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1. The depiction of the ------- wolf is largely a misconception; wolves are ------- creatures that prefer to run in packs.

A. Howling…noisy

B. Maternal… shy

C. Lone… social

D. Vicious… dangerous

E. Hungry… famished

2. Jazz pioneer Louis Armstrong is renowned for his improvisations on the trumpet; his innovations as a vocalist are equally ------- .

A. obscure

B. severe

C. conventional

D. erroneous

E. noteworthy

3. Andrew's hunch that Ms. Smith would lose the election was ------- when her opponent won in a landslide, proving Andrew's -------- to be correct.

A. Compromised… prediction

B. Rejected… insolence

C. Substantiated… endorsement

D. Confirmed… intuition

E. Belied…. Retraction

4. The medicine does not have a salutary effect by ------- pain, even if recent studies prove that it cannot eliminate such discomfort entirely.

A. alleviating

B. distracting

C. revitalizing

D. eradicating

E. augmenting

5. The intern was almost too ------; he felt the suffering of his patients as if it were his own.

A. candid

B. disarming

C. empathetic

D. insightful

E. hysterical

6. As the charismatic speaker left the podium, she was surrounded by ------- of zealous supporters who -------- our attempts to approach her.

A. An entourage… interfered with

B. A debacle… concurred with

C. A faction… pertained to

D. A dearth… intercepted

E. A coalition… encompassed

7. Sally was a lighthearted and even-tempered woman; she had none of her sister's -------.

A. affluence

B. affability

C. equanimity

D. resilience

E. truculence

8. Because postmodernist critics often rely on ------ language, their prose seems -------- to nonspecialists who fail to comprehend its meaning.

A. accessible… abstruse

B. arcane… unequivocal

C. esoteric… impenetrable

D. (D)hackneyed… exotic

E. (E)lucid… grating

9. Eduardo was ------- to find the editorial he has written was ------ by several typographical errors.

A. Dismayed… authenticated

B. Overjoyed… exacerbated

C. Intrigued… enveloped

D. Prepared… enhanced

E. Embarrassed… marred 

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