| 1. | Right from the start, it was apparent that Jack regarded the forthcoming _________ as a\an _________ of his father's life and dedication. |
| a. | | analogy . . perpetration |
| b. | | ordination . . perpetuation |
| c. | | tryst . . precipitation |
| d. | | catastrophe . . emulation |
| e. | | predicament . . corollary
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| 2. | Ridden with a guilty conscience, a ________ part of his hoped that perhaps his father would have taken an early night. |
| a. | | sanguine |
| b. | | disparaging |
| c. | | conscious |
| d. | | craven |
| e. | | wily
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| 3. | Julia was as much in awe of her husband as were her children but she hid it under a veneer of __________, slightly _________ calm. |
| a. | | effervescence . . ominous |
| b. | | malice . . timorous |
| c. | | hatred . . tentative |
| d. | | impenetrable . . dour |
| e. | | indifference . . abashed
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| 4. | With a _________ rustling, the students shuffled the sheets of paper to one side so that elbows could be __________ placed on the desk. |
| a. | | strident . . subtly |
| b. | | deafening . . ostensibly |
| c. | | histrionic . . dramatically |
| d. | | muted . . surreptitiously |
| e. | | mutant . . superciliously
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| 5. | She used her beauty for getting what she wanted without _________, but she herself was never __________ by it. |
| a. | | qualms . . fazed |
| b. | | injunctions . . deterred |
| c. | | compunction . . enamored |
| d. | | hesitation . . dissuaded |
| e. | | scruples . . unshackled
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| 6. | The thing that the diplomat liked best about Washington was the __________ of lovely women. |
| a. | | accompaniment |
| b. | | distinct elusiveness |
| c. | | veritable cornucopia |
| d. | | abundant superfluity |
| e. | | inevitable effacing
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| 7. | She felt as if an enormous weight _______ her being, maybe a leaving behind of childhood, a _______ of what it was to be a woman. |
| a. | | forsook . . precipitation |
| b. | | beleaguered . . denunciation |
| c. | | settled upon . . presage |
| d. | | inundated . . vouching |
| e. | | entranced . . premonition
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| 8. | She grew very quiet, but in a manner quite different from a ________ isolation, hers was the _______ freezing of an animal caught in the serpent's basilisk stare. |
| a. | | rigorous . . canny |
| b. | | dreamy . . abject |
| c. | | dreaded . . voluntary |
| d. | | tranquil . . petrified |
| e. | | idyllic . . traumatic
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| 9. | Only the infinite patience of a subtle, _______ man kept his _______ against her possessiveness hidden from her. |
| a. | | devious . . rebellion |
| b. | | facetious . . proclivity |
| c. | | capricious . . predilection |
| d. | | whimsical . . pestilence |
| e. | | insinuating . . nerve
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| 10. | A famous writer once said that art is the recreation of reality according to an artist's __________ value judgments. |
| a. | | propitiatory |
| b. | | metaphysical |
| c. | | ethical |
| d. | | atheistic |
| e. | | apocryphal
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| 11. | Tim was adamant about not having a _______or ________introduction to his book. |
| a. | | euphemistic . . servile |
| b. | | subjective . . historical |
| c. | | didactic . . laudatory |
| d. | | retrospective . . edifying |
| e. | | sycophantic . . assertive
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| 12. | Man's _______for his own highest potentiality is diametrically opposed to _______ of mankind as a collective. |
| a. | | diffidence . . perambulations |
| b. | | premises . . phenomenon |
| c. | | confidence . . acceptance |
| d. | | propinquity . . pestilence |
| e. | | deference . . veneration
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| 13. | Little did he realize that his being inconspicuous would prove to be _________ . |
| a. | | retroactive |
| b. | | prophylactic |
| c. | | inconsequential |
| d. | | reputable |
| e. | | prophetic
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| 14. | The professor was, by nature, ________ but eager and even _________ while discussing his favorite artists. |
| a. | | laconic . . verbose |
| b. | | disarming . . extroverted |
| c. | | terse . . succinct |
| d. | | tacit . . volatile |
| e. | | voluble . . self-assertive
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