1). This is an important question. It must be _______________ at tomorrow round up.
a) raised
b) risen
c) arisen
d) aroused

2) Is what you say true? Then the question __________ what to do next.
a) rises
b) arises
c) arouses
d) raises

3) The mishap at the nuclear plant ___________ a whole chain of events.
a) arisen
b) raised
c) aroused
d) raised

4) The purse is on the floor. _____________ it!
a) Raise
b) Rise
c) Arouse
d) Arise

5) The stage workers _____________ the curtain.
a) arouse
b) rose
c) raised
d) arose

6) Tired Mom decided to have a __________ down.
a) rest
b) lay
c) put
d) lie

7) It was his the first day of his holiday and he enjoyed _____________ in the downtown gazing at shop windows and dropping in at shops.
a) pacing
b) shambling
c) strutting
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Since I am feeling hungry by the end of the day, I want to talk to you about food.

There are many slang expressions about it. “Food” itself has 2 synonyms: chow and grub, which are both close to our Russian word жратва. Hence the word chowhound, meaning a person who eats too much.
Here are some verbs meaning more or less the same as eat:
There is a funny idiom, referring evidently to horses — to put on the feedbag, which also means to eat.
To chow down
Or simply to down — are relatively neutral synonyms of “eat”.
Dig in means start eating.
Here are more emotional verbs, that have slight additional coloring:
To scarf up/To pig out/To mack out all mean to eat greedily, or to eat too much.
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