Choose the best form of the word faint or feint to complete each sentence.
"The battlefield _____ is meant to avoid more Israeli airstrikes against Iranian targets in Syria." (Michael R. Gordon, WSJ, "Russian Airstrikes Hit Southwest Syria, Breaking a Cease-Fire Deal,"24 June 2018)
"The effect is of one of those long New Yorker-style pieces that blend storytelling with feats of reporting—the elaborate set-up that is a _____, to be dispelled in an act of revelation." (Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, "Three Identical Men and a Mystery,"5 July 2018
"Justin Rose hit an elderly spectator on the head with a wayward drive at the Scottish Open on Friday and the sight of the wound caused a 14-year-old boy to _____." (The Toronto Sun)
"Najib cannot continue to run and _____, but must take a stand to clear his name by opening his books to investigators – not to the ridiculous “special task force” of four Tan Sri subordinates, which has no credibility whatsoever, but to a Royal Commission of Inquiry of three Tuns -Mahathir, Abdullah and Musa Hitam – who are not beholden to him at all." (The Malaysia Chronicle)
Pacquiao and Mayweather will _____ and thrust and pulp one another. (The New York Times)
In fact, a more accurate interpretation could be that the drop is a_____, setting up a foundation for the real move upwards. (Forbes)
A homeless Filipino boy has been overwhelmed with aid after a heart-wrenching photo of him studying on the pavement and using _____ light from a McDonald’s outlet went viral on the Internet. (The Rakyat Post)
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Answers:
"The battlefield feint is meant to avoid more Israeli airstrikes against Iranian targets in Syria." (Michael R. Gordon, WSJ, "Russian Airstrikes Hit Southwest Syria, Breaking a Cease-Fire Deal,"24 June 2018)
"The effect is of one of those long New Yorker-style pieces that blend storytelling with feats of reporting—the elaborate set-up that is a feint, to be dispelled in an act of revelation." (Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, "Three Identical Men and a Mystery,"5 July 2018
"Justin Rose hit an elderly spectator on the head with a wayward drive at the Scottish Open on Friday and the sight of the wound caused a 14-year-old boy to faint." (The Toronto Sun)
"Najib cannot continue to run and feint, but must take a stand to clear his name by opening his books to investigators – not to the ridiculous “special task force” of four Tan Sri subordinates, which has no credibility whatsoever, but to a Royal Commission of Inquiry of three Tuns -Mahathir, Abdullah and Musa Hitam – who are not beholden to him at all." (The Malaysia Chronicle)
Pacquiao and Mayweather will feint and thrust and pulp one another. (The New York Times)
In fact, a more accurate interpretation could be that the drop is a feint, setting up a foundation for the real move upwards. (Forbes)
A homeless Filipino boy has been overwhelmed with aid after a heart-wrenching photo of him studying on the pavement and using faint light from a McDonald’s outlet went viral on the Internet. (The Rakyat Post)