Magoosh Triple Blank
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Not surprisingly, the (i) ____________ of the printing press (ii) ____________ mass literacy, as books were no longer (iii) ____________ exclusive to the clergy and aristocracy.
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prospect
subsidized
tokens
advent
engendered
windfalls
triumph
ameliorated
assets
Question 1 of 62
Dickens’s Uriah Heep, literature’s exemplar of (i) ____________, is doubtlessly not a unique figure either in fiction or in life. Who in real life has not seen (ii) ____________, cringing, sycophantic headwaiters, public servants, and car salespeople? Surely, Dickens was our premiere caricaturist, able to capture specific and recognizable human (iii) ____________ with broad strokes of his pen.
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civility
fawning
errors
subterfuge
supportive
foibles
obsequiousness
independent
tendencies
Question 2 of 62
For some English speakers in the United States, the word “yam” is (i) ____________ “sweet potato,” despite several differences between them. The yam is a starchy, white-fleshed tuber very low in beta carotene, characteristics not shared by its sweeter, more nutritious (ii) ____________. One can trace the yam, the (iii)____________ version of the word “nyami,” back to West African origins, whereas sweet potatoes were first grown in Tropical America.
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analogous to
correlates
codified
commensurate with
simulacrum
anglicized
tantamount to
ersatz
integrated
Question 3 of 62
To assert that the writing of a historical text draws on the same (i) ____________ of techniques as the writing of a work of fiction may (ii) ____________ those authors who feel that the two disciplines (iii)____________ very little.
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rubric
hinder
overlap
repertoire
abjure
cooperate
ratio
perturb
interfere
Question 4 of 62
My mother would brook no argument about the use of vulgar (i) ____________. As a result, I refined and sharpened my vocabulary until it became too (ii) ____________ for my peers to (iii)____________.
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vernacular
insolvent
goad
persuasion
abstruse
allocate
enticement
evanescent
penetrate
Question 62 of 62
Bradypus variegatus, also known as the brown-throated three-toed sloth, is (i) ____________ to humid, wooded-evergreen areas of Honduras to northern Argentina. Almost exclusively a/n (ii) ____________ creature, the sloth is experiencing habitat destruction as many of Brazil’s forests undergo the (iii)____________ process of clear-cutting.
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endemic
nocturnal
unsustainable
inherent
arboreal
regenerative
pandemic
anti-social
silvicultural
Question 61 of 62
Very few veteran critics tend to be ____________ the recent decade in cinema. Nonetheless, based on movie reviews many could easily come to the conclusion that the last ten years were indeed banner ones. Once the province of lettered intellectuals, a few even household names (Pauline Kael comes to mind), the role of the movie critic has been ____________ by those lacking any notable credentials. With this flood of veritable tyros opining from the rafters, a movie’s overall rating—as compiled and tabulated by popular Internet sites–often times confers a(n) ____________ on a film, an assessment that posterity will most likely deem specious.
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enamored of
duly appropriated
aura of nostalgia
condemnatory to
amply filled
mantle of inviolability
unsympathetic
irredeemably disgraced
patina of respectability
Question 60 of 62
Perhaps there is nothing more to the album than its case that experimentalism into uncharted sonic landscapes did not ____________ with Stockhauen. Or perhaps its forays--many of which could rightly be dubbed sophomoric--into the avant-garde, also lead to the ____________: that to create an unprecedented sound one has to ____________ a discernible melody.
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come full circle
unsettling conclusion
choose to create
culminate
unwarranted hypothesis
forgo producing
die
subtly embed uncharacteristic rebuttal
Question 58 of 62
Monarchial reigns ____________ tended to be more ____________, dynastically speaking, than those royal courts in which palace machinations had not become a quotidian affair. In the latter, a pall of complacency would fall over the kingdom so that if suddenly there were an earl with an axe to grind, so to speak, his path to usurpation would be ____________.
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marked by intrigue
imperiled
largely unobstructed
characterized by hubris
volatile
a treacherous one
robust
hardly assured
weakened by attrition
Question 57 of 62
The subjectivity inherent in travel is aptly captured in the range of styles used by different writers. For Hemingway, writing eighty years ago, the experience of travel—regardless of how momentous—was rendered in ____________ epiphanies, a style many of today’s writers assiduously ____________. Then there is travel writer Pico Iyer, for whom a simple stroll through an airport can engender sentences bursting forth with as many semicolons as revelations. Who thought the terminal could be so ____________? Surely not Hemingway.
