Not surprisingly, the (i) ____________ of the printing press (ii)

____________ mass literacy, as books were no longer (iii) ____________

exclusive to the clergy and aristocracy.

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prospect

subsidized

tokens

advent

engendered

windfalls

triumph

ameliorated

assets

Question 1 of 62

Dickenss Uriah Heep, literatures exemplar of (i) ____________, is

doubtlessly not a unique figure either in fiction or in life. Who in real life has
not seen (ii) ____________, cringing, sycophantic headwaiters, public
servants, and car salespeople? Surely, Dickens was our premiere caricaturist,
able to capture specific and recognizable human (iii) ____________ with
broad strokes of his pen.

Blank (i)

Blank (ii)

Blank (iii)

civility

fawning

errors

subterfuge

supportive

foibles

obsequiousness

independent

tendencies

Question 2 of 62

For some English speakers in the United States, the word yam is (i)
____________ sweet potato, despite several differences between them. The
yam is a starchy, white-fleshed tuber very low in beta carotene,
characteristics not shared by its sweeter, more nutritious (ii) ____________.
One can trace the yam, the (iii)____________ version of the word nyami,
back to West African origins, whereas sweet potatoes were first grown in
Tropical America.

Blank (i)

Blank (ii)

Blank (iii)

analogous to

correlates

codified

commensurate with

simulacrum

anglicized

tantamount to

ersatz

integrated

Question 3 of 62

To assert that the writing of a historical text draws on the same (i)
____________ of techniques as the writing of a work of fiction may (ii)
____________ those authors who feel that the two disciplines
(iii)____________ very little.

Blank (i)

Blank (ii)

Blank (iii)

rubric

hinder

overlap

repertoire

abjure

cooperate

ratio

perturb

interfere

Question 4 of 62

My mother would brook no argument about the use of vulgar (i)

____________. As a result, I refined and sharpened my vocabulary until it
became too (ii) ____________ for my peers to (iii)____________.

Blank (i)

Blank (ii)

Blank (iii)

vernacular

insolvent

goad

persuasion

abstruse

allocate

enticement

evanescent

penetrate

Question 62 of 62

Bradypus variegatus, also known as the brown-throated three-toed sloth, is

(i) ____________ to humid, wooded-evergreen areas of Honduras to
northern Argentina. Almost exclusively a/n (ii) ____________ creature, the
sloth is experiencing habitat destruction as many of Brazils forests undergo
the (iii)____________ process of clear-cutting.

Blank (i)

Blank (ii)

Blank (iii)

endemic

nocturnal

unsustainable

inherent

arboreal

regenerative

pandemic

anti-social

silvicultural

Question 61 of 62

Very few veteran critics tend to be ____________ the recent decade in

cinema. Nonetheless, based on movie reviews many could easily come to the
conclusion that the last ten years were indeed banner ones. Once the
province of lettered intellectuals, a few even household names (Pauline Kael
comes to mind), the role of the movie critic has been ____________ by
those lacking any notable credentials. With this flood of veritable tyros
opining from the rafters, a movies overall ratingas compiled and tabulated
by popular Internet sitesoften times confers a(n) ____________ on a film,
an assessment that posterity will most likely deem specious.

Blank (i)

Blank (ii)

Blank (iii)

enamored of

duly appropriated

aura of nostalgia

condemnatory to

amply filled

mantle of inviolability

unsympathetic

irredeemably disgraced

patina of respectability

Question 60 of 62

Perhaps there is nothing more to the album than its case that
experimentalism into uncharted sonic landscapes did not ____________ with
Stockhauen. Or perhaps its forays--many of which could rightly be dubbed
sophomoric--into the avant-garde, also lead to the ____________: that to
create an unprecedented sound one has to ____________ a discernible
melody.

Blank (i)

Blank (ii)

Blank (iii)

come full circle

unsettling conclusion

choose to create

culminate

unwarranted
hypothesis

forgo producing

die

subtly embed
uncharacteristic
rebuttal

Question 58 of 62

Monarchial reigns ____________ tended to be more ____________,

dynastically speaking, than those royal courts in which palace machinations
had not become a quotidian affair. In the latter, a pall of complacency would
fall over the kingdom so that if suddenly there were an earl with an axe to
grind, so to speak, his path to usurpation would be ____________.

