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8 questions that use guided words beyond their original reading. Choose the best answer before opening a definition, then read the explanation.

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Set 77 of 246 / Words 609-616 of 1964. Choose specific words in the dictionary

1A recipe tester says a difficult technique is described with lucidity. Which evidence supports that claim?A. The method is physically easy, although the description contradicts itself.B. The page looks expensive, but it leaves the order of steps unstated.C. The instructions use elaborate terms that no reader can interpret.D. A first-time reader can explain the sequence accurately because the steps and terms are clear.

2A travel essay jumps from a train journey to a childhood scene and then to a restaurant review without showing any connection. Why might an editor call it disjointed?A. Its parts lack a coherent relationship or understandable order.B. Its variety automatically makes it a carefully integrated whole.C. Its subject must be false because the author mentions several locations.D. Its sentences are too short to contain any accurate information.

3A project note says, 'Someone should finish the important part fairly soon.' Which revision most directly reduces its vagueness?A. Print the same wording in a larger typeface.B. Name the responsible person, identify the part, and state the agreed completion time.C. Add an enthusiastic exclamation without changing any details.D. Replace fairly soon with sometime before too long.

4A game manual defines each unfamiliar term using several other undefined terms, leaving a new player unable to work out even the first move. What does incomprehensible describe here?A. The game must be impossible for anyone to play under any instructions.B. The manual is extremely difficult for its intended reader to understand.C. The reader has conclusively proved that every rule is false.D. The manual is uninteresting only because its cover has a plain design.

5Several apartment residents pool ideas and jointly decide where to place a shared bicycle rack. What makes this a collective decision?A. The residents act together as a group in making it.B. The rack belongs exclusively to whichever resident spoke first.C. The decision is automatically correct because several people were present.D. Each resident secretly chooses an unrelated location without discussion.

6A meeting chair asks whether members support a guest speaker, and the room answers with an audible chorus of approval. How was support expressed?A. By acclamation, through open group approval.B. By dissent, through a series of spoken objections.C. By a confidential ballot whose votes nobody voiced.D. By abstention, through a deliberate refusal to express a view.

7Members of a hiking association divide into hostile camps over whether to allow commercial sponsorship. Which consequence most clearly indicates dissension?A. A member asks one factual question and accepts the answer.B. A supplier changes its opening hours without involving association members.C. Everyone independently reaches the same conclusion after reading the proposal.D. The disagreement splits the association and disrupts its ability to decide together.

8Two housemates disagree about overnight guests and ask a third person to mediate. What should that person do in that role?A. Secretly choose one person's preferred rule before hearing the other.B. Help both explain their concerns and work toward an arrangement they can accept.C. Refuse to let either person describe what the dispute concerns.D. Tell each housemate a different false story to end the conversation.

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