Mar 2, 2009 Volume 5 -- Daily Life in China, #10(37)

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1. This multiplicity of varying regions and provinces, still further _____ by the presence of non-Chinese minorities in some of the outlying provinces, hardly appeared on the surface at all owing to the admirable political organization of the country and to the centralization of government.
2. The ______ economic expansion which took place at that time in China is on an altogether different scale from its Western counterpart.
3. The volume of commercial growth in China was ______ with the size of its population, the amount of its wealth, its cast area, and its advance stage of technical development. The ______ of Marco Polo at the end of he thirteenth century merely express the astonishment of the traveller from the West at finding a commercial activity far more intense than that of Genoa or Venice at the same ______.

A) vigorous
B) exaggeration
C) accentuated
D) commensurate
E) epoch

answer

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vigorous:
(of a person) strong, healthy, and full of energy.
• characterized by or involving physical strength, effort, or energy
• (of language) forceful
• (of a plant) growing strongly.

exaggerate:
represent (something) as being larger, greater, better, or worse than it really is
• [as adj. ] ( exaggerated) enlarged or altered beyond normal or due proportions

accentuate:
make more noticeable or prominent

commensurate:
corresponding in size or degree; in proportion

epoch:
a period of time in history or a person's life, typically one marked by notable events or particular characteristics
• the beginning of a distinctive period in the history of someone or something
• Geology a division of time that is a subdivision of a period and is itself subdivided into ages, corresponding to a series in chronostratigraphy
• Astronomy an arbitrarily fixed date relative to which planetary or stellar measurements are expressed.

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A) vigorous
D) commensurate
C) accentuated
B) exaggeration
E) epoch