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Choose the one that is opposite in meaning to the given word
1. violate
a. borrow
2. affluent
a. smart
b.
respect
b. quick
c. poor
c. approve
d. explain
d. evil
3. dispose
a. keep
b. make
c. feed
d. speak
4.
administrator
a. singer
5. legitimate
a. free
b. student
b.
pretty
c. mother
c. wrong
d. worker
d. alert
Write a word that is similar in meaning to the underlined part.
1. Getting to play with her friends was something to make her want to clean her room.
2. The act of selling something took place right before the shop closed.
3. By the end of the meeting, they had made into law the repair of the highways.
4. She illegally persuaded the guard, so he would let her into the secret meeting.
5. It was a good year for the banks, but it was a bad year for places that sell things to the public.
6. The person who controls the company is a very efficient manager.
7. The papers that she needed were at the building where the bosses worked.
8. The law-breaking company was stealing money from many of its investors.
9. Shawn is working for a law-following organization in a bad part of town.
10. The money made by our company was even better than last year’s.
The
Corrupt Administrator
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Mr.
Pig was an administrator at a big factory that made different kinds of
merchandise.
During a meeting at the company’s
headquarters, his bosses said they wanted the factory
to make more money.
“If the factory makes more money, then you will too,” his boss, Mr. Horse, told him. It was
a great
incentive. Pig had always wanted to be as
affluent as his bosses.
Mr. Pig returned to the factory and started making changes. However, most were not very
nice, and some were not
legitimate.
First, he fired all his employees. Then he
automated the entire factory. Machines now
made everything, and the other animals, Mr. Rabbit, Mr. Sheep, and Mr. Dog had no jobs.
Next, he
bribed some
corrupt senators into
legislating special
subsidies for the factory.
Finally, instead of paying a company to
dispose of the factory’s
rubbish properly, he
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