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Select the word that best completes the sentence:

Teresa couldn't adequately _____________ her thanks to all the friends who visited while she was in the hospital.
segregate
forsake
convey
engulf

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The correct answer is convey.

Convey is a similar word to transfer or pass onto and she couldn't pass her thanks to all her friends. Other words have completely different meanings.
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The correct answer to this exercise is convey. A possible definition for this verb, according to several dictionaries, including Oxford and Cambridge, is: to communicate (a message or information). In the activity proposed, it's possible to infer that Teresa hadn't been able to appropriately transmit a message to her friends. None of the other possibilities provide a similar idea, or an adequate complement for the sentence. To segregate means to separate; to forsake means to quit or to abandon; to engulf means to completely cover or to overwhelm.

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