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Set 170 of 246 / Words 1353-1360 of 1964. Choose specific words in the dictionary

1A local audio project assembles separately recorded rain, footsteps, bells, and conversations into a published collection. Why is compilation an appropriate noun?A. The editor must have removed all differences among the sounds.B. The collection is necessarily a written summary of the recordings.C. The finished collection brings together material gathered from separate recordings.D. Every sound must have been invented in one uninterrupted performance.

2A puzzle can use wooden tiles, paper cards, or a phone screen, but in every version players must infer a hidden arrangement from limited clues. Which statement identifies its essence?A. Its defining activity is holding wooden pieces, even in the version with no wood.B. Its defining feature is the box color, which changes between editions.C. Its defining feature is the price printed by a particular shop.D. The defining activity is inferring the hidden arrangement from the clues.

3After caring for a neighbor's abandoned garden, a fictional character begins to reconsider what it means to belong to a place. Which description makes profound appropriate?A. The experience changes her deepest understanding of belonging, and the story explores why.B. The experience is called important many times without showing any depth or effect.C. The experience gives her a minor errand she immediately forgets.D. The experience briefly reminds her that the watering can is blue.

4An exhibition chiefly explains how a fictional city's transport network developed. A small case shows the changing ticket designs only to clarify one stage of that history. What role is subsidiary?A. The exhibition's principal purpose of explaining network development.B. A new display that replaces transport history as the exhibition's central subject.C. The main sequence on which the exhibition's central account depends.D. The ticket case's supporting role within the larger transport account.

5A writer proposes four works. Which is an epic in the noun sense?A. A three-word slogan calling a new notebook amazing.B. A sustained narrative of a people's perilous founding journey and the leaders whose choices shape its fate.C. A short description of a cup with no characters or consequential events.D. A brief notice listing tomorrow's room assignments.

6An invented island history divides its past into years of family workshops and a later era of cooperative workshops that transformed work and community life. What makes the latter an epoch?A. It is a distinctive period characterized by consequential changes in how society operates.B. It is any arbitrary ten-minute gap with no distinguishing developments.C. It is merely the exact second when one workshop door opened.D. It is a short chapter title that tells us nothing about a period.

7A curator compares a child's improvised toy town with an architect's preliminary model. Which observation establishes a useful parallel?A. Both simplified models let their makers test spatial arrangements before committing to a final design.B. The architect copied the child's work, even though no contact is described.C. The child's model must satisfy every professional building requirement.D. The objects are identical because both sit on tables.

8A colleague complains, 'This spreadsheet has swallowed the entire universe of my free time,' after a long afternoon of revisions. Which reading fits hyperbolic language?A. The speaker exaggerates the time burden for expressive effect.B. The sentence supplies a measured, exact duration of the revisions.C. The spreadsheet has literally consumed every moment available to every person.D. The speaker is necessarily discussing a mathematical hyperbola.

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