110305923 Dr Rajus GRE Sentence Completion Exercises

DR RAJUS GRE SENTENCE COMPLETION EXERCISES

SENTENCE COMPLETION PROBLEMS 1. In some cultures the essence of magic is its traditional integrity:

it can be efficient only if it has been _______ without loss from

primeval times to the present practitioner.

(A) conventionalized (B) realized

(C) transmitted

(D) manipulated

(E) aggrandized

2. Although skeptics say financial problems will probably _______ our

establishing a base on the Moon, supporters of the project remain

_______, saying that human curiosity should overcome such pragmatic

constraints.

(A) beset, disillusioned

(B) hasten, hopeful

(C) postpone, pessimistic (D) prevent, enthusiastic

(E) allow, unconvinced

3. Before the Second World War, academics still questioned whether the

body of literature produced in the United States truly _______ a

_______ literature or whether such literature was only a provincial

branch of English literature. (A) symbolized, local

(B) constituted, national

(C) defined, historical

(D) outlined, good

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4. Many more eighteenth-century novels were written by women than

by men, but this dominance has, until very recently, been regarded

merely

as _______ fact, a bit of arcane knowledge noted only by

bibliographers. (A) a controversial

(B) a statistical

(C) an analytical

(D) an explicit

(E) an unimpeachable

5. All _______ biological traits fall into one of two categories:

those giving their possessors greater _______ the environment and

those rendering them more independent of it.

(A) widespread, detachment from (B) beneficial, control over

(C) successful, freedom from

(D) neutral, compatibility with

(E) harmful, advantage in

6. One of archaeology’s central dilemmas is now to reconstruct the

_______ of complex ancient societies from meager and often _______

physical evidence. (A) riddles, obsolete

(B) details, irrefutable

(C) intricacies, equivocal

(D) patterns, flawless

(E) configuration, explicit

7. Just as the authors’ book on eels is often a key text for curses in

marine vertebrate zoology, their ideas on animal development and

phylogeny _______ teaching in this area. (A) prevent

(B) defy

(C) replicate

(D) inform (E) use

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8. During the opera’s most famous aria the tempo chosen by the

orchestra’s conductor seemed _______, without necessary relation to what had gone before.

(A) capricious

(B) contrite

(C) demure (D) definitive

(E) dauntless

9. The state of a nation’s science determines its prosperity and political power, and scientists should not _______ this relationship

even if their own interest in science is of a less practical nature.

(A) overlook

(B) consider

(C) overestimate

(D) rely on (E) notice

10. In scientific studies, supporting evidence is much more satisfying

to report than are discredited hypotheses, but, in fact, the _______ of errors is more likely to be _______ than is the establishment of

probable truth.

(A) formulation, permitted

(B) correction, ignored (C) detection, useful

(D) accumulation, cordial

(E) deference, credulous

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11. Most histories of science are success stories that conclude on

_______ note with the fine _______ of a theory that is the basis of

subsequent inquiries by later researchers. (A) a retrospective, extrapolation

(B) an analytic, rebuttal

(C) an objective, defection

(D) a positive, crescendo (E) a triumphal, ascendancy

12. Whereas the Elizabethans struggled with the transition from

medieval _______ experience to modern individualism, we confront an electronic technology that seems likely to reverse the trend,

rendering individualism obsolete and interdependence mandatory.

(A) literary

(B) intuitive

(C) corporate (D) heroic

(E) spiritual

13. Supporters praised the mayor’ action as a speedy and judicious solution, but critics condemned it as _______ and unfairly influenced

by recent events.

(A) innocuous

(B) deferential (C) beguiling

(D) discreet

(E) premature

14. In an age without radio or recordings, and age _______ by print,

fiction gained its great ascendancy. (A) decimated

(B) denigrated

(C) dominated

(D) emphasized (E) resurrected

15. The idealized paintings of nature produced in the eighteenth

century are evidence that the medieval _______ natural settings had been _______ and that the outdoors now could be enjoyed without

trepidation.

(A) fear of, exorcised

(B) concerns about, regained (C) affection for, surmounted

(D) disinterest in, alleviated

(E) enthusiasm for, construed


www.drrajusgre.com 16. Though science is often imagined as a _______ exploration of

external reality, scientists are no different from anyone else: they

are _______ human beings enmeshed in a web of personal and social

circumstances. (A) dormant, decisive

(B) neutral, rational

(C) diligent, careless

(D) disinterested, passionate (E) cautious, dynamic

17. While the delegate clearly sought to _______ the optimism that

has

emerged recently, she stopped short of suggesting that the conference was near collapse and might produce nothing of significance.

(A) convene

(B) confuse

(C) dampen (D) elucidate

(E) depict

18. Their air of cheerful self-sacrifice and endless complaisance won them undeserved praise, for their seeming gallantry was wholly

motivated by a _______ wish to avoid conflict of any sort.

(A) poignant

(B) conductive

(C) plaintive

(D) corporeal (E) craven

19. Rumors, embroidered with detail, live on for years, neither denied

nor confirmed, until they become accepted as fact even among people not known for their _______.

(A) insight

(B) obstinacy

(C) introspection (D) contrition

(E) credulity

20. During the 1960’s assessments of the family shifted remarkably, from general endorsement of it as a worthwhile, stable institution to

wide-spread _______ it as an oppressive and bankrupt one whose

_______

was both imminent and welcome.

(A) flight from, restitution (B) contortion of, corruption

(C) rejection of, vogue

(D) censure of, dissolution

(E) corroboration, ascent ANSWERS: ECECA DCEED


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21. Furious at the harm being done to his good name, Donald sued to put an end to this _______.

(A) contrition

(B) depravity

(C) defamation

(D) derivation (E) decrepitude

22. Although scientists claim that the seemingly _______ language of

their reports is more precise than the figurative language of fiction, the language of science, like all language, is inherently _______.

(A) mysterious, subtle

(B) morose, unintelligible

(C) symbolic, complex (D) literal, allusive

(E) metaphorical, lucid

23. When the graduating seniors tied balloons to their tassels, some

faculty members were offended by such _______ at a supposedly

serious commencement ceremony.

(A) levity

(B) lethargy

(C) largesse (D) misgivings

(E) loftiness

24. In most Native American culture, an article used in payer or ritual is made with extraordinary attention to and richness of detail:

it is decorated more _______ than a similar article intended for

_______ use.

(A) minutely, vocational (B) colorfully, festive

(C) coherently, religious

(D) mordantly, commercial

(E) lavishly, everyday

25. Famous among job seekers for its _______, the company, quite

apart

from generous salaries, bestowed on its executives annual bonuses

and such _______ as low-interest home mortgages and company cars.

