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Exercise 154

                            gift   swift       shift  rift

change gears or position __________

breach, rupture, estrangement, falling-out __________

a present __________                           fast, fleetfooted __________

                            quarrel, petty fight __________

                            drift  lift        sift thrift

float downstream __________                    frugal, to spend wisely __________

pick up __________                                    elevator __________

                            to filter (as with a sieve) __________

Exercise 155                       dig brig prig big
                       fig

to shovel __________                                  large __________

a person irritatingly fussy about trivial things __________

a fruit __________                       a jail (especially on a ship) __________

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