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1. “The show must go on” is the oldest ________ of show business; every true

performer lives by that creed.

(A) euphemism

(B) allegory

(D) tenet

(E) corroboration

2. ________ James Baldwin, who wrote of black Americans as being in a

perpetual state of rage, Mr. Cose remarks that few human beings could ________ the psychic toll of uninterrupted anger.

(A) Corroborating...endure

(B) Refuting...enhance

(D) Challenging...survive

(E) Upholding...weather

3. ________ by life’s ________ , the last emperor of China worked as a lowly

gardener in the palace over which he had once ruled.

(A) Fortified...generosity

(B) Deluded...coincidences

(D) Venerated...survivors

(E) Recognized...impostors

4. ________ his broker had told him that the stock was a___ investment, he

insisted on buying 100 shares.

(A) Because...speculative

(B) Although...precarious

(D) Although...formidable

(E) Because...dwindling

5. A ________ glance pays ________ attention to details.

(A) furtive...meticulous

(B) cursory...little

(D) keen...scanty

(E) fleeting...vigilant

6. A ________ person is one who will ________ something on the slightest of

evidence.

(A) restive...forget

(B) garrulous...criticize

(D) phlegmatic...condemn

(E) credulous...believe

7. A New World lizard, the basilisk, occasionally does something that seems to

________ physics: it runs across the surface of water for distances of up to thirty feet.

(A) defy

(B) quantify

(D) exemplify

(E) corroborate

8. A born teller of tales, Olsen used her impressive ________ skills to advantage in

her story “I Stand Here Ironing. “

(A) domestic

(B) metaphysical

(D) diagnostic

(E) argumentative

9. A code of ethics governing the behavior of physicians during epidemics did not

exist until 1846 when it was ________ by the American Medical Association.

(A) rescinded

(B) promulgated

(D) depreciated

(E) implied

10. A diligent scholar, she devoted herself ________ to the completion of the book.

(A) assiduously

(B) ingenuously

(D) voluminously

(E) sporadically

11. A hypothesis must not only account for what we already know, but it must also

be ________ by continued observation.

(A) refuted

(B) interrupted

(D) discredited

(E) outmoded

12. A journalist rather than a scholar, Mr. Cose seems nevertheless to be ________

most of the serious studies relevant to his topic.

(A) overawed by

(B) ignorant of

(D) wearied by

(E) familiar with

13. A leading philosopher of our time, Ludwig Wittgenstein, laid down a ________ to

which good historians ________ : “Of that of which nothing is known nothing can be said. “

(A) burden...protest

(B) law...amend

(D) maxim...succumb

(E) weapon...surrender

14. A major outbreak of food poisoning in 1993 underlined the serious ________ in

the then-current system of food inspection.

(A) expectations

(B) innovations

(D) deficiencies

(E) uniformity

15. A man incapable of ________ action, he never had an opinion about something

that he had not worked up beforehand, fashioning it with lengthy care.

(A) premeditated

(B) coherent

(D) calculated

(E) self-conscious

16. A sense of fairness ________ that the punishment should fit the crime; yet, in

actual practice, judicial decisions ________ greatly for the same type of criminal offense.

(A) assumes...coincide

(B) relegates...deviate

(D) https://www.360docs.net/doc/8a8488606.html,promise

(E) dictates...vary

17. A subway modernization program intended to ________ a host of problems

ranging from dangerous tracks to overcrowded stairwells has failed to meet its schedule for repairs.

(A) augment

(B) initiate

(D) disclose

(E) eliminate

18. Abandoning the moral principles of his youth, the aging emperor Tiberius led a

________ , wanton life.

(A) celibate

(B) rudimentary

(D) circumspect

(E) peripatetic

19. According to Lionel Trilling, the paradox of liberalism was that in its quest for

freedom it must move toward greater organization, stricter legislation, and increasing ________ .

(A) anarchy

(B) self-realization

(D) control

(E) levity

20. According to a noted art critic, one would have to be completely immune to the

sensuous pleasures of painting to be ________ Lucien Freud’s mesmerizing art.

(A) drawn to

(B) overcome by

(D) unaffected by

(E) consistent about

21. According to poet John Berryman, there were so many ways to ________ a poem

that it was quite amazing good ones ever gotwritten.

