Context Clues Practice

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loquacious

My brother said, “I just freed myself from a very loquacious history professor. All he seemed to want was an audience.”

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talkative

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surfeit

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excess

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Indigenous (in the context of plants in the United States)

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native

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millennium
After the Romans left, a millennium and a half passed before people again lived in such comfort. Churchill wrote, “From the year 400 until the year 1900 no one had central heating and very few had hot baths.”

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1000 years

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xenophobia

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fear of foreigners

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vicissitudes

Such are the vicissitudes of history. Nothing remains the same. Three hundred years of peace ended in darkness and confusion.

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changes

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Mitigate: The purpose of the psychiatrist is to mitigate the suffering of the patient.

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make milder

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ineluctable

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inevitable

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vitiated

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contaminate

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No matter where you go, the Internet is following you. Almost every portable device is being made with an Internet connection. Most new TVs and many other appliances come with Internet connections as well. The Internet is truly ubiquitous.

If something is ubiquitous, __________.

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it is everywhere