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Prescribe / Proscribe - Exercise 1

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 doctor (   ) against the old folk remedy of treating colds with live frogs.

2. My mother (   ) a treatment of hot soup and bed rest.

3. The chief justice (   ) a strict program for the delinquent teens.

4. I will strongly (   ) you from taking that action.

5. State traffic laws (   ) driving over the speed limit.

6. Dr. Filbert (   ) these rules for our class term paper.

7. I found that if I (   ) my son from doing something, he would do that action right away.

8. Which medication did the dentist (   ) for you toothache?

9. Because of its violence, that movie has been (   ) for children.

10. Two days of bed rest were (   ) to alleviate my symptoms.

             

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