(A) magnanimity, reparations

(B) inventiveness, benefits

(C) largesse, perquisites (D) discernment, prerogatives

(E) malapropism, credits


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26. The attempt to breed suitable varieties of jojoba by using hybridization to _______ favorable traits was finally abandoned in

favor of a simple and much faster _______: the domestication of

flourishing wild strains.

(A) eliminate, alternative (B) reinforce, method

(C) allow, creation

(D) reduce, idea

(E) concentrate, theory

27. Although frequent air travelers remain unconvinced, researchers

have found that paradoxically, the _______ disorientation inherent in

jet lag also may yield some mental health _______.

(A) temporal, benefits

(B) acquired, hazards (C) somatic, disorders

(D) random, deficiencies

(E) meager, standards

28. Because the most recent research has _______ earlier criticism of

her work, one has to conclude that scientists who persist in

dismissing her contribution are either _______ the latest findings or

simply obstinate. (A) disparaged, satisfied with

(B) mired, preoccupied with

(C) marred, unmoved by

(D) lauded, opposed to (E) invalidated, ignorant of

29. To list Reilly’s achievements in a fragmentary way is _______, for

it distracts our attention from the _______ themes of her work.

(A) unproductive, disparate (B) misleading, integrating

(C) lachrymose, comprehensive

(D) logical, important

(E) moribund, unsettling

30. Until he learned to be more _______ about writing down his

homework assignments, James seldom knew when any assignment

was due. (A) morose

(B) latent

(C) listless

(D) meddlesome

(E) methodical ANSWERS: CDAEC BAEBE


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31. This final essay, its prevailing kindliness _______ by occasional flashes of savage irony, bespeaks the _______ character of the

author.

(A) illuminated, imperturbable

(B) marred, dichotomous (C) mired, vindictive

(D) lauded, chivalrous

(E) diluted, ruthless

32. The tone of Jane Carlyle’s letter is guarded, and her feelings are

always _______ by the wit and pride that made _______ plea for sympathy impossible for her.

(A) masked, a direct

(B) bolstered, a mawkish

(C) enhanced, an intentional (D) controlled, a circumspect

(E) colored, a mercurial

33. Even though in today’s Soviet Union the _______ the Muslim clergy

have been accorded power and privileges, the Muslim laity and the

rank-and-file clergy still have little _______ to practice their

religion. (A) practitioners among, opportunity

(B) magnates within, obligation

(C) adversaries of, inclination

(D) leaders of, latitude

(E) mentors among, motive

34. He was regarded by his followers as something of _______, not

only

because of his insistence on strict discipline, but also because of his _______ adherence to formal details.

(A) a martinet, rigid

(B) a miser, sporadic

(C) a rebel, minute (D) a malingerer, conscientious

(E) a magnate, maniacal

35. Though his contemporaries tended to fixate on the politician’s

supposed _______, his personal correspondence _______ a surprising largesse.

(A) charity, confirms

(B) parsimony, contradicts

(C) avarice, betrays (D) integrity, reveals

(E) generosity, bespeaks


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36. The children’s _______ natures were in sharp contrast to the

even-tempered dispositions of their parents.

(A) mercurial

(B) blithe

(C) phlegmatic (D) loutish

(E) maladroit

37. The old man could not have been accused of _______ his affection;

his conduct toward the child betrayed his _______ her.

(A) lavishing, fondness for

(B) sparing, tolerance of (C) slackening, antipathy for

(D) stinting, adoration of

(E) scrutinizing, dislike of

38. James boasted that only factual arguments could influence him; he

had no patience with mere _______ devices.

(A) scanty

(B) soporific

(C) rhetorical (D) sacrilegious

(E) sardonic

39. The English novelist William Thackeray considered the cult of the criminal so dangerous that he criticized Dickens’ Oliver Twist for

making the characters in the thieves’ kitchen so _______.

(A) sluggish

(B) sporadic (C) scrupulous

(D) riveting

(E) repugnant

40. Jones was unable to recognize the contradictions in his attitudes that were obvious to everyone else; even the hint of an untruth was

_______ to him, but he _______ serious trouble by always cheating

on

his taxes. (A) acceptable, risked

(B) shrewd, averted

(C) repugnant, courted

(D) soporific, evaded (E) ruthless, hazarded

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41. Cezanne’s delicate watercolor sketches often served as _______ of a subject, a way of gathering fuller knowledge before the artist’s

final engagement of the subject in an oil painting.

(A) a respite

(B) a synthesis (C) a reconnaissance

(D) a satire

(E) a reflection

42. Prudery actually draws attention to the vice it is supposed to

_______; the very act that forbids speech or prohibits sight _______

what is hidden.

(A) stigmatize, distorts (B) saturate, signals

(C) repress, dramatizes

(D) sequester, fosters

(E) retaliate, conceals

43. In contrast to more _______ publications of ever narrower

purview,

the journal Antiquity has remained as _______ as it was when it

began, continuing to serve the broader interests of the discipline of

archaeology.

(A) atypical, anomalous

(B) specialized, eclectic (C) diverse, idiosyncratic

(D) irrelevant, superfluous

(E) authoritative, autocratic

44. In eighth-century Japan, people who _______ wasteland were rewarded with official ranks as part of an effort to overcome the

shortage of _______ fields.

(A) squandered, forested

(B) reclaimed, arable (C) solicited, domestic

(D) irrigated, accessible

(E) required, desirable

45. As painted by Constable, the scene is not one of bucolic _______;

rather it shows a striking emotional and intellectual _______.

(A) subtlety, boredom

(B) synthesis, detachment

(C) serenity, tension

(D) searing, excitement (E) nostalgia, placidity


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46. The fortress like façade of the Museum of Cartoon Art seems calculated to remind visitors the comic strip is an art form that has

often been _______ by critics.

(A) charmed

(B) assailed (C) revoked

(D) exhilarated

(E) overwhelmed

47. Rhetoric often seems to _______ over reason in a heated debate,

with both sides _______ in hyperbole.

(A) cloud, subsiding

(B) prevail, yielding

(C) triumph, engaging (D) requite, clamoring

(E) tout, sneering

48. The meeting seemed _______, not just because decisions were made

with excessive deliberation, but also because the director was so

_______ as to provoke extremely lengthy debate.

(A) abbreviated, distracted (B) interminable, tendentious

(C) sedentary, persuasive

(D) endless, amenable

(E) restive, withdrawn

49. The reception given to Kimura’s radical theory of molecular

evolution shows that when _______ fights orthodoxy to a draw, then

novelty has seized a good chunk of space from convention.

(A) imitation (B) reaction

(C) dogmatism

(D) invention

(E) mediocrity

50. Some customs travel well; often, however, behavior that is

considered the epitome of _______ at home is perceived as impossibly

rude or, at the least, harmlessly bizarre abroad.