Blank (i)

Blank (ii)

Blank (iii)

marked by intrigue

imperiled

largely unobstructed

characterized by hubris

volatile

a treacherous one

robust

hardly assured

weakened by attrition

Question 57 of 62

The subjectivity inherent in travel is aptly captured in the range of styles used
by different writers. For Hemingway, writing eighty years ago, the experience
of travelregardless of how momentouswas rendered in ____________
epiphanies, a style many of todays writers assiduously ____________. Then
there is travel writer Pico Iyer, for whom a simple stroll through an airport
can engender sentences bursting forth with as many semicolons as
revelations. Who thought the terminal could be so ____________? Surely not
Hemingway.

Blank (i)

Blank (ii)

Blank (iii)

prosaic

avoid

irrevocably wrenching

aphoristic

covet

wildly unpredictable

sardonic

mimic

endlessly fascinating

Question 56 of 62

Perkins wit, surprisingly ____________ by the prudishness of his time, may

not have been nearly as ____________ had he lived in an era not so prone
to ____________.

Blank (i)

Blank (ii)

Blank (iii)

tempered

comical

blushing

overwhelmed

restrained

vacillation

untrammeled

racy

expression

Question 55 of 62

Some note that the increase in the Native American powwow--an intertribal
affair of song, dance, and storytelling, all intrinsic aspects of Native American
culture--serves to (i) ______________ the very culture it presumably aims
to (ii) ______________. They argue an overarching cultural narrative
emerges, one that (iii)______________ the narrative of any one tribe.

Blank (i)

Blank (ii)

Blank (iii)

erode

foster

subsumes

distill

undermine

elaborates upon

empower

question

overcomes

Question 54 of 62

Edgar Allen Poe biographers tend to fall into two camps: those who try to
rescue the man himself from a macabre world in which fate had decreed
nothing less than a(n) (i) ______________ outcome, and those who (ii)
______________ that very myth, treating the subject as one for whom a life
of tragedy was (iii) ______________ .

Blank (i)

Blank (ii)

Blank (iii)

dire

dispute

all but inevitable

unforeseen

hold fast to

clearly unexpected

auspicious

squelch

hardly justified

Question 53 of 62

https://gre.magoosh.com/answers/5734293?prompt_id=3332&with_subject_tag_ids%5B%5D=29

The Hellenistic and Judaic philosophy of the early centuries did not so much
____________ ancient Greek philosophy as it did ____________ the Platonic
concepts of this time with its understanding of the way in which an ideal
world, or one of perfect forms, ____________ the existence of a perfect
being. Even the philosophy of the Middle Ages was so inextricably bound with
the ideas of ancient Greece that many philosophers could hardly imagine
discussing the existence of a perfect being without invoking the conceptual
framework laid down by Plato more than a thousand years earlier.

Blank (i)

Blank (ii)

Blank (iii)

adapt

supplant

allowed for

displace

reconcile

circumvented

foreshadow

corrupt

called into question

Question 52 of 62

The question as to what constitutes art is hardly a ____________ one.

Today, artists exist whose main goal seems only to subvert work that no
longer warrants the trite tag, cutting-edge. Once the proverbial envelope is
pushed even further, the public inevitably scratches its collective head or
furrows the collective brow thinking that this time the artists have
____________. That very same admixture of contempt and confusion,
however, was not unknown in Michelangelos day; only what was considered
blasphemous, art-wise, in the 16th Century, would today be considered
____________.

Blank (i)

Blank (ii)

Blank (iii)

perennial

served their purpose

hackneyed

contemporary

gone too far

reverent

controversial

failed to provoke

tame

Question 51 of 62

Unlike her predecessor, Mayor Williams would not ____________ any

impertinence from her subordinates. Even a ____________ comment she
tended to construe as one full of ____________.

