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Directions: Use context clues to choose the answer closest in meaning to each capitalized word or words. Then click on your choice. There is still a great DISCREPANCY between the wages the sexes earn. For every dollar that men make, women earn only seventy cents.

Directions: Use context clues to choose the answer closest in meaning to each capitalized word or words. Then click on your choice. In ancient Greece, love had been regarded as somewhat undesirable, a divine punishment. By the twelfth century, poets in Europe had taken this NOTION even further; love, they argued, was a sweet form of suffering.

Directions: Use the general sense of the sentence to figure out the meaning of the capitalized word. Then select the meaning of the capitalized word. These days, more and more retirees living on Social Security realize their income is INSUFFICIENT to meet their needs. So they are taking part-time jobs—sometimes at the same companies where they used to work full-time.

Directions: Use context clues to choose the answer closest in meaning to each capitalized word or words. Then click on your choice. In intense summer heat and humidity, I feel so LACKADAISICAL that all I want to do is sleep, eat, and then sleep some more.

Directions: Use context clues to choose the answer closest in meaning to each capitalized word or words. Then click on your choice. In a political cartoon, the senator was DEPICTED as a baseball player who struck out

Directions: The item below includes a word or words that are an antonym of the capitalized word. Read the sentence and use the antonym to help you understand the meaning of the capitalized word. Then select that meaning below. Some scientists think dreams express hidden wishes and desires. Others disagree, arguing instead that dreams deal with more OVERT concerns, such as the people and problems in our everyday lives.

Directions: In the item below, look for the examples that suggest the meaning of the capitalized word. Then select the meaning of that word. I’m happy sightseeing VICARIOUSLY, for instance, by watching travel TV shows and visiting faraway places on the Internet.

Directions: In the item below, look for the examples that suggest the meaning of the capitalized word. Then select the meaning of that word. There are good reasons to think TV has a DETRIMENTAL influence on kids. After all, TV watching keeps them from exercising, encourages them to eat unhealthy foods, and teaches them to be violent.

Directions: The item below includes a word or words that are an antonym of the capitalized word. Read the sentence and use the antonym to help you understand the meaning of the capitalized word. Then select that meaning below. The children wanted us to adopt an older German shepherd from the pound, but we were told he was rather wild, so instead we chose a collie that was more DOCILE.

Directions: The item below contains a word or words that are a synonym for the capitalized word. Read the sentence and then select the synonym below. You can’t do algebra until you have mastered RUDIMENTARY math skills—basic addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.