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Set 132 of 246 / Words 1049-1056 of 1964. Choose specific words in the dictionary

1A club offers volunteers first choice of rehearsal seats if they help pack equipment, hoping the benefit will motivate participation. What is the inducement?A. The act of forbidding anyone to volunteer.B. The offered priority in choosing seats.C. A guarantee that every person must accept the offer.D. An unrelated fact volunteers never learn.

2An organizer demands weeks of unpaid preparation from each participant for a tiny optional activity, far beyond what the activity requires. What could make the demand exorbitant?A. The mere fact that any preparation is requested.B. The fact that the request is written rather than spoken.C. Its unreasonable excess relative to the stated task.D. A modest requirement directly needed for participation.

3A reading group asks what makes a mystery ending effective. Which reply is a commonplace rather than a specific analysis?A. The final discovery explains why the witness avoided naming the visitor.B. It is not over until it is over.C. The narrator's limited view hides one event without contradicting the earlier scenes.D. The early clock detail prepares readers for the final reversal.

4A travel diary repeatedly says each stop was nice and everything was wonderful, but offers no observation, detail, or thought that holds interest. Why might it be called vapid?A. It is brief, which alone always makes writing vapid.B. It is technically complex and full of precise explanation.C. It is necessarily false because it uses positive words.D. It is dull and empty of substance.

5A student claims to analyze a historical conflict but only lists its dates and participants, never examining causes, competing aims, or consequences. Why is the treatment superficial?A. It examines competing explanations and tests them against detailed evidence.B. Any analysis becomes superficial as soon as it mentions a date.C. It traces the conflict's causes and consequences in sustained depth.D. It stays with basic outward facts without exploring the subject's substance.

6A fictional organizer prints essential directions in white ink on white paper, then insists that guests should find them easier to read because the page looks cleaner. Why call the decision witless?A. It acknowledges the problem and changes the printing.B. It carefully balances appearance with tested readability.C. It shows little sense about the purpose of visible directions.D. It follows evidence that the directions are clearly readable.

7When a quiet guest admits feeling lonely, a host smiles smugly and replies, 'Impossible! This room has twenty chairs.' Why is that response fatuous?A. It cautiously admits that furniture does not establish meaningful company.B. It foolishly treats available seating as an answer to the guest's lack of companionship.C. It gives relevant evidence that the guest has formed close friendships.D. It thoughtfully asks what would help the guest feel included.

8A fictional shelf holds at most ten identical boxes under fixed dimensions. Someone insists that a hundred of those boxes will fit without any change in size or arrangement. Why is the claim preposterous?A. It offers a reasonable plan to use ten boxes at a time.B. It merely asks whether a different shelf could be obtained.C. It acknowledges that the present shelf is too small.D. It is absurd under the explicitly stated capacity constraint.

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