Not surprisingly, the (i) ____________ of the printing press (ii)____________ mass literacy, as books were no longer (iii) ____________exclusive to the clergy and aristocracy.

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prospect

advent

triumph

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subsidized

engendered

ameliorated

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tokens

windfalls

assets

Question 1 of 62

Dickens’s Uriah Heep, literature’s exemplar of (i) ____________, isdoubtlessly not a unique figure either in fiction or in life. Who in real life hasnot seen (ii) ____________, cringing, sycophantic headwaiters, publicservants, and car salespeople? Surely, Dickens was our premiere caricaturist,able to capture specific and recognizable human (iii) ____________ withbroad strokes of his pen.

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civility

subterfuge

obsequiousness

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fawning

supportive

independent

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errors

foibles

tendencies

Question 2 of 62

For some English speakers in the United States, the word “yam” is (i)____________ “sweet potato,” despite several differences between them. Theyam is a starchy, white-fleshed tuber very low in beta carotene,characteristics not shared by its sweeter, more nutritious (ii) ____________.One can trace the yam, the (iii)____________ version of the word “nyami,”back to West African origins, whereas sweet potatoes were first grown inTropical America.

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analogous to

commensurate with

tantamount to

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correlates

simulacrum

ersatz

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codified

anglicized

integrated

Question 3 of 62

To assert that the writing of a historical text draws on the same (i)____________ of techniques as the writing of a work of fiction may (ii)____________ those authors who feel that the two disciplines(iii)____________ very little.

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rubric

repertoire

ratio

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hinder

abjure

perturb

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overlap

cooperate

interfere

Question 4 of 62

My mother would brook no argument about the use of vulgar (i)____________. As a result, I refined and sharpened my vocabulary until itbecame too (ii) ____________ for my peers to (iii)____________.

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vernacular

persuasion

enticement

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insolvent

abstruse

evanescent

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goad

allocate

penetrate

Question 62 of 62

Bradypus variegatus, also known as the brown-throated three-toed sloth, is(i) ____________ to humid, wooded-evergreen areas of Honduras tonorthern Argentina. Almost exclusively a/n (ii) ____________ creature, thesloth is experiencing habitat destruction as many of Brazil’s forests undergothe (iii)____________ process of clear-cutting.

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endemic

inherent

pandemic

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nocturnal

arboreal

anti-social

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unsustainable

regenerative

silvicultural

Question 61 of 62

Very few veteran critics tend to be ____________ the recent decade incinema. Nonetheless, based on movie reviews many could easily come to theconclusion that the last ten years were indeed banner ones. Once theprovince of lettered intellectuals, a few even household names (Pauline Kaelcomes to mind), the role of the movie critic has been ____________ bythose lacking any notable credentials. With this flood of veritable tyrosopining from the rafters, a movie’s overall rating—as compiled and tabulatedby popular Internet sites–often times confers a(n) ____________ on a film,an assessment that posterity will most likely deem specious.

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enamored of

condemnatory to

unsympathetic

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duly appropriated

amply filled

irredeemably disgraced

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aura of nostalgia

mantle of inviolability

patina of respectability

Question 60 of 62

Perhaps there is nothing more to the album than its case thatexperimentalism into uncharted sonic landscapes did not ____________ withStockhauen. Or perhaps its forays--many of which could rightly be dubbedsophomoric--into the avant-garde, also lead to the ____________: that tocreate an unprecedented sound one has to ____________ a discerniblemelody.

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come full circle

culminate

die

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unsettling conclusion

unwarrantedhypothesis

uncharacteristicrebuttal

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choose to create

forgo producing

subtly embed

Question 58 of 62

Monarchial reigns ____________ tended to be more ____________,dynastically speaking, than those royal courts in which palace machinationshad not become a quotidian affair. In the latter, a pall of complacency wouldfall over the kingdom so that if suddenly there were an earl with an axe togrind, so to speak, his path to usurpation would be ____________.

Blank (i)

marked by intrigue

characterized by hubris

weakened by attrition

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imperiled

volatile

robust

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largely unobstructed

a treacherous one

hardly assured

Question 57 of 62

The subjectivity inherent in travel is aptly captured in the range of styles usedby different writers. For Hemingway, writing eighty years ago, the experienceof travel—regardless of how momentous—was rendered in ____________epiphanies, a style many of today’s writers assiduously ____________. Thenthere is travel writer Pico Iyer, for whom a simple stroll through an airportcan engender sentences bursting forth with as many semicolons asrevelations. Who thought the terminal could be so ____________? Surely notHemingway.

