Because the person being described won the race, it makes sense that her classmates would want to tell her she did a good job or share in her happiness. This means the correct answer is “congratulate.” The word “punish” means to tell someone off or hurt someone for doing something bad; “propose” means suggest an idea as a possibility; “suspend” means pause; and “apprehend” means catch. One might say, "The police apprehended the thief."

The student was caught doing something he was not supposed to do—leaving school during the day—so he had to tell and reveal where he had been during this time. This means the correct answer is “disclose,” which means to reveal hidden facts. “Suspend” can mean to pause. The word “refuse” means to say no or not allow something.

When someone else decides your bad fate or your punishment, we say that they have “condemned” you. So the judge “condemned” the prisoner. The word “observed” means noticed or looked at; the word “supposed” means imagined or suggested hypothetically; and the word "omitted" means left out or deleted. "Ruled" might look like a potentially correct answer because judges "rule" when they make decisions about things; however, judges just "rule," they don't "rule" things. So, grammatically, this would not work in the sentence.

Given that the girl likes to read because it helps her forget her problems, the word that fills in the blank should be one that captures her desire to leave reality behind. The best word for the blank is therefore "escape."

Because the boy had lied to his parents often, it makes sense that they would not trust him anymore, so the correct answer is “mistrust.” The prefix "mis-" can sometimes make the word it is added on to mean the opposite, so it makes sense that “mistrust” means not trust.

The context of the sentence makes it sound as if the boy had to implore or beg certain people to forgive him; this leads us to the correct answer, which is “plead,” a synonym of beg.

If it is important that you don’t miss anything, it is important to “concentrate.” To “concentrate” means to pay attention to something specified or what you are doing. As for the other answer choices, the word “demonstrate” means show how something is done by doing it yourself as an example; the word “attempt” means try when used as a verb; and “implicate” means to incriminate or suggest that someone did something wrong.

We can infer that because the dogs "gave up the chase," that they were chasing the fox beforehand, so we need to pick out an answer choice that is a verb and means something like "chased." "Evaded" may look like a potentially correct answer, but "evaded" means "escape or avoid, especially by cleverness or trickery," and while it would make sense to say that the fox evaded the dogs, it wouldn't be correct to claim that the dogs evaded the fox. "Pursue," however, is a verb that means "follow (someone or something) in order to catch or attack them," and because "pursued" best describes how the dogs tried to catch the fox, "pursued" is the correct answer.

You can tell from the sentence's context that Jessica wanted to avoid telling the truth and confessing that she was the one who took the last piece of cake from the fridge, so you need to pick out an answer choice that means something like "confess." "Admit" means reveal information that one was previously purposely withholding, so "admit" is the correct answer. "Conceal" may look like a potentially correct answer, but "conceal" means hide, and if Jessica didn't want to hide the fact that she took the last piece of cake from the fridge, she would have told people that she did it, not blamed it on her brother. For similar reasons, "suppress" can't be the correct answer either, because in this context, "suppress" means prevent information from becoming known. Jessica clearly didn't want the specified information to become known, so saying that she "didn't want to suppress" it would make no sense. In this context, "invent" would mean make up, so it cannot be the correct answer either, and "blame" doesn't make sense either, despite the fact that it may look like a good answer choice because it is used later in the sentence.

Because the action of the other girl was “kind” and Martha “fell down,” we can assume that the other girl was “helping” Martha. This means that the correct answer is “assist,” which means to help someone. To provide further help, the word “compel” means to force someone to do something; “despise” means to hate; and to “repel” means to sicken or to physically force to move away, like the way in which two positive or negative poles of a magnet interact with each other.