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101. Biographer Janet Malcolm maintains that biography is a spurious art, for the

orderly narrative it creates is ________ ; the “facts”aren’t facts at all, but literary ________ .

(A) illusory...inventions (B) genuine...commonplaces (C) informative...allusions (D) brilliant...triumphs (E) sincere...criticisms

102. Biography is a literary genre whose primary ________ is an ability to

________imaginatively the inner life of a subject on the basis of all the knowable external evidence.

(A) requisite...reconstruct (B) consequence...disregard (C) peculiarity...envision (D) weapon...undermine (E) claim...counteract

103. Biologists categorize many of the world’s environments as deserts: regions

where the ________ availability of some key factor, such as water, sunlight, or an essential nutrient, places sharp constraints on the existence of living things. (A) ready (B) gradual (C) limited (D) nearby

(E) unprecedented

104. Black religion was in part a protest movement—a protest against a system and a

society that was ________ designed to ________the dignity of a segment of God’s creation.

(A) unintentionally...reflect (B) explicitly...foster (C) inevitably...assess (D) deliberately...demean (E) provocatively...enhance

105. Boccherini was a good and interesting composer whose reputation has no

sufficiently ________ the decline into which it fell after his death. (A) contributed to (B) benefited from (C) recovered from (D) conflicted with (E) derived from

106. Breaking with established musical conventions, Stravinsky was ________

composer whose heterodox works infuriated the traditionalists of his day. (A) a derivative (B) an iconoclastic (C) an uncontroversial (D) a venerated (E) a trite

107. British ________ contemporary art has been an obstacle even for modem artists

now revered as great, such as Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud, who were ________ for years before winning acceptance. (A) veneration of...eulogized (B) indifference to...dismissed (C) disdain for...lauded (D) ignorance of...studied (E) intolerance of...vindicated

108. British collectors are notorious for their ________ of interest in ________ art,

much preferring to collect antiques and “important”pictures by long-dead artists. (A) wealth...modem (B) growth...abstract (C) lack...posthumous

(D) resurgence...innovative (E) dearth...contemporary

109. Burdened by debt, Lydgate abandons his dreams of reforming medicine to take a

conventional but ________ practice in London. (A) lucrative (B) ordinary (C) innovative (D) intangible (E) exotic

110. By communicating through pointing and making gestures, Charles was able to

overcome any ________ difficulties that arose during his recent trip to Japan. (A) peripatetic (B) linguistic (C) plausible (D) monetary (E) territorial

111. By dint of much practice in the laboratory, the anatomy student became

________ and was able to manipulate her dissecting tools with either hand. (A) practical (B) tricky

(C) ambiguous (D) ambidextrous (E) ambivalent

112. By nature Toshiro was ________ , given to striking up casual conversations with

strangers he encountered at bus stops or check-out stands. (A) diffident (B) observant (C) reticent (D) gregarious (E) laconic

113. By putting the entire Woolf archive on microfilm, the project directors hope to

make the contents of the manuscripts more ________ to scholars. (A) accessible (B) objective (C) appealing (D) implicit (E) relevant

114. Cancer cells are normal cells run riot, growing and multiplying out of ________ .

(A) spite (B) danger (C) control (D) apathy (E) range

115. China’s economic growth curve after reform resembles an airplane taking off,

whereas the former Soviet Union??s resembles a submarine ________ . (A) floating (B) soaring

(C) maneuvering (D) descending (E) veering

116. Compared with the ostentatious glamour of opera, classical song (increasingly

called lieder everywhere) is a more ________ tradition. (A) articulate

(B) unrepresentative (C) subdued

(D) broad-minded (E) worldly

117. Complaints about the inanity of popular leisure activities, long a staple of

American intellectual life, are routinely ________ these days as nostalgic elitism. (A) lauded (B) reinforced (C) celebrated (D) offered (E) dismissed

118. Contemporary critics often ________ the poet Longfellow as a simple

sentimentalist who relied too much on poetic meters only suitable for light verse. (A) heed (B) endorse (C) dismiss (D) embellish (E) acclaim

119. Contrary to her customary ________ behavior, Susan began leaving parties early

to seek the solitude of her room. (A) reclusive (B) circumspect (C) decorous (D) gregarious (E) altruistic

120. Courteously and ________ , but persistently, the members of the special

investigatory commission asked question after question of all the President’s aides.