Blank (i)

Blank (ii)

Blank (iii)

discountenance

seemingly innocuous

subterfuge

elicit

clearly tangential

prolixity

brook

somewhat ambivalent

contumely

Question 50 of 62

That we may become flaccid after our rivals have been vanquished, and we
are surrounded by those friendly to our interests, is in no way a(n)
____________ observation. Still, history is rife with examples where a sense
of ____________ pervades once a people have achieved victory. Yet, even
were this insight more ____________, few would take notice, as human
nature is wont to ignore future threats in times of prosperity.

Blank (i)

Blank (ii)

Blank (iii)

pithy

duty

widely circulated

trite

camaraderie

clearly unassailable

astounding

complacency

hastily dismissed

Question 49 of 62

The professors ____________ demeanor not only made others reluctant to

approach her, but also ____________ the intellectual growth that comes
from the ____________ of ideas.

Blank (i)

Blank (ii)

Blank (iii)

cheerful

limited

repudiation

meek

invited

interchange

disdainful

facilitated

repression

Question 48 of 62

The war became a ____________ affair, and the citizenry, once

____________ by grisly news reports, soon became ____________even the
most shocking frontline images.

Blank (i)

Blank (ii)

Blank (iii)

morbid

riled up

dismissive of

humdrum

absorbed

inured to

protracted

shaken

weary of

Question 47 of 62

The Arizona sun is quick to pull the water from plants, leaving a (i)
____________ shell of all but the heartiest of cacti. It is (ii) ____________
to ignore the needs of the human body in this clime as welldehydration can
provoke (iii) ____________, bellicosity, or even shock.

Blank (i)

Blank (ii)

Blank (iii)

hermetic

improvident

flippancy

fecund

delusional

petulance

desiccated

ineluctable

dissonance

Question 46 of 62

The organization, whose mission is to (i) ____________ equal access to

education, (ii) ____________ the government for scaling back spending on
federal college spending initiatives, arguing that race and place will in large
part continue to (iii) ____________ who is and who is not able to attain
higher education.

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Blank (iii)

caution against

sanctioned

desegregate

advocate for

cited

circumscribe

believe in

censured

mediate

Question 45 of 62

James Clerk Maxwell once remarked that the best scientists are, in a sense,
the ____________ ones; not hemmed in by the ____________ of their
respective fields, they are able to approach problems with a(n)
____________ mind, so to speak.

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adaptable

myopia

fertile

revolutionary

preconceptions

rational

ignorant

inertia

empty

Question 44 of 62

Heinrich Feyermahn, in insisting that Galileo did not fully uphold the tenets of
scientific rationalism, does not ____________ the Italian astronomer, but
rather the very edifice of Western thought. For if Galileo is the purported
exemplar of rational thinking, and yet is ____________, then the history of
science cannot be understood as an endless succession of scientists carrying
out their work free of all-too-human biases. Thus, Feyermahn admonishes, in
faithfully chronicling the sweep of science in the last 300 years,
historiographers would be ____________ to not include the human foibles
that were part of even the most ostensibly Apollonian endeavors.

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exclusively implicate

found wanting

prudent

partially repudiate

considered enlightened

remiss

fully espouse

dismissed as
inconsequential

contrarian

Question 43 of 62

The number of speeding tickets one receives is by no means a reliable

measure of ____________. Some ____________ drivers, in fact, prove that
in certain cases the inverse is true. That is those savvy enough to have
availed themselves of the latest cellular phone applications receive up-to-theminute information on the presence of highway patrolmengreater excess
speed, in these instances, simply implies a greater ____________.

Blank (i)

Blank (ii)

Blank (iii)

awareness

affluent

degree of confidence

culpability

intrepid

sense of vulnerability

susceptibility

resourceful

likelihood of
entrapment

Question 42 of 62

For charities operating in the developing world, when noble impulses (i)
______________ into mere (ii) ______________, vapid slogans rear their
heads and we witness a further deterioration in the very situation such highmindedness had initially sought to (iii) ______________.

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Blank (ii)

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devolve

quixotry

limit

morph

fraud

prevent

coalesce

altruism

ameliorate

Question 41 of 62

What tradition has long known, science must labor through its usual rigorous
protocols to arrive at the very same assessment. Concerning learning in
infants, recent findings (i) ______________ this trend: the timeworn yarn
that babies are (ii)______________ and oftentimes disregardingstimuli
from their surroundings has been turned on its head; although (iii)
______________ exhibiting a mastery of their respective worlds, infants are
constantly conducting experimentsvery much like scientists themselves
testing their limits vis-a-vis an environment at once enchanting and
frustrating.

