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1. Hydrogen is the ----element of the universe in that it provides the building blocks from which the other elements are produced. (A) steadiest (B) expendable (C) lightest (D) final (E) fundamental 2. Few of us take the pains to study our cherished convictions; indeed, we almost have a natural---- doing so. (A) aptitude for (B) repugnance to (C) interest in (D) ignorance of (E) reaction after 3. It is his dubious distinction to have proved what nobody would think of denying, that Romero at the age of sixty-four writes with all the characteristics of----. (A) maturity (B) fiction (C) inventiveness (D) art (E) brilliance 4. The primary criterion for----a school is its recent performance: critics are----to extend credit for earlier victories. (A) evaluating .. prone (B) investigating .. hesitant (C) judging .. reluctant (D) improving .. eager (E) administering .. persuaded 5. Number theory is rich in problems of an especially----sort: they are tantalizingly simple to state but----difficult to solve. (A) cryptic.. deceptively (B) spurious.. equally (C) abstruse.. ostensibly (D) elegant.. rarely (E) vexing ..notoriously 6. In failing to see that the justice's pronouncement merely----previous decisions rather than actually establishing a precedent, the novice law clerk--- the scope of the justice's judgment. (A) synthesized.. limited (B) overturned.. misunderstood (C) endorsed.. nullified (D) qualified.. overemphasized (E) recapitulated.. defined 7. When theories formerly considered to be----in their scientific objectivity are found instead to reflect a consistent observational and evaluative bias, then the presumed neutrality of science gives way to the recognition that categories of knowledge are human----. (A) disinterested.. constructions (B) callous.. errors (C) verifiable.. prejudices (D) convincing.. imperatives (E) unassailable.. fantasies 1. Although the minuet appeared simple, its---- steps had to be studied very carefully before they could be gracefully----in public. (A) progressive.. revealed (B) intricate.. executed (C) rudimentary.. allowed (D) minute.. discussed (E) entertaining.. stylized 2. The results of the experiments performed by Elizabeth Hazen and Rachel Brown were----not only because these results challenged old assumptions but also because they called the---- methodology into question. (A) provocative.. prevailing (B) predictable.. contemporary (C) inconclusive.. traditional (D) intriguing.. projected (E) specious.. original 3. Despite the----of many of their colleagues, some scholars have begun to emphasize "pop culture" as a key for----the myths, hopes, and fears of contemporary society. (A) antipathy.. entangling (B) discernment.. evaluating (C) pedantry.. reinstating (D) skepticism.. deciphering (E) enthusiasm.. symbolizing 4. In the seventeenth century, direct flouting of a generally accepted system of values was regarded as----, even as a sign of madness. (A) adventurous (B) frivolous (C) willful (D) impermissible (E) irrational 5. Queen Elizabeth I has quite correctly been called a ----of the arts, because many young artists received her patronage. (A) connoisseur (B) critic (C) friend (D) scourge (E) judge 6. Because outlaws were denied----under medieval law, anyone could raise a hand against them with legal----. (A) propriety.. authority (B) protection.. impunity (C) collusion.. consent (D) rights.. collaboration (E) provisions.. validity 7. Rather than enhancing a country's security, the successful development of nuclear weapons could serve at first to increase that country's----. (A) boldness (B) influence (C) responsibility (D) moderation (E) vulnerability 1. Physicists rejected the innovative experimental technique because, although it----some problems, it also produced new----. (A) clarified.. data (B) eased.. interpretations (C) resolved.. complications (D) caused.. hypotheses (E) revealed.. inconsistencies 2. During a period of protracted illness, the sick can become infirm, ----both the strength to work and many of the specific skills they once possessed. (A) regaining (B) denying (C) pursuing (D) insuring (E) losing 3. The pressure of population on available resources is the key to understanding history; consequently, any historical writing that takes no cognizance of----facts is----flawed. (A) demographic.. intrinsically (B) ecological.. marginally (C) cultural.. substantively (D) psychological.. philosophically (E) political.. demonstratively 4. It is puzzling to observe that Jones's novel has recently been criticized for its----structure, since commentators have traditionally argued that its most obvious----is its relentlessly rigid, indeed schematic, framework. (A) attention to.. preoccupation (B) speculation about.. characteristic (C) parody of.. disparity (D) violation of.. contradiction (E) lack of.. flaw 