English Vocab 3
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'Breaking that kind of news to a patient is never easy,' said Dr. Albert Sutin, who performed the six-hour, 30,840 procedure to remove a _______ mass in one of Monfort's lymph nodes.
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'The only way we're able to really ________ the functions of this very complicated organ is by tapping here or there,' Pascual-Leone says.
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A ________ is a record of historical events kept in chronological order.
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After the bombing, people had to wear masks to avoid inhaling the ________ fumes of the chemical agents.
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Although the president died before writing his autobiography, historians were able to use his journals to create a ______ of his life.
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As we walked through the jungle, we stopped several times to _______ ourselves from the hanging vines
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But it is one of the limits of both of these surveys that those specific data were not collected for us to ________ that.
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Crystal cried when she learned the tumor was _______.
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Determining how to _________ his party from society, what to forgive and what can not be forgotten, may prove the more difficult task.
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For several minutes, the fly tried to ________ itself from a spider web.
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Fortunately the tumor was not _______ or lethal, and could easily be removed to relieve the pressure it had been putting on a vein.
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Have you ever been going through clothes that have the strings of their sales tags all tangled together so that you had to ________ them all to find out the price of the clothes you wanted?
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Hopefully the intravenous treatment will destroy the _______ cells so you can live a long and healthy life.
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I decided to keep this ________ or extended diary because we would all be able to look back at it, hence being able to recall those things long since forgotten.
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I have kept a _________or familial history of events that have happened to us all since the day I got married.
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In early times clan elders would orally pass down the family's ________ to ensure clan history would never be forgotten.
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It did not take long for me to ______ the dog's leash from around its legs.
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It is an historical document that keeps track of happenings in the order in which they happened.
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It was something to __________ or straighten out that complicated situation, for the mermaid was not happy that I had trapped both her and her dolphin friends!
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Katie Jackson, a marine mammal biologist with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, is part of a team that tries to _______ these whales before their wounds become fatal.
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Kim is having a biopsy today to see if the lump in her breast is _________.
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Michele Norris talks to Bruce Nemerov, one of the editors of the Lost Delta Found, a new book that ________ the research of Work and other academics from Fisk University in the 1940s
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On my geometry quiz I had to _______ the difficult problem of whether a rectangle or a triangle added up to 360 degrees if situated in four-dimensional space.
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One day, in my attempts to _________ or separate the dolphins, I saw that I had also caught a mermaid!
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Our dog's sore hip was much more than a muscle ache, and we feared he may have a _______ disease, such as a deadly cancer.
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Rarest of all is a life-threatening case of _______ malaria contracted by a patient while undergoing treatment in one of the nation's major hospitals.
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Rather than spend another day trying to ________ the holiday lights, we opted to purchase new decorations.
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Since I write in the ______ each and every Sunday, we are able to now go back to any Sunday in the past twenty-one years to see what happened during that week.
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That which is ________, like a tumor or hardened criminal, does great harm or is lethal.
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The biography is a full _______ of the actor's life, beginning with his birth and concluding with his death.
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The book is a _______ of an era, rock & roll in its golden age, little clubs and struggling bands, studio musicians and recording sessions.
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The latest operation revealed a _______ tumor, and Gwynn last week said that he would undergo two months of radiation and chemotherapy treatments.'
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The prisoner wrote a _____ of his life in captivity on the walls of his cell.
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The reader will grow weary of trying to ________ the random characters from each other.
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We were hoping that the veterinarian would tell us the tumor was not ______ or harmful.
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What follows is an in-depth ______ of Woods' amazing career, a feature that will be updated with each new accomplishment — a task that, in all likelihood, will keep our editors busy week in and week out.
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When I first began fishing in the deep blue sea I felt sorry for the dolphins who got caught in my golden net, so I tried to ________ or free them from it every day.
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When the detective read the ______ of the attack, he knew how and when the victim died.
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When the doctors discovered a ______ tumor in Sam's brain, they told him he only had six months to live.
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When you ________ yourself from a problem, you get yourself out of it.
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When you _________ a knot, you untie it completely
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family is but too often a commonwealth of ________.