(A) sordidness

(B) servility (C) urbanity

(D) coarseness

(E) satiricalness

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51. Paradoxically, altruism may in fact be _______ if it aids only one’s close relatives.

(A) stalwart

(B) beneficent

(C) rancorous (D) selfish

(E) censorious

52. The pressure of population available resources is the key to

understanding history; consequently, any historical writing that takes no cognizance of _______ facts is _______ flawed.

(A) demographic, intrinsically

(B) ecological, marginally

(C) cultural, substantively (D) psychological, philosophically

(E) political, demonstratively

53. Fenster schemed and plotted for weeks and these _______ were rewarded when Griswold was fired and Fenster was promoted.

(A) circumlocutions

(B) affiliations

(C) gibbering

(D) machinations (E) renunciations

54. Thomas Jefferson’s decision not to _______ lotteries was

sanctioned by classical wisdom, which held that, far from being a _______ game, lots were a way of divining the future and of involving

the gods in everyday affairs.

(A) expand, sacred

(B) publicize, vile (C) condemn, debased

(D) legalize, standardized

(E) restrict, useful

55. Although she was normally a _______ individual, she attacked the

heckler who had been interrupting her speech. (A) perceptive

(B) pusillanimous

(C) peaceful

(D) choleric (E) boastful


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56. Although the feeding activities of whales and walruses give the

seafloor of the Bering Shelf a devastated appearance, these activities

seem to be actually _______ to the area, _______ its productivity.

(A) destructive, counterbalancing (B) rehabilitative, diminishing

(C) beneficial, enhancing

(D) detrimental, redirecting

(E) superfluous, encumbering

57. The somber news from the flood-stricken area does not justify the

_______ attitude which you are displaying.

(A) lugubrious

(B) sanguinary (C) belligerent

(D) optimistic

(E) gloomy

58. Noting that few employees showed any _______ for complying

with

the corporation’s new safety regulations, Peterson was forced to

conclude that acceptance of the regulations would be _______, at

best. (A) aptitude, unavoidable

(B) regard, indeterminate

(C) respect, negotiable

(D) patience, imminent (E) enthusiasm, grudging

59. The observation that nurses treating patients with pellagra did

not _______ the disease led epidemiologists to question the theory that pellagra is _______.

(A) risk, deadly

(B) fear, curable

(C) acknowledge, common

(D) contract, contagious

(E) battle, preventable

60. Sometimes fiction is marred by departures from the main

narrative,

but Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye is instead _______ by its _______, which add levels of meaning of the principal story.

(A) enhanced, digressions

(B) harmed, excursions

(C) adorned, melodramas (D) strengthened, criticisms

(E) unaffected, circumlocutions

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61. Here in America, we have a _______ speech that is neither

American, Oxford English, nor English but a _______ of all three.

(A) motley, conflagration (B) hybrid, combination

(C) nasal, mutilation

(D) mangled, conglomeration

(E) feigned, masquerade

62. We were annoyed by her _______ reply for we had been led to

expect

definite assurances of her approval. (A) acerbic

(B) noncommittal

(C) vehement

(D) caustic

(E) articulate

63. Linguists have now confirmed what experienced users of

ASL-American Sign Language- have always implicitly known: ASL is a

grammatically _______ language in that it is capable of expressing every possible syntactic relation.

(A) limited

(B) economical

(C) complete (D) shifting

(E) abstract

64. Aalto, like other modernists, believed that form follows

functions; consequently, his furniture designs asserted that _______

of human needs, and the furniture’s form was _______ human use. (A) universality, refined by

(B) importance, relegated to

(C) rationale, emphasized by

(D) primacy, determined by (E) variability, reflected in

65. The action and characters in a melodrama can be so immediately

_______ that all observers can hiss the villain with an air of smug but enjoyable _______.

(A) spurned, boredom

(B) forgotten, condescension

(C) classified, self-righteousness (D) plausible, guilt

(E) gripping, skepticism


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66. The wonder of De Quincey is that although opium dominated his life, it never _______ him; indeed, he turned its use to _______ when

he published the story of its influence in the London Magazine.

(A) overcame, altruism

(B) intimidated, triumph (C) distressed, pleasure

(D) conquered, gain

(E) released, necessity

67. Scientists who are on the cutting edge of research must often

violate common sense and make seemingly _______ assumptions

because

existing theories simply do not _______ newly observed phenomena.

(A) radical, confirm (B) vague, incorporate

(C) absurd, explain

(D) mistaken, reveal

(E) inexact, corroborate

68. Today water is more _______ in landscape architecture than ever

before, because technological advances have made it easy, in some

instances even _______ to install water features in public places. (A) conspicuous, prohibitive

(B) sporadic, effortless

(C) indispensible, intricate

(D) ubiquitous, obligatory

(E) controversial, unnecessary

69. The muses are _______ deities: they avenge themselves without

mercy on those who weary of their charms.

(A) rueful

(B) ingenuous (C) solicitous

(D) vindictive

(E) dispassionate

70. A study of Berthe Morisot’s painting technique reveals that her

apparent _______ and _______ execution were never as casual as

they

seemed but actually resulted from years of practice and concentration. (A) craft, studied

(B) improvisation, diligent

(C) spontaneity, rapid

(D) deception, flawless

(E) accomplishment, laborious ANSWERS: BBCDC DCDDC


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71. A misconception frequently held by novice writers is that sentence

structure mirrors thought: the more convoluted the structure, the

more

_______ the ideas. (A) complicated

(B) inconsequential

(C) elementary

(D) fanciful

(E) blatant

72. Babcock’s criticism of the business practices of fellow merchants

was colored by _______; the more successful the other entrepreneurs,

the more bitterly they were _______. (A) sensitivity, courted

(B) jealousy, castigated

(C) admiration, admonished

(D) ambivalence, dismissed (E) blame, exonerated

73. Few of us take the pains to study our cherished convictions;

indeed, we almost have a natural _______ doing so.

(A) aptitude for

(B) repugnance to (C) interest in

(D) ignorance of

(E) reaction after

74. Just as astrology was for centuries _______ faith, countering the

strength of established churches, so today believing in astrology is

an act of _______ the professional sciences.

(A) an individual, rebellion by (B) an accepted, antagonism toward

(C) an underground, defiance against

(D) a heretical, support for

(E) an unknown, concern about

75. If you come to the conference with such _______ attitude, we

cannot expect to reach _______ agreement.