5. It comes as no surprise that societies have codes of behavior; the character of the codes, on the other hand, can often be----. (A) predictable (B) unexpected (C) admirable (D) explicit (E) confusing 6. The characterization of historical analysis as a form of fiction is not likely to be received----by either historians or literary critics, who agree that history and fiction deal with----orders of experience. (A) quietly.. significant (B) enthusiastically.. shifting (C) passively.. unusual (D) sympathetically.. distinct (E) contentiously.. realistic 7. For some time now, ----has been presumed not to exist: the cynical conviction that everybody has an angle is considered wisdom. (A) rationality (B) flexibility (C) diffidence (D) disinterestedness (E) insincerity 1. The ----of mass literacy coincided with the first industrial revolution; in turn, the new expansion in literacy, as well as cheaper printing, helped to nurture the----of popular literature. (A) building.. mistrust (B) reappearance.. display (C) receipt.. source (D) selection.. influence (E) emergence.. rise 2. Although ancient tools were----preserved, enough have survived to allow us to demonstrate an occasionally interrupted but generally----progress through prehistory. (A) partially.. noticeable (B) superficially.. necessary (C) unwittingly.. documented (D) rarely.. continual (E) needlessly.. incessant 3. In part of the Arctic, the land grades into the landfast ice so----that you can walk off the coast and not know you are over the hidden sea. (A) permanently (B) imperceptibly (C) irregularly (D) precariously (E) slightly 4. Kagan maintains that an infant's reactions to its first stressful experiences are part of a natural process of development, not harbingers of childhood unhappiness or ----signs of adolescent anxiety. (A) prophetic (B) normal (C) monotonous (D) virtual (E) typical 5. An investigation that is----can occasionally yield new facts, even notable ones, but typically the appearance of such facts is the result of a search in a definite direction. (A) timely (B) unguided (C) consistent (D) uncomplicated (E) subjective 6. Like many eighteenth-century scholars who lived by cultivating those in power, Winckelmann neglected to neutralize, by some -----gesture of comradeship, the resentment his peers were bound to feel because of his----the high and mighty. (A) quixotic.. intrigue with (B) enigmatic.. familiarity with (C) propitiatory.. involvement with (D) salutary.. questioning of (E) unfeigned.. sympathy for 7. In a----society that worships efficiency, it is difficult for a sensitive and idealistic person to make the kinds of----decisions that alone spell success as it is defined by such a society. (A) bureaucratic.. edifying (B) pragmatic.. hardheaded (C) rational.. well-intentioned (D) competitive.. evenhanded (E) modern.. dysfunctional 1. Her----should not be confused with miserliness; as long as I have known her, she has always been willing to assist those who are in need. (A) intemperance (B) intolerance (C) apprehension (D) diffidence (E) frugality 2. Natural selection tends to eliminate genes that cause inherited diseases, acting most strongly against the most severe diseases; consequently, hereditary diseases that are----would be expected to be very----, but, surprisingly, they are not. (A) lethal.. rare (B) untreated.. dangerous (C) unusual.. refractory (D) new.. perplexing (E) widespread.. acute 3. Unfortunately, his damaging attacks on the ramifications of the economic policy have been----by his wholehearted acceptance of that policy's underlying assumptions. (A) supplemented (B) undermined (C) wasted (D) diverted (E) redeemed 4. During the opera's most famous aria the tempo chosen by the orchestra's conductor seemed----, without necessary relation to what had gone before. (A) tedious (B) melodious (C) capricious (D) compelling (E) cautious 5. In the machinelike world of classical physics, the human intellect appears----, since the mechanical nature of classical physics does not ----creative reasoning, the very ability that had made the formulation of classical principles possible. (A) anomalous.. allow for (B) abstract.. speak to (C) anachronistic.. deny (D) enduring.. value (E) contradictory.. exclude 6. During the 1960's assessments of the family shifted remarkably, from general endorsement of it as a worthwhile, stable institution to widespread----it as an oppressive and bankrupt one whose----was both imminent and welcome. (A) flight from.. restitution (B) fascination with.. corruption (C) rejection of.. vogue (D) censure of.. dissolution (E) relinquishment of.. ascent 7. Documenting science's----philosophy would be----, since it is almost axiomatic that many philosophers use scientific concepts as the foundations for their speculations. (A) distrust of.. elementary (B) influence on.. superfluous (C) reliance