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The girls went to the library and read three books in one afternoon. They were voracious readers.  
What does the word voracious mean as it is used in the text. 

• lazy
• helpful
• outstanding
• happy

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If you have a surplus of rice,

• you have too much
• you don't have any
• you are allergic to it
• you don't like it

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I almost never visit my relatives so I .... see my cousins.

• rarely
• always
• frequently

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(v) to reduce to nothing; to make ineffective or inoperative; to declare legally invalid or void

• muster
• deplore
• annul
• sustain

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Mary has been saving her money _______ many years.

• since
• for

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Vocabulary

A sharecropper

• shares his car with police

• works in a school

• farms another person's property

• is a cooking pot

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Greg begged his parents to PERMIT him to watch more television, but they said he had to finish his homework.

• explore
• judge
• allow

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Apparition

• a ghost or ghostly figure; an unexplained or unusual appearance

• humorous, not meant seriously

• an area of authority or control

• (v) to look upon with scorn; to refuse scornfully; (n) a feeling of contempt

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Facetious

• humorous, not meant seriously

• more than enough, large, spacious

• without restraint or control; unselective

• to grind or pound to a powder or dust; to destroy or overcome (as though by smashing into fragments)

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“Is it __________ to fish in this river?” “Yes, it's perfectly _________.”

• legal

• legally

• legalize

• legality

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