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

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