| For each blank select one entry from the corresponding column of choices. Fill all blanks in the way that best completes the text. |
| 1 | A ____ person will not shout ______ in public; he or she will respect the_____of other people. |
| 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 | 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 | Richard's _____ handling of the _____ scandal successfully prevented what seemed poised to become the spectacular dissipation of his coalition. |
| 5 | Most candidates spend _____ they can raise on their campaigns, but others wind up on election day with a _____. |
| 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 | 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 | 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 |
