The driver needs to ________ his anger before someone becomes a victim of road rage.
(a) ameliorate
(b) protract
(c) embrace
(d) venerate
(e) escalate
Here again we have a sentence completion question that is doing nothing other than testing your vocabulary. We know we’re looking for a word that has something to do with easing or lessening. If you know the definitions of these words, it’s an easy question. If you don’t, it’s not. If you go to a dictionary, you’ll see that (A) is the only choice that fits. I’ll let you l0ok up these words on your own! The answer is (A).
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