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Work through these eight clear-context passages to tell apart capacity, competence, and efficacy — three nouns for ability that students often treat as interchangeable — and come away knowing which one applies to a person, which to a space, and which to a method or program.

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Question 1

The new community center was designed with a _____ of five hundred guests, making it well suited for large public events.

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After completing the six-week training program, the technicians showed clear _____ in handling the laboratory equipment safely and efficiently.

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The school district evaluated the _____ of its new reading program by comparing student scores from the beginning and end of the academic year.

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The solitary traveler who sets out into the unknown, faces great trials, and returns with hard-won wisdom is considered a/an _____ of the hero's journey found across world literature.

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The librarian sorted the donated books by placing each title into the correct _____ based on subject matter, ranging from natural science to history to fiction.

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Researchers noticed a clear _____ in the animal's movements: it always traveled toward lower ground in the hours before a heavy rainfall.

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The marine biologist published a new _____ for organizing deep-sea organisms into groups based on shared features of their skeletal structure and feeding behavior.

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The water _____ describes the continuous process by which water evaporates from the ocean, forms clouds, falls as precipitation, and eventually flows back to the sea.

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