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2. | Don't ever ___ a baby bear, no matter how cute it is. (Momma is somewhere nearby.) | 5. | Without the aid of ___, Spain, and the Dutch, the American colonists never would have won the Revolutionary War. | 6. | The mattress burst into ___s and burned rapidly because it wasn't made of ___-retardant materials. | 8. | Under ___ pressure, the Australian diver won the Olympics 10-meter-platform diving contest on his last dive. | 10. | ___ is a boot-shaped country in southern Europe which is famous for Galileo and the Leaning Tower of Pisa. | 11. | The famous ___ of Pompeii, Italy, resulted from the explosion of Mt. Vesuvius almost 2,000 years ago. | 14. | The building was ___ soon after the fireworks stored in it started exploding. | 15. | She got a bad sun___ at the beach after she fell asleep without putting sunblock on. | 19. | ___ shooting is a competitive sport involving shooters who use shotguns to fire at flying clay targets. | 20. | At a funeral, people pay their ___s to the dead person. | 21. | The ___ to Re-Elect the President asked for donations from members of the Republican party. | 22. | They finally caught the ___ at Griffith Park who had set five fires in the last three weeks. | 23. | ___ enough, the arsonist was the son of the local fire chief. | 24. | The police ___ed the arsonist after a biker saw him running with a can of gasoline into the bushes. |
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1. | Bev tried to ___ her stomach pain for a month. Finally, she saw her doctor, who figured she had a gallstone. | 3. | If I ___, it's called "expressing dissatisfaction"; if you ___, it's called "whining." | 4. | The ___ reason for the failure of the levee was that the "foundation was improperly constructed." | 7. | The woman's ___ face looked strange because of all the plastic surgery she had received. | 9. | The 10-passenger plane carrying medical professionals ___ed on impact with the ground. | 12. | Dodger ___ is the scene of Dodger Dogs and major league baseball games. | 13. | The arson ___ told the police that the gasoline can contained drinking water. | 16. | ___ and Japan were the two major defeated powers at the end of World War II. | 17. | ___, Greece is over 3,000 years old and is considered the birthplace of democracy. | 18. | The modern ___ started in Greece and were again held in Greece in 2004. | 19. | Russian soldiers ___ed the homes that belonged to Georgians, who wept as they watched their homes burn down. |
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