R-P3T3L11 GEP

She had a severe attack of asthma and it took an hour to ________ her breath.

• resume

• retrieve

• replenish

• recover

The ship went down although ________ efforts were made to save it.

• sincere

• strenuous

• stern

• stiff

The rainforest is useful to us because it will help to ________ the worst impacts of global warming.

• mitigate

• remove

• thicken

• undermine

By the 1930s the wristwatch had almost completely ________ the pocket watch.

• diminished

• supplanted

• dampened

• palliated

Nicotine ________ affects the functioning of the heart and arteries.

• miraculously

• purposefully

• unnaturally

• adversely

The hit-and-run driver ________ himself ________ to the police the day after the accident.

• turned...in

• turned...over

• turned...up

• turned...down

She had to ________ the invitation to the party because she had other plans.

• turn in

• turn over

• turn down

• turn up

 I can't make it to the meeting, can you ________ for me?

• stand by

• stand up

• stand down

• stand in

 We were to have had dinner together yesterday evening, but he ________ me ________.

• stood...by

• stood...up

• stood...down

• stood...in

The general ordered the troops to ________ for a possible attack.

• stand by

• stand up

• stand down

• stand in