(A) a subservient, passive

(B) an indolent, satisfactory (C) an unwonted, hypothetical

(D) an obdurate, harmonious

(E) a complicated, conclusive


76. The credibility of her _______ description of the conflicts

experienced by many contemporary women in their everyday lives was

undermined by her _______ conclusions. (A) even-handed, partisan

(B) biased, lopsided

(C) detailed, careful

(D) general, far-reaching

(E) realistic, valid

77. Although Johnson _______ great enthusiasm for his employees’

project, in reality his interest in the project was so _______ as to

be almost nonexistent. (A) generated, redundant

(B) displayed, preemptive

(C) expected, indiscriminate

(D) feigned, perfunctory (E) demanded, dispassionate

78. Dependence on foreign sources of heavy metals, though _______,

remains _______ for United States foreign policy.

(A) deepening, a challenge

(B) diminishing, a problem (C) excessive, a dilemma

(D) debilitating, an embarrassment

(E) unavoidable, a precedent

79. In many science fiction films, the opposition of good and evil is

portrayed as a _______ between technology, which is _______, and

the

errant will of a depraved intellectual. (A) fusion, useful

(B) struggle, dehumanizing

(C) parallel, unfettered

(D) conflict, beneficent (E) similarity, malevolent

80. Although some of her fellow scientists _______ the unorthodox

laboratory methodology than others found innovative, unanimous

praise greeted her experimental results: at once pioneering and _______.

(A) ignored, untrustworthy

(B) complimented, foreseeable

(C) welcomed, mundane (D) decried, unexceptionable

(E) attacked, inconclusive

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81. Business forecasts usually prove reasonably accurate when the

assumption that the future will be much like the past is _______; in

times of major _______ in the business environment, however,

forecasts can be dangerously wrong.

(A) specified, discontinuities

(B) questioned, surges

(C) renounced, improvements (D) stipulated, risks

(E) satisfied, shifts

82. In their preface, the collection’s editors plead that certain of the important articles they _______ were published too recently for

inclusion, but in the case of many such articles, this _______ is not

valid.

(A) discussed, replacement

(B) omitted, excuse

(C) revised, clarification (D) disparaged, justification

(E) ignored, endorsement

83. The labor union and the company’s management despite their long history of unfailingly acerbic disagreement on nearly every issue,

have nevertheless reached an unexpectedly _______, albeit still

tentative, agreement on next year’s contract.

(A) swift (B) onerous

(C) hesitant

(D) reluctant

(E) conclusive

84. The _______ questions that consistently structure the study of

history must be distinguished from merely _______ questions, which

have their day and then pass into oblivion.

(A) recurrent, practical (B) instinctive, factual

(C) ingrained, discriminating

(D) philosophical, random

(E) perennial, ephemeral

85. That she seemed to prefer _______ to concentrated effort is

undeniable; nevertheless, the impressive quality of her finished

paintings suggests that her actual relationship to her art was anything but _______.

(A) preparation, passionate

(B) artfulness, disengaged

(C) dabbling, superficial

(D) caprice, considered (E) indecision, lighthearted


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86. Although they were not direct _______, the new arts of the Classical period were clearly created in the spirit of older Roman

models and thus _______ many features of the older style.

(A) impressions, introduced

(B) translations, accentuated (C) copies, maintained

(D) masterpieces, depicted

(E) borrowings, improvised

87. Marshal Philippe Petain, unlike any other French citizen of this

century, has been, paradoxically, the object of both great veneration and great _______.

(A) reverence

(B) interest

(C) empathy (D) contempt

(E) praise

88. Philosophical problems arise when people ask questions that, though very _______, have certain characteristics in common.

(A) relevant

(B) elementary

(C) abstract (D) diverse

(E) controversial

89. Early critics of Emily Dickinson’s poetry mistook for

simplemindedness the surface of artlessness that in fact she constructed with such _______.

(A) astonishment

(B) vexation

(C) allusion (D) innocence

(E) cunning

90. Her tone of voice _______ him: he could not tell whether she was being _______ or whether he was to take her comment literally.

(A) offended, genuine

(B) puzzled, direct

(C) comforted, kind

(D) reassured, condescending (E) perplexed, sarcastic

ANSWERS: EBAEC CDDEE


www.drrajusgre.com 91. The self-important cant of musicologists on record jackets often

suggests that true appreciation of the music is an _______ process

closed to the uninitiated listener, however enthusiastic.

(A) unreliable (B) variegated

(C) salubrious

(D) arcane

(E) balmy

92. By divesting himself of all regalities, the former king _______ the consideration that customarily protects monarchs.

(A) merited

(B) forfeited

(C) debased (D) concealed

(E) superannuated

93. I have no _______ in this matter: I am forced to follow the guidelines set forth in this manual.

(A) grudge

(B) qualifications

(C) prudence (D) wisdom

(E) latitude

94. The _______ qualities of this salve will provide you with

temporary relief from the pain which you now suffer. (A) obscure

(B) analgesic

(C) soporific

(D) caustic (E) esthetic

95. Just as midwifery was for hundreds of years _______ practice,

something that women retained control over for themselves, so too the

increasingly independent role of the midwife in the process of

childbirth is _______ domination by institutional medicine.

(A) a personal, reaction of

(B) a controversial, tolerance of (C) an autonomous, liberation from

(D) a communal, celebration of

(E) a dangerous, protection from

96. Usually the first to spot data that were inconsistent with other

findings, in this particular experiment she let a number of _______

results slip by.

(A) inaccurate (B) verifiable

(C) redundant

(D) salient

(E) anomalous

97. In a most impressive demonstration, Pavarotti sailed through Verdi’s “Celeste Aida,” normally a tenor’s _______, with the casual

enthusiasm of a folk singer performing one of his favorite _______.

(A) pitfall, recitals

(B) glory, chorales (C) nightmare, ballads

(D) delight, chanteys

(E) routine, composers

98. Unfortunately, his damaging attacks on the ramification of the

economic policy have been _______ by his wholehearted acceptance

of

that policy’s underlying assumptions. (A) supplemented

(B) undermined

(C) wasted

(D) diverted

(E) redeemed

99. In the seventeenth century, direct flouting of a generally

accepted system of values was regarded as _______, even as a sign

of madness.

(A) adventurous

(B) frivolous

(C) willful (D) impermissible

(E) irrational

100. In keeping with the well-established custom that even the most

favorable review should include some _______, the reviewer follows her

_______ the book’s prose with some objections to its implementations

of theory.

(A) equivocations, quibbles with (B) accolades, attack on

(C) reservations, praise of

(D) disparagements, criticism of

(E) compliments, consideration of ANSWERS: DBEBC ECBEC


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101. Mary hoped to get the job not only because of the salary but also

because of the health plan and other _______ which went with it.

