A). Replace the underlined words or word combinations with their synonyms from the text and explain them.

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1. Greater resources are needed to fulfill these obligations.

2. Large corporations could not have grown to their present size without being able to find innovative ways to raise capital to finance expansion.

3. The workers have been unoccupied for the last six months.

4. His firm is on the corner of Broadway and Elm Street.

5. Do you think this fear is justified?

6. Congress has criticized new government measures to withstand crime.

7. Striking workers terminated production at the auto plant yesterday.

B) Find in the box equivalents to words in the table.

To approve, to arrest, to authorize, to battle, to block, business, to call for, to check, commission, company, to cope, corporation, to curb, to cut short, to defy, to demand, to deserve, to do battle with, to do something that is your duty, to empower, to end, to entail, enterprise, to entitle, establishment, to excuse, to fight, to give ground for, to hold back, idle, to impede, to justify, to license, to meet an obligation, to necessitate, to nip in the bud, to obstruct, to staunch, to oppose, organization, to permit, to require, to resist, to sanction, to stem the flow, to stem, to strive, to struggle, to bring to an end, to obtain money, to raise funds, to raise money; to warrant.