(A) intrusively (B) belligerently (C) urbanely

(D) remorselessly (E) intermittently

121. Critics ________ the ________ in developing the new weather satellite to

unexpected problems in manufacturing and testing its components. (A) credit...timeliness (B) impute...success (C) attribute...delay (D) assign...importance (E) deny...threat

122. Critics of the welfare system argue that, rather than aiding people’s efforts to

govern their own lives, it ________ their independence. (A) supports

(B) saps (C) hastens (D) renews (E) abets

123. Crowther maintained that the current revival was the most fatuous and ________

production of the entire theatrical season. (A) gripping (B) inane (C) prophetic (D) memorable (E) salubrious

124. Curious____ of Florence’s history is that this great center of Italian ________

should time and again have been home to acts of appalling savagery and inhumanity.

(A) example...conflict (B) paradox...civilization (C) result...brutality

(D) convention...cultures (E) distinction...quality

125. Deeply ________ by the insult to his dignity, he maintained that no true

gentleman would accept such an calmly. (A) mortified...opportunity (B) incensed...affront (C) puzzled...honor

(D) shamed...iconoclasm (E) gratified...admonition

126. Deloria has his detractors, but his critics have had amazingly ________ success

at shaking his self-confidence or ________ his reputation. (A) great...repairing

(B) widespread...bolstering (C) little...denting (D) small...enhancing (E) poor...restoring

127. Despite all its ________ , a term of enlistment in the Peace Corps can be both

stirring and satisfying to a college graduate still undecided on a career. (A) rewards (B) renown (C) adventures (D) romance

(E) frustrations

128. Despite an affected ________ which convinced casual observers that he was

indifferent about his painting and enjoyed only frivolity, Warhol cared deeply about his art and labored at it ________ . (A) nonchalance...diligently (B) empathy...methodically (C) fervor...secretly

(D) gloom...intermittently (E) hysteria...sporadically

129. Despite careful restoration and cleaning of the murals in the 1960s, the colors

slowly but steadily ________ . (A) persisted (B) embellished (C) saturated (D) deteriorated (E) stabilized

130. Despite her compassionate nature, the new nominee to the Supreme Court was

singleminded and ________ in her strict ________ the letter of the law. (A) merciful...interpretation of (B) uncompromising...adherence to (C) dilatory...affirmation of (D) vindictive...deviation from (E) lenient...dismissal of

131. Despite her father’s ________ that “a woman??s place is in the home” and a

________ reception from her professors and fellow graduate students, Marian Cleeves went on to become the first woman to receive a doctorate in anatomy from the University of California at Berkeley. (A) warning...gratifying (B) reprimand...lavish

(C) encouragement...respectful (D) admonition...cool (E) maxim...hospitable

132. Despite some personal habits that most people would find repulsive, naked mole

rats are ________ housekeepers. (A) slovenly (B) indifferent (C) meticulous (D) perfunctory (E) repugnant

133. Despite the ________ discussions of recent months, observers say that the

administration and the developer have made progress in their negotiations and are close to ________ on a purchase price. (A) amicable...haggling (B) acrimonious...defaulting (C) heated...agreeing (D) fruitful...settling

(E) constructive...compromising

134. Despite the ________ of the materials with which he worked, many of Tiffany’s

glass masterpieces have survived for more than seventy years. (A) beauty

(B) translucence (C) abundance (D) majesty (E) fragility

135. Despite the___ size of her undergraduate class, the professor made a point of

gettingto know as many as possible of the more than 700 students personally. (A) negligible (B) modest

(C) infinitesimal (D) daunting (E) moderate

136. Despite the current expansion of membership in America, the governing body of

world fencing fears that fencing could be in danger of if it does not become more ________ to spectators. (A) monotony...intelligible (B) overcrowding...resistant (C) extinction...accessible (D) corruption...cordial (E) remoteness...handy

137. Despite the growing ________ of Hispanic actors in the American theater, many

Hispanic experts feel that the Spanishspeaking population is ________ on the stage.

(A) decrease...inappropriate (B) emergence...visible

(C) prominence...underrepresented (D) skill...alienated

(E) number...misdirected

138. Despite the mixture’s ________ nature, we found that by lowering its

temperature in the laboratory we could dramatically reduce its tendency to vaporize. (A) resilient (B) volatile

(C) homogeneous (D) insipid (E) acerbic

139. Despite the team members’ resentment of the new coach’s training rules, they

________ them as long as he did not ________ them too strictly. (A) embraced...follow (B) condemned...formulate (C) questioned...interpret (D) challenged...implement (E) tolerated...apply

140. Despite their reputations as soothing love songs sung by mothers to lull fretful

infants to sleep, many lullabies are of a dark, even ________ nature. (A) soporific (B) manipulative (C) threatening (D) auspicious (E) innocuous

