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1. Choose the word from the list that is closest in meaning to the bold part of each sentence.

  1. The police force′s difficult situation involved a bank robber who threatened to shoot a bank employee if any police approached.
  2. Despite laws restricting animal imports, thousands of monkeys and lemurs and other wild animals are brought illegally into the United States.
  3. The enemy captured and took away the general′s son.
  4. Two men were convicted of stealing a boat near the Riau Islands.
  5. By threatening to set fire to their ship, the governor of Bermuda pressured the pirate crew to give themselves up.