Problem: Word: make

Sentence 1: Make a phone call.

Sentence 2: They make a cute couple.

Same meaning? OPTIONS:
- different meanings
- the same meaning
A: different meanings
Question: This question has options. Does the word "vehicle" have the same definition in the next 2 sentences?

His editorials provided a vehicle for his political views.

The play was just a vehicle to display her talents.

OPTIONS:
- different meanings
- the same meaning
Answer: the same meaning
Question: "give" used in the same way in the following two sentences?

Give the orders.

I'm going to give my wife a necklace for her birthday.

OPTIONS:
- different meanings
- the same meaning
Answer: different meanings
Q: Does "excuse" have the same meaning in the following two sentences?

He's a sorry excuse of a doctor.

He had to get his mother to write an excuse for him.

OPTIONS:
- different meanings
- the same meaning

A: different meanings
Question: Here is one sentence: They could still receive the sound but the picture was gone.
Here is another sentence: She was the picture of despair.
Does the picture mean the same thing in the two sentences?
OPTIONS:
- different meanings
- the same meaning

Answer: different meanings
Question: Sentence 1: I'll just go to the lumberyard and buy some more two by fours so we can finish building this.
Sentence 2: He got a job at the lumberyard, working the big saw for planks.
Does lumberyard mean the same thing in these two sentences?
OPTIONS:
- different meanings
- the same meaning
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Answer:
the same meaning