| 1. | Steve often wondered with a cold calculating ________, whether he would have the icy _________ to manipulate those men as astutely as his father had. |
| a. | | subjectivity . . frigidity |
| b. | | objectivity . . tenacity |
| c. | | demeanor . . temper |
| d. | | forethought . . foresightedness |
| e. | | shiver . . fortitude
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| 2. | Just as religion has __________ the field of ethics, turning morality against man, so has it usurped the highest moral concepts of our _______. |
| a. | | impounded . . epoch |
| b. | | endorsed . . legion |
| c. | | stimulated . . cohort |
| d. | | fathomed . . premises |
| e. | | preempted . . language
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| 3. | _________ from regression is possible only when one _________ what regression is . |
| a. | | rescue . . undergoes |
| b. | | liberation . . deems |
| c. | | eradication . . perceives |
| d. | | freedom . . comprehends |
| e. | | emancipation . . knows
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| 4. | The editor had to ________ in the use of the material related to the exposé on the crime and politics nexus. |
| a. | | circumvent |
| b. | | circumnavigate |
| c. | | circumflex |
| d. | | circumscribe |
| e. | | circumspect
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| 5. | ________ is a kind of jurisprudence that deals with the contents of an actual legal system, as existing at any time, whether past or present. |
| a. | | impunity |
| b. | | arcane |
| c. | | esoteric |
| d. | | expository |
| e. | | legatee
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| 6. | ________ can ________ a person or a moment and then become something greater than either. |
| a. | | turpitude . . asphyxiate |
| b. | | genius . . supersede |
| c. | | gluttony . . swathe |
| d. | | avarice . . transcend |
| e. | | philanthropy . . stymie
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| 7. | We are not ________ selves but have an intimate relationship with the material world which includes, emphatically, the products of human _________. |
| a. | | radicalized . . adroitness |
| b. | | disembodied . . ingenuity |
| c. | | cocooned . . subservience |
| d. | | idiosyncratic . . vehemence |
| e. | | reticent . . contentiousness
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| 8. | Freedom is a\an ________ endeavor, never a\an ________ achievement. |
| a. | | unremitting . . irrefutable |
| b. | | hyped . . chimerical |
| c. | | intrepid . . interminable |
| d. | | indefatigable . . enervating |
| e. | | unrequited . . holistic
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| 9. | He vigorously exposed the ___________ of the bureaucracy upon civil liberty and representative government. |
| a. | | rampant corruption |
| b. | | endemic affluence |
| c. | | vapid influence |
| d. | | burgeoning incursion |
| e. | | insidious encroachments
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| 10. | The hands shot up, _________ invisible knives, were really probes to see if she had _________ as scholar. |
| a. | | yielding . . mettle |
| b. | | wielding . . cadre |
| c. | | personifying . . qualified |
| d. | | symbolizing . . withstood |
| e. | | brandishing . . substance
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| 11. | The ________ school curriculum was like that of ordinary schools but with one significant addition. |
| a. | | denounced |
| b. | | revered |
| c. | | tailored |
| d. | | parochial |
| e. | | heterodox
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| 12. | The truce turned out to be anything but _________ and in two days the things were again _________. |
| a. | | amicable . . unprecedented |
| b. | | congenial . . conducive |
| c. | | cohesive . . sanguinary |
| d. | | acrimonious . . disarrayed |
| e. | | compromising . . topsy-turvy
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| 13. | John confided in Mary, whom he found to be well informed on matters both _________ and ________. |
| a. | | esoteric . . abstract |
| b. | | corporeal . . material |
| c. | | ecclesiastical . . secular |
| d. | | conflicting . . contemptible |
| e. | | contemporary . . inviolate
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| 14. | A professional need for curriculum review emerged from the long ________ of an education system that viewed teachers as the '___________of information'. |
| a. | | pantheon . . incarnation |
| b. | | ossification . . dispensers |
| c. | | dissertation . . propagators |
| d. | | concurrence . . personification |
| e. | | exhortation . . conduits
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