Sentence Completions
That the Third Battalion's fifty percent casually rate transformed its assault on Hill 306 from a brilliant stratagem into a debacle does not ___ eyewitness reports of its commander's extra-ordinary ___ in deploying his forces.
- invalidate - brutality
- gainsay - cleverness
- underscore - ineptitude
- justify - rapidity
- corroborate -determination
Ans : B
No longer __ by the belief that the world around us was expressly designed for humanity, many people try to find intellectual __ for that lost certainty in astrology and in mysticism.
- satisfied - reasons
- reassured - justifications
- restricted - parallels
- sustained - substitutes
- hampered - equivalents
Ans : D
In eighth-century Japan, people who __ wasteland were rewarded with official ranks as part of an effort to overcome the shortage of __ fields.
- cultivated - domestic
- located - desirable
- conserved - forested
- reclaimed - arable
- irrigated - accessible
Ans :D
Clearly refuting sceptics, researchers have __ not only that gravitational radiation exists but that it also does exactly what the theory __ it should do.
- assumed - deducted
- estimated - accepted
- supposed - asserted
- doubted - warranted
- demonstrated - predicted
Ans :E
Melodramas, which presented stark oppositions between innocence and criminality, virtue and corruption, good and evil, were popular precisely because they offered the audience a world __ of __.
- deprived - polarity
- full - circumstantiality
- bereft - theatricality
- devoid - neutrality
- composed - adversity
Ans :D
Sponsors of the bill were __ because there was no opposition to it within the legislative, until after the measure had been signed into law.
- well-intentioned
- persistent
- detained
- unreliable
- relieved
Ans :B
Ecology, like economics, concerns itself with the movement of valuable __ through a complex network of producers and consumers.
- nutrients
- dividends
- communications
- artifacts
- commodities
Ans :C
Having fully embraced the belief that government by persuasion is preferable to government by __ the leaders of the movement have recently __ most of their previous statements supporting totalitarianism.
- proclamation - codified
- coercion - repudiated
- participation - moderated
- intimidation - issued
- demonstration - deliberated.
Ans :B
It would be difficult for one so __ to be led to believe that all men are equal and that we must disregard race, color and creed.
- tolerant
- democratic
- broadminded
- emotional
- intolerant
Ans :E
Many philosophers agree that the verbal aggression of profanity in certain redical newspapers is not - or childish, but an assault on - essential to the revolutionary's purpose.
insolent - sociability
trivial - decorum
belligerent - fallibility
serious - propriety
deliberate - affectation.
Ans :B
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