a joyful wedding in a story, the participants speak their promises with seriousness and dignity. Can their manner be solemn despite the happy occasion?A. Yes, but only if nobody speaks a word.B. Yes; solemn describes seriousness and dignity, not necessarily unhappiness.C. No; solemn can describe only misery.D. No; a happy event must involve constant joking.

5In a novel, a ship's crew learns that water is entering the hold and that the situation threatens everyone aboard. Why does the narrator call the predicament grave?A. It must end harmlessly because grave describes a mild inconvenience.B. It is unimportant unless the passengers agree about the ship's decoration.C. It is serious and deserves careful concern.D. It concerns a burial site rather than the crew's present circumstances.

6In a fictional office drama, two rivals knowingly circulate humiliating false rumors about a colleague to damage her friendships. Why might the narrator describe their conduct as sordid?A. Every private disagreement is automatically dirty in a literal physical sense.B. The rumors are respectable merely because several people repeat them.C. The deliberate cruelty and dishonesty are morally disreputable.D. An action becomes sordid only when it involves collecting money.

7A fictional backstage room is described as filthy, neglected, and littered with decaying rubbish rather than merely plain. What supports squalid?A. An unfashionable color on an otherwise cared-for wall.B. Extreme dirt and neglect.C. A small room whose limited space is kept orderly.D. Simple furnishings that are clean and maintained.

8A writer calls a character's ordinary sleepiness after a late night inebriety, although the story states there was no alcohol intoxication. What is the misuse?A. Inebriety means intoxication by alcohol, not sleepiness alone.B. The absence of alcohol intoxication makes inebriety more accurate.C. The word refers only to whether the character speaks quietly.D. Inebriety means every kind of tiredness regardless of cause.

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