(A) perquisites (B) inconveniences

(C) detractions

(D) details

(E) prerequisites

102. Propaganda may influence the sophisticated and urbane as well

as

the more _______ members of the community. (A) knowledgeable

(B) worldly

(C) gullible

(D) philanthropic (E) blasé

103. Congress is having great difficulty developing a consensus on

energy policy, primarily because the policy objectives of various

members of Congress rest on such _______ assumptions. (A) commonplace

(B) trivial

(C) explicit

(D) divergent (E) fundamental

104. In the design of medical experiments, the need for _______

assignment of treatments to patients must be _______ the difficulty of persuading patients to participate in an experiment in which their

treatment is decided by chance.

(A) independent, amended by

(B) competent, emphasized by

(C) mechanical, controlled by (D) swift, associated with

(E) random, reconciled with

105. People should not be praised for their virtue if they lack the energy to be _______; in such cases, goodness is merely the effect of

_______.

(A) depraved, hesitation

(B) cruel, effortlessness (C) wicked, indolence

(D) unjust, boredom

(E) iniquitous, impiety


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106. Despite vigorous protestations, the grin on the teenager’s face _______ her denial that she had known about the practical joke before

it was played on her parents.

(A) belied

(B) illustrated (C) reinforced

(D) exacerbated

(E) trivialized

107. Nature’s energy efficiency often _______ human technology:

despite the intensity of the light fireflies produce, the amount of

heat is negligible; only recently have humans developed chemical

light-producing systems whose efficiency _______ the firefly’s systems.

(A) engenders, manipulates

(B) reflects, simulates

(C) outstrips, rivals

(D) inhibits, matches (E) determines, reproduces

108. While nurturing parents can compensate for adversity, cold or

inconsistent parents may _______ it. (A) exacerbate

(B) neutralize

(C) eradicate

(D) ameliorate (E) relieve

109. Dramatic literature often _______ the history of a culture in

that it takes as its subject matter the important events that have

shaped and guided the culture. (A) confounds

(B) repudiates

(C) recapitulates

(D) anticipates (E) polarizes

110. Documenting science’s _______ philosophy would be _______,

since it is almost axiomatic that many philosophers use scientific concepts

as the foundations for their speculations.

(A) distrust of, elementary

(B) influence on, superfluous

(C) reliance on, inappropriate

(D) dependence on, difficult (E) differences from, impossible

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www.drrajusgre.com 111. The results of the experiments performed by Elizabeth Hazed and

Rachel Brown were _______ not only because these results challenged

old assumptions but also because they called the _______

methodology into question.

(A) provocative, prevailing

(B) predictable, contemporary

(C) inconclusive, traditional (D) intriguing, projected

(E) specious, original

112. Because they had expected the spacecraft Voyager 2 to be able

to gather data only about the planets Jupiter and Saturn, scientists were

_______ the wealth of information it sent back from Neptune twelve

years after leaving Earth.

(A) disappointed in (B) concerned about

(C) confident in

(D) elated by

(E) anxious for

113. Scientists’ pristine reputation as devotees of the disinterested

pursuit of truth has been _______ by recent evidence that some

scientists have deliberately _______ experimental results to further

their own careers. (A) reinforced, published

(B) validated, suppressed

(C) exterminated, replicated

(D) compromised, fabricated (E) resuscitated, challenged

114. It is his dubious distinction to have proved what nobody would

think of denying, that Romero at the age of sixty-four writes with all the characteristics of _______.

(A) maturity

(B) fiction

(C) inventiveness

(D) art

(E) brilliance

115. It is a great _______ to be able to transfer useful genes with as

little extra material as possible, because the donor’s genome may

contain, in addition to desirable genes, many genes with _______ effects.

(A) misfortune, unpredictable

(B) disappointment, superfluous

(C) convenience, exquisite (D) accomplishment, profound

(E) advantage, deleterious


www.drrajusgre.com 116. Scholars’ sense of the uniqueness of the central concept of “the

state” at the time when political science became an academic field

quite naturally led to striving for a correspondingly _______ mode of

study.

(A) through (B) distinctive

(C) dependable

(D) scientific

(E) dynamic

117. In certain forms of discourse such as the parable, the central

point of a message can be effectively communicated even though this

point is not _______. (A) preferred

(B) explicit

(C) inferable

(D) discerned

(E) illustrated

118. Wearing the latest fashions was exclusively the _______ of the

wealthy until the 1850’s, when mass production, aggressive

entrepreneurs, and the availability of the sewing machine made them _______ the middle class.

(A) aspiration, disagreeable to

(B) vexation, superfluous for

(C) bane, profitable to (D) prerogative, accessible to

(E) obligation, popular with

119. A number of writers who once greatly _______ the literary critic

have recently recanted, substituting _______ for their former

criticism. (A) lauded, censure

(B) influenced, analysis

(C) simulated, ambivalence

(D) disparaged, approbation (E) honored, adulation

120. Broadway audiences have become inured to _______ and so

_______ to be pleased as to make their ready ovations meaningless as an

indicator of the quality of the production before them.

(A) sentimentality, reluctant

(B) condescension, disinclined (C) histrionics, unlikely

(D) cleverness, eager

(E) mediocrity, desperate

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121. Any population increase beyond a certain level necessitates

greater _______ vegetable foods; thus, the ability of a society to choose meat over cereals always arises, in part, from _______ the

number of people.

(A) reliance on, replenishing

(B) production of, estimating (C) spending on, concealing

(D) recourse to, limiting

(E) attention to, varying

122. A recent survey shows that, while ninety-four percent of companies conducting management-training programs open them to

women,

women are _______ only seventy-four percent of those programs.

(A) protesting against (B) participating in

(C) displeased by

(D) allowed in

(E) refused by

123. Thomas Paine, whose political writing was often flamboyant, was

in private life a surprisingly _______ man: he lived in rented rooms,

ate little, and wore drab clothes.

(A) simple

(B) controversial (C) sordid

(D) comfortable

(E) discourteous

124. Because she had a reputation for _______, we were surprised

and

pleased when she greeted us so _______.

(A) insolence, irately (B) insouciance, cordially

(C) graciousness, amiably

(D) arrogance, disdainfully

(E) querulousness, affably

125. The struggle of the generations is one of the obvious constants

of human affairs; therefore, it may be presumptuous to suggest that

the rivalry between young and old in Western society during the

current decade is _______ critical. (A) perennially

(B) disturbingly

(C) uniquely

(D) archetypally (E) captiously


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126. At first, I found her gravity rather intimidating; but, as I saw more of her, I found that _______ was very near the surface.

(A) seriousness

(B) confidence

(C) laughter

(D) poise (E) determination

127. Despite claims that his philosophy can be traced to _______

source, the philosophy in fact draws liberally on several traditions and methodologies and so could justifiably be termed _______.

