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P 52, Sample Questions

1. Although it does contain some pioneering ideas, one would hardly characterize the word as ----.

A. orthodox 309

B. eccentric 153

C. original 308

D. trifling 445

E. conventional 104

F. innovative 245

2. It was her view that the country’s problems had been ---- by foreign technocrats, so that to ask for such assistance again would be counterproductive.

A. ameliorated 20

B. ascertained n/a

C. diagnosed 131

D. exacerbated 171

E. overlooked

F. worsened

Easy questions. P 55

6. as my eyesight began to ----, I spend a lot of time writing about it –both poems and “eye journals” – describing what I saw as I looked out through damaged eyes.

A. deteriorate 130

B. sharpen

C. improve

D. decline 119

E. recover

F. adjust

7. The judge’s standin g in the legal community, though shaken by phony allegations of wrongdoing, emerged, at long last, ----.

A. unqualified

B. undiminished n/a

C. undecided

D. undamaged

E. unresolved

F. unprincipled

8. Modern agricultural practices have been extremely successful in increasing the productivity of major food crops, yet despite heavy use of pesticides, ---- losses to diseases and insect pests are sustained each year.

A. incongruous 96

B. reasonable

C. significant

D. considerable

F. fortuitous193

Medium questions. P 62

6. Ever a demanding reader of the fiction of others, the novelist Chase was likewise often the object of ---- analyses by his contemporaries.

A. exacting 171

B. copious 106

C. respectful

D. acerbic 7

E. scathing 389

F. meticulous 284

7. Her ---- should not be confused with miserliness; as long as I have known her, she has always been willing to assist those who are in need.

A. stinginess 414

B. diffidence 133

C. frugality 196

D. illiberality 267

E. intolerance

F. thrift 562

8. A misconception frequently held by novice writers is that sentence structure mirrors through: the more convoluted the structure, the more ---- the ideas.

A. complicated

B. engaged

C. essential

D. fanciful

E. inconsequential

F. involved

Herd questions. P 70

7. The government’s implementation of a new code of ethics appeared intended to shore up the ruling party’s standing with an increasingly ---- electorate at a time when the party is besieged by charges that it trades favors for campaign money.

A. aloof 19

B. placid 331

C. restive 377

D. skittish 400----

E. tranquil 440

F. vociferous n/a

8. Overlarge, uneven, and ultimately disappointing, the retrospective exhibition seems too much like special pleading for a forgotten painter of real but ---- talents.

B. partial

C. undiscovered

D. circumscribed

E. prosaic 351

F. hidden

9. Newspapers report that the former executive has been trying to keep a low profile since his ---- exit from the company.

A. celebrated

B. mysterious

C. long-awaited

D. fortuitous 193

E. indecorous

F. unseemly 392

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