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Unit One
Chapter 1: Blue Jeans
Vocabulary in Context
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Directions
Click on the meaning closest to that of the
boldfaced
word. Use the context of the sentences to help you figure out the word’s meaning.
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Question 1.
supplant
(s
ə
-pl
ă
nt
)
-verb
Increasingly, robots are able to perform skilled tasks. It is estimated that by 2030, robots will
supplant
a third of all US workers.
An idealistic young revolutionary overthrew the dictator and set up a democratic government. But he too was soon
supplanted
when a military strongman seized power.
New technology constantly
supplants
old technology.
LjL, Alexander Schaelss, Mj-bird, and Woookie, via Wikimedia Commons
Supplant
means
a. to replace.
b. to restore.
c. to support.
New technology constantly
supplants
old technology.
LjL, Alexander Schaelss, Mj-bird, and Woookie, via Wikimedia Commons
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