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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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