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24 Cards in this Set
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Unlike the ancient Greeks, we are interested in a person's ____ , the things that make each person different from the general.
A. qualities B. idiosyncracies C. failures D. stereotypes E. humanity |
B
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The Rio Gila is part of a ____ of rivers and cultures as significant as the ____ of the Tigris and the Euphrates.
A. disparity - conjunction B. intermingling - dichotomy C. juxtaposition - divergence D. conglomeration - diaspora E. convergence - confluence |
E
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There is great unevenness in his later plays; there are moments of the greatest ____ in the midst of great ____.
A. lucidity - enlightenment B. frivolity - triteness C. insight - banality D. obscurity - ambivalence E. profundity - wisdom |
C
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Johnson was such an outstanding orator, that his contempories were too dazzled by his ____ to question his fundamental philosophy.
A. persona B. guile C. enthusiasm D. thinking E. rhetoric |
E
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He was treated like a ____ and cast out from his community.
A. ascetic B. prodigy C. prodigal D. pariah E. tyro |
D
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Homo sapiens, the proud splitter of the atom, inventor of the electronic computer, ____ of the genetic code may be humbled by a lowly ____ of the sewers and soils - the microbe.
A. designer - inhabitant B. discoverer - rodent C. writer - organism D. decipherer - denizen E. author - purifier |
D
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Turner claimed to paint what he saw; yet no painter ever departed further from close ____ or took more ____ with subjects.
A. imitation - liberties B. observation - care C. definition - vagaries D. imagination - pains E. resemblance - trouble |
A
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Because Elaine's father was a field entomologist who trekked over the continent studying insect infestations, and insisted on taking his young family with him, Elaine and her brother had a(n) ____ childhood.
A. idyllic B. itinerant C. sedentary D. propitious E. equable |
B
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Literary criticism has in recent years become increasingly ____ ; it is almost impossible for the non-literary person to understand its analyses.
A. abstruse B. accessible C. colloquial D. wide-ranging E. professional |
A
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Bullock carts and hand pumps seem ____ in a village whose skyline is dominated by telephone cables and satellite dishes.
A. anachronisms B. exigencies C. diversions D. provocations E. portents |
A
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Stuart reveled in ____; he would never seek ____ until all possibilities for debate had been exhausted.
A. altercation - clarification B. polemics - conciliation C. ambiguities - consolation D. asceticism - indulgence E. digressions - direction |
B
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The archaeologist, viewing the fragmentary remains of the ancient city, reflected on the ____ of human ____ .
A. impermanence - endeavour B. transience - thought C. dearth - aspirations D. futility - humility E. durability - constructs |
A
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The success of the business venture ____ his expectations; he never thought that the firm would prosper.
A. confirmed B. belied C. nullified D. fulfilled E. ratified |
B
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For centuries there was no ___ between their descendents; in fact ____ strife continued until modern times.
A. peace - internecine B. hostility - intermittent C. malevolence - intense D. amity - contrived E. difference - feudal |
A
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The journalist ____ the efforts of the drug squad to control drug peddling, claiming that they had actually ____ the problem.
A. commended - increased B. lauded - intensified C. decried - solved D. deprecated - exacerbated E. noted - caused |
D
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The professor became increasingly ____ in later years, flying into a rage whenever he was opposed.
A. taciturn B. voluble C. subdued D. contrite E. irascible |
E
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Since the Romans failed to ____ the tribes in Northern Britain, they built a wall to ____ the tribes.
A. conquer - alienate B. impress - intimidate C. subjugate - exclude D. pacify - enrage E. neutralize - barricade |
C
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Many so-called social playwrights are distinctly ____ ; rather than allowing the members of the audience to form their own opinions, these writers force a viewpoint on the viewer.
A. conciliatory B. prolific C. iconoclastic D. didactic E. contumacious |
D
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Before his marriage the Duke had led an austere existence and now regarded the affectionate, somewhat ____ behavior of his young wife as simply ____ .
A. restrained - despicable B. childish - elevating C. playful - sublime D. frivolous - puerile E. unpleasant - delightful |
D
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I cannot conclude this preface without ____ that an early and untimely death should have prevented Persius from giving a more finished appearance to his works.
A. rejoicing B. lamenting C. affirming D. commenting E. mentioning |
B
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We appreciated his ____ summary of the situation; he wasted no words yet delineated his position most ____ .
A. comprehensive : inadequately B. succinct : direfully C. cogent : persuasively D. verbose : concisely E. grandiloquent : eloquently |
C
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The refugee's poor grasp of English is hardly an _____ problem; she can attend classes and improve within a matter of months.
A. implausible B. insuperable C. inconsequential D. evocative E. injudicious |
B
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While war has never been absent from the ____ of man, there have been periods in History which appear remarkably ____.
A. archives - ambivalent B. posterity - serene C. mind - desultory D. annals - pacific E. life - belligerent |
D
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To reach Simonville, the traveller needs to drive with extreme caution along the ____ curves of the mountain road that climbs ____ to the summit.
A. serpentine - steeply B. jagged - steadily C. gentle - precipitously D. shady - steadily E. hair-raising - languidly |
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