Quiz 1.

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  1. City is suspected of breaking rules that monitor commercial income and spending on player transfers and wages, in particular ___________ revenue from commercial deals secured by the club’s owners.
  2. An important consideration while doing research is minimizing ___________.
  3. There are questions as to whether the internal squabbles divide Democrats and ___________ their ability to legislate.
  4. Without a doubt, the government shutdown will delay, cancel or ___________ implementation timelines of initiatives to help drive development of new science and tech in the United States.
  5. It was administration that prompted some of the most bitter comments, some ___________ “100% irrelevant” or “excessive and pointless” administrative tasks.
  6. Most people ___________ to mass-marketed new trends making it seem as though they don’t have any personal style.
  7. Some people are against the government ___________ onto their private property for philosophical reasons.
  8. The move has ___________ resentment and protests among ‘plains’ people who fear they will be disadvantaged in the new state.
  9. If city leaders want public support for any development, they need to be ___________, transparent and upfront about their plans, and they should discuss them in an open forum.
  10. Some extremists shared tactics on how to modify the video to ___________ the filters designed to prevent it being uploaded.
  11. The novelty poll drew plenty of serious coverage and some screaming headlines, aided by the pollster’s allegorical ___________ on the findings and the never-ending need for news in a fickle 24/7 marketplace.
  12. The response to the Wall Street Journal report must be “on a paragraph-by-paragraph basis stating the ___________ to which each paragraph is accurate,” Alsup wrote.
  13. One plan to force drug companies to ___________ the cost of drugs in television adverts was recently blocked by a judge.
  14. The funding sources of many of the activist groups are often ___________.
  15. Being accused of a crime is devastating in a ___________ insular society like Japan.

Quiz 2.

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  1. The new software is part of the University of Wisconsin system’s broader effort to introduce “___________ advising,” a process in which advisers check on students who don’t seem to be doing well.
  2. It’s likely to add ___________ to the controversy about games and violence.
  3. His campaign ___________ avoided prolonged expressions of anger about the overturning of the original vote result.
  4. Edwards definitely was not on NBC’s Meet the Press May 5 when he could not cope with moderator Tim Russert, whose straight questions evoked ___________ answers.
  5. Her willingness to ignore the actual point of his comments, and ___________ them into implied racism, is unjust given his voting record on civil rights issues.
  6. The latest ___________ have been followed by verbal protests within the media and political establishment.
  7. The political fireworks surrounding the debate ___________ important education issues.
  8. Decision-making was to a large ___________ outside his control.
  9. He ___________ it as an attack on the international working class, and encouraged all workers to refuse to go.
  10. At night, the Revolutionary Guard would drop mines from vessels ___________ as traditional dhows, which ferry cargo around the waters of the Persian Gulf.
  11. As moral ___________ are swept away, innocents are exposed to unspeakable horror.
  12. By developing new encoding and ___________ schemes, they effectively doubled the system’s capacity.
  13. Ironically, some of the most intolerant people in our society are the very ones who preach “tolerance” in order to advance a radical “social justice” agenda that demands ideological ___________ and scorns independent thinking.
  14. We often think of the nineteen-fifties as the decade of complacent ___________: a robust economy, a beloved war hero in the White House, slow but important progress on civil rights.
  15. The ___________ of conspiracy theory, once sort of a quaint absurdity, into public policy on matters of life and death is one of the most troubling aspects of current U.S. political reality.

Quiz 3.

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  1. Behind these successes is a background of unemployment, which can be used to ___________ racist feelings
  2. The politician attributed the ___________ to Fox News and other propaganda organizations.
  3. Google will ___________ the image from its servers to your client, resulting in a loss of image quality.
  4. The politician specifically ___________ lower life expectancy and economic success among a newer generation of Americans.
  5. Because of technology, Hawaii’s geographic isolation no longer ___________ economic growth.
  6. It is important to ensure ___________ between the election law and any other national laws on non-discrimination or the equality of women and men.
  7. As detailed as the guidelines can be, they are also approximations — best guesses at how to fight extremism or disinformation. And they are leading Facebook to ___________ into sensitive political matters the world over, sometimes clumsily.
  8. Political pundits criticized Kamala Harris for taking too cautious a stance, for being too ___________, too guarded.
  9. For weeks, months, and even years, this Government has ___________ answering questions in this House.
  10. They will proactively leak their segment to put the best possible ___________ on it, but eventually, the broader picture will emerge.
  11. McConnell’s speech may have been partly designed to wake people up to the ___________ of the upheaval ahead.
  12. The complaint presented Friday says the Figueroa investigation ___________ 18 irregularities in deposits, credit card payments and loans and purchases of vehicles and properties.
  13. Virtual Private Networks, or VPNs, send all of your web traffic through an encrypted tunnel to ___________ your location, browsing history and location.
  14. Despite one’s appearance or background, one must ___________ to convention to be understood.
  15. The new players are private equity firms, hedge funds, investment banks, and once ___________ entities known as “business development companies”.

Quiz 4.

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  1. Authentic existence is a breaking free from the ___________ and conventions of the everyday that we are thrown into
  2. Meanwhile, the controversial sales add ___________ to a growing international debate over who owns stolen artifacts.
  3. Under the rules that govern the dealings of the G7’s group of central banks, countries are not allowed to ___________ devalue their currencies to secure a competitive advantage.
  4. Metal detectors, like body scanners in airports and other more ___________ forms of security monitoring, are ugly reminders that something is terribly wrong — making them terribly necessary
  5. He dismissed much of the testimony by UnitedHealth’s experts as “ ___________ — and even deceptive”.
  6. Because no one would be physically present at the event, waving banners or singing songs, the company/media/government could ___________ the story however they liked.
  7. Significantly, the corporate media has all but completely ignored the ___________ of wrongdoing by Immigration Canada officials.
  8. Readers who follow today’s debates about immigration may reflect on how truth suffers when powerful interests try to ___________ it.
  9. Everyone will have to compromise to some ___________.
  10. Critics have ___________ this outcome, saying it would raise the government’s annual deficit.
  11. Petersen uses her expertise in ___________ and deception to stay hidden.
  12. He’s entering this campaign with much fewer ___________ than in the past.
  13. The authors’ proof involves a beautiful connection between machine learning and data ___________ that was first observed in the 1980s.
  14. Now, in this increasingly ___________ society, even students are joining in with the spirit of censorship.
  15. Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, revealed after being briefed by the FBI afterward that “two Florida counties experienced ___________ into the supervisor of election networks”.