1. Because outlaws were denied____B__under medieval law, anyone could raise a hand against them with legal___E___.

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A propriety D impunity

B protection E intervention

C collusion F collaboration

2. Parts of seventeenth-century Chinese pleasure gardens were not necessarily intended to look__A__; they were designed expressly to evoke the agreeable melancholy resulting from a sense of the ___D ___of natural beauty and human glory.

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A cheerful D transitoriness

B luxuriant E taciturnity

C collusion F frivolity

3. Although he attempted repeatedly to___C___her of her conviction of his insincerity, he was not successful; she remained___F___in her judgment.

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A discernment D entangling

B skepticism E reinstating

C quixotism F deciphering

4. It is ironic that a critic of such overwhelming vanity now suffers from a measure of the oblivion to which he was forever___A___others, in the end, all his___D___has only worked against him.

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A consigning D self-adulation

B relegating E self-sacrifice

C condemning F self-analysis

5. The old man could not have been accused of___B___ his affection; his conduct toward the child betrayed his___E___her.

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A promising D adoration of

B stinting E sympathy for

C lavishing F tolerance of

6. As for the alleged value of expert opinion, one need only __B____ government records to see____E__ evidence of the failure of such opinions in many fields.

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A distribute D questionable

B consult E strong

C retain F circumstantial

7. Noting that few employees showed any___A___for complying with the corporations new safety regulations, Peterson was forced to conclude that acceptance of the regulations would be___D___, at best.

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A enthusiasm D grudging

B indifference E indeterminate

C rectitude F unavoidable

8. Yellow fever, the disease that killed 4,000 Philadelphians in 1793, and so___A___Memphis, Tennessee, that the city lost its charter, has reappeared after nearly two decades in___D ___in the Western Hemisphere.

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A decimated D abeyance

B terrorized E secret

C corrupted F quarantine

9. Nature’s energy efficiency often___A___human technology: despite the intensity of the light fireflies produce, the amount of heat is negligible; only recently have humans developed chemical light-producing systems whose efficiency___E___ the firefly’s system.

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A admire D elusive

B dismiss E relevant

C adapt F unconventional

10. Hampshire’s assertions, far from showing that we can___B___the ancient puzzles about objectivity, reveal the issue to be even more__E ____than we had thought.

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A candid D soliciting

B idiosyncratic E altering

C reticent F eschewing