1 |
This park has been preserved in all its ______ wildness so that visitors in future years may see how people lived during the eighteenth century |
Hedonistic
Prospective
Pristine
Untrammeled
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2 |
I have no ______ motive in offering this advice; I seek no personal advantage or honor |
Nominal
Altruistic
Ulterior
Disinterested
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3 |
If you are seeking ______ that will resolve all our ailments, you are undertaking an impossible task |
A precedent
A panacea
An abstraction
A direction
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4 |
Modern architecture has discarded the ______ trimming on buildings and has concentrated on an almost Greek simplicity of line |
Flamboyant
Austere
Inconspicuous
Aesthetic
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5 |
A ______ statement is an ______ comparison: it does not compare things explicitly, but suggests a likeness between them |
Sarcastic ..... Unfair
Blatant .... Overt
Metaphorical .... Implied
Sanguine .... Inherent
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6 |
In Japanese art, profound emotion is frequently couched in images of nature, observed with ______ conditioned by life in a land of dramatic seasonal change, where perils of earthquake and typhoon make nature's bounty ______ and its processes awesome and beautiful |
An intimacy ..... Precarious
A fidelity .... Munificent
A skill .... Excessive
An indifference ..... Chancy
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7 |
Because Inspector Mumtaz could not contain his scorn for the police commissioner, he was imprudent enough to make ______ remarks about his superior officer |
Ambiguous
Dispassionate
Unfathomable
Scathing
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8 |
The text as we have them were written down and edited carefully by Christians proud of their ancestors but unable to bear the thought of their indulging in heathen practices; thus, all references to the ancient religion of the Celts were ______, if not ______ |
Deleted ..... Expunged
Muddied ..... Suppressed
Labored ..... Denigrated
Aggrieved .... overawed
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9 |
Glendon providers a dark underside to Frederick Jackson Turner's frontier thesis that saw rugged individualism as the essence of American society ______ an individualism that she sees as ______ atomism |
Antithetical ..... Toward
Skeptical ..... Of
Degenerating ..... Into
Aspiring .... To
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10 |
The _______ of evidence was on the side of the plaintiff since all but one witness testified that his story was correct |
Paucity
Propensity
Accuracy
Preponderance
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11 |
The reasoning in this editorial is so ______ that we cannot see how anyone can be deceived by it |
Coherent
Astute
Cogent
Specious
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12 |
The newest fiber optic cables that carry telephone calls cross. country are made of glass so ______ that a piece 100 miles thick is clearer than a standard windowpane |
Fragile
Immaculate
Tangible
Transparent
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13 |
One of the most ______ educators in New York, Dr. Shazia ignited a controversy in 1984 by calling the city public schools a "rotten barrel" in need of ______ reform |
Disputatious .... Little
Outspoken ..... Systemic
Caustic ..... Partial
Indifferent .... Pretentious
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14 |
The _______ of time had left the castle ______ it towered above the village, looking much as it must have done in Richard the Lion. Hearted's time. |
Repairs ..... Destroyed
Remoteness .... Alone
Ravages .... Untouched
Status ..... Lonely
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15 |
The authority of voice in Frazer's writing strikes many readers today as ______ colonialism; his prose seems as invulnerable and expansive as something on which the sun was presumed never to set |
Consonant with
Independent of
Ambivalent toward
Cognizant of
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16 |
When Frazer's editors at Macmillan tried to ______ his endless augmentations, he insisted on a type size so small and a page so packed as to approach illegibility; and if that proved ______ thinner paper |
Protract .... unwarranted
Expurgate ..... satisfactory
Reprimand ..... Irrelevant
Restrict ...... Insufficient
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17 |
Almed at curbing European attempts to size territory in the Americas, the Monroe was a warning to ______ foreign powers |
Pertinacious
Credulous
Remote
Predatory
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18 |
To the dismay of the student body, the class president was ______ berated by the principal at a school assembly |
Ignominiously
Privately
Magnanimously
Fortuitously
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19 |
Her novel published to universal acclaim, her literary gifts acknowledged by the chief figures of the Harlem Renaissance, her reputation as yet ______ by envious slights, Hurston clearly was at the ______ of her career |
Undamaged .... Ebb
Untarnished .... Zenith
Untainted ..... extremity
Blackened ..... Mercy
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20 |
To alleviate the problem of contaminated chicken, the study panel recommends that the federal government shift its inspection emphasis from cursory bird. by bird visual checks to a more _______ random sampling for bacterial and chemical contamination |
Rigorous
Perfunctory
Symbolic
Discreet
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