unit 7 - working it out - KEY WORD

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all exams will be held in classrooms for now.
TIME
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All exams are taking place in classrooms for the time being.
Joe is determined to be a stuntman even though it sounds dangerous.
SET
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As dangerous as it sounds, Joe is set on being/becoming a stuntman.
The rumors of the headteacher hitting the jackpot are untrue.
CONTRARY
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Despite stories to the contrary the headteacher didn’t hit the jackpot.
The weather will stay bad for the next few weeks.
LIKELY
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The weather isn’t likely to get better anytime soon.
we can tell from the results of carbon dating that it’s impossible Plato wrote that text
HAVE
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The carbon dating results indicate that Plato couldn’t/can’t have writtenthat text.
Regardless of how difficult the exercise, you must keep trying.
ACCOUNT
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Despite the difficulty of the exercise or no account must you give up.
I’m sure the butler committed the crime as he had the biggest motive.
BEEN
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The butler had more of a motive than anyone else, so it must have been him who committed to crime.
Josh has a nasty habit of irritating his coworkers, which is why he’s so unpopular.
RUBBING
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Josh isn’t popular with his colleagues because he’s always rubbing them (up) the wrong way.
I had almost given up on the puzzle when I happened upon the solution.
BRINK
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I stumbled across the puzzle solution, just as I was on the brink of giving up on it.
Nobody’s going to eat that cake so there’s no reason not to throw it away.
WELL
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You may as well get rid of that cake - it’s never going to be eaten.
i’ve often wondered what happened to our painting that was stolen all those years ago.
BECAME
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We had one of our paintings stolen long ago and many a time I have wondered what became of it.
Despite my best efforts to make it up, as I went along, the job interview was a disaster.
BLUFF
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Try as I might to bluff my way through the job interview I failed miserably.

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