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

Can you work with the words? (II)

1. dissimulate a. pretense of ignorance

2. dissemblance b. a rising and floating in air

3. alleviative c. having simultaneous and contrary feelings

d. tending to swing back and forth in
4. levitation
indecision

5. vacillatory e. to swing back and forth like a pendulum

f. to hide real feelings by pretending
6. ambivalent
opposite feelings

g. tending to ease (pain, burdens, suffering,
7. oscillate
etc.)