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prosaic

aphoristic

sardonic

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avoid

covet

mimic

Blank (iii)

irrevocably wrenching

wildly unpredictable

endlessly fascinating

Question 56 of 62

Perkin’s wit, surprisingly ____________ by the prudishness of his time, maynot have been nearly as ____________ had he lived in an era not so proneto ____________.

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tempered

overwhelmed

untrammeled

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comical

restrained

racy

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blushing

vacillation

expression

Question 55 of 62

Some note that the increase in the Native American powwow--an intertribalaffair of song, dance, and storytelling, all intrinsic aspects of Native Americanculture--serves to (i) ______________ the very culture it presumably aimsto (ii) ______________. They argue an overarching cultural narrativeemerges, one that (iii)______________ the narrative of any one tribe.

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erode

distill

empower

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foster

undermine

question

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subsumes

elaborates upon

overcomes

Question 54 of 62

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Edgar Allen Poe biographers tend to fall into two camps: those who try torescue the man himself from a macabre world in which fate had decreednothing less than a(n) (i) ______________ outcome, and those who (ii)______________ that very myth, treating the subject as one for whom a lifeof tragedy was (iii) ______________ .

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dire

unforeseen

auspicious

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dispute

hold fast to

squelch

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all but inevitable

clearly unexpected

hardly justified

Question 53 of 62

The Hellenistic and Judaic philosophy of the early centuries did not so much____________ ancient Greek philosophy as it did ____________ the Platonicconcepts of this time with its understanding of the way in which an idealworld, or one of perfect forms, ____________ the existence of a perfectbeing. Even the philosophy of the Middle Ages was so inextricably bound withthe ideas of ancient Greece that many philosophers could hardly imaginediscussing the existence of a perfect being without invoking the conceptualframework laid down by Plato more than a thousand years earlier.

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adapt

displace

foreshadow

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supplant

reconcile

corrupt

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allowed for

circumvented

called into question

Question 52 of 62

The question as to what constitutes art is hardly a ____________ one.Today, artists exist whose main goal seems only to subvert work that nolonger warrants the trite tag, “cutting-edge.” Once the proverbial envelope ispushed even further, the public inevitably scratches its collective head – orfurrows the collective brow – thinking that this time the “artists” have____________. That very same admixture of contempt and confusion,however, was not unknown in Michelangelo’s day; only what was consideredblasphemous, art-wise, in the 16th Century, would today be considered____________.

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perennial

contemporary

controversial

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served their purpose

gone too far

failed to provoke

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hackneyed

reverent

tame

Question 51 of 62

Unlike her predecessor, Mayor Williams would not ____________ anyimpertinence from her subordinates. Even a ____________ comment shetended to construe as one full of ____________.

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discountenance

elicit

brook

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seemingly innocuous

clearly tangential

somewhat ambivalent

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subterfuge

prolixity

contumely

Question 50 of 62

That we may become flaccid after our rivals have been vanquished, and weare surrounded by those friendly to our interests, is in no way a(n)____________ observation. Still, history is rife with examples where a senseof ____________ pervades once a people have achieved victory. Yet, evenwere this insight more ____________, few would take notice, as humannature is wont to ignore future threats in times of prosperity.

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pithy

trite

astounding

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duty

camaraderie

complacency

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widely circulated

clearly unassailable

hastily dismissed

Question 49 of 62

The professor’s ____________ demeanor not only made others reluctant toapproach her, but also ____________ the intellectual growth that comesfrom the ____________ of ideas.

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cheerful

meek

disdainful

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limited

invited

facilitated

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repudiation

interchange

repression

Question 48 of 62

The war became a ____________ affair, and the citizenry, once____________ by grisly news reports, soon became ____________even themost shocking frontline images.

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morbid

humdrum

protracted

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riled up

absorbed

shaken

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dismissive of

inured to

weary of

Question 47 of 62

The Arizona sun is quick to pull the water from plants, leaving a (i)____________ shell of all but the heartiest of cacti. It is (ii) ____________to ignore the needs of the human body in this clime as well—dehydration canprovoke (iii) ____________, bellicosity, or even shock.

