For each blank select one entry from the corresponding column of choices. Fill all blanks in the way that best completes the text. |
1 | Despite an affected ___ that convinced casual observers that John was ____ about his painting and cared only for frivolity, Peter cared deeply about his art and labored at it _________. |
2 | Both the relationship with space and penetration of space are of (i) ________ importance in dance. This is the same rapport the sculptor has with his clay or marble. The body sculpts the space, forming a place for itself, (ii) ________ creating a negative space, which is unoccupied. A reviewer, writing about the (iii) ________ dancer Hoyer, said that Hoyer could express what could not be born in film or photography. She could capture the space as her own. |
For each blank select one entry from the corresponding column of choices. Fill all blanks in the way that best completes the text. |
3 | Shakespeare's _________ of Richard III is so _______ that it is difficult to imagine that the ruler had been dead for more than a century before the Bard cast him as the central character in one of his plays. |
4 | When listening to a medieval Gregorian chant, the listener does not encounter the composer's individual personality; _______, the chant merely ______ both the musical and religious rules of the period |
5 | The _____ men were just barely held at bay by a loyalist battalion _____ by its allies' reinforcements. |
6 | Mr. Roberts then started to (i) ________ items for his own "street books," creating patchworks of tickets, photos, tags, money, newspaper, and various other mass-produced artifacts. These extraordinary books are (ii) ________ for the way they augment the debris of the everyday. |
7 | Even detractors who warn of its potential for abuse by powerful ____ agree that genetic engineering, if used ______ ,can reduce the incidence of the sort of physical and mental deformities that any society would want to eliminate. |
For each blank select one entry from the corresponding column of choices. Fill all blanks in the way that best completes the text. |
8 | John Wright chose the ______ Mark Twain as a result of his knowledge of river boat piloting.
mountebank protagonist misanthrope hallucination pseudonym alias |
9 | If the nail decided to ________, it would not pierce butter
brash malinger interdict obscure temperance covet |
10 | Truman tried to continue Roosevelt's ______ approach to the Soviet Union, but by 96, he had adopted a much tougher policy towards the Russians.
conciliatory cursory strict obligatory uncompromising
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11 | The population of a species at any given time is determined by the ratio of the biotic _____ to the environmental resistance.
jeopardy potential excitement lexicon annoyance
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12 | The population of a species at any given time is determined by the ratio of the biotic _____ to the environmental resistance.
jeopardy excitement lexicon potential annoyance
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Select the two answer choices that, when used to complete the sentence, fit the meaning of the sentence as a whole and produce completed sentences that are alike in meaning. |
13 | It was her view that the country's problems had been _______ by foreign technocrats, so that to ask for such assistance again would be counterproductive.
ameliorated ascertained diagnosed exacerbated overlooked worsened |
14 | Perhaps because something in us instinctively distrusts such displays of natural fluency,some readers approach John Smith with ______.
wariness indifference suspicion veneration bewilderment remorse |