| 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 authors penetrating criticism of the movie was as ____ as the surgeon's scalpel.
truthful
trenchant
catty
succinct
verbose
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| 2 | If you had been less _____, you would not have been expelled from your college.
indigent
perseverant
indefatigable
refractory
playful
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| 3 | After years of unchecked exploitation of its natural resources, the state, predictably has _____ the population of its native plants and animals.
stymied
decimated
increased
reduced
normalized
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| 4 | 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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| 5 | 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. |
| 6 | The story told by the teacher-seemingly a simple tale of animals living together in harmony in the forest-took a _____ turn at the end, admonishing readers to always be helpful.
didactic
futile
magnanimous
beneficient
moralistic
garrulous
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| 7 | Perhaps because something in us instinctively distrusts such displays of natural fluency,some readers approach John Smith with ______.
wariness
indifference
suspicion
veneration
bewilderment
remorse |
| For each blank select one entry from the corresponding column of choices. Fill all blanks in the way that best completes the text. |
| 8 | We never believed that he would resort to _____ in order to achieve his goal; we always regarded him as a(n) _____ man. |
| 9 | 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 |
| 10 | When thrust into an unknown world, people are careful to note the conditions in which they find themselves, ______ them with their ________. |
| 11 | As the controversial argument continued, the debaters became more _____ and their remarks became more _______. |
| 12 | Although the young boys in the class grew _____ under the principal's new discipline policy, the girls seemed _____ by it. |
| For each blank select one entry from the corresponding column of choices. Fill all blanks in the way that best completes the text. |
| 13 | Crustly and egotistical, albert A. Knopf, the publisher, wore ______ shirts from the most exclusive tailors; was a connoisseur of music,food,and wine; nurtured a garden of exotic plants; and enjoyed rare cigars. His self-assured, ______ manner, together with his insistence on the best of everything, shaped his house's image as a _____ of works of enduring value. |
| 14 | 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 |