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Blank (ii)

Blank (iii)

buck

passively receiving

far from

uphold

subtly parsing

known for

underscore

actively misinterpreting

potentially

Countless generations have been divided on Mendelssohns ____________

should he inhabit the same pantheon as Bach and Haydn, or be
____________ to the ranks of could-have-beens? After all, it can be argued
that his ____________ came at the age of 14 with his Octet in E-flat, a work,
many believe, the composer never eclipsed in his remaining twenty-six years.

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technique

relegated

apogee

posterity

elevated

precocity

legacy

sublimated

nadir

Carefully couching his words in the most diplomatic language possible, so

even those (i) ______________ to his cause could hardly construe his words
as a (ii) ______________ , the city councilman offered an ultimatum to the
(iii) ______________ group of protesters camped outside the City Hall.

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indisposed to

panegyric

defeated

sympathetic

broadside

querulous

impartial to

prognostication

dishonest

Question 38 of 62

Recent meteorological conditions in areas of the northeastern part of the

country have been so ____________as to leave scientists ____________.
Even those models scientists developed to ____________ these extreme
outliers have been found wanting.

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Blank (ii)

Blank (iii)

predictable

indifferent

accommodate

aberrant

dumbfounded

circumscribe

taxing

crestfallen

discount

Question 36 of 62

Not surprisingly, the (i) ____________ of the printing press (ii)

____________ mass literacy, as books were no longer (iii) ____________
exclusive to the clergy and aristocracy.

Back to Results

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Blank (ii)

Blank (iii)

prospect

subsidized

tokens

advent

engendered

windfalls

triumph

ameliorated

assets

Question 1 of 62
Previous

Difficulty
Very Hard

Next

Dickenss Uriah Heep, literatures exemplar of (i) ____________, is

doubtlessly not a unique figure either in fiction or in life. Who in real life has
not seen (ii) ____________, cringing, sycophantic headwaiters, public
servants, and car salespeople? Surely, Dickens was our premiere caricaturist,
able to capture specific and recognizable human (iii) ____________ with
broad strokes of his pen.

Back to Results

Blank (i)

Blank (ii)

Blank (iii)

civility

fawning

errors

subterfuge

supportive

foibles

obsequiousness

independent

tendencies

Question 2 of 62
Previous

Difficulty
Very Hard

Next

For some English speakers in the United States, the word yam is (i)
____________ sweet potato, despite several differences between them. The
yam is a starchy, white-fleshed tuber very low in beta carotene,
characteristics not shared by its sweeter, more nutritious (ii) ____________.
One can trace the yam, the (iii)____________ version of the word nyami,
back to West African origins, whereas sweet potatoes were first grown in
Tropical America.

Back to Results

Blank (i)

Blank (ii)

Blank (iii)

analogous to

correlates

codified

commensurate with

simulacrum

anglicized

tantamount to

ersatz

integrated

Question 3 of 62
Previous

Difficulty
Very Hard

Next

To assert that the writing of a historical text draws on the same (i)
____________ of techniques as the writing of a work of fiction may (ii)
____________ those authors who feel that the two disciplines
(iii)____________ very little.

Back to Results

Blank (i)

Blank (ii)

Blank (iii)

rubric

hinder

overlap

repertoire

abjure

cooperate

ratio

perturb

interfere

Question 4 of 62
Previous

Difficulty
Hard

Next

My mother would brook no argument about the use of vulgar (i)

____________. As a result, I refined and sharpened my vocabulary until it
became too (ii) ____________ for my peers to (iii)____________.

Back to Results

Blank (i)

Blank (ii)

Blank (iii)

vernacular

insolvent

goad

persuasion

abstruse

allocate

enticement

evanescent

penetrate

Question 62 of 62

Difficulty
Hard

Bradypus variegatus, also known as the brown-throated three-toed sloth, is

(i) ____________ to humid, wooded-evergreen areas of Honduras to
northern Argentina. Almost exclusively a/n (ii) ____________ creature, the
sloth is experiencing habitat destruction as many of Brazils forests undergo
the (iii)____________ process of clear-cutting.

