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More Practice 1) With global interconnectedness on the increase, the conviction of the United States to remain neutral in World War I seemed ever more ______________. presumptuous futile contemptuous pragmatic admirable 2) Upon visiting the Orient in 1850, Gustave Flaubert was so ______________ belly dancing that he wrote, in a letter to his mother, that the dancers alone made his trip worthwhile. overwhelmed by enamored of taken aback by ensconced by flustered by 3) The human race is a very (i) ______________ species, as the façade of calm that covers our anxiety and (ii) ______________ is flimsy and is effortlessly ruptured. (i) fragile purposeful daring (ii) terror vulnerability humor 4) The practice of purchasing books was primarily a (i) ______________ of the well-to-do until the early 1900s, when the increased popularity of dime novels, an expansion in the number of bookstores, and the introduction of the paperback made books (ii) ______________ the average man. (i) tragedy prerogative plight (ii) dislikable to excitable to attainable by 5) Increasingly, the boundaries of congressional seats are drawn in order to protect incumbents, as legislators engineer the demographics of each district such that those already in officer can coast to (i) ______________ victory. Of course, there is always the possibility that the incumbent will face a challenge from within his or her own party. Nevertheless, once the primary is over, the general election is (ii) ______________. (i) an ineluctable an invidious a plangent (ii) seldom nugatory remarkably contentious merely denouement 6) While some professors, soon to find themselves listed under “emeritus”, may still insist that video games will never be a proper object of study, the rising generation of academics is inclined to view such talk as positively (i) ______________. They note that (ii) ______________ is one of the fastest-growing fields at the modern university. (i) antediluvian pusillanimous jejune (ii kinesiology cybernetics ludology 7) Political predictions generally prove fairly accurate when the presumption that the future will be similar to the past is (i) ______________. In periods with substantial (ii) ______________ in the political world, however, predictions can be (iii) ______________ wrong. (i) disproved stipulated fulfilled (ii) upswings insurgencies changes (iii) thoughtfully perilously carelessly 8) Water is one of the few molecules that is less (i) ______________ as a solid than as a; if you need , just look at the floating ice in your water glass. (i) intriguing dense aqueous (ii) vapor plasma liquid (iii) an illustration an imbibement a discordance 9) As Molly was (i) ______________ Spanish with her friends before their trip to Chile, she discovered that although she could comprehend her friends, she could not (ii) ______________ her thoughts in the (iii) ______________ language. (i) mastering disregarding practicing (ii) acknowledge articulate disencumber 10) People accustomed to thinking that the human lifespan (i) ______________ the outer bound of animal longevity tend to dismiss talks of musket balls being found in the shells of living turtles. Leading (ii) ______________ Samantha Romney, however, argues that while such stories may be apocryphal, some turtles do indeed exhibit a phenomenon known as “negligible (iii) ______________,” showing no signs of aging even as they pass the two-century mark. (i) belies demarcates antedates (ii) herpetologist ichthyologist ornithologist (iii) rejuvenation superannuation senescence
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