403. Able to survive subzero temperatures, long periods of darkness, and days without food, the Arctic wolf is clearly a very ______ animal.
A. greedy
B. social
C. cunning
D. hardy
E. aggressive
404. Ellen respects Gary's qualities of broad-mindedness and humanism; she cannot, however, ______ them with his ______ support of a political creed that seems to oppose precisely those qualities.
A. repudiate, jingoistic
B. undermine wavering
C. assuage, logical
D. reconcile, dogmatic
E. acknowledge, polemical