(A) a particular, consistent

(B) a schematic, multifaceted

(C) a dominant, cogent (D) an authoritative, derivative

(E) a single, eclectic

128. During a period of protracted illness, the sick can become

infirm, _______ both the strength to work and many of the specific

skills they once possessed. (A) regaining

(B) denying

(C) pursuing

(D) insuring (E) losing

129. Melodramas, which presented stark oppositions between

innocence and criminality, virtue and corruption, good and evil, were popular

precisely because they offered the audience a world _______ of

_______.

(A) bereft, theatricality (B) composed, adversity

(C) full, circumstantiality

(D) deprived, polarity

(E) devoid, neutrality

130. Du Bois’s foreign trips were the highlight, not the _______, of

his travels; he was habitually on the go across and around the United

States.

(A) idiosyncrasy (B) result

(C) precursor

(D) culmination

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131. In parts of the Arctic, the land grades into the landfast ice so

_______ that you can walk off the coast and not know you are over the

hidden sea.

(A) permanently

(B) imperceptibly (C) irreqularly

(D) precariously

(E) slightly

132. Parts of seventeenth-century Chinese pleasure gardens were not

necessarily intended to look _______; they were designed expressly to

evoke the agreeable melancholy resulting from a sense of the _______

of natural beauty and human glory.

(A) beautiful, immutability

(B) cheerful, transitoriness (C) colorful, abstractness

(D) luxuriant, simplicity

(E) conventional, wildness

133. Despite many decades of research on the gasification of coal, the

data accumulated are not directly _______ to environmental

questions;

thus a new program of research specifically addressing such question is _______.

(A) analogous, promising

(B) transferable, contradictory

(C) antithetical, unremarkable (D) applicable, warranted

(E) pertinent, unnecessary

134. Unlike other creatures, who are shaped largely by their _______

environment, human beings are products of a culture accumulated over

centuries, yet one that is constantly being _______ by massive

infusions of new information from everywhere.

(A) harsh, unconfirmed (B) surrounding, upheld

(C) immediate, transformed

(D) natural, mechanized

(E) limited, superseded

135. Vaillant, who has been particularly interested in the means by

which people attain mental health, seems to be looking for _______

answers: a way to close the book on at least a few questions about

human nature. (A) definitive

(B) confused

(C) temporary

(D) personal (E) derivative


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136. Because many of the minerals found on the ocean floor are still _______ on land, where mining the ocean floor has yet to become a

_______ enterprise.

(A) scarce, marginal

(B) accessible, marginal

(C) unidentified, subsidized

(D) conserved, public (E) plentiful, profitable

137. The disjunction between educational objectives that stress

independence and individuality and those that emphasize obedience to rules and cooperation with others reflects a _______ that arises from

the values on which these objectives are based.

(A) conflict

(B) redundancy (C) gain

(D) predictability

(E) wisdom

138. The Chinese, who began systematic astronomical and weather

observations shortly after the ancient Egyptians, were assiduous

record-keepers, and because of this, can claim humanity’s longest

continuous _______ of natural events.

(A) defiance (B) documentation

(C) maintenance

(D) theory

(E) domination

139. The valedictory address, as it has developed in American colleges

and universities over the years, has become a very strict form, a

literary _______ that permits very little _______. (A) text, clarity

(B) work, tradition

(C) genre, deviation

(D) oration, grandiloquence

(E) achievement, rigidity

140. It is _______ for a government to fail to do whatever it can to

eliminate a totally _______ disease.

(A) folly, innocuous (B) irresponsible, preventable

(C) crucial, fatal

(D) instinctive, devastating

(E) detrimental, insignificant ANSWERS: BBDCA EABCB


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141. Inspired interim responses to hitherto unknown problem, New

Deal

economic stratagems became _______ as a result of bureaucratization,

their flexibility and adaptability destroyed by their transformation

into rigid policies.

(A) politicized (B) consolidated

(C) ossified

(D) ungovernable

(E) streamlined

142. Natural selection tends to eliminate genes that cause inherited

diseases, acting most strongly against the most severe diseases;

consequently, hereditary disease that are _______ would be expected to

be very _______, but, surprisingly, they are not.

(A) lethal, rare

(B) untreated, dangerous

(C) unusual, refractory (D) new, perplexing

(E) widespread, acute

143. That his intransigence in making decisions _______ no open disagreement from any quarter was well known; thus, clever

subordinates learned the art of _______ their opinions in casual

remarks.

(A) elicited, quashing (B) engendered, recasting

(C) brooked, intimating

(D) embodied, instigating

(E) forbore, emending

144. Some paleontologists debate whether the diversity of species has

_______ since the Cambrian period or whether imperfections in the

fossil record only suggest greater diversity today, while in actuality

there has been either _______ or decreased diversity. (A) changed, escalation

(B) increased, stasis

(C) expanded, discontinuity

(D) declined, reduction (E) improved, deviation

145. It is strange how words shape out thoughts and trap us at the

bottom of deeply _______ canyons of thinking, their imprisoning sides

carved out by the _______ of past usage.

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(C) incised, river

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146. The sheer diversity of tropical plants represents a seemingly

_______ source of raw materials, of which only a few have been utilized.

(A) exploited

(B) quantifiable

(C) controversial (D) inexhaustible

(E) remarkable

147. For centuries animals have been used as _______ for people in

experiments to assess the effects of therapeutic and other agents that might later be used in humans.

(A) benefactors

(B) companions

(C) examples (D) precedents

(E) surrogates

148. By idiosyncratically refusing to dismiss an insubordinate member of his staff, the manager not only _______ established policy, but he

also _______ his heretofore good chances for promotion.

(A) instituted, bettered

(B) recognized, protected

(C) contravened, jeopardized (D) reiterated, computed

(E) delimited, restricted

149. The widespread public shock at the news of the guilty verdict was caused partly by _______ news stories that had _______ acquittal.

(A) sensational, condemned

(B) buried, urged

(C) impartial, mentioned (D) biased, predicted

(E) local, denounced

150. Only by ignoring decades of mismanagement and inefficiency

could

investors conclude that a fresh infusion of cash would provide anything more than a _______ solution to the company’s financial

woes.

(A) fair

(B) temporary (C) genuine

(D) realistic

(E) complete

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151. Although the discovery of antibiotics led to great advances in clinical practice, it did not represent a _______ bacterial illness,

for there are some bacteria that cannot be _______ treated with

antibiotics.

(A) breakthrough in, consistently

(B) panacea for, effectively (C) neglect of, efficiently

(D) reexamination of, conventionally

(E) resurgence of, entirely

152. To compensate for the substantial decline in the availability of

fossil fuels in future years, we will have to provide at least _______

alternative energy source.

