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Choose the most appropriate synonym of the underlined word.

1. The young seagull was alone on his ledge

(a) sill 

(b) window 

(c) nest 

(d) lift

2. The great expanse of sea stretched a long way down. 

(a) express 

(b) expense 

(c) stretch 

(d) vision

3. He felt certain that his wings would never support him. 

(a) curtain

(b) screen 

(c) sure 

(d) unsure

4. His brothers and his little sister ran to the brink

(a) bark 

(b) sea 

(c) water 

(d) edge

5. He failed to muster up courage to take that plunge. 

(a) dust 

(b) gather 

(c) strength 

(d) marvel

6. He saw his brothers and sister perfecting in the art of flight. 

(a) achieving 

(b) trying 

(c) finishing 

(d) balancing

7. He saw his older brother devour his first catch. 

(a) consume 

(b) devein 

(c) divide 

(d) smell

8. His parents circled around raising a proud cackle. 

(a) cough 

(b) screech 

(c) walk 

(d) tackle

9. The whole family walked about on the big plateau. 

(a) highland 

(b) pinnacle 

(c) lake 

(d) valley

10. All his siblings laughed at his cowardice.

(a) weakness 

(b) craze

(c) cooperation 

(d) awkwardness

11. He even gnawed at the dried pieces of eggshell. 

(a) gasped 

(b) annoyed 

(c) chewed 

(d) devoured

12. He then trotted back and forth from one end of the ledge to the other. 

(a) trailed 

(b) scurried 

(c) jolted 

(d) rolled

13. His long gray legs stepped daintily to reach his parents. 

(a) elegantly 

(b) drearily 

(c) dancing 

(d) lethargically

14. The ledge ended in a sheer fall of precipice with the sea beneath.

(a) steep 

(b) gentle 

(c) clean 

(d) distant

15. The precipice was sheer. 

(a) cliff 

(b) precipitation 

(c) effervescence 

(d) recap

16. His father was preening the feathers on his white back. 

(a) picking 

(b) cleaning 

(c) screening

(d) wilting

17. She was standing on a little high hump on the plateau. 

(a) mound 

(b) dip

(c) hollow 

(d) table

18. Her white breast thrust forward. 

(a) shove 

(b) burst 

(c) backward 

(d) thirsted

19. The sight of the food maddened him. 

(a) light 

(b) bring 

(c) blight 

(d) view

20. He scraped his beak now and again to whet it! 

(a) rubbed 

(b) screened 

(c) wet 

(d) sharpened

21. He uttered a low cackle. 

(a) expressed 

(b) screamed 

(c) mocked 

(d) udder

22. She screamed back mockingly. 

(a) admiringly 

(b) scornfully 

(e) meekly 

(d) brightly

23. He kept calling plaintively. 

(a) plainly 

(b) blatantly

 (c) sadly 

(d) palpably

24. She was just opposite to him, abreast of the ledge. 

(a) well-informed 

(b) tuned 

(c) approved 

(d) disapproved

25. His mother had swooped upwards. 

(a) swung 

(b) leapt 

(c) fell 

(d) danced

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1. (a) sill

2. (c) stretch

3. (c) sure

4. (d) edge

5. (b) gather

6. (a) achieving

7. (a) consume

8. (b) screech

9. (a) highland

10. (a) weakness

11. (c) chewed

12. (b) scurried

13. (a) elegantly

14. (a) steep

15. (a) cliff

16. (b) cleaning

17. (a) mound

18. (a) shove

19. (d) view

20. (a) rubbed 

21. (a) expressed

22. (b) scornfully

23. (c) sadly

24. (a) well-informed

25. (b) leapt

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