401. The book will arouse antagonism, disagreement, and animosity among theologians because it will ________ many ________ rituals and beliefs.
(A) undermine ... iconoclastic
(B) tolerate ... accepted
(C) disturb ... established
(D) disregard ... forgotten
(E) observe ... pious
402. The campus police who monitored the demonstrations had little respect for the student protesters, generally speaking of them in ________ terms.
(A) hyperbolic
(B) euphemistic
(C) pejorative
(D) derivative
(E) uncertain
403. The child needed physical therapy to ________ the rigidity that had tragically immobilized his legs.
(A) prescribe
(B) protract
(C) counteract
(D) accentuate
(E) restore
404. The civil rights movement did not emerge from obscurity into national prominence overnight; on the contrary, it captured the public’s imagination only ________ .
(A) fruitlessly
(B) unimpeachably
(C) momentarily
(D) expeditiously
(E) gradually
405. The college librarian initiated a new schedule of fines for overdue books with the ________ , if not the outright encouragement, of the faculty library committee.
(A) skepticism
(B) acquiescence
(C) scorn
(D) applause
(E) disapprobation
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