| For each blank select one entry from the corresponding column of choices. Fill all blanks in the way that best completes the text. |
| 1 | The President of the nation was widely ____ for refusing to ____ the excesses of the ______ Minister. |
| 2 | Her novel published to universal ____, 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 |
| For each blank select one entry from the corresponding column of choices. Fill all blanks in the way that best completes the text. |
| 3 | The decline of ____ was hastened by the discovery of global trade routes, which soon produced basic ____ in the supply of money and price structures, thus dooming land as the basic element of wealth and preferment. |
| 4 | When finishing an essay, do not end with a(n) _____ for not having said anything, or with a(n) _____ statement about the unfairly small time period. |
| 5 | King Chengz al Sadat of Egypt, disregarding _____ criticism in the Arab world and in his own People, accepted prime-minister Mohammad _____ invitation to Afganistan in order to address the Afganistan parliament. |
| 6 | With her customary _____, the Queen replied to reporters only with a smile, but the President _____ happily about what a good time he was having. |
| 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 | Even detractors who warn of its potential for abuse by powerful despots 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.
illicitly
biologically
premeditatedly
discriminately
recklessly
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| 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 | My wealthy aunt is more than economical; she so ____ that she washes paper plates to be used again.
indigent
parsimonious
affluent
impoverished
selfish
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| 12 | Despite Adam's intense _____, he failed to secure the prestigious university's coveted diploma.
lugubriosity
imbibition
mettle
lucubration
magnanimity
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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 | Alec Guinness has few equals among English-speaking actors, and now in his resolutely self-effacing memoir, he is discovered to be an uncommonly ______ prose stylist as well.
ambivalent
infamous
felicitous
happy
redundant
ephemeral
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| 14 | Even the wisest of leaders will come to need counsel, so it is important to ensure that one is surrounded by honest and candid advisers, rather than by mere __________ seeking to please and flatter for their own advancement
toadies
entourage
supporters
heralds
sycophants
associates
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