1. As for the alleged value of expert opinion, one need only ______ government records to see______ evidence of the failure of such opinions in many fields.
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A distribute D questionable
B consult E strong
C retain F circumstantial
2. Noting that few employees showed any______for complying with the corporations new safety regulations, Peterson was forced to conclude that acceptance of the regulations would be______, at best.
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A enthusiasm D grudging
B indifference E indeterminate
C rectitude F unavoidable
3. Yellow fever, the disease that killed 4,000 Philadelphians in 1793, and so______Memphis, Tennessee, that the city lost its charter, has reappeared after nearly two decades in______in the Western Hemisphere.
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A decimated D abeyance
B terrorized E secret
C corrupted F quarantine
4. 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 system.
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A admire D elusive
B dismiss E relevant
C adapt F unconventional
5. Hampshire’s assertions, far from showing that we can______the ancient puzzles about objectivity, reveal the issue to be even more______than we had thought.
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A candid D soliciting
B idiosyncratic E altering
C reticent F eschewing
6. Though extremely______about his own plans, the man allowed his associates no such privacy and was constantly______information about what they intended to do next.
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A outstrips D stimulates
B inhibits E rivals
C determines F reproduce
7. Ironically, the party leaders encountered no greater ______their efforts to build a progressive party than the______of the progressives already elected to the legislature.
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A sustained D reasons
B restricted E substitutes
C hampered F justifications
8. No longer______by the belief that the world around us was expressly designed for humanity, many people try to find intellectual______for that lost certainty in astrology and in mysticism.
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A an accepted D anachronism to
B an underground E concern about
C an unknown F defiance against
9. 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.
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A benefit from D success
B obstacle to E reputation
C praise for F resistance
10. Many of the earliest colonial houses that are still standing have been so modified and enlarged that the______design is no longer______.
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A embellished D discernible
B initial E applicable
C appropriate F attractive
1. Because outlaws were denied______under medieval law, anyone could raise a hand against them with legal______.
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A propriety D impunity
B protection E intervention
C collusion F collaboration
2. 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.
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A cheerful D transitoriness
B luxuriant E taciturnity
C collusion F frivolity
3. Although he attempted repeatedly to______her of her conviction of his insincerity, he was not successful; she remained______in her judgment.
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A discernment D entangling
B skepticism E reinstating
C quixotism F deciphering
4. It is ironic that a critic of such overwhelming vanity now suffers from a measure of the oblivion to which he was forever______others, in the end, all his______has only worked against him.
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A consigning D self-adulation
B relegating E self-sacrifice
C condemning F self-analysis
5. The old man could not have been accused of______ his affection; his conduct toward the child betrayed his______her.
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A promising D adoration of
B stinting E sympathy for
C lavishing F tolerance of
6. 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.
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A elicited D intimating
B engendered E instigating
C brooked F emending
7. In the machinelike world of classical physics, the human intellect appears______, since the mechanical nature of classical physics does not ______creative reasoning, the very ability that had made the formulation of classical principles possible.
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A abstract D allow for
B anomalous E deny
C enduring F speak to
1. During the 1960s 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.
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A censure of D dissolution
B fascination with E ascent
C flight from F vogue
2. As late as 1891 a speaker assured his audience that since profitable farming was the result of natural ability rather than______, an education in agriculture was______.
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A effort D useless
B luck E vital
C learning F intellectual
3. A perennial goal in zoology is to infer function from______, relating the______of an organism to its physical form and cellular organization.
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A size D ancestry
B structure E appearance
C location Fhabitat
4. In Germany her startling powers as a novelist are widely______, but she is almost unknown in the English-speaking world because of the difficulties of ______her eccentric prose.
5. 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.
6. In order to______her theory that the reactions are ______, the scientist conducted many experiments, all of which showed that the heat of the first reaction is more than twice that of the second.
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(A) support (B)different
(C) comprehend (D).constant
(E) evaluate (F)concentrated
7. Having fully embraced the belief that government by persuasion is preferable to government by______, the leaders of the movement have recently______most of their previous statements supporting totalitarianism.
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(A) intimidation(B)issued
(C) participation(D)moderated
(E) coercion.(F)repudiated
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A ignored D revealing
B admired E translating
C obscured F editing
1. When theories formerly considered to be______ in their scientific objectivity are found instead to reflect a consistent observational and evaluative bias, then the presumed neutrality of science gives way to the recognition that categories of knowledge are human______.
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A disinterested D imperatives
B callous E errors
C verifiable F constructions
2. Although Mount Saint Helens has been more______during the last 4,500 years than any other volcano in the coterminous United States, its long dormancy before its recent eruption______its violent nature.
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A awe-inspiring D confirmed
B explosive E suggested
C gaseous F belied
3. In failing to see that the justices pronouncement merely ______ previous decisions rather than actually establishing a precedent, the novice law clerk ______ the scope of the justices judgment.
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A endorsed D nullified
B qualified E gain
C distressed F overemphasized
4. Without the psychiatrists promise of confidentiality, trust is______and the patients communication limited; even though confidentiality can thus be seen to be precious in therapy, moral responsibility sometimes requires a willingness to______it.
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A implicit D sacrifice
B assumed E examine
C impaired F uphold
5. Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations (1776) is still worth reading, more to appreciate the current_______of Smiths valid contributions to economics than to see those contributions as the ______of present-day economics.
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A disregard D outgrowths
B presumptuousness E precursors
C relevance F vestiges
6. While Parker is very outspoken on issues she cares about, she is not______; she concedes the______of opposing arguments when they expose weaknesses inherent in her own.
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A fickle D strength
B fanatical E incompatibility
C congenial F speciousness
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