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The school’s ______ helped me decide between becoming a chef or an engineer.

• Instinct

• Colloquialism

• Vocational Adviser

• Inclination

New restaurants tend to ______ in busy neighborhoods where people like to eat out.

• Hunch

• Spring up

• Pronounced

• Urge

Without thinking, he acted on pure ______ and caught the falling glass.

• Instinct

• Colloquialism

• Inclination

• Launch

She has an ______ talent for painting, even though she’s never taken lessons.

• Hunch

• Innate

• Pronounced

• Urge

I had no ______ to join the party, so I stayed home and read a book.

• Urge

• Instinct

• Inclination

• Hunch

He had a strange ______ that the phone would ring, and it did a moment later.

• Pronounced

• Colloquialism

• Hunch

• Urge

She felt a sudden ______ to scream when the lights went out.

• Colloquialism

• Urge

• Vocational Adviser

• Inclination

His nervousness was ______ during the presentation—he kept shaking and stuttering.

• Pronounced

• Instinct

• Inclination

• Innate

The word 'gonna' is a common ______ used in casual speech.

• Hunch

• Colloquialism

• Spring up

• Urge