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Set 27 of 246 / Words 209-216 of 1964. Choose specific words in the dictionary

1While dragging a folder to reorganize files, an employee accidentally drops it into a neighboring archive and notices the mistake immediately. What makes the move inadvertent?A. It is carefully planned to conceal information from colleagues.B. It is unintentional and results from an accidental action.C. It is approved in advance as the employee's deliberate goal.D. It causes no change whatsoever to the folder's location.

2An author discovers that a recipe says salt where it should say sugar. Which action emends the recipe?A. Replace salt with sugar in the written ingredient list.B. Bake another cake while leaving the recipe unchanged.C. Tell one friend about the error without correcting the text.D. Move the unchanged recipe to a different folder.

3An emergency planner introduces a hypothetical power failure. What should participants understand?A. The failure has already occurred and repairs are complete.B. The planner is reporting a failure confirmed by live monitoring.C. They are examining an imagined failure to explore possible responses.D. The planner has proved that a failure cannot happen.

4A historian proposes that a missing ship reached a remote island, but no wreckage or records have been found. How should an editor treat the proposed destination?A. Label it conjectural until evidence supports the inference.B. Label it established because the route was physically possible.C. Label it disproved solely because the ship remains missing.D. Label it empirical because the historian drew a map.

5A fictional game awards 3 more points each round in the first four rounds. Which action extrapolates from that record?A. Calculate the difference between two already observed scores only.B. Invent a fifth score unrelated to the observed pattern.C. Copy the four recorded scores without predicting anything.D. Extend the pattern to estimate points in an unobserved fifth round.

6Across twelve fictional market days, umbrella sales rise on days with more coat sales. What does this correlation alone support?A. Umbrella sales will always match coat sales exactly.B. Buying a coat necessarily caused an umbrella purchase.C. The two sales measures varied together in those observations.D. The relationship proves that both products have equal prices.

7A fictional workshop expects an added planning period to lengthen a task. In its trial, the task instead finishes sooner because participants make fewer preventable mistakes. Why is that outcome counterintuitive?A. It must be impossible because it differs from what participants first expected.B. It is only an untested guess, despite the scenario's stated trial result.C. It runs against the initial expectation, although the reduced rework helps explain it.D. It matches exactly the longer completion time everyone predicted.

8Which reason for entering a chess contest is extrinsic to the enjoyment of playing chess?A. Liking the contest between two carefully developed strategies.B. Finding satisfaction in discovering a clever combination.C. Winning a voucher offered by the sponsor.D. Enjoying the challenge of planning several moves ahead.

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