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prosaic
avoid
irrevocably wrenching
aphoristic
covet
wildly unpredictable
sardonic
mimic
endlessly fascinating
Question 56 of 62
Perkin’s wit, surprisingly ____________ by the prudishness of his time, may not have been nearly as ____________ had he lived in an era not so prone to ____________.
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tempered
comical
blushing
overwhelmed
restrained
vacillation
untrammeled
racy
expression
Question 55 of 62
Some note that the increase in the Native American powwow--an intertribal affair of song, dance, and storytelling, all intrinsic aspects of Native American culture--serves to (i) ______________ the very culture it presumably aims to (ii) ______________. They argue an overarching cultural narrative emerges, one that (iii)______________ the narrative of any one tribe.
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erode
foster
subsumes
distill
undermine
elaborates upon
empower
question
overcomes
Question 54 of 62
Edgar Allen Poe biographers tend to fall into two camps: those who try to rescue the man himself from a macabre world in which fate had decreed nothing less than a(n) (i) ______________ outcome, and those who (ii) ______________ that very myth, treating the subject as one for whom a life of tragedy was (iii) ______________ .
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dire
dispute
all but inevitable
unforeseen
hold fast to
clearly unexpected
auspicious
squelch
hardly justified
Question 53 of 62
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The Hellenistic and Judaic philosophy of the early centuries did not so much ____________ ancient Greek philosophy as it did ____________ the Platonic concepts of this time with its understanding of the way in which an ideal world, or one of perfect forms, ____________ the existence of a perfect being. Even the philosophy of the Middle Ages was so inextricably bound with the ideas of ancient Greece that many philosophers could hardly imagine discussing the existence of a perfect being without invoking the conceptual framework laid down by Plato more than a thousand years earlier.
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adapt
supplant
allowed for
displace
reconcile
circumvented
foreshadow
corrupt
called into question
Question 52 of 62
The question as to what constitutes art is hardly a ____________ one. Today, artists exist whose main goal seems only to subvert work that no longer warrants the trite tag, “cutting-edge.” Once the proverbial envelope is pushed even further, the public inevitably scratches its collective head – or furrows the collective brow – thinking that this time the “artists” have ____________. That very same admixture of contempt and confusion, however, was not unknown in Michelangelo’s day; only what was considered blasphemous, art-wise, in the 16th Century, would today be considered ____________.
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perennial
served their purpose
hackneyed
contemporary
gone too far
reverent
controversial
failed to provoke
tame
Question 51 of 62
Unlike her predecessor, Mayor Williams would not ____________ any impertinence from her subordinates. Even a ____________ comment she tended to construe as one full of ____________.
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discountenance
seemingly innocuous
subterfuge
elicit
clearly tangential
prolixity
brook
somewhat ambivalent
contumely
Question 50 of 62
That we may become flaccid after our rivals have been vanquished, and we are surrounded by those friendly to our interests, is in no way a(n) ____________ observation. Still, history is rife with examples where a sense of ____________ pervades once a people have achieved victory. Yet, even were this insight more ____________, few would take notice, as human nature is wont to ignore future threats in times of prosperity.
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pithy
duty
widely circulated
trite
camaraderie
clearly unassailable
astounding
complacency
hastily dismissed
Question 49 of 62
The professor’s ____________ demeanor not only made others reluctant to approach her, but also ____________ the intellectual growth that comes from the ____________ of ideas.
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cheerful
limited
repudiation
meek
invited
interchange
disdainful
facilitated
repression
Question 48 of 62
The war became a ____________ affair, and the citizenry, once ____________ by grisly news reports, soon became ____________even the most shocking frontline images.
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Blank (ii)
Blank (iii)
morbid
riled up
dismissive of
humdrum
absorbed
inured to
protracted
shaken
weary of
Question 47 of 62
The Arizona sun is quick to pull the water from plants, leaving a (i) ____________ shell of all but the heartiest of cacti. It is (ii) ____________ to ignore the needs of the human body in this clime as well—dehydration can provoke (iii) ____________, bellicosity, or even shock.
Blank (i)
Blank (ii)
Blank (iii)
hermetic
improvident
flippancy
fecund
delusional
petulance
desiccated
ineluctable
dissonance
Question 46 of 62
The organization, whose mission is to (i) ____________ equal access to education, (ii) ____________ the government for scaling back spending on federal college spending initiatives, arguing that race and place will in large part continue to (iii) ____________ who is and who is not able to attain higher education.