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hermetic

fecund

desiccated

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improvident

delusional

ineluctable

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flippancy

petulance

dissonance

Question 46 of 62

The organization, whose mission is to (i) ____________ equal access toeducation, (ii) ____________ the government for scaling back spending onfederal college spending initiatives, arguing that race and place will in largepart continue to (iii) ____________ who is and who is not able to attainhigher education.

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caution against

advocate for

believe in

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sanctioned

cited

censured

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desegregate

circumscribe

mediate

Question 45 of 62

James Clerk Maxwell once remarked that the best scientists are, in a sense,the ____________ ones; not hemmed in by the ____________ of theirrespective fields, they are able to approach problems with a(n)____________ mind, so to speak.

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adaptable

revolutionary

ignorant

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myopia

preconceptions

inertia

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fertile

rational

empty

Question 44 of 62

Heinrich Feyermahn, in insisting that Galileo did not fully uphold the tenets ofscientific rationalism, does not ____________ the Italian astronomer, butrather the very edifice of Western thought. For if Galileo is the purportedexemplar of rational thinking, and yet is ____________, then the history ofscience cannot be understood as an endless succession of scientists carryingout their work free of all-too-human biases. Thus, Feyermahn admonishes, infaithfully chronicling the sweep of science in the last 300 years,historiographers would be ____________ to not include the human foiblesthat were part of even the most ostensibly Apollonian endeavors.

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exclusively implicate

partially repudiate

fully espouse

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found wanting

considered enlightened

dismissed asinconsequential

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prudent

remiss

contrarian

Question 43 of 62

The number of speeding tickets one receives is by no means a reliablemeasure of ____________. Some ____________ drivers, in fact, prove thatin certain cases the inverse is true. That is those savvy enough to haveavailed themselves of the latest cellular phone applications receive up-to-the-minute information on the presence of highway patrolmen—greater excessspeed, in these instances, simply implies a greater ____________.

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awareness

culpability

susceptibility

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affluent

intrepid

resourceful

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degree of confidence

sense of vulnerability

likelihood ofentrapment

Question 42 of 62

For charities operating in the developing world, when noble impulses (i)______________ into mere (ii) ______________, vapid slogans rear theirheads and we witness a further deterioration in the very situation such high-mindedness had initially sought to (iii) ______________.

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devolve

morph

coalesce

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quixotry

fraud

altruism

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limit

prevent

ameliorate

Question 41 of 62

What tradition has long known, science must labor through its usual rigorousprotocols to arrive at the very same assessment. Concerning learning ininfants, recent findings (i) ______________ this trend: the timeworn yarnthat babies are (ii)______________ —and oftentimes disregarding—stimulifrom their surroundings has been turned on its head; although (iii)______________ exhibiting a mastery of their respective worlds, infants areconstantly conducting experiments—very much like scientists themselves—testing their limits vis-a-vis an environment at once enchanting andfrustrating.

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buck

uphold

underscore

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passively receiving

subtly parsing

actively misinterpreting

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far from

known for

potentially

Countless generations have been divided on Mendelssohn’s ____________—should he inhabit the same pantheon as Bach and Haydn, or be____________ to the ranks of could-have-beens? After all, it can be arguedthat his ____________ came at the age of 14 with his Octet in E-flat, a work,many believe, the composer never eclipsed in his remaining twenty-six years.

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technique

posterity

legacy

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relegated

elevated

sublimated

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apogee

precocity

nadir

Carefully couching his words in the most diplomatic language possible, soeven those (i) ______________ to his cause could hardly construe his wordsas a (ii) ______________ , the city councilman offered an ultimatum to the(iii) ______________ group of protesters camped outside the City Hall.

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indisposed to

sympathetic

impartial to

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panegyric

broadside

prognostication

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defeated

querulous

dishonest

Question 38 of 62

Recent meteorological conditions in areas of the northeastern part of thecountry have been so ____________as to leave scientists ____________.Even those models scientists developed to ____________ these extremeoutliers have been found wanting.

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predictable

aberrant

taxing

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indifferent

dumbfounded

crestfallen

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accommodate

circumscribe

discount

Question 36 of 62

Not surprisingly, the (i) ____________ of the printing press (ii)____________ mass literacy, as books were no longer (iii) ____________exclusive to the clergy and aristocracy.

