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They’re going to build a big office block on that ________ piece of land.

A void
B vacant
C blank
D shallow

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Without any hesitation, she took off her shoes, ________ up her skirt and splashed across the stream.

A tucked
B revolved
C twisted
D curled

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Very few people could understand his lecture because the subject was very ________.

A faint
B obscure
C gloomy
D indefinite

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Professor Smith explained the movement of light ________ that of water.

A by analogy with
B by virtue of
C in line with
D in terms of

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Tom is bankrupt now. He is desperate because all his efforts ________ failure.

A tumbled to
B hinged upon
C inflicted on
D culminated in

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While fashion is thought of usually ________ clothing, it is important to realize that it covers a much wider domain.

A in relation to
B in proportion to
C by means of
D on behalf of

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The meaning of the sentence is ________; you can interpret it in several ways.

A skeptical
B intelligible
C ambiguous
D exclusive

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Cancer is a group of diseases in which there is uncontrolled and disordered growth of ________ cells.

A irrelevant
B inferior
C controversial
D abnormal

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At that time, the economy was still undergoing a ________, and job offers were hard to get.

A concession
B supervision
C recession
D deviation

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I could hear nothing but the roar of the airplane engines which ________ all other sounds.

A overturned
B drowned
C deafened
D smoothed

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