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88 Chapter 3 Words for Feeling, Expression, and Action■ Find the ExampleChoose the example that best describes the action or situation.1. A belligerent, emphatic responsea. You’re the best! b. Are you picking a fight? c. I hate you!2. An appalling condemnationa. giving a criminal a second chance b. locking up an innocentperson c. giving a criminal jail time3. Articulation of chagrina. “I’m so ashamed!” b. hiding one’s face c. “I’ll do it again, if youlike!”4. A harassed contendera. racer being nagged by mother b. champion receiving an honorc. speaker being booed by crowd5. How to undermine flamboyance in clothesa. forbid people to wear black and grey b. require uniforms c. have aHalloween partyChapter Exercises■ Practicing Strategies: Context Clues of SubstitutionIn each sentence, one difficult word is italicized. Use context cluesof definition to make an intelligent guess about its meaning in thissentence.1. Selling our house directly to the buyer precluded many of our costs,as well as eliminating the need for a real estate agent.Precluded means .2. We could hear his stentorian voice from one hundred feet away.Stentorian means .3. Many religious organizations provide assistance to the needy andsuccor to the seriously ill.Succor means .Copyright © Cengage Learning. All rights reserved.