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5. Answer the following questions. Use the essential vocabulary: 
1. What do you do if you don't want to meet a person? 2. When do you avoid somebody? 
3. What do you usually avoid or try to avoid doing? 4. How do you think one can best 
avoid making spelling mistakes, grammar mistakes and mistakes in word usage? 5. How 
can one avert a controversy? 6. What do you say of a pain or a headache that is not at all 
serious? 7. How would you feel if your hostess paid too little attention to you?

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8. What do you call a very strong feeling of repulsion caused by a bad smell? 9. What do 
you call an exaggerated opinion of oneself? 10. Why doesn't anybody like people who are 
full of conceit? 11. What do you call very bright light? 12. When does one glare at 
somebody? 13. What do you call a mistake that is quite obvious? 14. What do you call 
one who spends money carelessly? 
6. Choose the right word: 
slight (be, feel slighted); humiliate (be, feel humiliated); hurt (be, feel hurt): 
1. When the "Old Guard" refused to visit Scarlett in her new luxurious house she felt... 
but it didn't... her. She was too conceited to feel.... What really... her badly was Rhett's 
sneering remark that he had warned her that her extravagance and lack of taste would 
only make things worse and it would... her. 2. Scarlett felt... and ... when she learned that 
Ashley would marry Melanie. 3. Scarlett took pains to show her new Yankee 
acquaintances her indifference and dislike for them. She ... them, sneered at them and 
they often felt... and... not knowing what had brought about such a change in so pleasant 
a lady as Mrs Butler. 
avert, avoid, evade: 
1. The key to the code... all his efforts. 2. They saw the danger ahead but could do 
nothing to ... it. 3. One would admire his excellent qualities, but... his company. 4. She 
wouldn't answer, she walked hurriedly on with ... face. 5. Please answer the question; do 
not.... 6. Each person... the eyes of the others.