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1. Managers who categorically squelch insights from low-tiered employees run the obvious
hazard of (i) ______ creativity; conversely, these very same managers are more likely to (ii)
______ any ideas that flow down from the top brass.

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(A) fomentingl (D) unquestioningly embrace
(B) smothering (E) arbitrarily denounce
(C) sparking (F) conditionally approve

2. Writing well is not so much a matter of inspiration as it is (i) ______ ; just as the scientist toils
away in an attic, or the athlete trains even in inhospitable conditions, a writer too must be (ii)
______ .
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(A) forethoughtl (D) candid
(B) perseverance (E) yielding
(C) carelessnessy (F) tenacious

3. Many know him for his great scientific achievements, but Benjamin Franklin always believed
that public service should (i) ______ science. Accordingly, his political contributions to the
formation of the United States were (ii) _____

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(A) impede (D) substantial
(B) replicate (E) paltry
(C) outweigh (F) abhorrent

4. (i) __________ comprehension of the character of Italian wine is impeded not only by
labyrinthine complexities of vineyards and varietals, but also by fluctuations in environmental
conditions from year to year, which render even the most reliable vintages subject to (ii)
___________.

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(A) An exhaustive (D) efficient taxonomy
(B) A futile (E) remarkable variance
(C) An irredeemable (F) mitigating circumstances

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5. Potentially insightful and powerful analytical tools, the new electronic databases used to drive
corporate planning often lead to (i)_______________ hypotheses, chiefly, in quantitative
science and finance, areas in which inventive solutions achieved in the past by more traditional
means have been highly (ii)_______________.

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(A) creditable (D) suspect
(B) cogent (E) adequate
(C) inelegant (F) efficacious
6. Instead of highlighting the practical applications of his new technique in diverse fields from
law enforcement to industrial engineering, the researcher gave (i) _______ presentation
focusing on the specific mechanics of the technique itself. This topic selection likely
contributed to the (ii) _______the general public.

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(D) significant indignation
(A) an esoteric
from
(B) a multifarious (E) broad appeal to
(C) a prosaic (F) sparse attendance by

7. Despite the threat of sanctions from numerous other countries, the (i) ______ nation has
repeatedly ordered its armies to (ii) ______ the borders of the disputed territory.

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(A) desultory (D) breach
(B) parsimonious (E) circumnavigate
(C) truculent (F) circumvent

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8. The silent-film pioneer Harold Lloyd made a virtue of the (i) _________ limits of his day,
playing men so (ii) _________ it was easy to imagine it was the character rather than the
medium who lacked a voice.

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(A) artistic (D) avant-garde
(B) commercial (E) diffident
(C) technical (F) reluctant

9. Jackson’s supporters praised his earthy speech as evidence of his common touch, while his (i)
_________ condemned it as (ii) _________.

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(A) interlocutors (D) vulgar
(B) detractors (E) obtuse
(C) contemporaries (F) genteel

10. Incensed, and perhaps spooked, by the implications of the bureau’s purportedly (i) _________
inquisitions, the Hollywood film director shuttered his studios, suspended production of
numerous projects, and (ii) _________ with his wife to Europe.

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(A) suspicious (D) immigrated
(B) benign (E) absconded
(C) risqué (F) pandered

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HOME ASSIGNMENT
1. Howard’s friends recognize that his nervous ____(i)____ on meeting strangers belies an
underlying gregariousness, while new acquaintances often ____(ii)____ perceive him as
churlish.

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(A) chatter (D) false
(B) silences (E) accurately
(C) banter (F) quickly

2. The (i) _________ young employee was soon (ii) _________ for making a serious mistake that
cost the company thousands of dollars.

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(A) banal (D) enamored
(B) ginger (E) castigated
(C) verdant (F) deposed

3. He has such a pleasingly (i) _________ personality that it’s hard to be bothered by the (ii)
_________ in his past.

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(A) sanguine (D) peccadilloes
(B) high-handed (E) incendiaries
(C) salubrious (F) achievements

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4. The Paris Commune was a government that ruled France for about two months in 1871; despite
its (i) _________ reign, it was at the time (ii) _________ as a sign of the emergence of a
powerful working class.

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(A) equivocal (D) discounted
(B) ephemeral (E) recanted
(C) omnipotent (F) heralded

5. The elderly woman was (i) _________ to have returned to her the ring that she had lost fifty
years before in the (ii) _________ waters of the Mississippi River.

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(A) dumbfounded (D) turbid
(B) addlepated (E) turgid
(C) enervated (F) tepid

6. For some time, scientists refused to believe that Earth’s continents are made of moving tectonic
plates. Physicists, who could not devise a theory to explain the now-accepted process, rejected
the theory outright, as did geologists, who were far too ____(i)____ in their thinking, thereby
____(ii)____ the advancement of science for a time.

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(A) officious (D) checking
(B) assiduous (E) limning
(C) dogmatic (F) asseverating

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7. The flood of innovation that has engendered many of last decade’s technological
breakthroughs has also claimed some victims in its wake: companies once at the (i)
___________________ of such innovation have now become (ii) ___________________.

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a) brink d) remarkably pioneering
b) forefront e) mostly obsolete
c) periphery f) increasingly relevant

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Medium Level

1. Those who believe that (i) ____________ is a thing of the past should remember that women
were only granted (ii) _____________ in 1920, and not until 1965, with the passing of the
Voting Rights Act, could African Americans feel confident that they could vote safely in US
elections.