141. Determined to hire employees on the basis of their merits rather than on the basis

of their family connections, Johnson refused to ________ nepotism and other forms of favoritism in the engagement of new workers. (A) obscure (B) proscribe (C) countenance (D) misrepresent (E) discern

142. Donald Trump’s latest casino in Atlantic City is the most ________ gambling

palace in the East, easily outglittering its competitors. (A) professional (B) speculative (C) ostentatious (D) lucrative (E) restrained

143. Dr. Charles Drew’s technique for preserving and storing blood plasma for

emergency use proved so ________ that it became the ________ for the present

blood bank system used by the American Red Cross. (A) irrelevant...inspiration (B) urgent...pattern (C) effective...model (D) innocuous...excuse (E) complex...blueprint

144. Dr. Smith cautioned that the data so far are not sufficiently ________ to warrant

dogmatic assertions by either side in the debate. (A) hypothetical (B) tentative (C) controversial (D) unequivocal (E) imponderable

145. Duke Ellington’s jazz symphonies were attacked by classical critics who felt that

the entire attempt to fuse jazz as a form with classical music should be ________ . (A) promoted (B) documented (C) discouraged (D) acclaimed (E) repeated

146. During the Battle of Trafalgar, Admiral Nelson remained ________ and in full

command of the situation in spite of the hysteria and panic all around him. (A) impassable (B) imperturbable (C) overbearing (D) frenetic (E) lackadaisical

147. During the Dark Ages, hermits and other religious ________ fled the world to

devote themselves to silent contemplation. (A) renegades (B) skeptics (C) altruists (D) recluses (E) convictions

148. During the Ice Ages, muskoxen ranged as far south as Iowa, in North America,

and Spain, in Europe, but in recent centuries the species has been ________ arctic tundra habitats, such as Greenland and the arctic islands of Canada. (A) barred from (B) confined to

(C) dissatisfied with (D) enervated by (E) unknown in

149. During the last four decades of Tennyson’s long life, his creative powers never

________ , some of his most remarkable work coming after the age of 70. (A) recovered (B) manifested (C) flagged (D) blossomed (E) broadened

150. During the troubles of 1750, the ________ of Scotland was terrible; many Scots

could afford nothing to eat but oatmeal porridge. (A) anarchy (B) reputation (C) punishment (D) apathy (E) poverty

151. Egocentric, at times vindictive when he believed his authority was being

questioned, White could also be kind, gracious, and even ________ when the circumstances seemed to require it. (A) self-deprecating (B) authoritarian (C) provocative (D) taciturn (E) disdainful

152. Einstein’s humility was so___ that it might have seemed a pose affected by a

great man had it not been so obviously ________ . (A) spurious...genuine (B) convincing...assumed (C) profound...sincere (D) heartfelt...hypocritical (E) modest...contrived

153. Either the Polynesian banquets at Waikiki are____ , or the one I visited was a

poor example. (A) delicious (B) impeccable (C) overrated (D) untasted (E) unpopular

154. Either the surfing at Maui is ________ , or I went there on an off day.

(A) consistent (B) thrilling (C) invigorating (D) overrated (E) scenic

155. Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories is a considerable ________ , superseding

Winifred Gerin’s learned biography of the English novelist. (A) failure

(B) rationalization (C) accomplishment (D) recollection (E) muddle

156. Even Cormac McCarthy, Don DeLillo, and William Gaddis —eminent novelists

who are notoriously ________ when it comes to ________ have surrendered to the exigencies of modern publishing and agreed to be the subjects of magazine articles.

(A) prolific...writing (B) egotistical...fame (C) overrated...style (D) irate...delays (E) shy...publicity

157. Even as the local climate changed from humid to arid and back —a change that

caused other animals to become extinct-our almost —human ancestors ________ by learning how to use the new flora. (A) anticipated (B) survived (C) diverged (D) deteriorated (E) migrated

158. Even critics who do not ________ Robin Williams’ interpretation of the part

________ him as an inventive comic actor who has made a serious attempt to come to terms with one of the most challenging roles of our time. (A) dissent from...dismiss (B) cavil at...welcome (C) agree with...denounce (D) recoil from...deride

(E) concur with...acknowledge

159. Even if you do not ________ what 1 have to say, I would appreciate your

listening tome with an open mind. (A) concur with (B) reject (C) clarify

(D) deviate from (E) atticipate

160. Even though nonbreeding female mole rats are ________ , when the queen mole

rat dies, several females suddenly ________ their sexual and reproductive powers and battle one another to replace her. (A) prolific...accept (B) sterile...regain (C) barren...relinquish (D) fecund...recover (E) fragile...lose