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prospect

advent

triumph

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subsidized

engendered

ameliorated

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tokens

windfalls

assets

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Dickens’s Uriah Heep, literature’s exemplar of (i) ____________, isdoubtlessly not a unique figure either in fiction or in life. Who in real life hasnot seen (ii) ____________, cringing, sycophantic headwaiters, publicservants, and car salespeople? Surely, Dickens was our premiere caricaturist,able to capture specific and recognizable human (iii) ____________ withbroad strokes of his pen.

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civility

subterfuge

obsequiousness

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fawning

supportive

independent

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errors

foibles

tendencies

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For some English speakers in the United States, the word “yam” is (i)____________ “sweet potato,” despite several differences between them. Theyam is a starchy, white-fleshed tuber very low in beta carotene,characteristics not shared by its sweeter, more nutritious (ii) ____________.One can trace the yam, the (iii)____________ version of the word “nyami,”back to West African origins, whereas sweet potatoes were first grown inTropical America.

Blank (i)

analogous to

commensurate with

tantamount to

Blank (ii)

correlates

simulacrum

ersatz

Blank (iii)

codified

anglicized

integrated

DifficultyVery Hard

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To assert that the writing of a historical text draws on the same (i)____________ of techniques as the writing of a work of fiction may (ii)____________ those authors who feel that the two disciplines(iii)____________ very little.

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rubric

repertoire

ratio

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hinder

abjure

perturb

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overlap

cooperate

interfere

DifficultyHard

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My mother would brook no argument about the use of vulgar (i)____________. As a result, I refined and sharpened my vocabulary until itbecame too (ii) ____________ for my peers to (iii)____________.

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vernacular

persuasion

enticement

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insolvent

abstruse

evanescent

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goad

allocate

penetrate

DifficultyHard

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Bradypus variegatus, also known as the brown-throated three-toed sloth, is(i) ____________ to humid, wooded-evergreen areas of Honduras tonorthern Argentina. Almost exclusively a/n (ii) ____________ creature, thesloth is experiencing habitat destruction as many of Brazil’s forests undergothe (iii)____________ process of clear-cutting.

Blank (i)

endemic

inherent

pandemic

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nocturnal

arboreal

anti-social

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unsustainable

regenerative

silvicultural

DifficultyHard

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Very few veteran critics tend to be ____________ the recent decade incinema. Nonetheless, based on movie reviews many could easily come to theconclusion that the last ten years were indeed banner ones. Once theprovince of lettered intellectuals, a few even household names (Pauline Kaelcomes to mind), the role of the movie critic has been ____________ bythose lacking any notable credentials. With this flood of veritable tyrosopining from the rafters, a movie’s overall rating—as compiled and tabulatedby popular Internet sites–often times confers a(n) ____________ on a film,an assessment that posterity will most likely deem specious.

Blank (i)

enamored of

condemnatory to

unsympathetic

Blank (ii)

duly appropriated

amply filled

irredeemably disgraced

Blank (iii)

aura of nostalgia

mantle of inviolability

patina of respectability

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Perhaps there is nothing more to the album than its case thatexperimentalism into uncharted sonic landscapes did not ____________ withStockhauen. Or perhaps its forays--many of which could rightly be dubbedsophomoric--into the avant-garde, also lead to the ____________: that tocreate an unprecedented sound one has to ____________ a discerniblemelody.

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come full circle

culminate

die

Blank (ii)

unsettling conclusion

unwarrantedhypothesis

uncharacteristicrebuttal

Blank (iii)

choose to create

forgo producing

subtly embed

DifficultyVery Hard

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Monarchial reigns ____________ tended to be more ____________,dynastically speaking, than those royal courts in which palace machinationshad not become a quotidian affair. In the latter, a pall of complacency wouldfall over the kingdom so that if suddenly there were an earl with an axe togrind, so to speak, his path to usurpation would be ____________.

Blank (i)

marked by intrigue

characterized by hubris

weakened by attrition

Blank (ii)

imperiled

volatile

robust

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largely unobstructed

a treacherous one

hardly assured

DifficultyVery Hard

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The subjectivity inherent in travel is aptly captured in the range of styles usedby different writers. For Hemingway, writing eighty years ago, the experienceof travel—regardless of how momentous—was rendered in ____________epiphanies, a style many of today’s writers assiduously ____________. Thenthere is travel writer Pico Iyer, for whom a simple stroll through an airportcan engender sentences bursting forth with as many semicolons asrevelations. Who thought the terminal could be so ____________? Surely notHemingway.