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caution against
sanctioned
desegregate
advocate for
cited
circumscribe
believe in
censured
mediate
Question 45 of 62
James Clerk Maxwell once remarked that the best scientists are, in a sense, the ____________ ones; not hemmed in by the ____________ of their respective fields, they are able to approach problems with a(n) ____________ mind, so to speak.
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adaptable
myopia
fertile
revolutionary
preconceptions
rational
ignorant
inertia
empty
Question 44 of 62
Heinrich Feyermahn, in insisting that Galileo did not fully uphold the tenets of scientific rationalism, does not ____________ the Italian astronomer, but rather the very edifice of Western thought. For if Galileo is the purported exemplar of rational thinking, and yet is ____________, then the history of science cannot be understood as an endless succession of scientists carrying out their work free of all-too-human biases. Thus, Feyermahn admonishes, in faithfully chronicling the sweep of science in the last 300 years, historiographers would be ____________ to not include the human foibles that were part of even the most ostensibly Apollonian endeavors.
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exclusively implicate
found wanting
prudent
partially repudiate
considered enlightened
remiss
fully espouse
dismissed as inconsequential
contrarian
Question 43 of 62
The number of speeding tickets one receives is by no means a reliable measure of ____________. Some ____________ drivers, in fact, prove that in certain cases the inverse is true. That is those savvy enough to have availed themselves of the latest cellular phone applications receive up-to-theminute information on the presence of highway patrolmen—greater excess speed, in these instances, simply implies a greater ____________.
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awareness
affluent
degree of confidence
culpability
intrepid
sense of vulnerability
susceptibility
resourceful
likelihood of entrapment
Question 42 of 62
For charities operating in the developing world, when noble impulses (i) ______________ into mere (ii) ______________, vapid slogans rear their heads and we witness a further deterioration in the very situation such highmindedness had initially sought to (iii) ______________.
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devolve
quixotry
limit
morph
fraud
prevent
coalesce
altruism
ameliorate
Question 41 of 62
What tradition has long known, science must labor through its usual rigorous protocols to arrive at the very same assessment. Concerning learning in infants, recent findings (i) ______________ this trend: the timeworn yarn that babies are (ii)______________ —and oftentimes disregarding—stimuli from their surroundings has been turned on its head; although (iii) ______________ exhibiting a mastery of their respective worlds, infants are constantly conducting experiments—very much like scientists themselves— testing their limits vis-a-vis an environment at once enchanting and frustrating.
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buck
passively receiving
far from
uphold
subtly parsing
known for
underscore
actively misinterpreting
potentially
Countless generations have been divided on Mendelssohn’s ____________— should he inhabit the same pantheon as Bach and Haydn, or be ____________ to the ranks of could-have-beens? After all, it can be argued that his ____________ came at the age of 14 with his Octet in E-flat, a work, many believe, the composer never eclipsed in his remaining twenty-six years.
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technique
relegated
apogee
posterity
elevated
precocity
legacy
sublimated
nadir
Carefully couching his words in the most diplomatic language possible, so even those (i) ______________ to his cause could hardly construe his words as a (ii) ______________ , the city councilman offered an ultimatum to the (iii) ______________ group of protesters camped outside the City Hall.
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indisposed to
panegyric
defeated
sympathetic
broadside
querulous
impartial to
prognostication
dishonest
Question 38 of 62
Recent meteorological conditions in areas of the northeastern part of the country have been so ____________as to leave scientists ____________. Even those models scientists developed to ____________ these extreme outliers have been found wanting.
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predictable
indifferent
accommodate
aberrant
dumbfounded
circumscribe
taxing
crestfallen
discount
Question 36 of 62
Not surprisingly, the (i) ____________ of the printing press (ii) ____________ mass literacy, as books were no longer (iii) ____________ exclusive to the clergy and aristocracy.
Back to Results
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prospect
subsidized
tokens
advent
engendered
windfalls
triumph
ameliorated
assets
Question 1 of 62 Previous
Difficulty Very Hard
Next
Dickens’s Uriah Heep, literature’s exemplar of (i) ____________, is doubtlessly not a unique figure either in fiction or in life. Who in real life has not seen (ii) ____________, cringing, sycophantic headwaiters, public servants, and car salespeople? Surely, Dickens was our premiere caricaturist, able to capture specific and recognizable human (iii) ____________ with broad strokes of his pen.
