A salvo b encore c barrage d concession e demurral f

A. salvo
B. encore
C. barrage
D. concession
E. demurral
F. palliative
1-20 Although visitors initially may find touring the city by subway to be _____,
they are pleased to discover that subways are an inexpensive and _____ way to
get around.
Blank (i) Blank (ii)
A. convenient D. generous
B. daunting E. efficient
C. extravagant F. prohibitive
1-21 One critic asserts that modern urban architecture causes sensory
deprivation because it fails to provide visual and tactile _____.
A. spur
B. stimulation
C. complacence
D. confusion
E. bewilderment
F. latency
1-22 Because little rain falls in the district during summer, municipalities are
necessarily _____ to _____ water from winter storms.
Blank (i) Blank (ii)
A. reluctant D. avoid
B. careful E. squander
C. free F. store
1-23 Toni Cade Bambara`s novels are engrossing because the protagonists, in
striving to achieve goals, are not simply _____ characters.
A. passive
B. independent
C. abandoned
D. resigned
E. redundant
F. autonomous

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1-24 Once his integrity had been _____, the mayoral candidate was quick both
to _____ these attacks and to issue counterattacks.
Blank (i) Blank (ii)
A. impugned D. buttress
B. restored E. recommence
C. enhanced F. repudiate
1-25 New data measuring the _____ of land beneath the oceans permit
accurate generalizations about the topography of the seafloor.
A. models
B. contours
C. remnants
D. outlines
E. pigments
F. vestige
1-26 Excessive secrecy tends to _____ excessive curiosity and thus serves to
_____ the very impulses against which it guards.
Blank (i) Blank (ii)
A. inhibit D. deride
B. satisfy E. provoke
C. invite F. limit
1-27 In frigid regions a layer of permafrost under the soil surface prevents
water from sinking deep into the soil, and so the water _____ the land, helping
to create bog and _____ conditions.
Blank (i) Blank (ii)
A. freezes D. tropical
B. parches E. swamp
C. inundates F. desert
1-28 Although the bystander`s account of the car accident at first seemed
_____, the police officer was surprised, on further investigation, to find that it
was _____, defended by the alibi of an important witness.
Blank (i) Blank (ii)
A. probable D. inconsistent
B. implausible E. correct
C. logical F. erroneous

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1-29 The legislation facing Congress was so _____ that it threatened to shatter
the governing body`s fragile bipartisanship.
A. rhetorical
B. transparent
C. translucent
D. repetitive
E. disruptive
F. divisive
1-30 In All God`s Children Need Traveling Shoes, author Maya Angelou uses
_____, brief descriptive sketches, to provide _____ view of Ghana that clearly
details the land and its people.
Blank (i) Blank (ii)
A. vignettes D. a vivid
B. treatises E. an illusory
C. missives F. an ambiguous
1-31 Because an older horse is more _____ than a younger one, it is safer for a
novice rider.
A. docile
B. cantankerous
C. gargantuan
D. tractable
E. grouchy
F. frolicsome
1-32 The library`s collection is a _____ of Asian American historical documents,
including rare materials about race relations.