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Set 159 of 246 / Words 1265-1272 of 1964. Choose specific words in the dictionary

1A fictional manuscript is full of inconsistent dates and contradictory place names throughout its chapters. Which description uses rife accurately?A. The manuscript is rife with inconsistencies.B. The manuscript is rife with inconsistencies only if every single word is incorrect.C. The manuscript is rife with inconsistencies solely because its cover is damaged.D. The manuscript is rife with inconsistencies because none can be found anywhere.

2In a fictional town during one decade, most shops use striped awnings, though a few use plain ones. What does prevalent establish?A. Striped awnings must remain common in every later decade.B. Every shop without exception must use a striped awning.C. Striped awnings are commonly occurring in that place and period.D. The few plain awnings prove that striped ones cannot be prevalent.

3A fictional volunteer project records hours contributed, benches repaired, and money spent on supplies. Which record is explicitly monetary?A. The amount of money spent on supplies.B. The number of volunteer hours, considered without assigning a money value.C. The number of benches repaired, considered only as a physical count.D. The volunteers' reported satisfaction, considered without a financial measure.

4A traveler returns a lost watch and unexpectedly receives the reward its owner had advertised. In that incident, why could finding the watch be described as remunerative?A. It can be remunerative only if the reward is accompanied by public praise.B. It can be remunerative only if the traveler had planned a professional search business.C. It provides only a pleasant memory and no payment of any kind.D. It provides the traveler with a financial reward, even though earning money was not the original intention.

5An invented country's annual accounting exercise asks which figure belongs to gross domestic product. Which candidate follows the stated definition?A. The value of all used furniture resold that year, treated as newly produced furniture.B. The value of final furniture and repair services produced inside its borders during that year.C. The value of domestic production from every year combined without a specified period.D. The same country's residents' total cash held on the year's last day.

6A fictional museum has a folder of sketches and a separate collection of bonds and shares held to support future expenses. In the assigned financial sense, what is its portfolio?A. The collection of bonds and shares it holds as investments.B. The museum's opening hours without any financial holdings.C. The folder of sketches merely because portfolio can have another sense elsewhere.D. The amount of pleasure a visitor gets from seeing a sketch.

7In an illustrative account, a record changes from eighty units in stocks and twenty in cash to sixty in stocks and forty in cash, while the total remains one hundred. What changed?A. The account must now contain different stock companies, although no such detail is given.B. The account's future return is now certain, although no future result is supplied.C. Only the total value changed, because both divisions are identical.D. The asset allocation changed because the division among asset types changed.

8In a hypothetical choice, a student gets more satisfaction from repairing a familiar bicycle than from receiving an equally priced decorative item. Which observation concerns utility?A. Utility is only the number of coins exchanged, regardless of usefulness or satisfaction.B. The decorative item's price alone proves it is more useful to the student.C. The repaired bicycle provides more value or satisfaction to that chooser.D. Equal prices require equal satisfaction for every person.

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