Back to Results
Blank (i)
Blank (ii)
Blank (iii)
civility
fawning
errors
subterfuge
supportive
foibles
obsequiousness
independent
tendencies
Question 2 of 62 Previous
Difficulty Very Hard
Next
For some English speakers in the United States, the word “yam” is (i) ____________ “sweet potato,” despite several differences between them. The yam is a starchy, white-fleshed tuber very low in beta carotene, characteristics not shared by its sweeter, more nutritious (ii) ____________. One can trace the yam, the (iii)____________ version of the word “nyami,” back to West African origins, whereas sweet potatoes were first grown in Tropical America.
Back to Results
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Blank (ii)
Blank (iii)
analogous to
correlates
codified
commensurate with
simulacrum
anglicized
tantamount to
ersatz
integrated
Question 3 of 62 Previous
Difficulty Very Hard
Next
To assert that the writing of a historical text draws on the same (i) ____________ of techniques as the writing of a work of fiction may (ii) ____________ those authors who feel that the two disciplines (iii)____________ very little.
Back to Results
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rubric
hinder
overlap
repertoire
abjure
cooperate
ratio
perturb
interfere
Question 4 of 62 Previous
Difficulty Hard
Next
My mother would brook no argument about the use of vulgar (i) ____________. As a result, I refined and sharpened my vocabulary until it became too (ii) ____________ for my peers to (iii)____________.
Back to Results
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vernacular
insolvent
goad
persuasion
abstruse
allocate
enticement
evanescent
penetrate
Question 62 of 62
Difficulty Hard
Bradypus variegatus, also known as the brown-throated three-toed sloth, is (i) ____________ to humid, wooded-evergreen areas of Honduras to northern Argentina. Almost exclusively a/n (ii) ____________ creature, the sloth is experiencing habitat destruction as many of Brazil’s forests undergo the (iii)____________ process of clear-cutting.
Back to Results
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endemic
nocturnal
unsustainable
inherent
arboreal
regenerative
pandemic
anti-social
silvicultural
Question 61 of 62 Previous
Difficulty Hard
Next
Very few veteran critics tend to be ____________ the recent decade in cinema. Nonetheless, based on movie reviews many could easily come to the conclusion that the last ten years were indeed banner ones. Once the province of lettered intellectuals, a few even household names (Pauline Kael comes to mind), the role of the movie critic has been ____________ by those lacking any notable credentials. With this flood of veritable tyros opining from the rafters, a movie’s overall rating—as compiled and tabulated by popular Internet sites–often times confers a(n) ____________ on a film, an assessment that posterity will most likely deem specious.
Blank (i)
Blank (ii)
Blank (iii)
enamored of
duly appropriated
aura of nostalgia
condemnatory to
amply filled
mantle of inviolability
unsympathetic
irredeemably disgraced
patina of respectability
Back to Results
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Question 60 of 62
Your Result
Difficulty Very Hard
Previous
Your Pace
Next
Others' Pace
Perhaps there is nothing more to the album than its case that experimentalism into uncharted sonic landscapes did not ____________ with Stockhauen. Or perhaps its forays--many of which could rightly be dubbed sophomoric--into the avant-garde, also lead to the ____________: that to create an unprecedented sound one has to ____________ a discernible melody.
Blank (i)
Blank (ii)
Blank (iii)
come full circle
unsettling conclusion
choose to create
culminate
unwarranted hypothesis
forgo producing
die
subtly embed uncharacteristic rebuttal
Back to Results
Question 58 of 62 Previous
Difficulty Very Hard
Next
Monarchial reigns ____________ tended to be more ____________, dynastically speaking, than those royal courts in which palace machinations had not become a quotidian affair. In the latter, a pall of complacency would fall over the kingdom so that if suddenly there were an earl with an axe to grind, so to speak, his path to usurpation would be ____________.
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marked by intrigue
imperiled
largely unobstructed
characterized by hubris
volatile
a treacherous one
robust
hardly assured
weakened by attrition
Back to Results
Question 57 of 62 Previous
Difficulty Very Hard
Next
The subjectivity inherent in travel is aptly captured in the range of styles used by different writers. For Hemingway, writing eighty years ago, the experience of travel—regardless of how momentous—was rendered in ____________ epiphanies, a style many of today’s writers assiduously ____________. Then there is travel writer Pico Iyer, for whom a simple stroll through an airport can engender sentences bursting forth with as many semicolons as revelations. Who thought the terminal could be so ____________? Surely not Hemingway.
