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EUPHEMISM= a word or phrase intended to soften an unpleasant, embarrassing, or harsh word/phrase.

The sly speaker was clearly "economical with the truth".

This euphemism means

A. the speaker was taking about "economics and truth."

B. the speaker was taking a class in "economics."

C. the speaker was "telling lies."

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Vocabulary
sermon - n. A form of religious persuasion in which a speaker exhorts listeners to behave in a more spiritual and moral fashion.
abhor - v. To regard with disgust
E.g.: The God that holds you over the pit of hell, abhors you.
abominable - adj. Thoroughly detestable
E.g.: You are ten thousand times more abominable in his eyes, than the most hateful venomous serpent is in ours.
appease - v. To bring peace, quiet, or calm; to soothe
E.g.: They have done nothing to appease God's anger.
discern - v. To perceive or recognize something
E.g.: The arrows of death fly unseen at noonday; the sharpest sight cannot discern them.
whet - adj. Sharpened
E.g.: The glittering sword is whet, and held over them
 
Which word form correctly completes this sentence?
Sometimes college students have an astonishing lack of especially when it comes to making healthy food choices.
A. discern
B. discerning
C. discernment
D. discerned

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Conspicuous-adj. eye catching, noticeable

E.g.: I would rather be the deckhand who stood on the end of the stage-plank with a coil of rope in his hand, and because he was particularly conspicuous.

Furtive-adj. sly, stealthy, secretive 

E.g.: I thought he took a furtive glance at me out of the corner of his eye, but as not even this notice was repeated. I judged I had been mistaken.

Intimation-n. hint, indication, inkling

E.g.: Brown gave no intimation that he had heard anything.

 

Which sentence uses the underlined vocabulary word incorrectly:

A. The conspicuous street performer soon had an interested crowd.

B. The transient statue has been here since before the civil war.

C. I never understood the trivial task of copying sentences from the dictionary.

The Invalid's Story 

by Mark Twain

1 - I seem sixty and married, but these effects are due to my condition and sufferings, for I am a bachelor, and only forty-one. It will be hard for you to believe that I, who am now but a shadow, was a hale, hearty man two short years ago, a man of iron, a very athlete!--yet such is the simple truth. But stranger still than this fact is the way in which I lost my health. I lost it through helping to take care of a box of guns on a two-hundred-mile railway journey one winter's night. It is the actual truth, and I will tell you about it.

2 - I belong in Cleveland, Ohio. One winter's night, two years ago, I reached home just after dark, in a driving snow-storm, and the first thing I heard when I entered the house was that my dearest boyhood friend and schoolmate, John B. Hackett, had died the day before, and that his last utterance had been a desire that I would take his remains home to his poor old father and mother in Wisconsin.
 
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A. I reached home just after dark, in a driving snow-storm...
B. ...I was carrying off a box of guns, and he had got my corpse...
C. He gasped once or twice, then moved toward the cof--gun-box...

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