471. While most pets are relatively ______ in a veterinarian's office, occasionally vets have to treat more aggressive animal patients.
A. fastidious
B. defensive
C. surreptitious
D. docile
E. diminutive
472. Biodemographer S. Jay OIshansky regards commercial products that promise to stop aging as ______ , arguing that while these nostrums might possible ______ some of aging's superficial manifestations, they cannot touch the process at its core.
A. humbuggery, elude
B. foreshadowing, thwart
C. quackery, forestall
D. sophistry, enhance
E. balderdash, mimic