(A) dedicate

(B) begin

(D) recite

(E) categorize

22. According to the Senator, it was not ________ for a politician in search of votes to

________ a mother on the beauty of her plain child; it was merely sound political common sense.

(A) kindness...ridicule

(B) folly...intimidate

(D) sensitivity...evaluate

(E) wisdom...reprimand

23. Achaeologists are involved in ________ Mayan temples in Central America,

uncovering the old ruins in order to learn more about the civilization they represent.

(A) demolishing

(B) incapacitating

(D) worshiping

(E) adapting

24. Actors fade out of view with depressing frequency; the theater is a ________

profession at best.

(A) romantic

(B) demanding

(D) disinterested

(E) degenerate

25. Advances in health care have lengthened life spans, lowered infant mortality rates,

and, thus, ________ the overpopulation problem.

(A) eliminated

(B) aggravated

(D) distorted

(E) discouraged

26. Afraid that the ________ nature of the plays being presented would corrupt the

morals of their audiences, the Puritans closed the theaters in 1642.

(A) mediocre

(B) fantastic

(D) lewd

(E) witty

27. After reading numbers of biographies recounting dysfunctions and disasters, failed

marriages and failed careers, Joyce Carol Oates ________ a word to ________ the genre:pathography, the story of diseased lives.

(A) invented......curtail

(B) reiterated...criticize

(D) dismissed...obscure

(E) coined...describe

28. After the lonely rigors of writing, Mr. Doyle enjoys the ________ aspects of

filmmaking.

(A) impersonal

(B) transitory

(D) social

(E) profitable

29. Aimed at curbing European attempts to seize territory in the Americas, the

Monroe Doctrine was a warning to ________ foreign powers.

(A) magnanimous

(B) credulous

(D) predatory

(E) allied

30. All critics have agreed that the opera’s score is ________ , but, curiously, no two

critics haye agreed which passages to praise and which to damn.

(A) intolerable

(B) melodious

(D) conventional

(E) uneven

31. Although Barbara Tuchman never earned a graduate degree, she nonetheless

________ a scholarly career as a historian noted for her vivid style and ________ erudition.

(A) interrupted...deficient

(B) relinquished...immense

(D) pursued...prodigious

(E) followed...scanty

32. Although Britain’s film makers often produce fine films, they are studiously

________ and rarely aim at a mass market.

(A) commercial

(B) viable

(D) elitist

(E) collaborative

33. Although Henry was not in general a sentimental man, occasionally he would feel

a touch of ________ for the old days and would contemplate making a brief

excursion to Boston to revisit his childhood friends.

(A) exasperation

(B) chagrin

(D) lethargy

(E) anxiety

34. Although I have always been confused by our ________ system, I ________

traveling on the subways occasionally.

(A) mercantile...remember

(B) monetary...deplore

(D) transit...relish

(E) revolutionary...prefer

35. Although Josephine Tey is arguably as good a mystery writer as Agatha Christie,

she is clearly far less ________ than Christie, having written only six books in comparison to Christie??s sixty.

(A) coherent

(B) prolific

(D) pretentious

(E) gripping

36. Although Roman original contributions to government, jurisprudence, and

engineering are commonly acknowledged, the artistic legacy of the Roman world continues to be judged widely as ________ the magnificent Greek traditions that preceded it.

(A) an improvement on

(B) an echo of

(D) a precursor of

(E) a consummation of

37. Although a few of her contemporaries ________ her book, most either ignored it

or mocked it.

(A) dismissed

(B) disregarded

(D) misconstrued

(E) appreciated

38. Although gregarious by nature, Lisa became quiet and ________ after she was

unexpectedly laid off from work.

(A) autonomous

(B) susceptible

(D) withdrawn

(E) composed

39. Although he generally observed the adage “Look before you leap,” in this

instance he was ________ acting in an unconsidered fashion.

(A) chary of

(B) impervious to

(D) hesitant about

(E) conventional in

40. Although he had spent many hours at the computer trying to solve the problem, he

was the first to admit that the final solution was ________ and not the ________ of his labor.

(A) trivial...cause

(B) incomplete...intent

(D) schematic...fault

(E) fortuitous...result

41. Although he had the numerous films to his credit and a reputation for technical

________ , the moviemaker lacked originality; all his films were sadly ________ of the work of others.

(A) skill...independent

(B) ability...unconscious

(D) competence...contradictory

(E) blunders...enamored

42. Although he is ________ about the problems that still confront blacks in ballet,

Mitchell nevertheless is optimistic about the future, especially that of his own dance company.

