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Check the meaning of the words of the text in Column A. Match the meanings in A to another context in B, then choose the correct alternative.
| A | B |
|---|---|
| Words in-text and their meaning | Words out-of-the-text contextualization |
| 1) Busybodies - a person who is too interested in things that do not involve him or her; people who talk a lot or too much or are nosey. | A – ( ) His novel is based on historical occurrences but it blurs the line between fact and fiction. |
| 2) Ward off - to prevent someone or something unpleasant from harming or coming close to you; avert, turn away, or repel. | B – ( ) It warned that the lake created by the overflow from the seven basins posed a serious health hazard. |
| 3) Overshadow - to be a negative feature or influence that spoils something; to make someone or something seem less important compared to someone or something else. To prevent light from shining directly on something. | C – ( ) The wave of repression which has crashed down upon Cuba and swept writers, intellectuals and free men into prison must be energetically repelled by this House. |
| 4) Suffuse - to spread through or over something completely; flush or flood through, over, or across; to become overspread as with a fluid, a color, a gleam. | D – ( ) We should not loosen the rules against unfair trade, but rather enforce them. We should not loosen the rules against unfair trade, but rather enforce them. |
| 5) Slack off - to work less hard or to be less than is usual or necessary become less in amount or intensity. | E - ( ) But the CIA secretly developed a simple dragonfly snooper in the 1970s. |
Words and their literal meanings in column A are linked to the SAME literal idea (column B) in