1: one's attendants or associates
2: SURROUNDINGS
instrumental
1: a: serving as a crucial means, agent, or tool
*was
instrumental in organizing the strike*
b: of, relating to, or done with an instrument or tool
2: relating to, composed for, or performed on a musical
instrument
3: of, relating to, or being a grammatical case or form
expressing means or agency
4: of or relating to instrumentalism
5: OPERANT 3
*instrumental learning*
*instrumental
conditioning*
lobby
1: to promote (as a project) or secure the passage of (as
legislation) by influencing public officials
2: to attempt to influence or sway (as a public official) toward
a desired action
self-serving
serving one's own interests often in disregard of the truth or
the interests of others
EXERCISE
6-1 Like many other groups of people in the United States who have needed
laws to _____ equal rights, Americans with disabilities have had to _____
legislation addressing their concerns.
Blank (i)
Blank (ii)
A.
guarantee
D. contend with
B.
preclude
E. lobby for
C.
compound
F. enact
6-2 The café attracts a _____ clientele: a startlingly heterogeneous group of
people collects there.
A. miscellaneous
B. callous
C. languid
D. motley
E. mysterious
F. arcane
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6-3 The second edition of the textbook provides _____ footnotes; since the first
edition, the editors have apparently _____ a great deal of background data.
Blank (i)
Blank (ii)
A.
illegible
D.
amassed
B.
monotonous
E.
embellished
C.
copious
F.
clarified
6-4 Professor Fernandez has been _____ about most of the purportedly
humanitarian aspects of the colonial government and has insisted that its
actions were, on the contrary, _____.
Blank (i)
Blank (ii)
A.
disillusioned
D.
self-serving
B.
dubious
E.
benevolent
C.
enthusiastic
F.
sporadic
6-5 Concrete is _____ of many materials, a composite of rocks, pebbles, sand,
and cement.
A. conflation
B. a distillation
C. a concordance
D. an aberration
E. an amalgamation
F. an agreement
6-6 The depiction of the _____ wolf is largely a misconception; wolves are
_____ creatures that prefer to run in packs.
Blank (i)
Blank (ii)
A.
lone
D.
dangerous
B.
vicious
E.
social
C.
hungry
F.
famished
6-7 Jazz pioneer Louis Armstrong is renowned for his improvisations on the
trumpet; his innovations as a vocalist are equally ______.
A. obscure
B. remarkable
C. conventional
D. erroneous
E. noteworthy
F. inexact
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6-8
Andrew’s hunch that Ms. Smith would lose the election was _____ when
her opponent won in a landslide, proving Andrew’s _____ to be correct.
Blank (i)
Blank (ii)
A.
compromised
D.
prediction
B.
confirmed
E.
intuition
C.
belied
F.
endorsement
6-9 The medicine does have a salutary effect by _____ pain, even if recent
studies prove that it cannot eliminate such discomfort entirely.
A. alleviating
B. annihilating
C. revitalizing
D. eradicating
E. augmenting
F. palliating
6-10 The intern was almost too _____; he felt the suffering of his patients as
if it were his own.