161. Even though the basic organization of the brain does not change after birth,

details of its structure and function remain ________ for some time, particularly in the cerebral cortex. (A) plastic (B) immutable (C) essential (D) unavoidable (E) static

162. Even when being ________ in method, people can come up with incorrect

answers by basing their arguments on false premises. (A) original (B) logical (C) slipshod (D) realistic (E) careless

163. Even while enraptured by the glorious sound produced by Miss Norman, critics

________ a certain absurdity in setting an ________ recital in the cavernous Royal Festival Hall. (A) decried...unmelodious (B) implied...impractical (C) overlooked...explicit (D) acknowledged...intimate (E) fostered...oppressive

164. Excited and unafraid, the ________ child examined the stranger with bright-eyed

curiosity.

(A) apathetic (B) drowsy (C) timorous (D) inquisitive (E) hesitant

165. Factory trawlers, large fishing vessels that drag heavy nets over the seafloor,

“vacuum” the North Pacific seas, trapping fish ________ . (A) unintentionally (B) indiscriminately (C) paradoxically (D) collaboratively (E) temporarily

166. Famed athlete Bobby Orr was given his first pair of skates by a ________

Canadian woman who somehow “knew” he would use them to attain sporting greatness. (A) prosperous (B) prescient (C) notorious (D) skeptical (E) fallible

167. Famous in her time and then forgotten, the 17thcentury Dutch painter Judith

Leyster was ________ obscurity when, in 1993, the Worcester Art Museum organized the first retrospective exhibition of her work. (A) resigned to (B) rewarded with (C) rescued from (D) indifferent to (E) worthy of

168. Far from being distracted or immobilized by his inner conflicts, Keynes was

________ by them into becoming one of the most productive, effective and buoyant personalities of the twentieth century. (A) neutralized (B) energized (C) incapacitated (D) enervated (E) inhibited

169. Fitness experts claim that jogging is ________ ; once you begin to jog regularly,

you may be unable to stop, because you are sure to love it more and more all the time.

(A) exhausting (B) illusive (C) addictive (D) exotic (E) overrated

170. Flying in the face of ________ , the writer George Sand shocked her

contemporaries by taking lovers and by wearing men??s clothes. (A) immodesty (B) reconciliation (C) emancipation (D) convention (E) modernism

171. For a young person, Winston seems remarkably ________; you’d expect

someone his age to show a little more life. (A) sophomoric (B) vigorous (C) stodgy (D) tidy (E) sensitive

172. For all his protestations of ________ , Judge Learned Hand had been deeply

________ at being passed over for the United States Supreme Court, where Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. , Benjamin Cardozo, and countless others said he belonged.

(A) innocence...embarrassed (B) disbelief...enervated

(C) indifference...disappointed (D) despondency...frustrated (E) affection...commiserated

173. For all of his turn-of-the-century trappings, the novel’s hero is basically a

________ voice; his values and cultural ________ are of the 1990s more than the 1890s.

(A) derivative...antecedents (B) modem...antiquity

(C) contemporary...background (D) familiar...descendants (E) hollow...premises

174. For all the ________ involved in the study of seals, we Arctic researchers have

occasional moments of pure ________ over some new idea or discovery. (A) tribulations...despair

(B) hardships...exhilaration (C) confusions...bewilderment (D) inconvenience...panic (E) thrills...delight

175. For many years an unheralded researcher, Barbara McClintock gained

international ________ when she won the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine.

(A) condemnation (B) notoriety (C) renown (D) affluence (E) camaraderie

176. For someone suffering from stress, a holiday can act as a tonic, ________ rancor,

transforming indecision, and renewing the spirit. (A) enhancing (B) exaggerating (C) manifesting (D) dispelling (E) compounding

177. For those who admire realism, Louis Malle’s recent film succeeds because it

consciously ________ the stuff of legend and tells ________ story as it might actually unfold with fallible people in earthly time. (A) rejects...a derivative

(B) anticipates...an antiquated (C) shuns...an unembellished (D) emulates...an ethereal (E) exaggerates...a mythic

178. For years no one could make this particular therapy work in animals larger than

rodents, but now two research groups have demonstrated its ________ in dogs. (A) efficacy (B) defects (C) variability (D) origin (E) virulence

179. Fortunately, she was ________ her accomplishments, properly unwilling

to——them before her friends. (A) excited by...parade

(B) immodest about...discuss (C) deprecatory about...flaunt

(D) uncertain of...concede (E) unaware of...conceal

180. Fossils may be set in stone, but their interpretation is not; a new find may

necessitate the ________ of a traditional theory. (A) ambiguity (B) revision (C) formulation (D) validation (E) assertion

