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Here’s another sentence with an underlined word you may not know. If that’s the case, use the context—the surrounding words or the whole paragraph—to figure out the word’s meaning.

Using the context, pick the meaning of the underlined word.

The lawyers were poorly prepared. The defendant was late. The jurors talked during the trial. The judge declared the case to be a travesty of justice.

Travesty most likely means .

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