Precise Words

Your Task.
From the choices in parentheses, select the most precise, vigorous words.
a. When replying to e-mail, (bring in, include, put) enough of the old message for (someone, the person, the recipient) to recognize the original note.
b. For a (hard, long, complicated) e-mail message, (make, create, have) the note in your word processing program.
c. If an e-mail (thing, catch, glitch) interferes while writing, you can easily (get, have, retrieve) your message.
d. We plan to (acknowledge, publicize, applaud) the work of exemplary employees. For the following sentences provide more precise alternatives for the italicized words.
e. In her e-mail memo she said that she would (a) change overtime hours in order to (b) fix the budget.
f. Our new manager (a) said that only (b) the right kind of applicants should apply.
g. After (a) reading the report, I decided it was (b) bad.