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KEY:  1–h, 2–c, 3–a, 4–j, 5–b, 6–f, 7–g, 8–d, 9–i, 10–e





  Can you work with the words? (IV)


    1. hypotension                                            a. high blood pressure


    2. lascivious                                             b. malicious fire-setting

    3. hypertension                                           c. abnormally low blood pressure

    4. agnostic                                               d. fire-setting for illegal gain


    5. incendiarism                                           e. to forecast (probable developments)

                                                              f. a determination through examination or

    6. arson                                                      testing of the nature, type, causes, etc. of a

                                                                  condition

                                                              g. one who claims that ultimate reality is
    7. iconoclasm
                                                                  unknowable


    8. prognosticate                                          h. sexually immoral

    9. diagnosis                                              i. a foretelling of probable developments

  10. prognosis                                               j. a scoffing at tradition
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