| 1. | It is quite offensive when people look down on someone only because of his refusal to accept the __________ ways they've interpreted the _________. |
| a. | | objective . . sacrosanct text |
| b. | | idiosyncratic . . ethic |
| c. | | heretic . . heathen |
| d. | | infantile . . heterodoxy |
| e. | | subjective . . scriptures
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| 2. | For the past days, she has been visiting the church to light the _________ candles. |
| a. | | promissory |
| b. | | votive |
| c. | | oblation |
| d. | | obligatory |
| e. | | emptive
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| 3. | The reports on the movie starlet claimed her to be remarkably _________ in her personal life. |
| a. | | clandestine |
| b. | | steeped |
| c. | | vehement |
| d. | | inimical |
| e. | | abstemious
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| 4. | Barry loved to talk to his younger sister whom he found to be _________ and witty, along with being surprisingly inspired and intellectually ________. |
| a. | | ebullient . . stimulating |
| b. | | eloquent . . stimulant |
| c. | | appraising . . revealing |
| d. | | equivocating . . challenged |
| e. | | pampered . . inclined
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| 5. | Habit and awe are harder to overcome than people realize until they actually try to ________ the conduct of years. |
| a. | | restrain |
| b. | | rescind |
| c. | | corroborate |
| d. | | circumvent |
| e. | | condone
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| 6. | If the babies cried, Rosa fussed over them in an agony of ________ for her neglect. |
| a. | | astuteness |
| b. | | trepidation |
| c. | | apprehension |
| d. | | exculpation |
| e. | | expiation
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| 7. | Nick was making a whole __________ of happenings and memories out of her, and he was afraid of the ________. |
| a. | | rigmarole . . hysteria |
| b. | | drama . . flagellation |
| c. | | crypt . . snowballing |
| d. | | avalanche . . scenario |
| e. | | arsenal . . consequences
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| 8. | The symposium was held under the _________ of a premier ___________. |
| a. | | aegis . . condominium |
| b. | | auspices . . prelate |
| c. | | honor . . .conglomerate |
| d. | | niche . . corporation |
| e. | | manipulation . . cartel
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| 9. | Her voluminous journals show her mind in action, confident when groping, purposeful even when ________, luminously eloquent though _______. |
| a. | | disoriented . . paraphrased |
| b. | | waning . . verbose |
| c. | | devastated . . exuberant |
| d. | | stymied . . unedited |
| e. | | validated . . vanquished
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| 10. | The ______ speeches of the young leader succeeded in _______ the student fraternity. |
| a. | | moribund . . provoking |
| b. | | intense . . chastising |
| c. | | exhorting . . proselytizing |
| d. | | belligerent . . waking |
| e. | | igniting . . inveigling
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| 11. | Substitute a\an _________ incisiveness for sweetness and she resembled a\an________, willful martyr rather than the resigned, contemplative saint of his dreams. |
| a. | | subtle . . supreme |
| b. | | tentative . . prophetic |
| c. | | incarcerating . . persecuted |
| d. | | unleashed . . obdurate |
| e. | | trenchant . . vigorous
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| 12. | Western philosophy has been plagued with a vicious ________, making facts seem ________ . |
| a. | | dichotomy . . inane |
| b. | | monotony . . archaic |
| c. | | serendipity . . platitudes |
| d. | | smog . . fiction |
| e. | | sanction . . convoluted
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