New Vocabulary Challenge (Intermediate-Advanced level)

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marred

repercussion

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1.     He was a tall heavy-set young soldier, with famous beauty, but it was _____ by the shifting expression of his rather deep-set eyes.

2.     Voluntary service, as most economists admit, is true wealth, since the pledge is _____ on the offerer’s heirs until it is fully satisfied.

3.     Pebbles fall short, they go _____, and sometimes they are thrown so hard that they escape altogether from our light gravity and fly into outer space.

4.     At the end of the game period the referee _____ the score and announces how many times each player missed the target.

5.     The incident had immediate _____ throughout the city.