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The document provides information about TOEFL vocabulary related to synonyms and reading comprehension. It contains examples of sentences with underlined words and four options to choose from that best match the meaning of the original word. The examples are used to demonstrate that the word "inhospitable" means "uninviting" as seen from a sentence describing a mountain climate that looks "cold, forbidding and inhospitable" and another directly stating the mountain climate was "very uninviting."
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