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  1. I congratulate her on the elegance and ___ with which she stood on her head. (FRIGID

sangfroid

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  1. She struck me as an extremely ___ young woman with a lot of presence. (POSSESS

self-possessed

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  1. I came back from my trip to California feeling ___ and rejuvenated. (REST

rested

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  1. She seems ___ by her sudden success and fame. (FAZE

unfazed

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  1. She’s totally ___ - you have to be when working in such a high-pressure environment.
    (FLAP

unflappable

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  1. The students we spoke to were surprisingly ___ in talking about sex. (INHIBIT

uninhibited

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  1. For a man in danger of losing his job, he appeared fairly ___. (RUFFLE

unruffled

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  1. She said that she was feeling completely ___ about the wedding. (STRESS

unstressed

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  1. Sometimes he was ___ childish. (CONTEMPT

contemptibly

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  1. He suffered a serious, permanent, and ___ head injury. (ABLE

disabling

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  1. He said that prisoners had been ___ abused. (GRACE

disgracefully

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  1. I have never seen anything so ___ large in my entire life. (GROTTO

grotesquely

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  1. It’s a ___ difficult job. (HELL

hellishly

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  1. He was ___ on revenge. (BEND

hell-bent

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  1. Korea is ___ in its demands for a new treaty. (YIELD

unyielding

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  1. He has earned a reputation as a stern and ___ politician. (BEND

unbending

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  1. The strikes were confined to a few traditionally ___ factories. (MILITANT

super-militant

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  1. The political street brawler made it clear in a recent interview that he has no regrets about his
    ___ tactics. (SMASH

smashmouth

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  1. The country is fortunate to have a leader who is so ___ focused on making things better
    for the people. (MIND

single-minded

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  1. For the grey-haired, being young is often equated with being hot-headed, turbulent, ___,

obstinate, and too hot to handle. (WILL

self-will

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  1. Landowners’ ___ about land reform helped precipitate the reaction against them.
    (CALCANEUS

recalcitrance

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  1. Tonight he faces the most ___ opponent of his boxing career. (DOUBT

redoubtable

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  1. If you’re determined to be so ___ stubborn and blind to the truth, so be it. (PIG

pigheadedly

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  1. In the film, when the medication runs out his ___ alter ego is unleashed. (AGGRESSION

hyper-aggressive

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  1. The rock weighed over a ton and was completely ___. (MOVE

immovable

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  1. She was a ___ child, always getting into trouble. (STRONG

headstrong

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  1. He’s ___, he smokes and drinks, he’s too wrapped up in his work to have satisfying
    relationships. (BOIL

hard-boiled

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  1. He’s ___ traditionalist where cooking is concerned - he doesn’t allow any modern gadgets
    in the kitchen. (WOOL

dyed-in-the-wool

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  1. He bowed to her ___ will. (ADAMANT

adamantine

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  1. This has quietly and ___ grown into a big problem. (SIT

insidiously

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  1. Its agenda is as broad as it is deep, touching personal nerves and ___ prejudices. (SEAT

deep-seated

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  1. Smoking has caused ___ damage to his lungs. (VERSE

irreversible

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  1. The couple separated on the grounds of ___ breakdown. (RETRIEVE

irretrieveable

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  1. The human cell is ___ complex. (REDUCE

irreducibly

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  1. There are ___ flaws in the logic of the argument. (REDEEM

irredeemable

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  1. The belief that you should own your house is deeply ___ in our society. (GRAIN

ingrained

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  1. Are you too ___ to buy tickets online? (COMPUTER

computer-illiterate

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  1. The amount due was a simple matter of mathematical ___. (COMPUTE

computation

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  1. A ___ portion of the fee will be refunded. (RATE

prorated

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  1. He gained a reputation as a smart ___ who could turn data into policy. (NUMBER

number-cruncher

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  1. We can imagine cases where there is little divergence in the values yet ___ still occurs.
    (COMMUTE

non-commutativity

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  1. This poses a problem for complex algebraic ___ approaches. (GRID

multigrid

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  1. Students will be expected to represent problem situations ___. (ALGEBRA

algebraically

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  1. Services will include a fast, 24/7, ___ connection to the Internet. (ON

always-on

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  1. ___ are adopting innovative security measures to protect valuable information in the
    virtual world. (ACT

cyberactors

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  1. Messages encrypted using the public key can be ___ only by someone with the private
    key. (CRYPT

decrypted

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  1. ___ your computer overnight. (FRAGMENT

defragment

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  1. Choose Properties from the ___ menu and select the Device Manager tab. (DROP

drop-down/pull-down

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  1. The value of the new television technology to the company is that it is highly ___.
    (EXPORT

exportable

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  1. Unfortunately, the ___ buyer had hit the wrong buttons on his computer keypad, before
    clicking the send button. (FINGER

