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Approximation and Vague Language

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  • How was the game?
    kind of cool
    nice...ish
    I more or less had fun.
    I just wanna have dinner or something.
  • During that year, the students read _____ 30 books each.
    or so
    dozens of
    up to
    kind of
  • She said she's writing about vegetation _____. I wasn't really interested.
    stuff
    or so
    kind of
    or something
  • God knows what kind of ______ they were eating. It looked gross!
    something
    type
    stuff
  • Which expression means "more than"?
    over
    up to
    as many as
    roughly
  • She has ____ 100 vinyl records in her collection.
    up to
    or so
    kind of
    as many as
  • A synonym for "kind of blue
    blueie
    bluish
    blue or so
    blue or something
  • Which expression could replace "kind of smart"?
    smartish
    smartest
    smarty
    smarter
  • He's called ____ times.
    kind of
    over
    dozens of
    hundreds of
  • I can't afford that. I only have 10$ ______.
    and so on
    or so
    kind of
    or something
  • ______ of people have been affected by the situation.
    hundreds
    dozens
    thousands
    hundreds of thousands
  • Which expression has a different meaning than the others?
    dozens of
    around
    about
    roughly
  • Replace the word in bold: "They have cars, planes, boats, etcetera.
    and so on
    more or less
    or something
    stuff
  • This looks ______ wrong.
    over
    kind of
    wrongish
  • She has 100 vinyl records _____ in her collection.
    kind of
    as many as
    or so
    up to
  • Sorry for the delay on this! I have ____ given up.
    type of
    kind of
    sort of