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Exercise 4

Use the context to help you define the term in bold.

1 .       Be a wary consumer. Check your purchases carefully. 



2 .       Will you please talk to my mother and corroborate my story. I don’t think she believes me. 



3 .       Please don’t get in the middle of this argument. No one asked you to intervene



4 .       This new soft music should do the trick! I must find a way to pacify my fussy baby. 



5 .       The police had to apprehend the suspect before he escaped. 



6 .       Following the fire, there was great confusion. Everyone walked around in a chaotic state. 



7 .       I asked my bank to defer the foreclosure on my house until I could make arrangements to live someplace else. 



8 .       Your ideas don’t make any sense. They are absolutely ludicrous



9 .       The green clouds swirling around my house didn’t look good. I thought they appeared ominous



10 .       Even though I felt I was doing a good job, I was fired and someone else was hired in my place. Apparently it was easy to supplant me. 



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