(A) hopeful

(B) uninformed

(D) realistic

(E) unconcerned

43. Although he was widely celebrated as a radio and motion picture star in the 1940s,

George Burns enjoyed his greatest ________ after his return to the screen in the “Oh God” films of the 1930s.

(A) respite

(B) collaboration

(D) disappointment

(E) inducement

44. Although in his seventies at the time of the interview, Picasso proved alert and

insightful, his faculties ________ despite the inevitable toll of the years.

(A) atrophied

(B) diminished

(D) useless

(E) impaired

45. Although most worthwhile criticism concentrates on the positive, one should not

________ praise everything.

(A) argumentatively

(B) constructively

(D) analytically

(E) indiscriminately

46. Although newscasters often use the terms Chicano and Latino ________ , students

of Hispanic-American culture are profoundly aware of the ________ the two.

(A) interchangeably...dissimilarities between

(B) indifferently...equivalence of

(D) unerringly...significance of

(E) confidently...origins of

47. Although similar to mice in many physical characteristics, voles may be ________

mice by the shortness oft heir tails.

(A) distinguished from

(B) classified with

(D) categorized as

(E) enumerated with

48. Although the death of his dog had saddened him markedly, his computer

designing skills remained completely ________

(A) twisted

(B) unaffected

(D) repaired

(E) demolished

49. Although, as wife of President John Adams, Abigail Adams sought a greater voice

for women, she was not a feminist in the modern sense; she ________ the ________ view of women as “beings placed by providence”under male protection.

(A) anticipated...current

(B) regretted...heretical

(D) repudiated...radical

(E) accepted...traditional

50. Always less secure in herself than she liked to make out, she too often

disagreement as ________ and opposition as treachery.

(A) rewarded...virtue

(B) construed...betrayal

(D) invited...provocation

(E) interpreted...drollery

51. Always trying to look on the bright side of every situation, she is a born

________ .

(A) opportunist

(B) antagonist

(D) maverick

(E) zealot

52. American culture now stigmatizes, and sometimes even heavily ________ .

behavior that was once taken for granted: overt racism, cigarette smoking, the use of sexual stereotypes.

(A) advocates

(B) penalizes

(D) indoctrinates

(E) advertises

53. Americans have always been rightfully ________ unnecessary government

coercion, feeling that the government should use its powers sparingly.

(A) disarmed by

(B) chary about

(D) amenable to

(E) enthusiastic about

54. An experienced politician who knew better than to launch a campaign in troubled

political waters, she intended to wait for a more ________ occasion before she announced her plans.

(A) propitious

(B) provocative

(D) questionable

(E) theoretical

55. An optimistic supporter of the women??s movement, Kubota contends that recent

________ by Japanese women in the business word are meaningful and indicative of ________ opportunity to come.

(A) advances...diminished

(B) strides...greater

(D) retreats...theoretical

(E) failures...hidden

56. An unattractive feature of this memoir is the casually dismissive, often downright

________ , comments the author makes about almost all of her former colleagues.

(A) elegiac

(B) euphemistic

(D) contemptuous

(E) laudatory

57. Anthropologists traditionally argue that the male-female division of labor in

huntergatherer societies arose because it ________ the nucle ar family’s joint interests and thereby represented a sound, ________ strategy.

(A) impaired...collaborative

(B) respected...divisive

(D) restricted...provisional

(E) promoted...cooperative

58. Are we to turn into spineless ________ , afraid to take a ________ stand, unable

to answer a question without pussyfooting?

(A) disciples...positive

(B) https://www.360docs.net/doc/8a8488606.html,promising

(D) critics...constructive

(E) equivocators...forthright

59. As Reginald Machell’s lavishly carved throne clearly illustrates, Ca lifornia

craftsmen were not afraid of ________ .

(A) competition

(B) embellishment

(D) expediency

(E) antiquity

60. As a product of the Soviet literary establishment, the author was brave enough to

________ the hand that fed him, but not heroic enough to bite it.

(A) give up

(B) nibble at

(D) worship

(E) devour

61. As a scientific document, the book should stand for several years until further

________ again make revision ________ .

(A) developments...impossible

(B) obstacles...optional

(D) failures...detrimental

(E) advances...necessary

62. As a sportscaster, Cosell was apparently never ________ ; he made ________

comments about every boxing match he covered.

