She was _______ success and eager to create a name for herself.
a.deprecatory toward
b.impatient for
c.querulous about
d.sated by
e.impassive to
Answer: B
Q. 2
Since what constitutes a proper diet remains a _______ subject on which few experts agree, additional research is _______.
a.controversial.. required
b.neglected.. deplored
c.popular.. unexpected
d.favored.. prohibited
e.complex.. redundant
Answer: A
Q. 3
Although the Civil War _______ much of South’s railroad network, it _______ the growth of railroads in the North and West.
a.eliminated.. decreased
b.accounted for.. encouraged
c.displaced.. dismantled
d.destroyed.. stimulated
e.depended on.. established
Answer: D
Q. 4
Diversity is essential in spite of the fact that it _______ universal acceptance of a single doctrine.
a.underlies
b.reserves
c.presupposes
d.entails
e.precludes
Answer: E
Q. 5
He makes his attack with a massive display of scholarship but no great _______; all to often the _______ rather than the rapier is his chosen weapon.
a.pedantry.. bomb
b.elaboration.. axe
c.emphasis.. pen
d.discrimination.. dart
e.subtlety.. bludgeon
Answer: A
Q. 6
Her sense of time was oddly _______; ten minutes sometimes seemed like an hour.
a.credible
b.distorted
c.idealized
d.consistent
e.formidable
Answer: B
Q. 7
Narrowing the eyes when startled by a sudden noise or a noxious stimulus is _______ response, serving to reduce the exposure of sense organs to injury.
a.an imaginative
b.a protective
c.a corrective
d.a therapeutic
e.a therapeutic
Answer: E
Q. 8
As a people, the Aztecs were full of contradictions; _______ and yet prizing humility, _______ and yet obliging and kind.
a.arrogant.. benevolent
b.pious.. gallant
c.provincial.. sullen
d.tolerant.. competitive
e.proud.. implacable
Answer: E
Q. 9
His brilliant prose style is sometimes _______ by his lapses into _______ respecting and pretentious languages.
a.achieved.. facile
b.extended.. whimsical
c.disrupted.. understated
d.anticipated.. personal
e.marred.. banal
Answer: E
Q. 10
The study crowds and groups is more than _______ in an age characterized by interdependence and _______ action.
a.academic.. collective
b.difficult.. intellectual
c.vigorous.. assertive
d.erudite.. formal
e.general.. specific
Answer: A
Q. 11
My suggestions was not so casual as it appeared; I _______ mentioned the election because I know that she wanted to discuss it.
a.ineptly
b.incessantly
c.inadvertently
d.intentionally
e.inconsiderately
Answer: D
Q. 12
Bureaucratic squabbles can tie up the government for years and _______ domestic and international problems to the point of _______.
a.magnify.. manageability
b.reduce.. indignation
c.intensity.. crisis
d.weaken.. nonexistence
e.simplify.. triviality
Answer: C
Q. 13
Though there was much _______ among critics over whether or not the play portrayed the “real” Paul Robeson, James Earl Jones’s performance ws _______ deemed outstanding by audiences and critics.
a.commentary.. silently
b.controversy.. unanimously
c.harassment.. evasively
d.disappointment.. instructively
e.discussion.. privately
Answer: B
Q. 14
Today science, like philosophy, has been _______ in scope: each has _______ its claim to survey all existence and has accepted a province which, it great, is yet smaller than the whole.
a.limited.. reiterated
b.narrowed.. resigned
c.expanded.. repudiated
d.fluctuating.. denied
e.receding.. amplified
Answer: B
Q. 15
Extremist advocates of the occult claim that existing systems of scientific though must at least be modified, it not _______.