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1.In the Renaissance, when few women were formally educated and most were forced to marry, the rebellious Cecilia Gonzaga succeeded in_________ scholarship and_________ the marriage planned for her.
(A) obtaining . . succumbing to
(B) escaping . . subverting
(C) pursuing . . avoiding
(D) ignoring .. observing
(E) disavowing .. enjoying
2. During the day downpours were_________ starting and stopping at nearly regular intervals.
(A) unmediated (B) spontaneous (C) periodic (D) incidental (E) endemic
3. As a physicist Veronica is a gifted_________; she loves to go beyond particular facts and speculate about general principles.
(A) dogmatist (B) consultant (C) prodigy (D) materialist (E) theorist
4. Although hostile demonstrations and_________ marred James Meredith's 1962 enrollment at the University of Mississippi, the commencement ceremony in which he became the university's first African American graduate was surprisingly_________.
(A) discord .. tranquil
(B) pomp.. daunting
(C) banality .. conventional
(D) turmoil.. controversial
(E) serenity.. opportune
5. The editor's comment was not intended as a criticism, but as a_________ by which she sought further clarification.
(A) query (B) confession (C) dismissal (D) condemnation (E) credo
6. Although Clifton often appeared_________, he actually devoted_________ amount of time trying to keep up a neat appearance.
(A) orderly .. an enormous
(B) disheveled .. an inordinate
(C) annoyed .. an unfortunate
(D) distracted .. an unrealistic
(E) agitated . . a considerable
7. In 1991 salsa_________ ketchup as the best-selling condiment in the United States, outselling ketchup by $40 million in retail stores.
(A) supplanted (B) redoubled (C) augmented (D) brandished (E) evaded
8. The Earth's oceans sustain a_________ of marine creatures, an abundance that makes the seas teem with life and activity.
(A) melee (B) profusion (C) configuration (D) symmetry (E) dimension
9. The gentle flow of the speaker's words became Of increasingly balanced and rhythmic; such_________ oratory was quite hypnotic.
(A) cadent (B) specious (C) convoluted (D) adulatory (E) impassioned
10.The of the art world, its "apparent inviolability," was sullied in 1997 when investigators
uncovered several dubious art transactions.
(A) turpitude (B) sacrosanctity (C) perspicuity (D) verisimilitude (E) duplicity
