1. d) obliterate, augmented

2. b) hardly, based

3. e) satisfied, return

4. a) starvation

5. a) intractable

6. d) worsen

7. b) serene

8. c) sane

9. d) sharpen

10. b) diligently

11. a) cat like

12. d) large number

13. a) patch : thread

14. a) gullible : shrewd

15. a) fracture : cast

16. Couplet : Poem
b) sentence : paragraph

17. c) His youngest son has just started going to school

18. b) Must he go? Yes, he should.

19. b) I wont’ let you leave till the end of the act.

20. c) When he was charged with murder, he said he had an alibi.

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