Fill in each blank with a suitable verb from the list below in its appropriate form. One of the verbs is used twice. Amend avoid bring choose correct deprive differ discipline file dandle help inflict list punish reform spark specify vary write Suppose for a moment you are a primary school teacher and you have been asked by the principal to (1)_____ a (2)_____ report on your (3)______ of an unruly child who disrupted the class. Will you write that you (4) _____the child, (5)______ him, or merely (6)_______ him? Thses words are (7)____ by the dictionary as synomyms, but their meanings (8)_____. The first suggests that you (9)______ some sort of penalty on the child, perhaps by (10) _______ him of a pricilage, perhaps even by corporal punishment (q euphemism for “(11)______”). Disciplined, on the other hand, is more vague —you (12)_____ him under control and attempted to (13)______his conduct, but how you did so is not (14)______. (15)_______ implies that you simply pointed out to him the ways in which he should (16)_____his conduct. The impact of your report on his parents will (17)____ considerably depending on the word (18) _____. The dictionary’s discussion of sunonyms for (19)_____ could help you (20)_____ a blunder.