Back to Results
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Blank (iii)
prosaic
avoid
irrevocably wrenching
aphoristic
covet
wildly unpredictable
sardonic
mimic
endlessly fascinating
Question 56 of 62 Previous
Difficulty Very Hard
Next
Perkin’s wit, surprisingly ____________ by the prudishness of his time, may not have been nearly as ____________ had he lived in an era not so prone to ____________.
Back to Results
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tempered
comical
blushing
overwhelmed
restrained
vacillation
untrammeled
racy
expression
Question 55 of 62 Previous
Difficulty Very Hard
Next
Some note that the increase in the Native American powwow--an intertribal affair of song, dance, and storytelling, all intrinsic aspects of Native American culture--serves to (i) ______________ the very culture it presumably aims to (ii) ______________. They argue an overarching cultural narrative emerges, one that (iii)______________ the narrative of any one tribe.
Back to Results
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erode
foster
subsumes
distill
undermine
elaborates upon
empower
question
overcomes
Question 54 of 62 Previous
Difficulty Hard
Next
Edgar Allen Poe biographers tend to fall into two camps: those who try to rescue the man himself from a macabre world in which fate had decreed nothing less than a(n) (i) ______________ outcome, and those who (ii) ______________ that very myth, treating the subject as one for whom a life of tragedy was (iii) ______________ .
Back to Results
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dire
dispute
all but inevitable
unforeseen
hold fast to
clearly unexpected
auspicious
squelch
hardly justified
Question 53 of 62 Previous
Difficulty Very Hard
Next
The Hellenistic and Judaic philosophy of the early centuries did not so much ____________ ancient Greek philosophy as it did ____________ the Platonic concepts of this time with its understanding of the way in which an ideal world, or one of perfect forms, ____________ the existence of a perfect being. Even the philosophy of the Middle Ages was so inextricably bound with the ideas of ancient Greece that many philosophers could hardly imagine discussing the existence of a perfect being without invoking the conceptual framework laid down by Plato more than a thousand years earlier.
Back to Results
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adapt
supplant
allowed for
displace
reconcile
circumvented
foreshadow
corrupt
called into question
Question 52 of 62 Previous
Difficulty Very Hard
Next
The question as to what constitutes art is hardly a ____________ one. Today, artists exist whose main goal seems only to subvert work that no longer warrants the trite tag, “cutting-edge.” Once the proverbial envelope is pushed even further, the public inevitably scratches its collective head – or furrows the collective brow – thinking that this time the “artists” have ____________. That very same admixture of contempt and confusion, however, was not unknown in Michelangelo’s day; only what was considered blasphemous, art-wise, in the 16th Century, would today be considered ____________.
Back to Results
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Blank (ii)
Blank (iii)
perennial
served their purpose
hackneyed
contemporary
gone too far
reverent
controversial
failed to provoke
tame
Question 51 of 62 Previous
Difficulty Very Hard
Next
Unlike her predecessor, Mayor Williams would not ____________ any impertinence from her subordinates. Even a ____________ comment she tended to construe as one full of ____________.
Back to Results
Blank (i)
Blank (ii)
Blank (iii)
discountenance
seemingly innocuous
subterfuge
elicit
clearly tangential
prolixity
brook
somewhat ambivalent
contumely
Question 50 of 62 Previous
Difficulty Very Hard
Next
That we may become flaccid after our rivals have been vanquished, and we are surrounded by those friendly to our interests, is in no way a(n) ____________ observation. Still, history is rife with examples where a sense of ____________ pervades once a people have achieved victory. Yet, even were this insight more ____________, few would take notice, as human nature is wont to ignore future threats in times of prosperity.
Back to Results
Blank (i)
Blank (ii)
Blank (iii)
pithy
duty
widely circulated
trite
camaraderie
clearly unassailable
astounding
complacency
hastily dismissed
Question 49 of 62 Previous
Difficulty Very Hard
Next
The professor’s ____________ demeanor not only made others reluctant to approach her, but also ____________ the intellectual growth that comes from the ____________ of ideas.
Back to Results
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Blank (iii)
cheerful
limited
repudiation
meek
invited
interchange
disdainful
facilitated
repression
Question 48 of 62 Previous
Difficulty Easy
Next
The war became a ____________ affair, and the citizenry, once ____________ by grisly news reports, soon became ____________even the most shocking frontline images.
Back to Results
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Blank (ii)
Blank (iii)
morbid
riled up
dismissive of
humdrum
absorbed
inured to
protracted
shaken
weary of
Question 47 of 62 Previous
Difficulty Very Hard
Next
The Arizona sun is quick to pull the water from plants, leaving a (i) ____________ shell of all but the heartiest of cacti. It is (ii) ____________ to ignore the needs of the human body in this clime as well—dehydration can provoke (iii) ____________, bellicosity, or even shock.