(A) an anticipated (B) an official

(C) an equivalent

(D) a derivative

(E) a redundant

153. There is some _______ the fact that the author of a book as

sensitive and informed as Indian Artisans did not develop her interest

in Native American art until adulthood, for she grew up in a region

rich in American Indian culture. (A) irony in

(B) satisfaction in

(C) doubt about

(D) concern about (E) presumptuousness in

154. Ironically, the party leaders encountered no greater _______

their efforts to build a progressive party than the _______ of the

progressives already elected to the legislature.

(A) support for, advocacy (B) threat to, promise

(C) benefit from, success

(D) obstacle to, resistance

(E) praise for, reputation

155. Though many medieval women possessed devotional books that

had

belonged to their mothers, formal written evidence of women bequeathing books to their daughters is scarce, which suggests that

such bequests were _______and required no _______.

(A) unselfish, rationalization

(B) tangential, approval (C) customary, documentation

(D) covert, discretion

(E) spurious, record


www.drrajusgre.com 156. The challenge of interpreting fictional works written under

politically repressive regimes lies in distinguishing what is _______

to an author’s beliefs, as opposed to what is _______ by political

coercion. (A) innate, understood

(B) organic, imposed

(C) contradictory, conveyed

(D) oblique, captured (E) peripheral, demanded

157. Observable as a tendency of our culture is a _______ of _______

psychoanalysis: we no longer feel that it can solve our emotional

problems. (A) divergence, certainty about

(B) confrontation, enigmas in

(C) withdrawal, belief in

(D) defense, weaknesses in (E) failure, rigor in

158. The astronomer and feminist Maria Mitchell’s own prodigious

activity and the vigor of the Association for the Advancement of Women

during the 1870’s _______ any assertion that feminism was _______

in

that period.

(A) exclude, thriving

(B) contradict, prospering (C) pervade, remote

(D) buttress, dormant

(E) belie, quiescent

159. Nineteenth-century scholars, by examining earlier geometric

Greek

art, found that classical Greek art was not a magical _______ or a

brilliant _______ blending Egyptian and Assyrian art, but was independently evolved by Greeks in Greece.

(A) stratagem, appropriation

(B) exemplar, synthesis

(C) conversion, annexation (D) paradigm, construct

(E) apparition, amalgam

160. The repudiation of Puritanism in seventeenth-century England

expressed itself not only in retaliatory laws to _______ Puritans, but also in a general attitude of _______ for Puritans.

(A) restrict, contempt

(B) regulate, regard

(C) benefit, affection (D) repress, respect

(E) evade, hatred

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161. In the absence of any _______ caused by danger, hardship, or

even

cultural difference, most utopian communities deteriorate into _______

but enervating backwaters.

(A) turmoil, frantic

(B) mistrust, naïve (C) amelioration, ignorant

(D) decimation, intrusive

(E) stimulation, placid

162. Some artists immodestly idealize or exaggerate the significance

of their work; yet others _______ to exalt the role of the artist,

reject a transcendent view of art.

(A) appearing

(B) disdaining

(C) seeking (D) failing

(E) tending

163. Calculus, though still indispensable to science and technology, is no longer _______; it has an equal partner called discrete

mathematics.

(A) preeminent

(B) pertinent (C) beneficial

(D) essential

(E) pragmatic

164. Despite its _______, the book deals _______ with a number of

crucial issues.

(A) optimism, cursorily

(B) importance, needlessly

(C) virtues, inadequately (D) novelty, strangely

(E) completeness, thoroughly

165. If the theory is self-evidently true, as its proponents assert, then why does _______ it still exist among well-informed people?

(A) support for

(B) excitement about

(C) regret for (D) resignation about

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166. Religious philosopher that he was, Henry More derived his conception of an infinite universe from the Infinite God in whom he

believed, a benevolent God of _______ whose nature was to create

_______.

(A) plenitude, abundance (B) vengeance, justice

(C) indifference, suffering

(D) indulgence, temperance

(E) rectitude, havoc

167. A century ago the physician’s word was _______: to doubt it was

considered almost sacrilegious.

(A) inevitable

(B) intractable

(C) incontrovertible (D) objective

(E) respectable

168. So much of modern fiction in the United States is autobiographical, and so much of the autobiography fictionalized, that

the _______ sometimes seem largely _______.

(A) authors, ignored

(B) needs, unrecognized (C) genres, interchangeable

(D) intentions, misunderstood

(E) misapprehensions, uncorrected

169. Prior to the work of Heckel, illustrations of fish were often

beautiful but rarely _______; this fish, combined with the _______

nature of most nineteenth-century taxonomic descriptions, often kept

scientists from recognizing differences between species.

(A) impressive, inaccurate (B) realistic, detailed

(C) traditional, progressive

(D) precise, inexact

(E) distinctive, sophisticated

170. According to some experts, modern science as it emerged in the

seventeenth century was essentially a _______ calling: the culture of

science was more a _______ than a departure from ecclesiastical traditions.

(A) scholarly, recapitulation of

(B) skeptical, return to

(C) religious, continuation of

(D) solemn, recantation of (E) technical, modification of

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171. We first became aware that his support for the new program was

less than _______ when he declined to make a speech in its favor.

(A) qualified (B) haphazard

(C) fleeting

(D) unwarranted

(E) wholehearted

172. Because of the excellent preservation of the fossil, anatomical details of early horseshoe crabs were _______ for the first time,

enabling experts to _______ the evolution of the horseshoe crab.

(A) scrutinized, ensure

(B) verified, advance (C) identified, dirt

(D) obscured, illustrate

(E) clarified, reassess

173. Nothing _______ his irresponsibility better than his _______

delay in sending us the items he promised weeks ago.

(A) justifies, conspicuous

(B) characterizes, timely (C) epitomizes, unnecessary

(D) reveals, conscientious

(E) conceals, inexplicable

174. The few dozen gray seals that have thus far died of canine distemper can, at least for now, be considered _______, since most of

the remaining 200,000 gray seals appear uninfected by the disease.

(A) unexceptional

(B) immune (C) anomalous

(D) endangered

(E) contagious

175. Because modern scientists find the ancient Greek view of the

cosmos outdated and irrelevant, they now perceive it as only of

_______ interest.

(A) historical

(B) intrinsic (C) astronomical

(D) experimental

(E) superfluous


176. Although the intellectual and artistic achievements of this

ancient civilization were, even by modern standards, extraordinarily

_______, its level of technical and mechanical development was by no means _______to that of modern technology.

(A) primitive, superior

(B) diverse, inimical

(C) sophisticated, comparable

(D) primeval, equivalent

(E) influential, subordinate

177. Although the genetic explanation of why some people are

right-handed whereas others are left-handed is plausible, it has been

effectively _______ by experiments in which genetically _______ mice showed different paw preferences.