(A) excited...hysterical

(B) relevant...pertinent

(D) amazed...awe-struck

(E) https://www.360docs.net/doc/8a8488606.html,udatory

63. As an outstanding publisher, Alfred Knopf was able to make occasional

________ , but his had judgment was tolerated in view of his tremendous ________ .

(A) appearances...energy

(B) mistakes...success

(D) enemies...audacity

(E) conferences...patience

64. As delicate and ________as insect bodies are, it is remarkable that over the ages

enough of them have ________ , preserved in amber, for scientists to trace insect evolution.

(A) beautiful...disappeared

(B) fragile...survived

(D) refined...awakened

(E) indestructible...evolved

65. As ecologists recently ________ in studying the effects of naturally induced forest

fires, some phenomena that appear on the surface to be destructive often have a hidden ________ effect on balance.

(A) disproved...beneficial

(B) discovered...positive

(D) disclosed...unecological

(E) determined...disastrous

66. As former Supreme Court Justice Warren Burger was fond of pointing out, many

lawyers are not legal hotshots; they often come to court ________ and ________ professional skills.

(A) https://www.360docs.net/doc/8a8488606.html,cking

(B) hot-tempered...criticizing

(D) argumentative...manifesting

(E) conservative...excelling

67. As founder and president of the Children??s Defense Fund, Marian Wright

Edelman has ensured that, even though the young cannot vote or make campaign contributions, they are nevertheless not ________ in Washington.

(A) represented

(B) distrusted

(D) committed

(E) welcome

68. As matter condenses out of the thin disk of hot gas and dust revolving around a

new sun, it ________ into larger particles, just as snowflakes stick together as they fall.

(A) crashes

(B) protrudes

(D) evaporates

(E) dissolves

69. As more people try to navigate the legal system by themselves, representing

themselves in court and drawing up their own wills and contracts, the question arises whether they will be able to ________ judicial ________ without lawyers to guide them.

(A) await...decisions

(B) overturn...stipulations

(D) forfeit...penalties

(E) arouse...enmity

70. As news of his indictment spread through the town, the citizens began to

________ him and to avoid meeting him.

(A) ostracize

(B) congratulate

(D) minimize

(E) harass

71. As surprising as the new findings are, Dr. Wilson said he would not characterize

them as ________ .

(A) sound

(B) revolutionary

(D) evident

(E) abstruse

72. At a time when biographies that debunk their subjects are all the rage, it is

refreshing to have one idol who not only lives up to her legend but ________ it.

(A) complicates

(B) surpasses

(D) rejects

(E) subverts

73. At first ________ were simply that:straightforward firsthand testimonials about

the ________ of a product.

(A) trademarks...contents

(B) creeds...excellence

(D) reprimands...benefits

(E) endorsements...virtues

74. At the height of the storm, the savages tried to ________ the angry gods by

offering sacrifices.

(A) modify

(B) appall

(D) propitiate

(E) instigate

75. At the present time, we are suffering from ________ of stories about the war; try

writing about another subject.

(A) a calumny

(B) a dearth

(D) a plethora

(E) an inhibition

76. Because auto repair places have such ________ rates, many community colleges

have ________ courses in automotive mechanics.

(A) shattering...planned

(B) exorbitant...instituted

(D) reasonable...introduced

(E) intolerable...discontinued

77. Because fruit juice fills babies’ small stomachs and ruins their appetite for foods

that contain nutrients they ________ , consuming large quantities can actually prove ________ to babies less than 24 months old.

(A) prefer...beneficial

(B) choose...counterproductive

(D) need...detrimental

(E) ingest...advantageous

78. Because he had abandoned his post and joined forces with the Indians, his fellow

officers considered the hero of Dances with Wolves a ________ .

(A) martinet

(B) braggart

(D) skinflint

(E) laggard

79. Because he had assumed that the child’s first, fierce rush of grief would quickly

________ , Murdstone was astonished to find him still ________ .

(A) subside...disconsolate

(B) fade...irresolute

(D) escalate...forlorn

(E) dwindle...dormant

80. Because he is so ________ , we can never predict what course he will take at any

moment.