Back to Results
Blank (i)
Blank (ii)
Blank (iii)
hermetic
improvident
flippancy
fecund
delusional
petulance
desiccated
ineluctable
dissonance
Question 46 of 62 Previous
Difficulty Very Hard
Next
The organization, whose mission is to (i) ____________ equal access to education, (ii) ____________ the government for scaling back spending on federal college spending initiatives, arguing that race and place will in large part continue to (iii) ____________ who is and who is not able to attain higher education.
Back to Results
Blank (i)
Blank (ii)
Blank (iii)
caution against
sanctioned
desegregate
advocate for
cited
circumscribe
believe in
censured
mediate
Question 45 of 62 Previous
Difficulty Very Hard
Next
James Clerk Maxwell once remarked that the best scientists are, in a sense, the ____________ ones; not hemmed in by the ____________ of their respective fields, they are able to approach problems with a(n) ____________ mind, so to speak.
Blank (i)
Blank (ii)
Blank (iii)
adaptable
myopia
fertile
revolutionary
preconceptions
rational
ignorant
inertia
empty
Question 44 of 62 Previous
Difficulty Very Hard
Next
Heinrich Feyermahn, in insisting that Galileo did not fully uphold the tenets of scientific rationalism, does not ____________ the Italian astronomer, but rather the very edifice of Western thought. For if Galileo is the purported exemplar of rational thinking, and yet is ____________, then the history of science cannot be understood as an endless succession of scientists carrying out their work free of all-too-human biases. Thus, Feyermahn admonishes, in faithfully chronicling the sweep of science in the last 300 years, historiographers would be ____________ to not include the human foibles that were part of even the most ostensibly Apollonian endeavors.
Back to Results
Blank (i)
Blank (ii)
Blank (iii)
exclusively implicate
found wanting
prudent
partially repudiate
considered enlightened
remiss
fully espouse
dismissed as inconsequential
contrarian
Question 43 of 62
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The number of speeding tickets one receives is by no means a reliable measure of ____________. Some ____________ drivers, in fact, prove that in certain cases the inverse is true. That is those savvy enough to have availed themselves of the latest cellular phone applications receive up-to-theminute information on the presence of highway patrolmen—greater excess speed, in these instances, simply implies a greater ____________.
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awareness
affluent
degree of confidence
culpability
intrepid
sense of vulnerability
susceptibility
resourceful
likelihood of entrapment
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For charities operating in the developing world, when noble impulses (i) ______________ into mere (ii) ______________, vapid slogans rear their heads and we witness a further deterioration in the very situation such highmindedness had initially sought to (iii) ______________.
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devolve
quixotry
limit
morph
fraud
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coalesce
altruism
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What tradition has long known, science must labor through its usual rigorous protocols to arrive at the very same assessment. Concerning learning in infants, recent findings (i) ______________ this trend: the timeworn yarn that babies are (ii)______________ —and oftentimes disregarding—stimuli from their surroundings has been turned on its head; although (iii) ______________ exhibiting a mastery of their respective worlds, infants are constantly conducting experiments—very much like scientists themselves— testing their limits vis-a-vis an environment at once enchanting and frustrating.
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buck
passively receiving
far from
uphold
subtly parsing
known for
underscore
actively misinterpreting
potentially
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Countless generations have been divided on Mendelssohn’s ____________— should he inhabit the same pantheon as Bach and Haydn, or be ____________ to the ranks of could-have-beens? After all, it can be argued that his ____________ came at the age of 14 with his Octet in E-flat, a work, many believe, the composer never eclipsed in his remaining twenty-six years.
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technique
relegated
apogee
posterity
elevated
precocity
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sublimated
nadir
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Carefully couching his words in the most diplomatic language possible, so even those (i) ______________ to his cause could hardly construe his words as a (ii) ______________ , the city councilman offered an ultimatum to the (iii) ______________ group of protesters camped outside the City Hall.
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indisposed to
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sympathetic
broadside
querulous
impartial to
prognostication
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Recent meteorological conditions in areas of the northeastern part of the country have been so ____________as to leave scientists ____________. Even those models scientists developed to ____________ these extreme outliers have been found wanting.
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predictable
indifferent
accommodate
aberrant
dumbfounded
circumscribe
taxing
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