| 1. | The library was the only room in that house which was not quite as ________ as the other rooms. |
| a. | | prescient |
| b. | | aesthetic |
| c. | | clairvoyant |
| d. | | chalcolithic |
| e. | | domineering
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| 2. | "Black Swan", the primitive painting of an ebony swan, with its neck arched in an __________ fashion was hardly a lifelike ___________ of that elegant bird. |
| a. | | unaesthetic . . personification |
| b. | | inarticulate . . depiction |
| c. | | ungainly . . rendition |
| d. | | incongruous . . replication |
| e. | | incredible . . duplication
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| 3. | 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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| 4. | The word __________ is the same as __________. |
| a. | | criticism . . review |
| b. | | cryptic . . elucidated |
| c. | | epitome . . picture |
| d. | | cushioned . . cosseted |
| e. | | ethnic . . national
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| 5. | Free competition in an unequal world shall create industrialists who, after _________ capital in their countries, will intensify colonization of the third world countries thus triggering ________ wars. |
| a. | | garnering . . imperialist |
| b. | | swindling . . capitalist |
| c. | | ensuing . . communal |
| d. | | frittering . . perpetrated |
| e. | | usurping . . pecuniary
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| 6. | The representative pointed out that the ___________ was established to ensure _________. |
| a. | | fact . . defect |
| b. | | paradigm . . transparency |
| c. | | theory . . success |
| d. | | machination . . honest transactions |
| e. | | theme . . semantics
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| 7. | In contemporary times, when science has _________ time and space, values are becoming more and more ___________. |
| a. | | transcended . . objective |
| b. | | annihilated . . pervasive |
| c. | | embraced . . narcissistic |
| d. | | elevated . . redundant |
| e. | | inflated . . corrosive
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| 8. | His ________ was a joke to many, a source of unease to an equal number and at times, the bane of his existence but _________ against his search for justice. |
| a. | | impertinence . . countervailing |
| b. | | cliché . . innocuous |
| c. | | wrath . . bulwark |
| d. | | parsimony . . indispensable |
| e. | | ineptitude . . expedient
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| 9. | A ________ world would _________ us of much complexity. |
| a. | | singular . . repudiate |
| b. | | polarized . . yoke |
| c. | | pluralistic . . purge |
| d. | | paradoxical . . fleece |
| e. | | diabolical . . concur
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| 10. | In a complex __________, the contribution of an individual to the eventual decision cannot be readily ___________ . |
| a. | | quandary . . arbitrated |
| b. | | hierarchy . . isolated |
| c. | | scenario . . condescended |
| d. | | phenomenon . . realigned |
| e. | | pedagogy . . censored
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| 11. | He felt extraordinarily _________ under what should have been extremely ________ circumstances. |
| a. | | restive . . ravaging |
| b. | | valiant . . provocative |
| c. | | pacified . . provoking |
| d. | | skeptical . . tranquil |
| e. | | acrimonious . . festering
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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. | They, literally, started their professional lives in the __________ of the __________ zone. |
| a. | | culmination . . terrestrial |
| b. | | ignominy . . twilight |
| c. | | zenith . . celestial |
| d. | | sycophancy . . Hellenistic |
| e. | | astuteness . . critical
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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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