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Set 186 of 246 / Words 1481-1488 of 1964. Choose specific words in the dictionary

1In a play, an unexpected storm strands two estranged friends together and brings about a reconciliation that neither had planned for that evening. What does the claim that the storm precipitates the reconciliation mean?A. It merely occurs after the reconciliation and has no role in its timing.B. It causes the reconciliation to happen suddenly or sooner than expected.C. It proves that every storm necessarily reconciles every disagreement.D. It postpones the reconciliation until a much later date.

2A warehouse is loud and crowded, but workers know their assignments, goods move accurately, and instructions remain consistent. A visitor calls it turmoil solely because much is happening. What is missing?A. Evidence of intense disorder, confusion, or agitation rather than organized activity.B. Proof that workers can never coordinate a complex operation.C. A rule that all useful work must happen in silence.D. Evidence that the warehouse contains many people, which the account already supplies.

3An animator generates thousands of distinct possible endings for a fictional branching story and calls them a multitude. Is the noun appropriate even though the endings are not people?A. Yes; multitude can mean a very large number of things as well as a gathering of people.B. No; a collection can be a multitude only if every item is identical.C. Yes, but it proves every ending arrived in one sudden burst.D. No; multitude can refer only to a crowd physically standing together.

4A station log records exactly two routine deliveries every day for ten years, with no sudden surge. A summary calls the entire total a spate of deliveries. What should be reconsidered?A. A large accumulated total does not establish the sudden outpouring implied by spate.B. The log shows too many deliveries for any word describing quantity to apply.C. The steady daily pattern itself proves an abrupt cluster occurred.D. A spate must contain fewer than ten items under every circumstance.

5One pantry holds fifty jars of an ingredient, but none of the other shops or kitchens in the surveyed town stocks it. Why is ubiquitous throughout the town a poor description?A. The ingredient must be ubiquitous whenever one location holds many jars.B. Concentration in one place does not establish presence almost everywhere in the town.C. Ubiquitous refers only to how heavy each jar is.D. A town can never be used as the scope of a distribution claim.

6In a fictional organization, mistrust begins to affect hiring discussions, routine messages, budget meetings, and conversations between teams. Why might the narrator say mistrust permeates the organization?A. Every member must have exactly the same thought at exactly the same moment.B. The attitude spreads throughout many parts of its activity.C. The organization has become physically porous because the word is always literal.D. Only one isolated person briefly raises one unrelated concern.

7A fictional speaker repeatedly returns to the image of a locked door in jokes, instructions, apologies, and personal stories. What would it mean to say the image pervades his language?A. It prevents him from producing any words at all.B. It proves that every door mentioned is physically locked in the real world.C. It appears once in an unrelated footnote and nowhere else.D. It is present throughout many different kinds of his expression.

8During an invented musical performance, a drum rhythm has the greatest audible prominence, though flute and strings remain clearly present. Which statement uses dominant accurately?A. The drum rhythm is dominant without being the only sound.B. No sound can be dominant unless all other instruments stop.C. The flute must be dominant because one listener prefers its tone.D. Every instrument is equally dominant merely because it participates.

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