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1.Refusing to ____________ his vituperative words, the ambassador only further ____________ members of the multinational committee.
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exacerbate moderate intensify
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intrigued encouraged incend
Text Explanation
Answers: (B), (F)
’Vituperative’ means harsh and scathing. By not moderating the angry words, the ambassador is only going to make the committed more some negative word. Only (F) incend, or very upt/enraged works.
2. The gossip columnist’s ____________ was ____________ the number of her published columns – the more articles she wrote, the more untruths she spread.
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calumny ardor flattery
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commensurate with inver to unconnected to
Text Explanation
Answers: (A), (D)
’The more untruths…’ matches up with (A) calumny, or slander. (D) commensurate describes the relationship between two things, in which when one increas the other increas, or when one decreas the other decreas. 'In proportion to' is another way of saying ‘commensurate with.’3.For all her brilliance, Ada was undone by her ______________: she vowed to apply herlf far more diligently in studying for her retake of the bar exam.
cleverness insouciance sagacity insight earnestness
Text Explanation
Answer: (B)
'For', in this ca, means 'despite.' Despite her brilliance, Ada did not pass the exam. She was undone by her lack of effort ("...").
(A), (C), and (D) are similar in meaning, and none contrast with 'brilliance.' (E) means honesty and sincerity. If she possd more of (E), she would have likely pasd the exam.
4.The conception of time as parcelled out in ______________ intervals did not begin with the advent of the clock; as such we must have a biological predisposition to not conceive of time as simply an amorphous succession of moments.
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fleeting illusory unbounded discrete indiscernible
Text Explanation
Answer: (D)
The clue is "to amorphous." Therefore, we conceive of time that is bounded, not amorphous or shapeless.
(A) does not match the context, though is tempting becau of the platitude, "Time is fleeting."
(B) is not supported by context.
(C) is the opposite.
(D) means broken up into parate intervals. This oppos the idea of amorphous intervals.
If anything, (E) is the opposite of the blank.
5. Favoring quantity over substance, many amateur writers labor under the delusion that the more ____________ the ntence structure the more ____________ the thought being conveyed.
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rudimentary involved superficial
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tactical ironic profound
Text Explanation
Answers: (B), (F)
’…quantity for substance…’ indicates that writers are going to think that longer or (B) involved ntences are of more value. The only answer choice that makes n in the context of conveying though, and quality thought at that, is (F) profound.
6. Becau reading on the Web entails quickly scanning and sorting through a deluge of
information, many wonder if our level of engagement with the text has been ____________ or if the ability to read cloly and carefully is one that can be ____________ if we simply spend more time immerd in a book.
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irreparably compromid tentatively disrupted
permanently restored
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fully reactivated further degraded summarily disregarded Text Explanation
Answers: (A), (D)
It may be tempting to choo (B) tentatively disrupted. First off, it fits the context. Secondly, (A) irreparably compromid is very extreme. However, none of the answer choices for the cond blank make n if coupled with
(B). The most alluring, (D) fully reactivated, doesn't quite work, becau if something is tentatively disrupted it implies that it is only temporarily affected and will change back (or be fully reactivated) soon.
(A) irreparably compromid, on the other hand, implies that "the level of engagement" may always be compromid. The 'or' in the ntence indicates that we need an opposite to (A). (D) fully reactivated supplies this contrast.7. Managers who categorically squelch insights from low-tiered employees run the obvious hazard of (i) ____________ creativity; converly, the very same managers are more likely to (ii)____________ any ideas that flow down from the top brass.
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fomenting smothering sparking
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unquestioningly embrace arbitrarily denounce conditionally approve
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Text Explanation
Answers: (B), (D)
"Categorically squelch insights" indicates the first blank is going to be a word like stifle. (A) and (C) create the opposite meaning.
'Converly' indicates a shift. Therefore the cond part of the ntence is opposite. For the cond blank we are looking for the opposite of
"categorically squelch insights". Only (D) works.
8. Becau the defendant expresd very little ____________ for his heinous crime, the judge meted out a(n) ____________ ntence.
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contempt contrition apathy
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charitable vere peculiar
Text Explanation
Answers: (B), (E)
(B) contrition, or remor, works best for the first blank. As a result, the judge handed out a (E) vere ntence. ‘Heinous’, which means awful, backs up the cond blank
9.The grammar teacher ____________ at the slightest fault, sometimes going so far as to berate students for forgetting to cross a ‘t’.
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started caviled blanched beamed paud
Text Explanation
Answer: (B)
’…the slightest fault’ plus the detail of students getting berated for
‘forgetting…’ indicates that the teacher finds fault, especially over trivial matters
(A) started just means to make a sudden movement
(B) caviled means to find fault with, usually on trivial matters
(C) blanched means to turn white from shock
(D) beamed means to show great pleasure
(E) paud does not capture the teacher’s negative emotion
10. To the ____________ eye the jungle canopy can em little more than a den lattice work of branches and leaves. For the indigenous peoples of the Amazon, even a small area can rve as a veritable ____________ of pharmaceutical cures. The field of ethnobotany, which relates both to the natural pharmacy offered up by the jungle and the peoples who rve as a store of such knowledge, has become increasingly popular in the last decades as many anthropologists, hoping to take advantage of this vast bounty, learn the language and customs of the tribes in order to
____________ them thousands of years worth of knowledge.
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untutored sophisticated veteran
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cornucopia invasion dismination
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glean from allot to purge from
Text Explanation
Answers: (A), (D), (G)
The contrast is between the indigenous peoples--who know a lot about the jungle--to tho who are not indigenous and therefore do not notice anything more than "" The latter are (A) untutored . The indigenous people can discern an abundance, or a (D) cornucopia or cures.
Ethnobotanists hope to learn this knowledge, or (G) glean the knowledge from the indigenous peopl
es.
11. True, to the classically trained ear, Haydn’s early works can often em ____________, a mishmash of motifs from which anything fresh has been wrung dry by subquent compors – to the ears of Haydn’s contemporaries, however, Haydn’s music was ____________.
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complex predictable hackneyed
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refreshingly novel prematurely antiquated highly derivative
Text Explanation
Answers: (C), (D)
’…a mishmash of…’, ‘anything fresh…’, matches with (C) hackneyed.
‘Hayden’s contemporaries’ signals a time shift. Therefore the cond blank is opposite, (D) refreshingly novel.
12 Had the committee any (i) ______________ that it was being investigated for fraud, surely it would have been more (ii) ______________ in trying to cloak any venality.
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question inkling hindsight
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suspicious hesitant diligent