fat-fingered

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  1. ___ is one of the key threats that organizations face today. (HACK

hacktivism

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  1. He received praise for the ability to make ___ adjustments to compensate for days when
    he was not at his best. (GAME

in-game

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  1. If a doctor ___ a drug chart, they could put the patient’s life at risk. (WRITE

miswrote

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  1. Make sure you ___ your essay before you hand it in. (SPELLING

spellcheck

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  1. There is great potential for ___ if working in an IT-based industry. (COTTAGE

telecottaging

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  1. After you have ___ the file, click on the ‘Start’ button. (ZIP

unzipped

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  1. Learning to ___ has made my work much quicker. (TYPE

touch-type

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  1. Until relatively recently, the Japanese car industry was the ___ of international success.
    (TOUCH

touchstone

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  1. The system has a ___ control panel. (TOUCH

touch-sensitive

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  1. All he ever talks about is football. He’s got a ___ mind. (TRACK

one-track

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  1. The researchers discovered that moving among certain social groups involves participating in constant
    ___. (UP

one-upmanship

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  1. For the first six years of its life, the company was a ___ pony. But what a trick! (TRICK

one-trick

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  1. Duggan, a TV personality and ___ journalist made the announcement last week. (TIME

one-time

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  1. It was ___ whether they’d allow him into the country or not. (TOUCH

touch-and-go

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  1. He delivers a funny, poignant and ___ dignified performance. (TOUCH

touchingly

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  1. Hand dryers are available with a push button or ___ automatic operation. (TOUCH

touchless

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  1. He needs to persuade the ___ in the cabinet. (LINE

hard-liners

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  1. It’s very difficult to change attitudes that have become so deeply ___ over the years.
    (TRENCH

entrenched

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  1. We have been left with an almost ___ difficult set of problems to solve. (SUPER

insuperably

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  1. ___ offices function well for people who need to be communicating with each other all the time. (PLAN

open-plan

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  1. The referendum was the first major vote in the era of ___ politics. (TRUE

post-truth

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  1. Not being one of the ___, I failed to understand the ballet’s subtler points. (COGNITION

cognoscenti

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  1. The reduction of crime levels is the ___ of the president’s domestic policies. (CENTRE

centrepiece

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  1. Tourism is the ___ of Hawaii’s economy. (LIFE

life-blood

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  1. He’s slightly aggressive, which a lot of people find ___ when they first meet him. (PUT

off-putting

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  1. They used a ___ excessive amount of violence. (SICK

sickeningly

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  1. I hate the ads that use ___ cute children and animals. (NAUSEA

nauseatingly

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  1. We were treated to the ___ spectacle of Congressmen fighting like children. (EDIFICE

unedifying

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  1. The novel, while almost ___ sad, is still a joy to read. (BEAR

unbearably

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  1. I had to get up at some ___ hour in the morning to take her to the airport. (GOD

ungodly

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  1. Against this background was an ___ fact: the poverty of the suburbs where the immigrants
    were concentrated. (PALATE

unpalatable

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  1. He described fox hunting as ___ cruel. (SPEAK

unspeakably

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  1. The safety precautions taken by large resort hotels are often ___ inadequate for the
    number of people who stay there. (WOE

woefully

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  1. The children are ___ unhappy because of some social or economic factor in their
    background. (WRETCH

wretchedly

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  1. My daughter is so ___; her eyes are always riveted on her phone. (SCREEN

screen-obsessed

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  1. She never thinks about anyone else - she’s completely ___! (OBSESS

self-obsessed

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  1. Don’t mention tax or Bernard’ll get on his ___ again. (HORSE

hobbyhorse

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  1. He became ___ with his best friend’s wife. (FIX

fixated

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  1. These people are caught in a toxic ___ of what they call “the Old Way”. (FETISH

fetishisation

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  1. Troops crossed the border ___. (OPPOSE

unopposed

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  1. It was a ___ thing and Millar had to endure a five-minute wait before the judges decided
    that he had won. (RUN

close-run

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  1. The hopeless ___ and fools who populate the book are no reflection upon those who know
    the author. (CHANCE

chancers

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  1. “South London” is a ___ term for anywhere south of the river. (CATCH

catch-all

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  1. They raced ahead into new markets, leaving other companies to play ___. (CATCH

catch-up

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  1. Some ___ threatened Helen with the video they secretly made. (MAIL

blackmailers

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  1. Is editing your profile pic to make yourself look better really so different from ___?
    (CAT

catfishing

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  1. The local business community has been destroyed by corruption, cheating and ___.
    (DEAL

double-dealing

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  1. He ___ his way into a powerful job. (FAST

fast-talked

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  1. If you feel your insurance was ___ and would like to know how to get a refund, then
    follow the simple steps below. (SELL

missold

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  1. The university was divided into those people who thought he was a genius and those who thought he was a
    ___. (MOUNT

mountebank