(A) incoherent

(B) superficial

(D) deleterious

(E) conventional

81. Because he saw no ________ to the task assigned him, he worked at it in a very

________ way.

(A) function...systematic

(B) method...dutiful

(D) end...rigid

(E) point...perfunctory

82. Because he was ________ by nature, he preferred reading a book in the privacy of

his own study to visiting a night club with friends.

(A) an exhibitionist

(B) a hedonist

(D) an egoist

(E) an introvert

83. Because he was ________ in the performance of his duties, his employers could

not ________ his work.

(A) derelict...quarrel over

(B) dilatory...grumble at

(D) https://www.360docs.net/doc/8a8488606.html,plain about

(E) mandatory...count on

84. Because he was ________ , he shunned human society.

(A) a misanthrope

(B) an oligarch

(D) a stereotype

(E) a nonentity

85. Because his time was limited, Weng decided to read the ________ novel War and

Peace in ________ edition.

(A) wordy...an unedited

(B) lengthy...an abridged

(D) romantic...an autographed

(E) popular...a complete

86. Because it had not been blasted into a stable orbit, the satellite moved ________

through space.

(A) innocuously

(B) gradually

(D) effortlessly

(E) routinely

87. Because it was already known that retroviruses could cause cancer in animals, it

seemed only ________ to search for similar cancer-causing viruses in human beings.

(A) culpable

(B) charitable

(D) logical

(E) negligent

88. Because of his ________ driving, the other car was forced to turn off the road or

be hit.

(A) perceptive

(B) negligent

(D) placid

(E) exemplary

89. Because of its inclination to ________ , most Indian art is ________ Japanese art,

where symbols have been minimized and meaning has been conveyed by the merest suggestion.

(A) exaggerate...related to

(B) imitate...superior to

(D) overdraw...similar to

(E) sentimentalize...supportive of

90. Because of its strength and adhesiveness, ________ qualities in nest building,

many species of birds incorporate silk into their nests.

(A) questionable

(B) intangible

(D) hypothetical

(E) irrelevant

91. Because of the trauma they have experienced, survivors of a major catastrophe are

likely to exhibit ________ of behavior and may require the aid of competent therapists.

(A) concessions

(B) diminutions

(D) restrictions

(E) altercations

92. Because of their frequent disarray, confusion, and loss of memory , those hit by

lightning while alone are sometimes ________ victims of assault.

(A) mistaken for

(B) attracted to

(D) avoided by

(E) useful to

93. Because our supply of fossil fuel has been sadly ________ , we must find

________ sources of energy.

(A) stored...hoarded

(B) compensated...significant

(D) increased...available

(E) depleted...alternate

94. Because the apelike members of Australopithecus afarensis were capable both of

walking and of swinging through trees, the anthropologist described them as a mosaic, bipedal from the waist down and ________ from the waist up.

(A) ethereal

(B) arboreal

(D) articulated

(E) pedestrian

95. Because the damage to his car had been ________ , Michael decided he wouldn’t

bother to report the matter to his insurance company.

(A) intermittent

(B) gratuitous

(D) spontaneous

(E) significant

96. Because the majority of the evening cable TV programs available dealt with

violence and sex, the parents decided that the programs were ________ for the children to watch.

(A) exclusive

(B) acceptable

(D) inappropriate

(E) unnecessary

97. Because vast organizations are an inevitable element in modern life, it is

________ to aim at their abolition.

(A) necessary

(B) important

(D) realistic

(E) futile

98. Because we have completed our analysis of the major components of the proposed

project, we are free to devote the remainder of this session to a study of the project’s ________ details.

(A) lurid

(B) scrupulous

(D) incidental

(E) involuntary

99. Before the inflation ________ , one could have had a complete meal in a

restaurant for a dollar, including the tip, whereas today a hot dog, coffee, and dessert would ________ add up to two or three times that much.

(A) spiral...indubitably

(B) cancellation rapidly

(D) abundance...consequently

(E) incidence...radically

100. Being cynical, he was reluctant to ________ the ________ of any kind act until he had ruled out all possible secret, uncharitable motives.

(A) question...benevolence

(B) acknowledge...wisdom

(D) endure...loss

(E) witness...outcome

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