• Because the pandas had already been weakened by disease and drought, a harsh winter would have had --- consequences for them.
• (A)  preventive
• (B)  regressive
• (C)  catastrophic
• (D)  unforeseen
• (E)  moderate
• Johnson’s writing is considered ------- and ------- because it is filled with obscure references and baffling digressions.
• (A)  deceiving ….ingenuous
• (B)  arcane ….abstruse
• (C)  spare ….didactic
• (D)  lucid ….definitive
• (E)  concise ….esoteric
• 3.A painter’s ability to render a likeness is both ___ and acquired; the artist blends natural abilities with worldly experience in the creation of his or her art.
• A anticipated 
• B overt 
• C aesthetic 
• D ubiquitous 
• E innate
• 4. A judicious biography must be ----- representation that depicts both the strengths and
the weaknesses of the subject, avoiding the two extremes of ---- and indictment.
• A a polarized … vindication
• B an imaginative … discernment
• C a holistic … censure
• D a complimentary … animosity
• E an equitable … eulogy
• Because the congresswoman has been so openhanded with many of her constituents, it is difficult to reconcile this ------- with her private -------.
• (A)  selfishness ….inattention
• (B)  insolence ….virtue
• (C)  magnanimity ….pettiness
• (D)  opportunism ….ambition
• (E)  solicitousness ….generosity
• His peers respected him because he was both ------- and -------：steadfast in his beliefs and tactful in his negotiations.
• (A)  resourceful ….courteous
• (B)  tenacious ….manipulative
• (C)  determined ….demonstrative
• (D)  resolute ….diplomatic
• (E)  outspoken ….indiscriminate
• Cathedrals usually take decades , even centuries, to complete; thus no one expected the National Cathedral to be built with -------.
• (A)  dispatch
• (B)  presumption
• (C)  durability
• (D)  deliberation
• (E)  reverence
• Although Eduora Welty and William Faulkner wrote in distinctively different styles, ------- between the two is ------- because they both lived in and wrote about Mississippi.
• (A)  comparison ….inevitable
• (B)  cooperation …..destructive
• (C)  discord ….legendary
• (D)  similarity ….unlikely
• (E)  rivalry ….redundantly
• Rodolfo Gonzales was once describes as ------- in body and mind because of the flexibility and grace apparent in both his boxing and his writing of poetry and plays.
• (A)  unyielding
• (B)  tremulous
• (C)  emphatic
• (D)  lithe
• (E)  fickle
• To reflect the ------- of that nation’s spoken languages, its writers often make us of a mixture of dialects.
• (A)  articulation
• (B)  intonation
• (C)  spontaneity
• (D)  profundity
• (E)  heterogeneity
• heterogeneity
• The quality or state of being heterogeneous.
• heterogeneous:
• consisting of dissimilar or diverse ingredients or constituents  : MIXED 
• Merriam - Webster 
• To avoid being -----, composer Stephen Sondheim strives for an element of surprise in his songs.
• A erratic              B informal
• C elaborate            D predictable
• E idiosyncratic
• By portraying a wide spectrum of characters in his one-man show, John Leguizamo provides a ------- to the theater’s tendency to offer a limited range of roles to Latino actors.
• (A)  corrective
• (B)  tribute
• (C)  corollary
• (D)  stimulus
• (E)  precursor
• In order to ------- the loss of natural wetlands used by migrating snow geese, conservationists in the 1960’s and 1970’s ------- wetland refuges in the northern prairies.
• (A)  standardize ….ignored
• (B)  offset ….surrendered
• (C)  explain ….dismantled
• (D)  compensate for ….established
• (E)  account for ….administered
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• Castillo’s poetry has generated only enthusiastic response: praise from the general public and ------- from the major critics.
• (A)  condemnation
• (B)  sarcasm
• (C)  plaudits
• (D)  irony
• (E)  pathos
• The residents of the town lived ------- lives; no one indulged in wild or ------- behavior.
• (A)  rambunctious ….indecent
• (B)  extravagant ….excessive
• (C)  secluded ….scrupulous
• (D)  circumscribed ….impulsive
• (E)  irreverent ….animated
• generatedThe editorial claimed that the gubernatorial candidate lacked worldly wisdom and that this ------- would likely be his undoing.
• (A)  naivete 
• (B)  furtiveness
• (C)  venality
• (D)  indecisiveness
• (E)  sarcasm
• A scientist should not automatically reject folkways that might at first seem silly or superstitious; scientific qualifications are not a license for -------, nor do they ------- prejudice or bias.

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