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(pockmarked, stopped, careered, erected)
My headache soon cleared as we …………….1…………… down the other side of the pass. It was two o’clock by the time we ………….2……….. for lunch. We ate hot noodles inside a long canvas tent, part of a work camp …………..3 ……….. beside a dry salt lake. The plateau is ………….4………….. with salt flats and brackish lakes, vestiger of the Tethys Ocean which boedered Tibet before the great continental collision that lifted it skyward

Answer

Answer:
1. careered
2. stopped
3. erected
4. pockmarked

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