on.. inappropriate (D) dependence on.. difficult (E) differences from.. impossible 1. The spellings of many Old English words have been----in the living language, although their pronunciations have changed. (A) preserved (B) shortened (C) preempted (D) revised (E) improved 2. The sheer diversity of tropical plants represents a seemingly----source of raw materials, of which only a few have been utilized. (A) exploited (B) quantifiable (C) controversial (D) inexhaustible (E) remarkable 3. For centuries animals have been used as----for people in experiments to assess the effects of therapeutic and other agents that might later be used in humans. (A) benefactors (B) companions (C) examples (D) precedents (E) surrogates 4. Social tensions among adult factions can be---- by politics, but adolescents and children have no such----for resolving their conflict with the exclusive world of adults. (A) intensified.. attitude (B) complicated.. relief (C) frustrated.. justification (D) adjusted.. mechanism (E) revealed.. opportunity 5. The state is a network of exchanged benefits and beliefs, ----between rulers and citizens based on those laws and procedures that are----to the maintenance of community. (A) a compromise.. inimical (B) an interdependence.. subsidiary (C) a counterpoint.. incidental (D) an equivalence.. prerequisite (E) a reciprocity.. conducive 6. Far from viewing Jefferson as a skeptical but enlightened intellectual, historians of the 1960's portrayed him as----thinker, eager to fill the young with his political orthodoxy while censoring ideas he did not like. (A) an adventurous (B) a doctrinaire (C) an eclectic (D) a judicious (E) a cynical 7. To have true disciples, a thinker must not be too----: any effective intellectual leader depends on the ability of other people to----thought processes that did not originate with them. (A) popular.. dismiss (B) methodical.. interpret (C) idiosyncratic.. reenact (D) self-confident.. revitalize (E) pragmatic.. discourage 1. Clearly refuting skeptics, researchers have---- not only that gravitational radiation exists but that it also does exactly what theory----it should do. (A) doubted.. warranted (B) estimated.. accepted (C) demonstrated.. predicted (D) assumed.. deduced (E) supposed.. asserted 2. Sponsors of the bill were----because there was no opposition to it within the legislature until after the measure had been signed into law. (A) unreliable (B) well-intentioned (C) persistent (D) relieved (E) detained 3. The paradoxical aspect of the myths about Demeter, when we consider the predominant image of her as a tranquil and serene goddess, is her----search for her daughter. (A) extended (B) agitated (C) comprehensive (D) motiveless (E) heartless 4. Yellow fever, the disease that killed 4,000 philadelphians in 1793, and so----Memphis, Tennessee, that the city lost its charter, has reappeared after nearly two decades in----in the Western Hemisphere. (A) terrorized.. contention (B) ravaged.. secret (C) disabled.. quarantine (D) corrupted.. quiescence (E) decimated.. abeyance 5. Although----, almost self-effacing in his private life, he displays in his plays and essays a strong----publicity and controversy. (A) conventional.. interest in (B) monotonous.. reliance on (C) shy.. aversion toward (D) retiring.. penchant for (E) evasive.. impatience with 6. Comparatively few rock musicians are willing to laugh at themselves, although a hint of----can boost sales of video clips very nicely. (A) self-deprecation (B) congeniality (C) cynicism (D) embarrassment (E) self-doubt 7. Parts of seventeenth-century Chinese pleasure gardens were not necessarily intended to look----; they were designed expressly to evoke the agreeable melancholy resulting from a sense of the ----of natural beauty and human glory. (A) beautiful.. immutability (B) cheerful.. transistorizes (C) colorful.. abstractness (D) luxuriant.. simplicity (E) conventional.. wildness 1. Since it is now----to build the complex central processing unit of a computer on a single silicon chip using photolithography and chemical etching, it seems plausible that other miniature structures might be fabricated in---- ways. (A) unprecedented.. undiscovered (B) difficult.. related (C) permitted.. unique (D) mandatory.. congruent (E) routine.. similar 2. Given the evidence of Egyptian and Babylonian----later Greek civilization, it would be incorrect to view the work of Greek scientists as an entirely independent creation. (A) disdain for (B) imitation of (C) ambivalence about (D) deference to (E) influence on 3. Laws do not ensure social order since laws can always be----, which makes them----unless the authorities have the will and the power to detect and punish wrongdoing. (A) contested.. provisional (B) circumvented.. antiquated (C) repealed.. vulnerable (D) violated.. ineffective (E) modified.. unstable 4. Since she