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Set 158 of 246 / Words 1257-1264 of 1964. Choose specific words in the dictionary

1A panel includes approaches from engineering, visual art, local history, and community organizing, with participants bringing different perspectives to the same design question. What supports diverse?A. Every participant uses one identical approach and expresses one identical view.B. The panel has many seats, which guarantees that everyone thinks differently.C. The panel's title is long, regardless of who participates or what they contribute.D. The panel contains different kinds of knowledge and perspective.

2A small fictional translation practice gains skill, completes well-received projects, and develops dependable working relationships. Which description fits flourish?A. The practice can flourish only if every project produces an identical result.B. The practice must become the largest firm in the world.C. The practice develops well and achieves success.D. The practice merely changes its name while losing all ability to complete work.

3After a new shorthand catches on in a fictional hobby community, members rapidly create and spread many additional abbreviations. What does proliferate describe?A. The abbreviations disappear until none remain.B. The abbreviations increase and spread rapidly.C. One abbreviation stays unchanged in a private notebook that nobody sees.D. The community necessarily judges every abbreviation useful and accurate.

4In an invented marketplace, unauthorized stalls spread across the lanes despite rules that no one effectively enforces. Which detail supports rampant?A. Officials consistently prevent any unapproved expansion.B. There is one approved stall operating within clearly maintained limits.C. The stalls are spreading without effective restraint.D. The marketplace has a large sign but no change in the number or spread of stalls.

5A festival sculpture stands many times taller than the surrounding stalls and occupies most of the central square. Which claim is supported by colossal?A. The sculpture is guaranteed to remain stable in all conditions.B. The sculpture is necessarily more beautiful than every smaller work.C. The sculpture is extremely large in size.D. The sculpture must be made of the most expensive available material.

6A travel writer describes a refuge high above the valley on a mountain ridge. Which phrase uses the physical sense of lofty?A. The refuge's low position at the bottom of the valley.B. The refuge's lofty position above the valley.C. The refuge's ordinary guest register, solely because it contains many names.D. The refuge's modest meal, solely because a traveler enjoys it.

7A fictional memoir writer wants to protect a source's anonymity, use vivid local details, and keep a chapter short. Which editing choice treats anonymity as the overriding concern?A. Cut identifying details even when their removal makes the passage less vivid.B. Shorten the chapter while leaving every identifying detail untouched.C. Protect the source only when doing so requires no compromise on any other preference.D. Keep identifying details because their dramatic effect matters more than the promise of anonymity.

8A fictional bakery prepares hundreds of identical cakes for a small event that can use only a few dozen, leaving a large excess without another planned use. What is the glut?A. The excessive supply of cakes relative to the event's use.B. A shortage of cakes that leaves many confirmed guests without any.C. The small group of guests merely because it is smaller than another group.D. The existence of one extra slice set aside for an expected late arrival.

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