Back to Results

Blank (i)

Blank (ii)

Blank (iii)

endemic

nocturnal

unsustainable

inherent

arboreal

regenerative

pandemic

anti-social

silvicultural

Question 61 of 62
Previous

Difficulty
Hard

Next

Very few veteran critics tend to be ____________ the recent decade in

cinema. Nonetheless, based on movie reviews many could easily come to the
conclusion that the last ten years were indeed banner ones. Once the
province of lettered intellectuals, a few even household names (Pauline Kael
comes to mind), the role of the movie critic has been ____________ by
those lacking any notable credentials. With this flood of veritable tyros
opining from the rafters, a movies overall ratingas compiled and tabulated
by popular Internet sitesoften times confers a(n) ____________ on a film,
an assessment that posterity will most likely deem specious.

Blank (i)

Blank (ii)

Blank (iii)

enamored of

duly appropriated

aura of nostalgia

condemnatory to

amply filled

mantle of inviolability

unsympathetic

irredeemably disgraced

patina of respectability

Back to Results

Title

Question 60 of 62

Your Result

Difficulty
Very Hard

Previous

Your Pace

Next

Others' Pace

Perhaps there is nothing more to the album than its case that
experimentalism into uncharted sonic landscapes did not ____________ with
Stockhauen. Or perhaps its forays--many of which could rightly be dubbed
sophomoric--into the avant-garde, also lead to the ____________: that to
create an unprecedented sound one has to ____________ a discernible
melody.

Blank (i)

Blank (ii)

Blank (iii)

come full circle

unsettling conclusion

choose to create

culminate

unwarranted
hypothesis

forgo producing

die

subtly embed
uncharacteristic
rebuttal

Back to Results

Question 58 of 62
Previous

Difficulty
Very Hard

Next

Monarchial reigns ____________ tended to be more ____________,

dynastically speaking, than those royal courts in which palace machinations
had not become a quotidian affair. In the latter, a pall of complacency would
fall over the kingdom so that if suddenly there were an earl with an axe to
grind, so to speak, his path to usurpation would be ____________.

Blank (i)

Blank (ii)

Blank (iii)

marked by intrigue

imperiled

largely unobstructed

characterized by hubris

volatile

a treacherous one

robust

hardly assured

weakened by attrition

Back to Results

Question 57 of 62
Previous

Difficulty
Very Hard

Next

The subjectivity inherent in travel is aptly captured in the range of styles used
by different writers. For Hemingway, writing eighty years ago, the experience
of travelregardless of how momentouswas rendered in ____________
epiphanies, a style many of todays writers assiduously ____________. Then
there is travel writer Pico Iyer, for whom a simple stroll through an airport
can engender sentences bursting forth with as many semicolons as
revelations. Who thought the terminal could be so ____________? Surely not
Hemingway.

Back to Results

Blank (i)

Blank (ii)

Blank (iii)

prosaic

avoid

irrevocably wrenching

aphoristic

covet

wildly unpredictable

sardonic

mimic

endlessly fascinating

Question 56 of 62
Previous

Difficulty
Very Hard

Next

Perkins wit, surprisingly ____________ by the prudishness of his time, may

not have been nearly as ____________ had he lived in an era not so prone
to ____________.

Back to Results

Blank (i)

Blank (ii)

Blank (iii)

tempered

comical

blushing

overwhelmed

restrained

vacillation

untrammeled

racy

expression

Question 55 of 62
Previous

Difficulty
Very Hard

Next

Some note that the increase in the Native American powwow--an intertribal
affair of song, dance, and storytelling, all intrinsic aspects of Native American
culture--serves to (i) ______________ the very culture it presumably aims
to (ii) ______________. They argue an overarching cultural narrative
emerges, one that (iii)______________ the narrative of any one tribe.

