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False friends

Target: Being aware of both the context and connotations of the words you choose.

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1. There were a lot of spelling errors in my draft, but I managed to restrictrecoverrectifyI don't know them by the deadline.

2. Jane is always complaining. She's very fussyimpartialmeticulousI don't know about everything.

3. According to the traffic report, more than twenty vehicles contactedcollapsedcollidedI don't know in dense fog on the motorway.

4. The none-profit organisation is fighting to stop the abuseextravaganceexploitationI don't know of child labour in many developing countries.

5. According to a report by UNESCO, although six hundred years have passed since type printing was invented, the number of ignorantilliterateunculturedI don't know people is not decreasing!

6. After finishing the end-of-term exams, the freshmen all looked very happy and insouciantunconcernedcarefreeI don't know.

7. One reason for the rising outburstincidencegenerationI don't know of back pain among young people may be the modern-day satchel.

8. It came as quite a shock to know that our company would have to quithirelay offI don't know half of its employees.