Blank (i)

prosaic

aphoristic

sardonic

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avoid

covet

mimic

Blank (iii)

irrevocably wrenching

wildly unpredictable

endlessly fascinating

DifficultyVery Hard

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Perkin’s wit, surprisingly ____________ by the prudishness of his time, maynot have been nearly as ____________ had he lived in an era not so proneto ____________.

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tempered

overwhelmed

untrammeled

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comical

restrained

racy

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blushing

vacillation

expression

DifficultyVery Hard

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Some note that the increase in the Native American powwow--an intertribalaffair of song, dance, and storytelling, all intrinsic aspects of Native Americanculture--serves to (i) ______________ the very culture it presumably aimsto (ii) ______________. They argue an overarching cultural narrativeemerges, one that (iii)______________ the narrative of any one tribe.

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erode

distill

empower

Blank (ii)

foster

undermine

question

Blank (iii)

subsumes

elaborates upon

overcomes

DifficultyHard

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Edgar Allen Poe biographers tend to fall into two camps: those who try torescue the man himself from a macabre world in which fate had decreednothing less than a(n) (i) ______________ outcome, and those who (ii)______________ that very myth, treating the subject as one for whom a lifeof tragedy was (iii) ______________ .

Blank (i)

dire

unforeseen

auspicious

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dispute

hold fast to

squelch

Blank (iii)

all but inevitable

clearly unexpected

hardly justified

DifficultyVery Hard

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The Hellenistic and Judaic philosophy of the early centuries did not so much____________ ancient Greek philosophy as it did ____________ the Platonicconcepts of this time with its understanding of the way in which an idealworld, or one of perfect forms, ____________ the existence of a perfectbeing. Even the philosophy of the Middle Ages was so inextricably bound withthe ideas of ancient Greece that many philosophers could hardly imaginediscussing the existence of a perfect being without invoking the conceptualframework laid down by Plato more than a thousand years earlier.

Blank (i)

adapt

displace

foreshadow

Blank (ii)

supplant

reconcile

corrupt

Blank (iii)

allowed for

circumvented

called into question

DifficultyVery Hard

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The question as to what constitutes art is hardly a ____________ one.Today, artists exist whose main goal seems only to subvert work that nolonger warrants the trite tag, “cutting-edge.” Once the proverbial envelope ispushed even further, the public inevitably scratches its collective head – orfurrows the collective brow – thinking that this time the “artists” have____________. That very same admixture of contempt and confusion,however, was not unknown in Michelangelo’s day; only what was consideredblasphemous, art-wise, in the 16th Century, would today be considered____________.

Blank (i)

perennial

contemporary

controversial

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served their purpose

gone too far

failed to provoke

Blank (iii)

hackneyed

reverent

tame

DifficultyVery Hard

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Unlike her predecessor, Mayor Williams would not ____________ anyimpertinence from her subordinates. Even a ____________ comment shetended to construe as one full of ____________.

Blank (i)

discountenance

elicit

brook

Blank (ii)

seemingly innocuous

clearly tangential

somewhat ambivalent

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subterfuge

prolixity

contumely

DifficultyVery Hard

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That we may become flaccid after our rivals have been vanquished, and weare surrounded by those friendly to our interests, is in no way a(n)____________ observation. Still, history is rife with examples where a senseof ____________ pervades once a people have achieved victory. Yet, evenwere this insight more ____________, few would take notice, as humannature is wont to ignore future threats in times of prosperity.

Blank (i)

pithy

trite

astounding

Blank (ii)

duty

camaraderie

complacency

Blank (iii)

widely circulated

clearly unassailable

hastily dismissed

DifficultyVery Hard

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The professor’s ____________ demeanor not only made others reluctant toapproach her, but also ____________ the intellectual growth that comesfrom the ____________ of ideas.

Blank (i)

cheerful

meek

disdainful

Blank (ii)

limited

invited

facilitated

Blank (iii)

repudiation

interchange

repression

DifficultyEasy

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The war became a ____________ affair, and the citizenry, once____________ by grisly news reports, soon became ____________even themost shocking frontline images.

Blank (i)

morbid

humdrum

protracted

Blank (ii)

riled up

absorbed

shaken

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dismissive of

inured to

weary of

DifficultyVery Hard

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The Arizona sun is quick to pull the water from plants, leaving a (i)____________ shell of all but the heartiest of cacti. It is (ii) ____________to ignore the needs of the human body in this clime as well—dehydration canprovoke (iii) ____________, bellicosity, or even shock.

