A successful company might INCLUDE a failing competitor through a merger.

All these different ideas can be INCLUDED under just two broad categories.

The new party ABSORBED/ INCLUDED several small left-wing parties.

Our politics would be more likely to produce constructive solutions if the DIFFERENT TYPES OF groups that form American society were in constant dialogue under the same partisan tents.

a plant with MANY DIFFERENT COLORS OF leaves

Translation includes a tacit commitment to facilitating all the DIFFERENT TYPES OF voices and personalities in our towns.

The treaty was OFFICIALLY APPROVED/ CONFIRMED by all the member states.

You and your brothers and sisters might devise a plan for a family vacation to Disney World, but it would need to be OFFICIALL APPROVED/AUTHORIZED by your parents.

In the U.S., Congress writes bills, but they need to be OFFICIALLY APPROVED before they become law.

Strategic policy during the War was INVALIDATED/ MADE INEFFECTIVE because of a sharp division between "easterners" and "westerners".

Smoking SPOILS the air.

But this does not INVALIDATE his scholarship.

The population is a MIXTURE/ VARIETY of different cultures

The international COMBINATION/BLEND of migrants seems to share a taste for rice and lentils, not the tortillas, beans and eggs provided by Mexican authorities.

Karl’s T-shirt was damp with a MIXTURE/ COMBINATION of different kinds of sweat: heat, effort, fear.

They suggest a racial ANIMOSITY/ ANGER, but detectives on Tuesday said there was no indication that he targeted victims based on race or class.

Stirring up racial HATRED/ ANGER is Mr. Trump’s standard procedure for shifting the focus of the media.

There is a sense of white group identity and racial ANGER/ HATRED prefaced on a belief, however incorrect, that Barack Obama was going to do things just for black people and other nonwhites.

My mother read and wrote in Spanish very well. She spoke English HESITANTLY.

He often asked for questions to be repeated, spoke HESITANTLY and at times seemed confused and unfamiliar with the findings of his own report.

The mutilated spider, advancing itself STOPPING AND STARTING OFTEN on its surviving legs; he picked it up and held it in the palm of his hand.

They INFUSED/ INSTILLED in us the need for learning, reading, education.

We have tried to INFUSED /INSTILLED a feeling of citizenship in youngsters.

The aim is to TEACH BY REPETITION business people with an appreciation of different cultures.

I had always (MADE THEM UNDERSTAND THE IMPORTANTCE ) upon the children that if they worked hard they would succeed in life.

He (MADE US UNDERSTAND THE IMPORTANTCE ) on us the need for immediate action.

Their responsibilities are (MADE THEM UNDERSTAND THE IMPORTANTCE ) on them during training.

Yet the Trump narrative contains a curious DUALITY/ CONTRAST.

There is a DUALITY / CONTRAST between the academic world and the industrial world.

There is often a DUALITY/ CONTRAST between what politicians say and what they do.

The DUALITY / CONTRAST between private and public sector is not so clear cut as it may appear.

She gently SANG a lullaby.

Bobby Darren was SINGING GENTLY ‘Dream Lover’.

She SANG softly to herself.

Because the painting was SHAPELESS, I had no idea what it represented

The political candidate hoped voters would not realize his budget proposal had no substance and was merely SHAPELESS ( WITHOUT FORM.

Under the microscope, the unknown virus appeared to be SHAPELESS

Her career was a MODEL of individual success at a time of great economic hardship.

The school valedictorian is an IDEAL/ MODEL of the perfect student

During his speech, the president praised the deceased soldier as a MODEL / IDEAL of courage

The dictator’s UNPLEASANT acts caused the people to rise up against him

In Jeremy’s opinion, the death penalty is an UNPLEASANT part of the legal system that should be considered a crime against humanity

When Sally drinks alcohol, she starts to display UNPLEASANT behavior that makes everyone feel uncomfortable

The firemen knew it would take a ARDUOUS effort to put out the rapidly spreading wildfire

It took STRENUOUS effort for the men to dig themselves out of the collapsed mine

It took LABORIOUS strength for the singer to continue his tour after his wife’s death.

The tunnel had been blocked with MUD.

The water contains fine MUD.

The wreck was covered in a fine layer of MUD.

Another area of concern is the APRIETO/ APURO of the poorly educated urban Chicanos

He has expressed deep concern about the PREDICAMENT/ TROUBLE of the flood victims.

There are better ways to highlight the EXASPERATION / FRUSTRATION of the homeless.

The plight of the BADLY educated urban Chicanos

a BADLY attended meeting (= at which there are not many people)

BADLY designed

The job is relatively BADLY paid.

The plight of the poorly educated urban Chicanos with DISCOURAGING employment prospects

a SESOLADORX outlook/prospect

The future looks DESALENTADORX for the fishing industry.

The medical prognosis was DISCOURAGING

My MALVADA stepmother tried to keep me away from my father.

Many are drawn into PERVERSO street gags.

Her latest play is a nihilistic vision of the world of the future.

Their nihilistic attitude toward life is capture in this poem.

nihilismo

HALF-BAKED ideas

NASCENT/ INCIPIENT rage

If only you could come up with a complete plan and not just an HALF-BAKED idea!

He REQUESTED them to tell the truth.

The judge will URGE the witnesses to speak only the truth while testifying in favor of the defendant

I ASK each and every one of you to never disclose to anyone what has been spoken here today.

In order to marry the peasant he loved, the prince made the decision to RENOUNCE his title

After the tyrant took over the country, the citizens had to RENOUNCE their political beliefs

Because John ignored his parents’ plea to GIVE UP a life of crime, he ended up in prison by making bad choices