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Unit2

bestows = confers break down = dispel moaning = complaining clasped = held
surly = gruff strode = walked energetically extracts = juice whacking = beating
sticks = pieces grime = dust

1. The managing director attempted to size up the public responses to the new product before he would take further action.
2. William, dean of the apartment, stretched his authority and for several years put down his home telephone bill to a business cost.
3. The dying man, speechless with his ailment, beckoned to his side his son, who was waiting outside the surgical ward.
4. Last year this time, the candidate canvassed all the voters in the district, which finally won him a seat in the parliament.
5. The old man set off before dawn and trudged through deep snow all the way home with many a rest on any secluded bench he came across.
6. Beneath his gruff exterior, he is blessed with a rare kindheartedness
7. It demands professional instruction and technical guidance to mold a talented amateur into a brilliant actor.
8. Upon the half-decayed veranda of a small frame house that stood near the edge of a ravine, a fat little man walked nervously up and down.
9. The mother has persistently tried every means possible to wean her son from self-centeredness
10. The government at last bowed to pressure of the press and agreed to take some action against it.

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the reason of(for)
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to(into) the professional fields
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include(including) music
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so(as) highly motivated
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