Back to Results

Blank (i)

Blank (ii)

Blank (iii)

erode

foster

subsumes

distill

undermine

elaborates upon

empower

question

overcomes

Question 54 of 62
Previous

Difficulty
Hard

Next

Edgar Allen Poe biographers tend to fall into two camps: those who try to
rescue the man himself from a macabre world in which fate had decreed
nothing less than a(n) (i) ______________ outcome, and those who (ii)
______________ that very myth, treating the subject as one for whom a life
of tragedy was (iii) ______________ .

Back to Results

Blank (i)

Blank (ii)

Blank (iii)

dire

dispute

all but inevitable

unforeseen

hold fast to

clearly unexpected

auspicious

squelch

hardly justified

Question 53 of 62
Previous

Difficulty
Very Hard

Next

The Hellenistic and Judaic philosophy of the early centuries did not so much
____________ ancient Greek philosophy as it did ____________ the Platonic
concepts of this time with its understanding of the way in which an ideal
world, or one of perfect forms, ____________ the existence of a perfect
being. Even the philosophy of the Middle Ages was so inextricably bound with
the ideas of ancient Greece that many philosophers could hardly imagine
discussing the existence of a perfect being without invoking the conceptual
framework laid down by Plato more than a thousand years earlier.

Back to Results

Blank (i)

Blank (ii)

Blank (iii)

adapt

supplant

allowed for

displace

reconcile

circumvented

foreshadow

corrupt

called into question

Question 52 of 62
Previous

Difficulty
Very Hard

Next

The question as to what constitutes art is hardly a ____________ one.

Today, artists exist whose main goal seems only to subvert work that no
longer warrants the trite tag, cutting-edge. Once the proverbial envelope is
pushed even further, the public inevitably scratches its collective head or
furrows the collective brow thinking that this time the artists have
____________. That very same admixture of contempt and confusion,
however, was not unknown in Michelangelos day; only what was considered
blasphemous, art-wise, in the 16th Century, would today be considered
____________.

Back to Results

Blank (i)

Blank (ii)

Blank (iii)

perennial

served their purpose

hackneyed

contemporary

gone too far

reverent

controversial

failed to provoke

tame

Question 51 of 62
Previous

Difficulty
Very Hard

Next

Unlike her predecessor, Mayor Williams would not ____________ any

impertinence from her subordinates. Even a ____________ comment she
tended to construe as one full of ____________.

Back to Results

Blank (i)

Blank (ii)

Blank (iii)

discountenance

seemingly innocuous

subterfuge

elicit

clearly tangential

prolixity

brook

somewhat ambivalent

contumely

Question 50 of 62
Previous

Difficulty
Very Hard

Next

That we may become flaccid after our rivals have been vanquished, and we
are surrounded by those friendly to our interests, is in no way a(n)
____________ observation. Still, history is rife with examples where a sense
of ____________ pervades once a people have achieved victory. Yet, even
were this insight more ____________, few would take notice, as human
nature is wont to ignore future threats in times of prosperity.

Back to Results

Blank (i)

Blank (ii)

Blank (iii)

pithy

duty

widely circulated

trite

camaraderie

clearly unassailable

astounding

complacency

hastily dismissed

Question 49 of 62
Previous

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Very Hard

Next

The professors ____________ demeanor not only made others reluctant to

approach her, but also ____________ the intellectual growth that comes
from the ____________ of ideas.

Back to Results

Blank (i)

Blank (ii)

Blank (iii)

cheerful

limited

repudiation

meek

invited

interchange

disdainful

facilitated

repression

Question 48 of 62
Previous

Difficulty
Easy

Next

The war became a ____________ affair, and the citizenry, once

____________ by grisly news reports, soon became ____________even the
most shocking frontline images.

Back to Results

Blank (i)

Blank (ii)

Blank (iii)

morbid

riled up

dismissive of

humdrum

absorbed

inured to

protracted

shaken

weary of

Question 47 of 62
Previous

Difficulty
Very Hard

Next

The Arizona sun is quick to pull the water from plants, leaving a (i)
____________ shell of all but the heartiest of cacti. It is (ii) ____________
to ignore the needs of the human body in this clime as welldehydration can
provoke (iii) ____________, bellicosity, or even shock.

