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

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