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The Vocabulary Warden
Mark Hively
I’ve never met a word 1
That couldn’t be replaced 2
With some captivating synonym 3
That just stared me in the face. 4
My friends call me a euphemism: 5
Mr. Big Vocabulary, 6
Because I make their simple words 7
more extraordinary. 8
When they say go forward, 9
I reiterate—“proceed” 10
When they say they’ve stuff for sale, 11
“merchandise,” they hear from me. 12
It’s not an obligation; 13
don’t misunderstand. 14
The right word’s always there (somewhere) 15
waiting patiently to stand 16
in a sentence or a paragraph— 17
perfection is the thing. 18
A guardian of language, 19
I make your statements sing. 20
I think it’s just good sportsmanship 21
to this notion, I subscribe: 22
that our words are exclamations 23
of the thoughts we wield inside. 24
And if I can be the bearer 25
of superior expressions, 26
then Warden of Vocabulary 27
is my chosen life profession. 28
Read the passage on the left to answer the following questions:
75)
In The Vocabulary Warden, the synonym for "stuff for sale" is
A) exclamations
B) goods
C) merchandise
D) obligation