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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.
Blank (i)
enamored of
condemnatory to
unsympathetic
Blank (ii)
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
Blank (ii)
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 ____________.
Blank (i)
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
Blank (ii)
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.
Blank (i)
pithy
trite
astounding
Blank (ii)
duty
camaraderie
complacency
Blank (iii)
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.
Blank (i)
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.
Blank (i)
prospect
advent
triumph
Blank (ii)
subsidized
engendered
ameliorated
Blank (iii)
tokens
windfalls
assets
DifficultyVery Hard
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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.
Blank (i)
civility
subterfuge
obsequiousness
Blank (ii)
fawning
supportive
independent
Blank (iii)
errors
foibles
tendencies
DifficultyVery Hard
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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.
Blank (i)
rubric
repertoire
ratio
Blank (ii)
hinder
abjure
perturb
Blank (iii)
overlap
cooperate
interfere
DifficultyHard
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Back to ResultsQuestion 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)____________.
Blank (i)
vernacular
persuasion
enticement
Blank (ii)
insolvent
abstruse
evanescent
Blank (iii)
goad
allocate
penetrate
DifficultyHard
Back to ResultsQuestion 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.
Blank (i)
endemic
inherent
pandemic
Blank (ii)
nocturnal
arboreal
anti-social
Blank (iii)
unsustainable
regenerative
silvicultural
DifficultyHard
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Back to ResultsQuestion 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.
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.
Blank (i)
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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Back to ResultsQuestion 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
Blank (ii)
imperiled
volatile
robust
Blank (iii)
largely unobstructed
a treacherous one
hardly assured
DifficultyVery Hard
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Back to ResultsQuestion 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
DifficultyVery Hard
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Back to ResultsQuestion 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 ____________.
Blank (i)
tempered
overwhelmed
untrammeled
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comical
restrained
racy
Blank (iii)
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.
Blank (i)
erode
distill
empower
Blank (ii)
foster
undermine
question
Blank (iii)
subsumes
elaborates upon
overcomes
DifficultyHard
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Back to ResultsQuestion 54 of 62
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
Blank (ii)
dispute
hold fast to
squelch
Blank (iii)
all but inevitable
clearly unexpected
hardly justified
DifficultyVery Hard
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Back to ResultsQuestion 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.
Blank (i)
adapt
displace
foreshadow
Blank (ii)
supplant
reconcile
corrupt
Blank (iii)
allowed for
circumvented
called into question
DifficultyVery Hard
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Back to ResultsQuestion 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____________.
Blank (i)
perennial
contemporary
controversial
Blank (ii)
served their purpose
gone too far
failed to provoke
Blank (iii)
hackneyed
reverent
tame
DifficultyVery Hard
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Back to ResultsQuestion 51 of 62
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
Blank (iii)
subterfuge
prolixity
contumely
DifficultyVery Hard
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Back to ResultsQuestion 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.
Blank (i)
pithy
trite
astounding
Blank (ii)
duty
camaraderie
complacency
Blank (iii)
widely circulated
clearly unassailable
hastily dismissed
DifficultyVery Hard
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Back to ResultsQuestion 49 of 62
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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Back to ResultsQuestion 48 of 62
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
Blank (iii)
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
Blank (ii)
improvident
delusional
ineluctable
Blank (iii)
flippancy
petulance
dissonance
DifficultyVery Hard
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Back to ResultsQuestion 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.
Blank (i)
caution against
advocate for
believe in
Blank (ii)
sanctioned
cited
censured
Blank (iii)
desegregate
circumscribe
mediate
DifficultyVery Hard
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Back to ResultsQuestion 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.
Blank (i)
adaptable
revolutionary
ignorant
Blank (ii)
myopia
preconceptions
inertia
Blank (iii)
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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Very Hard
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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