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5. Answer the following questions. Use the essential vocabulary
1. What do you do if you don’t want to meet a person? 2. When 
do you avoid somebody? 3. What do you usually avoid or try to avoid 
doing? 4. How do you think one can best avoid making spelling mis-
takes, grammar mistakes and mistakes in word usage? 5. How can one 
avert a controversy? 6. What do you say of a pain or a headache that 
is not at all serious? 7. How would you feel if your hostess paid too 
little attention to you? 8. What do you call a very strong feeling of 
repulsion caused by a bad smell? 9. What do you call an exaggerated 
opinion of oneself? 10. Why doesn’t anybody like people who are full 
of conceit? 11. What do you call very bright light? 12. When does 
one glare at somebody? 13. What do you call a mistake that is quite 
obvious? 14. What do you call one who spends money carelessly?
6. Choose the right word:
slight (be, feel slighted); humiliate (be, feel humiliated); hurt (be, 
feel hurt):
1. When the “Old Guard” refused to visit Scarlett in her new luxuri-
ous house she felt ... but it didn’t ... her. She was too conceited to feel ...
What really ... her badly was Rhett’s sneering remark that he had warned 
her that her extravagance and lack of taste would only make things worse 
and it would ... her. 2. Scarlett felt ... and ... when she learned that Ashley 
would marry Melanie. 3. Scarlett took pains to show her new Yankee 

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acquaintances her indifference and dislike for them. She ... them, sneered 
at them and they often felt ... and ... not knowing what had brought about 
such a change in so pleasant a lady as Mrs Butler.
avert, avoid, evade:
1. The key to the code ... all his efforts. 2. They saw the danger 
ahead but could do nothing to ... it 3. One would admire his excellent 
qualities, but ... his company. 4. She wouldn’t answer, she walked 
hurriedly on with ... face. 5. Please answer the question; do not ...
6. Each person ... the eyes of the others.