WW Just the Right Word Lesson 17

Improve the sentence by replacing the underlined phrase with a word (or form of a word) from Word List 17.

The supervisor and the programmer had a good feeling of emotional connection with each other.

(a)  

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CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

Improve the sentence by replacing the underlined phrase with a word (or form of a word) from Word List 17.

In 1981, Andreas Papandreou became prime minister of Greece by using elaborate and ostentatious language containing anti-Western ideas designed to appeal to voters.

(a)  

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CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

Improve the sentence by replacing the underlined phrase with a word (or form of a word) from Word List 17.

Before he was overthrown by Castro in 1959, the dictator Batista controlled Cuba as a result of the seizure of government he staged in 1952.

(a)  

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CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.1E

Improve the sentence by replacing the underlined phrase with a word (or form of a word) from Word List 17.

My grandmother put in her will that she wished to leave this gold locket to me.

(a)  

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CCSS.L.2.4B

CCSS.L.3.2E

Improve the sentence by replacing the underlined phrase with a word (or form of a word) from Word List 17.

The judges at the figure-skating competition had a discussion at great length before announcing the winner.

(a)  

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CCSS.L.2.4B

CCSS.L.3.2E

Improve the sentence by replacing the underlined phrase with a word (or form of a word) from Word List 17.

In 1936, King Edward VIII of England gave up his right to the throne in order to marry a divorced American, Mrs. Wallis Simpson.

(a)  

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CCSS.L.2.4B

CCSS.L.3.2E

Improve the sentence by replacing the underlined phrase with a word (or form of a word) from Word List 17.

The United States did not officially become caught up in the conflict in World War II until after the Japanese attack on the Pacific Fleet in Pearl Harbor in 1941.

(a)  

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CCSS.L.2.4B

CCSS.L.3.2E

Improve the sentence by replacing the underlined phrase with a word (or form of a word) from Word List 17.

The principal set into motion a policy that would discourage unnecessary absences at the high school.

(a)  

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CCSS.L.2.4B

CCSS.L.3.2E

Improve the sentence by replacing the underlined phrase with a word (or form of a word) from Word List 17.

Her behavior was free of any fault while she was with me.

(a)  

Improve the sentence by replacing the underlined phrase with a word (or form of a word) from Word List 17.

With the death of Stalin, leader of the USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) from 1924 to 1953, came the end of a(n) period of time marked by a series of related events in Russian history.

(a)  

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CCSS.L.1.5A

CCSS.L.1.5B

CCSS.L.K.5A