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The document provides a matching activity between 20 words and their definitions. It then uses those words in 20 sentences to demonstrate their meanings in context. The words relate to concepts like paradox, choice, constraints, alternatives, and efficacy. The purpose is to reinforce vocabulary related to decision making and options.

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Unit 7 Vocabulary

The document provides a matching activity between 20 words and their definitions. It then uses those words in 20 sentences to demonstrate their meanings in context. The words relate to concepts like paradox, choice, constraints, alternatives, and efficacy. The purpose is to reinforce vocabulary related to decision making and options.

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RUPP/IFL/DOE AE 402

Unit 7: The Paradox of Choice (Pages: 80-81)

I. Match the following words with their definition on the right.

Words Definitions
1) Paradox A. something which controls what you do by keeping you
2) Regroup within particular limits
3) Debilitate B. a large group of things or people, especially one which is
4) Merit attractive or causes admiration and often one which has been
5) Plague positioned in a particular way
6) Array C. something that is different from something else, especially
7) Plethora from what is usual, and offering the possibility of choice
8) Subsistence D. to make someone or something physically weak
9) Efficacy E. to cause worry, pain or difficulty to someone or something
10) Judicious over a period of time
11) Permutation F. a situation or statement which seems impossible or is
12) Constraint difficult to understand because it contains two opposite facts
13) Daunting or characteristics
14) Retreat G. making you feel slightly frightened or worried about your
15) Outweigh ability to achieve something
16) Prospectus H. to be greater or more important than something else
17) Reel I. a very large amount of something, especially a larger
18) Inflict amount than you need, want or can deal with
19) Liberate J. a document giving details of a college, school or business
20) Alternative and its activities
K. to help someone or something to be free
L. to return to a normal state after an unpleasant experience or
a period of difficulty, and become ready to make an effort
again with new enthusiasm or strength
M. to force someone to experience something very unpleasant
N. an ability, especially of a medicine or a method of achieving
something, to produce the intended result; effectiveness
O. to go away from a place or person in order to escape from
fighting or danger
P. having or showing reason and good judgment in making
decisions
Q. to walk, moving from side to side, looking like you are
going to fall
R. any of the various ways in which a set of things can be
ordered
S. the quality of being good and deserving praise
T. the state of having what you need in order to stay alive, but
no more

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RUPP/IFL/DOE AE 402
II. Complete the following sentences with the correct form of the word from the
box.

Paradox Regroup Debilitate Merit Plague


Array Plethora Subsistence Efficacy Judicious
Permutation Constraint Daunting Retreat Outweigh
Prospectus Reel Inflict Liberate Alternative

alternative but to ask you to leave (= that is what I have to do).


1. I'm afraid I have no __________
2. The plethora
__________of regulations is both contradictory and confusing.
daunting prospect of
3. In spite of unification, the country was still faced with the __________
overcoming four decades of division.
inflicting massive injuries.
4. These new bullets are capable of __________
merit
5. Brierley's book has the __________ of being both informative and readable.
liberate
6. They said they sent troops in to __________ the people/the country from a dictator.
7. They recently ran a series of tests to measure the efficacy
__________ of the drug.
8. Chemotherapy exhausted and debilitated
__________ him.
plagging their new business partners.
9. Financial problems have been __________
retreat
10. Attacks by enemy aircraft forced the tanks to __________ from the city.
11. Financial constraints
__________ on the company are preventing them from employing new staff.
regroup
12. Summer is a time to relax, __________ and catch up on all those things you have been
putting off all year.
judicious use of the resources available to us.
13. We should make __________
14. The money is intended to provide a basic subsistence
__________ and should not be paid to
someone who receives other income.
outweigh any risks.
15. The benefits of this treatment far __________
reeled
16. At closing time he __________ out of the pub and fell down on the pavement
17. There are 120 permutation
__________ of the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5: for example, 1, 3, 2, 4, 5 or
5, 1, 4, 2, 3.
18. It's a curious paradox
__________ that drinking a lot of water can often make you feel thirsty.
19. I picked up a really impressive prospectus
__________ for Shirley Heath Junior School.
array
20. There was a splendid __________ of food on the table.

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