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

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