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5. a. A black star ………s all matter.
b. Plants ……… carbon dioxide.
c. Her capacity to ……… information is amazing.
SYNONYMS AND REGISTER
1. Match the words from the text on the right with the synonyms on the left. Some words from the left column may have more than one synonym.

eliminate amplify accelerate velocity medium minimize reciprocal optical

belittle speed condition environment increase quicken mutual visual expel remove expand enlarge

2. Fill the gaps with the words from the text vocabulary which are semantically correlated with the words in brackets.

1. 
   There has been some … in economic growth. (speeding-up)
   
2. 
   For the whole … of the speech the bored audience fidgeted. (continuance)
   
3. 
   British and American officials said that would… the terms of the Gulf war ceasefire and put the aircraft at risk of being shot down by the allies. (disregard)
   
4. 
   He says that there needs to be more … in the way the government operates. (clearness)
   
5. 
   Historically, this place was characterized by the gradual adaptation of the race to its … . (environment)
   
6. 
   An electron encircling a nucleus is continuously subject to acceleration as its … keeps on changing direction. (speed)
   
7. 
   This media course was set up as the school's … to being chosen like school A to participate in the Gulbenkian Research Project. (reaction)
   
8. 
   To widen a car eighteen millimeters is equivalent to widening goal posts by half a foot; to … the rules is always to seek an advantage. (break)
   
9. 
   The author has come to a(n) … conclusion that, perhaps, clients and dealers are very much the same sort of people. (general)
   
10. 
    The government can seek greater efficiency; it can squeeze expenditure across the board; or it can ask hard questions about what the state should be doing, and try to … whole categories of spending. (exclude)
    

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