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(A) disenfranchisement (D) hegemony
(B) chauvinism (E) suffrage
(C) plutocracy (F) dispensation

2. Freud’s structural model of the psyche should be understood as (i) _________ device, useful
for inciting and guiding discovery, rather than as an attempt to (ii) _________ physical
relationships among parts of the human brain.

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(A) a heuristic (D) dictate
(B) a hermeneutic (E) ameliorate
(C) an allegorical (F) represent

3. The seemingly pious minister, known for his (i) _________ pontifications, actually frequently
indulged an unseemly (ii) _________.

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(A) lascivious (D) ceremony
(B) virtuous (E) vice
(C) prudish (F) era

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4. The captain (i) ___________ (ii) ___________ for as long as he could, but eventually the crew
became frustrated with the small portions of mead and the dearth of plunder, and decided to
take matters into their own hands.

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(A) dissuaded (D) sea change
(B) warded (E) off mutiny
(C) depreciated (F) putsch

5. Her grandparents valued seemliness above all else, and were (i) _________ at her incorrigibly
(ii) _________ behavior.

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(A) loquacious (D) mutinous
(B) agog (E) indelicate
(C) nonchalant (F) tortuous

6. When he joked about his shortcomings as a husband, his humor grew too (i) _________ for our
comfort, becoming so bitter and ironic that we found ourselves (ii) _________.

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(A) frantic (D) disquieted
(B) mordant (E) antipathetic
(C) choleric (F) sanguine

7. Economists have developed such sophisticated and (i) _________ mathematical tools for
modeling human behavior that other social scientists often deploy those tools to model and
help (ii) _________ even decisions that have no obvious economic consequences.

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(A) eclectic (D) interpolate
(B) populist (E) replicate
(C) versatile (F) explicate

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8. A newly published, laudatory biography of George Bernard Shaw fails, like others before it, to
capture the essence of his personality: the more he is (i) ___________, the more his true self
seems to (ii) ____________

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(A) discussed (D) disappear
(B) disparaged (E) emerge
(C) disregarded (F) coalesce

9. Mozart’s brief life exemplified a discrepancy between fame and means: as his musical star (i)
_________ beyond measure, his income (ii) _________.

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(A) abated (D) grew exponentially
(B) waxed (E) remained exorbitant
(C) dwindled (F) barely stirred

10. The governor has long been obsessed with excising the media from the politician-public
relationship. That’s been the unifying aim of all her seemingly disconnected ventures since
entering public life: a determination to (i) _________, and eventually (ii) _________, the
media’s hold on political communication.

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a) conceal d) augment
b) erode e) consolidate
c) rejuvenate f) end

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Home assignment
1. The literary agent took _(i)____ at the statement that slush piles are nothing but ____(ii)____;
he argued that several major authors, including Stephenie Meyer, Judith Guest, and even Anne
Frank, were discovered in such piles of unsolicited, soon-to-be-rejected manuscripts.

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(A) gratification (D) requisition
(B) accession (E) dross
(C) umbarge (F) compendium

2. Although they had never met, the two writers felt they were of one mind, each (i)
_________ anticipating the contents of the other’s letters; never had two intellectuals
been more (ii) _________.

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(A) ominously (D) providential
(B) anachronistically (E) shrewd
(C) presciently (F) simpatico

3. Politicians’ tendency to ____(i)____ their own virtues by demeaning their opponents is

____(ii)____: what if voters forget the name of the candidate and remember only that of
his adversary?

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(A) enfeeble (D) injudicious
(B) tout (E) ostentatious
(C) democratize (F) apt

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4. Desktop publishing allows (i) _________ to do for themselves the work once reserved for
professionals whose (ii) _________ or other training developed design skills along with
narrow technical mastery.

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(A) dilettantes (D) sensibility
(B) artisans (E) acumen
(C) idealogues (F)apprenticeship

5. The so-called “thieves’ cant” was a ____(i)____ language created by thieves, beggars,
and swindlers in England in the 1530s to allow them to communicate without the
authorities knowing what was going on. Although the cant was widely used by criminal
subcultures five hundred years ago, it is now mostly ____(ii)____, found only in
literature and fantasy roleplaying games.

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(A) clandestine (D) obsolete
(B) bourgeoise (E) pervasive
(C) sacrilegious (F) contemporary

6. Rather than portraying Joseph II as a radical reformer whose reign was strikingly (i)
_______ the play Amadeus depicts him as (ii) __________ thinker, too wedded to
orthodox theories of musical composition to appreciate an artist of Mozart's genius.

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(A) dissipated (D) a revolutionary
(B) enlightened (E) an iconoclastic
(C) placid (F) a doctrinaire

7. While some feel that the author’s (i) _________ late in his life (ii) _________ his
reputation, others felt that his dissolution added a certain glamour to his biography and
credibility to his libertinous tales.

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(A) vitiation (D) derogated from

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(B) debauchment (E) bedizened
(C) deterioration (F) aggrandized

8. Though the negotiation was initially expected to proceed smoothly, it soon became
apparent that any appearance of (i) _________ between the parties was disingenuous or,
at best, a superficial adherence to certain (ii) _________.

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(A) duplicity (D) mores
(B) amity (E) politics
(C) solace (F) plaudits

9. Peculiarly enough, Shakespeare has been often (i) ______ as the best English language
playwright, and often (ii) ______ as a man lacking the education to write those plays.

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(A) crowned (D) demonized
(B) stigmatized (E) dismissed
(C) castigated (F) deified

10. Many fashions that were considered daring in their time have been so widely worn and
imitated that the (i)____________ style is no longer seen as (ii)____________ .

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(A) proposed (D) outlandish
(B) original (E) commonplace
(C) revealing (F) copied

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