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Question
Go through the lesson and spot the word which mean the same as the following.
- profession (para 1)
- sorrowful (para 2)
- decency (para 5)
- destiny (para 6)
- hijacked (para 8)
- motivation (para 9)
- serious (para 10)
- significant (para 13)
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Solution
- career
- gloomy
- nobility
- fate
- commandeered
- encouragement
- severe
- important
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