Back to Results

Blank (i)

Blank (ii)

Blank (iii)

hermetic

improvident

flippancy

fecund

delusional

petulance

desiccated

ineluctable

dissonance

Question 46 of 62
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The organization, whose mission is to (i) ____________ equal access to

education, (ii) ____________ the government for scaling back spending on
federal college spending initiatives, arguing that race and place will in large
part continue to (iii) ____________ who is and who is not able to attain
higher education.

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caution against

sanctioned

desegregate

advocate for

cited

circumscribe

believe in

censured

mediate

Question 45 of 62
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James Clerk Maxwell once remarked that the best scientists are, in a sense,
the ____________ ones; not hemmed in by the ____________ of their
respective fields, they are able to approach problems with a(n)
____________ mind, so to speak.

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adaptable

myopia

fertile

revolutionary

preconceptions

rational

ignorant

inertia

empty

Question 44 of 62
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Heinrich Feyermahn, in insisting that Galileo did not fully uphold the tenets of
scientific rationalism, does not ____________ the Italian astronomer, but
rather the very edifice of Western thought. For if Galileo is the purported
exemplar of rational thinking, and yet is ____________, then the history of
science cannot be understood as an endless succession of scientists carrying
out their work free of all-too-human biases. Thus, Feyermahn admonishes, in
faithfully chronicling the sweep of science in the last 300 years,
historiographers would be ____________ to not include the human foibles
that were part of even the most ostensibly Apollonian endeavors.

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exclusively implicate

found wanting

prudent

partially repudiate

considered enlightened

remiss

fully espouse

dismissed as
inconsequential

contrarian

Question 43 of 62

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The number of speeding tickets one receives is by no means a reliable

measure of ____________. Some ____________ drivers, in fact, prove that
in certain cases the inverse is true. That is those savvy enough to have
availed themselves of the latest cellular phone applications receive up-to-theminute information on the presence of highway patrolmengreater excess
speed, in these instances, simply implies a greater ____________.

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awareness

affluent

degree of confidence

culpability

intrepid

sense of vulnerability

susceptibility

resourceful

likelihood of
entrapment

Question 42 of 62
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For charities operating in the developing world, when noble impulses (i)
______________ into mere (ii) ______________, vapid slogans rear their
heads and we witness a further deterioration in the very situation such highmindedness had initially sought to (iii) ______________.

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devolve

quixotry

limit

morph

fraud

prevent

coalesce

altruism

ameliorate

Question 41 of 62
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What tradition has long known, science must labor through its usual rigorous
protocols to arrive at the very same assessment. Concerning learning in
infants, recent findings (i) ______________ this trend: the timeworn yarn
that babies are (ii)______________ and oftentimes disregardingstimuli
from their surroundings has been turned on its head; although (iii)
______________ exhibiting a mastery of their respective worlds, infants are
constantly conducting experimentsvery much like scientists themselves
testing their limits vis-a-vis an environment at once enchanting and
frustrating.

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buck

passively receiving

far from

uphold

subtly parsing

known for

underscore

actively misinterpreting

potentially

Question 40 of 62
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Countless generations have been divided on Mendelssohns ____________

should he inhabit the same pantheon as Bach and Haydn, or be
____________ to the ranks of could-have-beens? After all, it can be argued
that his ____________ came at the age of 14 with his Octet in E-flat, a work,
many believe, the composer never eclipsed in his remaining twenty-six years.

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technique

relegated

apogee

posterity

elevated

precocity

legacy

sublimated

nadir

Question 39 of 62
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Carefully couching his words in the most diplomatic language possible, so

even those (i) ______________ to his cause could hardly construe his words
as a (ii) ______________ , the city councilman offered an ultimatum to the
(iii) ______________ group of protesters camped outside the City Hall.

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indisposed to

panegyric

defeated

sympathetic

broadside

querulous

impartial to

prognostication

dishonest

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Recent meteorological conditions in areas of the northeastern part of the

country have been so ____________as to leave scientists ____________.
Even those models scientists developed to ____________ these extreme
outliers have been found wanting.

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predictable

indifferent

accommodate

aberrant

dumbfounded

circumscribe

taxing

crestfallen

discount

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