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Prescribe / Proscribe - Exercise 2

Direction: Choose the correct word in each sentence below. When you have finished, click on the "Check My Work" button to view the answers.

1. The government (   ) anyone from committing arson.

2. Certain video games are (   ) for children under 16 because of the violence the games contain.

3. My mother always (   ) a day off from school if I was not feeling well.

4. John needs to be (   ) a daily routine so that he can maintain a good program.

5. Would you (   ) your friends from smoking around you if you quit?

6. The typical medication (   ) for a headache is aspirin.

7. A "spoon full of sugar" is what Mary Poppins would (   ) as a remedy.

8. Even though the coach (   ) him from running, he ran a mile every day.

9. Why would the doctor (   ) two antibiotics that cancel out the effect of each other?

10. He was (   ) from missing one more day of school.

             

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