| 1. | The __________ of fighting at the company board meeting had appalled Tom more than he realized. |
| a. | | acrimony |
| b. | | latitude |
| c. | | credence |
| d. | | virulence |
| e. | | virago
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| 2. | Business practitioners are _________ , prone to assuming that what works is what works. |
| a. | | altruists |
| b. | | shenanigans |
| c. | | misanthropist |
| d. | | pragmatists |
| e. | | prosaic
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| 3. | The account given by the witness was ________ and __________ enough to nail the don. |
| a. | | cogent . . good |
| b. | | fluent . . convincing |
| c. | | judicious . . true |
| d. | | cognizable . . dependable |
| e. | | factitious . . facetious
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| 4. | 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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| 5. | 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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| 6. | In the far away Buddhist __________, he was mesmerized by the young boys striving to learn _________. |
| a. | | hamlet . . epics |
| b. | | monastery . . quartets |
| c. | | chaplet . . fine arts |
| d. | | synagogue . . yoga |
| e. | | seminary . . catechism
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| 7. | For the annual service, the Classics Department magically transformed the ________ spot into a Tercentenary Theater. |
| a. | | proscenium |
| b. | | torrid |
| c. | | arid |
| d. | | sylvan |
| e. | | derelict
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| 8. | For the Senior Week, the university arranged a series of assorted ceremonies as a kind of anodyne for the trauma of ____________. |
| a. | | symbiotic arrangement |
| b. | | symbolic rebirth |
| c. | | configuration |
| d. | | juvenile delinquency |
| e. | | orientation
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| 9. | 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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| 10. | Like the stretto in the ___________ the spring term _________ the tempo of a melody already racing to its conclusion. |
| a. | | fugue . . accelerated |
| b. | | symphony . . substantiated |
| c. | | crescendo . . authenticated |
| d. | | soprano . . retarded |
| e. | | opera . . relegated
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| 11. | Whether ________ or ___________, Daniel Rossi had chosen to lead the class. |
| a. | | effusive . . elusive |
| b. | | corpulent . . diffident |
| c. | | mellow . . timorous |
| d. | | abrasive . . derisive |
| e. | | acerbic . . placid
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| 12. | Their work voiced a _________ for the downtrodden, but their phraseology, though __________, was soundly based on Scripture. |
| a. | | insurrection . . heretical |
| b. | | invocation . . scathing |
| c. | | plea . . polemic |
| d. | | cavil . . temporal |
| e. | | manifestation . . unequivocal
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