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Set 189 of 246 / Words 1505-1512 of 1964. Choose specific words in the dictionary

1A new trainee openly acknowledges limited experience, seeks advice, and responds thoughtfully to criticism. A colleague calls her callow solely because she is new. What is missing from the description?A. Proof that thoughtful behavior is impossible for beginners.B. Evidence that she has limited experience, which is already stated.C. A rule that every request for advice shows immature judgment.D. Evidence of the immaturity associated with callow, rather than inexperience alone.

2In a mystery, constables apprehend a suspect outside a station and take him into custody for the story's investigation. What does apprehend mean in this sentence?A. Prove the person's guilt merely by noticing him.B. Release the person after a completed acquittal.C. Take the person into custody.D. Understand an abstract concept without taking any action involving a person.

3A persistent false rumor damages trust in a fictional club and spoils cooperation among otherwise willing members. A narrator calls it a blight on the club's life. Which sense fits?A. A damaging influence that harms the shared activity.B. A formal estimate of the club's membership count.C. A harmless variation in the club's stationery design.D. Proof that the rumor concerns a plant disease in every use of the word.

4A holiday town has the same five hundred permanent residents throughout the year, though visitor numbers fall sharply after summer. A report calls the seasonal change depopulation. What is unsupported?A. The town retains five hundred permanent residents.B. A decline in people living there, since only the temporary visitor count has fallen.C. The fact that fewer visitors arrive outside summer.D. The possibility of counting residents separately from visitors.

5A repair crew reaches a remote rehearsal space after its equipment case is mistakenly sent elsewhere. The crew is bereft of the tools needed for the assigned repair. What does the phrase mean?A. The equipment case is necessarily beyond all possible recovery.B. The crew has permanently lost every practical skill it once possessed.C. The crew is left without equipment it needs.D. The crew has every required tool and simply prefers another brand.

6A fictional technician demonstrates that replacing one available cable fully restores a pair of headphones. An advertisement still calls the original fault irreparable. Why is that inaccurate?A. Any repair that requires a replacement part is impossible by definition.B. A fault becomes irreparable whenever someone uses a strong adjective about it.C. The headphones must be irreparable if the owner initially felt disappointed.D. The demonstrated repair contradicts the claim that the fault is impossible to put right.

7An invented tribunal's core rules require the same favored party to win regardless of evidence. The story explicitly presents the structure as incapable of reform without replacing those defining rules. In that context, what does irredeemable describe?A. An ordinary difference of opinion that leaves all core procedures fair.B. A guarantee that every individual who once served in the tribunal is permanently incapable of change.C. A minor wording issue that has already been corrected without changing the structure.D. A structure beyond correction or improvement in its existing form.

8An editor wants to extirpate a recurring misspelling from a workbook. She corrects the headings, but the same error remains in twelve exercises. Has the error been extirpated?A. Yes; reducing the number of occurrences is always complete removal.B. No; complete removal requires correcting the remaining occurrences as well.C. No; extirpate can apply only to plants and never to errors.D. Yes; an error ceases to exist once the editor intends to remove it.

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