believed him to be both candid and trustworthy, she refused to consider the possibility that his statement had been----. (A) irrelevant (B) facetious (C) mistaken (D) critical (E) insincere 5. Ironically, the party leaders encountered no greater----their efforts to build a progressive party than the----of the progressives already elected to the legislature. (A) support for.. advocacy (B) threat to.. promise (C) benefit from.. success (D) obstacle to.. resistance (E) praise for.. reputation 6. It is strange how words shape our thoughts and trap us at the bottom of deeply----canyons of thinking, their imprisoning sides carved out by the----of past usage. (A) cleaved.. eruptions (B) rooted.. flood (C) incised.. river (D) ridged.. ocean (E) notched.. mountains 7. That his intransigence in making decisions---- no open disagreement from any quarter was well known; thus, clever subordinates learned the art of----their opinions in casual remarks. (A) elicited.. quashing (B) engendered.. recasting (C) brooked.. intimating (D) embodied.. instigating (E) forbore.. emending 1. Created to serve as perfectly as possible their workaday----, the wooden storage boxes made in America's Shaker communities are now---- for their beauty. (A) environment.. accepted (B) owners.. employed (C) function.. valued (D) reality.. transformed (E) image.. seen 2. In order to----her theory that the reactions are ----, the scientist conducted many experiments, all of which showed that the heat of the first reaction is more than twice that of the second. (A) support.. different (B) comprehend.. constant (C) evaluate.. concentrated (D) capture.. valuable (E) demonstrate.. problematic 3. The sheer bulk of data from the mass media seems to overpower us and drive us to---- accounts for an easily and readily digestible portion of news. (A) insular (B) investigative (C) synoptic (D) subjective (E) sensational 4. William James lacked the usual----death; writing to his dying father, he spoke without---- about the old man's impending death. (A) longing for.. regret (B) awe of.. inhibition (C) curiosity about.. rancor (D) apprehension of.. eloquence (E) anticipation of.. commiseration 5. Current data suggest that, although----states between fear and aggression exist, fear and aggression are as distinct physiologically as they are psychologically. (A) simultaneous (B) serious (C) exceptional (D) partial (E) transitional 6. It is ironic that a critic of such overwhelming vanity now suffers from a measure of the oblivion to which he was forever----others, in the end, all his----has only worked against him (A) dedicating.. self-procession (B) leading.. self-righteousness (C) consigning.. self-adulation (D) relegating.. self-sacrifice (E) condemning.. self-analysis 7. Famous among job seekers for its----, the company, quite apart from generous salaries, bestowed on its executives annual bonuses and such----as low-interest home mortgages and company cars. (A) magnanimity.. reparations (B) inventiveness.. benefits (C) largesse.. perquisites (D) discernment.. prerogatives (E) altruism.. credits 1. There are no solitary, free-living creatures; every form of life is----other forms. (A) segregated from (B) parallel to (C) dependent on (D) overshadowed by (E) mimicked by 2. The sale of Alaska was not so much an American coup as a matter of----for an imperial Russia that was short of cash and unable to---- its own continental coastline. (A) negligence.. fortify (B) custom.. maintain (C) convenience.. stabalize (D) expediency.. defend (E) exigency.. reinforce 3. Despite assorted effusions to the contrary, there is no necessary link between scientific skill and humanism, and, quite possibly, there may be something of a----between them. (A) generality (B) fusion (C) congruity (D) dichotomy (E) reciprocity 4. A common argument claims that in folk art, the artist's subordination of technical mastery to intense feeling----the direct communication of emotion to the viewer. (A) facilitates (B) averts (C) neutralizes (D) implies (E) represses 5. While not completely nonplussed by the usually caustic responses from members of the audience, the speaker was nonetheless visibly---- by their lively criticism. (A) humiliated (B) discomfited (C) deluded (D) disgraced (E) tantalized 6. In eighth-century Japan, people who---- wasteland were rewarded with official ranks as part of an effort to overcome the shortage of---- fields. (A) conserved.. forested (B) reclaimed.. arable (C) cultivated.. domestic (D) irrigated.. accessible (E) located.. desirable 7. If duty is the natural----of one's ----the course of future events, then people who are powerful have duty placed on them whether they like it or not. (A) correlate.. understanding of (B) outgrowth..control over (C) determinant.. involvement in (D) mitigant.. preoccupation with (E) arbiter.. responsibility for 1. By divesting hi