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Set 136 of 246 / Words 1081-1088 of 1964. Choose specific words in the dictionary

1A fictional organizer commits to a major change before checking readily available facts or allowing time to consider consequences. Which sense of precipitous applies?A. A careful choice reached after adequate review.B. Excessively hasty action.C. A physically steep hillside, regardless of the decision.D. A delay caused by refusing to decide at all.

2A character promises to protect a colleague's confidential plan, then secretly gives it to a rival for personal advantage. Why is treacherous apt?A. The plan is openly shared after the colleague gives permission.B. The character declines responsibility before receiving the information.C. The character makes an honest mistake while trying to keep the promise.D. The conduct is disloyal and deceptive.

3A review calls an invented event an unmitigated failure after describing every intended aim as unmet and identifying no redeeming result. What does unmitigated add?A. The reviewer is uncertain whether anything went wrong.B. Only one small part failed while every main aim succeeded.C. The failure is not lessened or qualified by a positive result in that account.D. The event is guaranteed to succeed on its next attempt.

4In a novel, a threatened closure hangs over a school for months, burdening every lesson and plan with oppressive worry. Which sense of incubus fits?A. A passing inconvenience they immediately forget.B. An oppressive burden that weighs on the characters.C. A pleasant daydream they choose for enjoyment.D. A physical timetable recording ordinary class times.

5A fictional office task generates three new forms for every form completed, drawing more time and workers into an expanding tangle of paperwork. Why call it a vortex?A. The process releases everyone immediately without further demands.B. The forms are merely a fixed small stack that never grows or entangles anyone.C. The word requires that the paper physically spin in water.D. The situation powerfully draws people and effort into itself.

6A rule forbids every sincere question about an organization's claims. Why might it be inimical to open inquiry?A. It is unrelated to whether inquiry can take place.B. It encourages the very questions it forbids.C. It proves that every organizational claim is true.D. It is harmful or hostile to the process of questioning and examination.

7A fictional donor sends identical materials to every group without checking their different needs, including items several groups cannot use. What makes the distribution indiscriminate?A. It asks recipients what they can actually use before allocating items.B. It matches each delivery to a group's verified needs.C. It is done without careful selection or distinction.D. It explicitly separates useful materials from unsuitable ones.

8A tasting report includes only comments from people who enjoyed one recipe and presents them as the full audience's view. What does skew describe?A. Distorting the apparent balance through selective inclusion.B. Accurately representing every recorded viewpoint.C. Changing the dish itself without affecting the report.D. Keeping the report neutral merely by calling it complete.

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