181. From the critic’s perspective, M. F. K. Fisher was a writer who ________

classification, for her food writing read like love stories, her fiction like memoirs. (A) remembered (B) relished (C) skirted

(D) complied with (E) matured with

182. From the lunch counter sit-ins and bus boycotts to the historic freedom march

from Selma to Montgomery, this fine volume shows how ________ Americans from every walk of life fought ________ battle for “liberty and justice for all. “ (A) revolutionary...an unnecessary (B) typical. . an ignoble

(C) progressive...a vainglorious (D) ordinary...an inspiring (E) pugnacious...a dubious

183. Gaddis is a formidably talented writer whose work has been, unhappily, more

likely to intimidate or ________ his readers than to lure them into his fictional world. (A) entice (B) strengthen (C) invigorate (D) transform (E) repel

184. Getting into street brawls is no minor matter for professional boxers, who are

required by law to restrict their ________ impulses to the ring. (A) humorous (B) aggressive (C) obligatory (D) amateurish (E) legitimate

185. Given the ________ nature of wood, the oldest totem poles of the Northwest

Coast Indians eventually fell to decay; only a few still stand today. (A) resilient (B) combustible (C) malleable (D) perishable (E) solid

186. Given the ________ state of the published evidence, we do not argue here that

exposure to low-level microwave energy is either hazardous or safe. (A) inconclusive (B) satisfactory (C) definitive (D) immaculate (E) exemplary

187. Given the ability of modern technology to ________ the environment, it is clear

that if we are not careful, the human race may soon be as extinct as the dinosaur. (A) enhance (B) destroy (C) analyze (D) repair (E) nurture

188. Grateful as we are for these splendid books, they remain isolated examples of

excellence in a literature of ________ . (A) competition (B) distinction (C) grandeur (D) mediocrity (E) affirmation

189. Halls and audiences for lieder recitals tend to be smaller than for opera and thus

more ________ the intimacy and sense of close involvement, which is the recital??s particular charm. (A) inauspicious for (B) destructive of (C) conducive to (D) compromised by (E) indifferent to

190. Harriman, Kennan, and Acheson were part of that inner ________ of the

American diplomatic establishment whose distinguished legacy ________ U. S.

foreign policy to this day. (A) circle...grieves (B) sanctum absorbs (C) core...dominates (D) life...biases

(E) coterie...exacerbates

191. Having billed himself as “Mr. Clean, “Hosokawa could not ________ the

________ of a major financial scandal. (A) survive...acclaim (B) withstand...notoriety (C) identify...exposure (D) resist...charms

(E) censure...temptation

192. Having envisioned atomic weapons a decade before, Leo Szilard felt horror and

guilt at the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, calling them “a flagrant ________ of our own moral standards. “ (A) violation (B) exposition (C) punishment (D) vindication (E) agitation

193. Having just published his fourth novel in an almost 40-year career, Gaddis

describes himself, with some ________ , as a writer who has never been in a ________ to get into print. (A) expectation...mood (B) impatience...technique (C) understatement...rush (D) indecision...position (E) exaggeration...school

194. Having published more than three hundred books in less than fifty years, science

fiction writer Isaac Asimov may well be the most ________ author of our day. (A) fastidious (B) insecure (C) outmoded (D) prolific (E) indigenous

195. Having recently missed out on the Matisse retrospective, which has taken Paris

and New York by storm, and on the tour of great paintings from Philadelphia” Barnes collection, London is becoming ________ in the competition to show

________ international art exhibitions. (A) a trend-setter...major (B) an also-ran...blockbuster (C) a world -beater...itinerant (D) a mecca...distinguished (E) a connoisseur...esoteric.

196. Having written 140 books to date, he may well be considered one of the most

________novelists of the century. (A) eccentric (B) controversial (C) easygoing (D) unheralded (E) prolific

197. He continually describes what superhuman labor it has cost him tocompose his

poems and ________ that, in comparison with his own work, the poetry of other poets is ________ . (A) insists...meritorious (B) insinuates...profound (C) asserts...laborious (D) intimates...superficial (E) maintains...meticulous

198. He felt that the uninspiring routine of office work was too ________ for

someone of his talent and creativity. (A) diverse (B) insatiable (C) exacting (D) enthralling (E) prosaic

199. He found himself in the ________ position of appearing to support a point of

view which he abhorred. (A) obvious (B) innocuous (C) anomalous (D) enviable (E) auspicious

200. He has the ________ distinction of being the only one in the class to fail the

examination. (A) voluntary (B) dubious

(C) exemplary (D) partial (E) logical

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