Directions: Choose the best answer which has the closest meaning of the underlined word.My mother always contended that it was never too late to send a thank-you note, but, like all gracious gals of her generation, she never tarried more than a few days anyway.
A. retarded
B. delayed
C. lingered
D. remained
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This is gratitude's dirty side—a thank-you as buttering up or bribery.
A. bride
B. brick
C. corruption
D. bribe
What I had heard altered the look of the world, induced in me a temporary paralysis of will and impulse.
A. aroused
B. caused
C. deduced
D. seduced
She was the soul of discretion, so silent, so trustworthy, one could tell her everything, and so on.
A. praise
B. prudence
C. delicacy
D. disdain
He had received his legacy. She had told him a truth. She had stepped off the kerb to rejoin her lover.
A. reunite
B. return
C. revisit
D. unite