Blank (i)

hermetic

fecund

desiccated

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improvident

delusional

ineluctable

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flippancy

petulance

dissonance

DifficultyVery Hard

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The organization, whose mission is to (i) ____________ equal access toeducation, (ii) ____________ the government for scaling back spending onfederal college spending initiatives, arguing that race and place will in largepart continue to (iii) ____________ who is and who is not able to attainhigher education.

Blank (i)

caution against

advocate for

believe in

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sanctioned

cited

censured

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desegregate

circumscribe

mediate

DifficultyVery Hard

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James Clerk Maxwell once remarked that the best scientists are, in a sense,the ____________ ones; not hemmed in by the ____________ of theirrespective fields, they are able to approach problems with a(n)____________ mind, so to speak.

Blank (i)

adaptable

revolutionary

ignorant

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myopia

preconceptions

inertia

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fertile

rational

empty

DifficultyVery Hard

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Question 44 of 62

Heinrich Feyermahn, in insisting that Galileo did not fully uphold the tenets ofscientific rationalism, does not ____________ the Italian astronomer, butrather the very edifice of Western thought. For if Galileo is the purportedexemplar of rational thinking, and yet is ____________, then the history ofscience cannot be understood as an endless succession of scientists carryingout their work free of all-too-human biases. Thus, Feyermahn admonishes, infaithfully chronicling the sweep of science in the last 300 years,historiographers would be ____________ to not include the human foiblesthat were part of even the most ostensibly Apollonian endeavors.

Blank (i)

exclusively implicate

partially repudiate

fully espouse

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found wanting

considered enlightened

dismissed asinconsequential

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prudent

remiss

contrarian

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The number of speeding tickets one receives is by no means a reliablemeasure of ____________. Some ____________ drivers, in fact, prove thatin certain cases the inverse is true. That is those savvy enough to haveavailed themselves of the latest cellular phone applications receive up-to-the-minute information on the presence of highway patrolmen—greater excessspeed, in these instances, simply implies a greater ____________.

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awareness

culpability

susceptibility

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affluent

intrepid

resourceful

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degree of confidence

sense of vulnerability

likelihood ofentrapment

DifficultyVery Hard

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For charities operating in the developing world, when noble impulses (i)______________ into mere (ii) ______________, vapid slogans rear theirheads and we witness a further deterioration in the very situation such high-mindedness had initially sought to (iii) ______________.

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devolve

morph

coalesce

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quixotry

fraud

altruism

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limit

prevent

ameliorate

DifficultyVery Hard

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What tradition has long known, science must labor through its usual rigorousprotocols to arrive at the very same assessment. Concerning learning ininfants, recent findings (i) ______________ this trend: the timeworn yarnthat babies are (ii)______________ —and oftentimes disregarding—stimulifrom their surroundings has been turned on its head; although (iii)______________ exhibiting a mastery of their respective worlds, infants areconstantly conducting experiments—very much like scientists themselves—testing their limits vis-a-vis an environment at once enchanting andfrustrating.

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buck

uphold

underscore

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passively receiving

subtly parsing

actively misinterpreting

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far from

known for

potentially

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DifficultyVery Hard

Countless generations have been divided on Mendelssohn’s ____________—should he inhabit the same pantheon as Bach and Haydn, or be____________ to the ranks of could-have-beens? After all, it can be arguedthat his ____________ came at the age of 14 with his Octet in E-flat, a work,many believe, the composer never eclipsed in his remaining twenty-six years.

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technique

posterity

legacy

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relegated

elevated

sublimated

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apogee

precocity

nadir

DifficultyHard

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Carefully couching his words in the most diplomatic language possible, soeven those (i) ______________ to his cause could hardly construe his wordsas a (ii) ______________ , the city councilman offered an ultimatum to the(iii) ______________ group of protesters camped outside the City Hall.

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indisposed to

sympathetic

impartial to

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panegyric

broadside

prognostication

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defeated

querulous

dishonest

DifficultyVery Hard

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Recent meteorological conditions in areas of the northeastern part of thecountry have been so ____________as to leave scientists ____________.Even those models scientists developed to ____________ these extremeoutliers have been found wanting.

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predictable

aberrant

taxing

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indifferent

dumbfounded

crestfallen

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accommodate

circumscribe

discount

DifficultyHard

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