Sentences

Question 1

Brutally (means plain and direct)

cruel and violent:

Answer 1

1.He had presided over a brutal regime in which thousands of people had “disappeared”.
2.He was imprisoned in 1945 for the brutal murder of a twelve-year-old girl.
3.She spoke with brutal honesty about his behavior.
(means plain and direct)
4.The weather was brutal – hot and humid.

Question 2

Consequence - the effect, result, or outcome of something occurring earlier:

Answer 2

1.Not making a will can have serious consequences for your children and other family members.
2.The money was of little consequence to Tony.
(of little/no consequence -not of importance)
3.He left as a direct consequence of what she said.
4.The drought has had devastating consequences.
5.The natural consequence is that changes are not easily accepted unless very well motivated.

Question 3

Expanse:

an uninterrupted space or area; a wide extent of anything.

Answer 3

1. Due to the large expanse of low-lying land, there was a great deal of sickness in the town.
2. Added to the town is an expanse of left-wing former mining villages.

3.The shore is also home to fishing traditions, wildlife and a large expanse of salt marsh - the inks.

Question 4

Fracture:the breaking of a bone, cartilage, or the like, or the resulting condition.
to divide an organization or society

Answer 4

1. The story, though fractured, brings out the politics of negotiation quite well.
2. The music is in the cantional style, with an unusual intensity of dissonance and the phrases fractured by frequent rests.
3. Surely this would be fractured by the removal of the physical bond between them.
4. We have found that younger rats heal mid-shaft femoral fractures faster than do older rats.
5. She fractured her skull in the accident.