Vocab #8 POS

A policeman was killed and scores of people were injured in the melee.

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Many prisons, even today, are overcrowded and squalid places.

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She was an affable, soft-spoken woman who told us about her home, her children and her business.

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He was sitting at the edge of the group and staring morosely into space.

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The mayor plans to abate air pollution in the city by limiting traffic.

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France's population of Arabic origin is the continent's largest, drawing on Francophone diasporas from North Africa and Lebanon.

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We saw rioters pelting police with bricks and bottles.

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I had talked too much about myself and felt like a garrulous old fool.

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I wake up each day with a feeling of nervous trepidation, fearing what it will bring.

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The mayor was contrite when the initial allegations emerged.

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