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Exercise 5

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

1 .       The voters will convene at the city building. 



2 .       Do you believe schools should still be able to use corporal punishment to discipline unruly students? 



3 .       My mother and I correspond weekly over e-mail.  



4 .       The army had many covert operations that the public didn’t know about until three months later. 



5 .       Don’t covet what others have. Be happy with your life. 



6 .       Your argument is credible, so I will not question you any further. 



7 .       Please curtail your time spent on the Internet; other people would like to use it. 



8 .       Before you cook the fish, you should decapitate it.  



9 .       I’ll have to have some time to decode the complex message. 



10 .       Save your files before they are deleted



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