5th box -Flashcards

Multiple choice questions

Question:

1. Ponder

platform built on the shore or out from the shore beside which ships can load or unload سکویی که روی ساحل یا بیرون از ساحل ساخته می شود که در کنار آن کشتی ها می توانند بارگیری کرده یا بار تخلیه کنند a. We watched the exhausted laborers unloading the cargo on the wharf. b. The lawyer insisted that his client was never seen near the wharf where the crime had taken place. c. Waiting at the wharf for the supply ships to unload was a starving multitude of people.
give up; yield; submit دست برداشتن از ، تسلیم شدن ، تسلیم کردن a. Vito resigned his position as editor of the school paper. b. Upon hearing the news of the defeat, the football coach promptly resigned. c. Upon examining the injury, the chiropractor told Jim he had better resign himself to a week in bed.
consider carefully به دقت تامل کردن a. Not wishing to act hastily, the governor pondered the problem for days. b. After pondering the question, the board decided to grant the parole. c. The villagers, faced with a famine, pondered their next move.
acting with force or violence با قدرت یا خشونت عمل کردن a. The police took drastic measures to end the crime wave. b. The most drastic changes in centuries have taken place during our life-time. c. In the interests of justice, drastic action must be taken.

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