1. As spurious sightings of imaginary creatures that have captured the popular mind (i) ________, however (ii) __________ a story may be, once it has been circulated enough times it will gather a patina of (iii) ______________.
2. The blitzkrieg of anti-smoking images has clearly had a(n)______ effect: both the number of total smokers and the rate of lung cancer has fallen in recent years.
A. salutary
B. lasting
C. dramatic
D. ephemeral
E. unremarkable
F. beneficial
AF
3. Exposure to sustained noise almost certainly impairs blood pressure regulation in human beings, but to the frustration of many patients, some researchers have obtained results that __________ the relationships.
A. conflate
B. diminish
C. muddy
D. neutralize
E. obscure
F. buttress
CE
4. David's reputation as a(an)__________ was well deserved; indeed, even after coming into a million dollar inheritance, he still lived in a poorly furnished attic.
A. optimist
B. pauper
C. miser
D. opportunist
E. curmudgeon
C
curmudgeon: a person grumpy; a crusty, ill-tempered, and usually old man
grumpy: moodily cross : SURLY
pauper: a very poor person
5. The conception of time as parcelled out in ____ intervals did not begin with the advent of the clock; as such we must have a biological predisposition to not conceive of time as simply an amorphous succession of moments.
A. fleeting
B. illusory
C. unbounded
D. discrete
E. indiscernible
D.discrete
6. The professor began to work ______ on various research projects—though never to the point that she failed to attend to her classes, since whether she received tenure was determined not only by published research but also, to some extent, by student recommendations.
A. periodically
B. sporadically
C. monotonously
D. industriously
E. diligently
F. fruitfully
EF
7. Because even his ____________ would be loath to consider his novels _________, either the reviewer of his latest work has been ethically compromised, or the author has actually plotted what can, in all positive senses of the word, be described as a thriller.
Blank (i) Blank (ii)
staunchest advocates dishonest
most implacable opponents riveting
most sympathetic detractors straightforward
B?D?
8. Never one to ______ her duties, Heather surprised her colleagues when she continued leaving important tasks unfinished.
A. Neglect
B. Embrace
C. Finish
D. Shirk
E. Cherish
F. Delegate
AD
9. Of the two ancient Kingdoms of Zaris and Xylia, the latter was the more ____, often training boys as young as twelve for battle.
A. spartan
B. martial
C. notorious
D. formidable
E. focused
F. warlike
AB
10. Both darkly comic and deeply tragic, Guy’s biography of the 12th archbishop of Canterbury Sir Thomas Becket, is a portrait of a saint with plenty of shadows. Does it diminish Becket for us to know that this future martyr in a hair shirt (clothing worn by ascetics) also made sure to keep a fine silk robe handy for his return to Canterbury, a stately progress one chronicler compared to Christ’s entry into Jerusalem? That his abstemious diet was partly the result of a lifelong susceptibility to chronic, and debilitating, indigestion? That one of his oldest and closest friends would have found his canonization “utterly absurd”? Only if we prefer the black-and-white certainties of hagiography to the convincingly human portrayal of a charismatic, contradictory individual who was, as Guy puts it, “as prickly as he was smooth . . . a man with the habits of a hedgehog.”
11. Many imagine philosophy apparelled in a toga walking about the Greek agora, (i)_______ questions of great import; yet philosophy (ii) ________ today, only we have traded the agora for the Internet: many online venues exist in which the intellectually curious discuss the very same questions that once reverberated through the open air of Athens’ marketplaces.
(i) (ii)
holding forth on continued to be imperilled
dispproving is very much alive
dismissing remain esoteric
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Trent was able to combine (i)____ with (ii)_______: in heated debate he would always
tactfully hear his opponent’s side, before exposing the logical flaws of that position.