(A) verified, related

(B) challenged, indistinguishable

(C) tested, altered (D) proven, identical

(E) destroyed, complex

178. While T.S. Eliot maintained that poets themselves were the best _______ of _______, C.S. Lewis opposed this view, declaring that one

did not have to be a trained chef to be a discriminating gourmet.

(A) mimics, life

(B) constructors, rhyme

(C) critics, verse (D) conservators, aesthetics

(E) interpreters, sensation

179. The discipline of sociology has finally achieved a degree of consensus: however _______ their individual interpretations and

emphases might be, most sociologists now _______ a single broad

conception of the field.

(A) different, share (B) uncontroversial, champion

(C) limited, reject

(D) divergent, dispute

(E) concordant, acknowledge

180. By forcing our surrender to the authority of the clock,

systematic timekeeping has imposed a form of _______ on society.

(A) anarchy

(B) permanence (C) provincialism

(D) tyranny

(E) autonomy

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181. Overall, the evidence was inconclusive as to whether the

adjustment to the inflated estimates would _______ their accuracy or

instead _______ the actual amount.

(A) compromise, magnify (B) confirm, validate

(C) disprove, pinpoint

(D) verify, distort

(E) improve, understate

182. Perhaps there is a shortcoming in the script, but the film’s poor

reviews may also be a function of one or two _______ casting

decisions in an otherwise _______ production.

(A) fitting, magnificent

(B) faulty, solid

(C) deliberate, cautious (D) hasty, mediocre

(E) confusing, perplexing

183. As a means of _______ a tempestuous confrontation, the labor

arbitrator advised the opposing parties to _______ their positions. (A) promoting, qualify

(B) calming, reinforce

(C) neglecting, clarity

(D) appraising, soften (E) defusing, moderate

184. Unenlightened authoritarian managers rarely recognize a crucial

reason for the low levels of serious conflict among members of democratically run work groups: a modicum of tolerance for dissent

often prevents _______.

(A) demur

(B) schism

(C) cooperation (D) compliance

(E) shortsightedness

185. The natures of social history and lyric poetry are _______, social history always recounting the _______ and lyric poetry speaking

for unchanging human nature, that timeless essence beyond fashion

and

economics. (A) predetermined, bygone

(B) antithetical, evanescent

(C) interdependent, unnoticed

(D) irreconcilable, unalterable

(E) indistinguishable, transitory


186. Despite the fact that it is almost universally _______, the

practice of indentured servitude still _______ in many parts of the

world. (A) condemned, abates

(B) tolerated, survives

(C) proscribed, persists

(D) mandated, lingers (E) disdained, intervenes

187. Ironically, the proper use of figurative language must be based

on the denotative meaning of the words, because it is the failure to recognize this _______ meaning that leads to mixed metaphors and

their

attendant incongruity.

(A) esoteric

(B) literal (C) latent

(D) allusive

(E) symbolic

188. Having sufficient income of her own constituted for Alice _______

independence that made possible a degree of _______ in her

emotional

life as well. (A) a material, security

(B) a profound, conformity

(C) a financial, economy

(D) a psychological, extravagance

(E) an unexpected, uncertainty

189. Mathematics consists of a group of languages that are more

stable

than any _______ language; mathematical symbols do not _______ their

meanings as words do.

(A) developed, substitute

(B) written, translate (C) traditional, require

(D) verbal, change

(E) explicit, conceal

190. While many people utilize homeopathic remedies to treat health

problems, other people do not _______ such alternative treatments, _______ conventional medical treatments instead.

(A) distrust, employing

(B) embrace, eschewing

(C) reject, envisioning (D) countenance, relying on

(E) recommend, turning from

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191. Paleontologists’ assumptions about the equable nature of the

climate on the primeval island of Pangaea are _______ computer

simulations indicating that the island’s temperatures tended to _______ during the course of a year.

(A) based on, cool

(B) confirmed by, vary

(C) challenged by, stabilize

(D) bolstered by, soar (E) undermined by, fluctuate

192. Whereas historians once maintained that science is _______

other enterprises, they have come to realize that science is actually

_______ the values, social assumptions, and intellectual traditions of

a particular historical period.

(A) related to, informed by (B) ancillary to, secondary to

(C) tantamount to, equivalent to

(D) distinct from, intertwined with

(E) dependent on, influenced by

193. Chinese art has no _______ the powerfully explicit antiwar

paintings of the West, but _______ subtlety and indirection to express

political thought.

(A) panacea for, passes by (B) diversion from, defers to

(C) counterpart for, relies on

(D) intimation of, alludes to

(E) derivative of, refrains from

194. Breakdowns in communication between intimates may occur

because

the _______ of the relationship, ironically, may _______ openness.

(A) depth, necessitate

(B) closeness, discourage (C) reciprocity, foster

(D) juxtaposition, offset

(E) precariousness, facilitate

195. Often the argument against philanthropy has the effect of

_______

the character of philanthropists but not necessarily _______ their

work: they may have done good in spite of themselves. (A) describing, explaining

(B) aggrandizing, acknowledging

(C) emphasizing, citing

(D) impugning, discrediting (E) obscuring, attacking


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196. The novelist devotes so much time to avid descriptions of his

character’s clothes that the reader soon feels that such _______ concerns, although worthy of attention, have superseded any more

directly literary aims.

(A) didactic

(B) syntactical (C) belletristic

(D) sartorial

(E) frivolous

197. Carruther’s latest literary criticism _______ her reputation for

trenchant commentary; despite its intriguing title and the fulsome

praise on its dust jacket, it is nothing more than a collection of

_______.

(A) reinforces, pronouncements (B) belies, platitudes

(C) prejudices, insights

(D) advances, aphorisms

(E) undermines, judgments

198. The _______ of gamblers’ unsuccessful decision strategies is one

_______ of the illusions built into games of chance in order to

misguide player and take their money. (A) distortion, outcome

(B) restriction, result

(C) maintenance, function

(D) prediction, accomplishment

(E) demonstration, prerequisite

199. That the new group was unable to weather its first staff meeting

without evidence of the same _______ that its creation was intended

to

abolish did not _______ future harmony among coworkers. (A) cooperation, ensure

(B) façade, realize

(C) factions, augur

(D) diligence, subdue (E) ventures, suggest

200. The prevailing union of passionate interest in detailed facts

with equal devotion to abstract _______ is a hallmark of our present society; in the past this union appeared, at best, _______ and as if

by chance.

(A) data, extensively

(B) philosophy, cyclically

(C) generalization, sporadically (D) evaluation, opportunely

(E) intuition, selectively

ANSWERS: EDCBD DBCCC


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