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chiropodist
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invidious
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dispense
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innate
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millet
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overkill
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dispatch
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flummox
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reminiscent
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1.
The Duchess was sure that the man was a sort of
_____ and was scared.
2.
Maybe you don’t have the time or money to get it
professionally edited, or this maybe ______ for a personal blogpost.
3.
So why not check your credentials as a language
______ and give the quiz a go?
4.
The company is already so big that it has very
little _____ for expansion.
5.
The diet of Kwaku and his friends is mostly
based on a locally grown grain, _____, and is high in carbohydrates.
6.
There are many well- rehearsed reasons why
NNESTs should have equal access to professional opportunities in ELT, not least
the fact that any form of discrimination on purely biological, geographical, or
biological grounds is _____.
7.
Without getting too technical about it this
means that with certain types of verbs we use a present participle to create
sentences like “I am going for a walk” but with other verbs we ______ with the
present participle which is why we say “I like you” and not “I am liking you.”
8.
All of this would seem to suggest that certain
properties of language are ______.
9.
_____ to India as a judge in 1783, Jones whiled
away his evenings by teaching himself Sanskrit.
10.
The Sanskrit
for ten, dasa, is _______ of the Latin decem.
11.
But, once again, some of the most important breakthroughs
were the work of inspired amateurs, among them Henry Rawlinson, an official
with the British East India Company, who deciphered ancient with the British
East India Company, who deciphered ancient Persian more or less single- handed,
and somewhat later, Michael Ventris, an English architect who deciphered the
famously difficult Linear B script of ancient Minoa, which had ______ generations
of academics.
12.
The Roman even followed Etruscan, a language
that had greatly contributed to their own, to be lost, so that today Etruscan
writings remain _______ untranslated.
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