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1. Though environmentalists have targeted some herbicides as potentially dangerous, the manufactures, to the environmentalists’ dismay, _____ the use of these herbicides on lawns.
(A) defy
(B) defer
(C) defend
(D) assail
(E) support
(F) disparage
2. Contrary to the antiquated idea that the eighteenth century was a _____ island of elegant assurance, evidence reveals that life for most people was filled with uncertainty and insecurity.
(A) clannish
(B) serene
(C) declining
(D) tranquil
(E) recognized
(F) sprawling
3. Certain weeds that flourish among rice crops resist detection until maturity by _____ the seedling stage in the rice plant’s life cycle, thereby remaining indistinguishable from the rice crop until the flowering stage.
(A) deterring
(B) displacing
(C) augmenting
(D) imitating
(E) nurturing
(F) simulating
4. Paradoxically, England’s colonization of North America was _____ by its success: the increasing prosperity of the colonies diminished their dependence upon, and hence their loyalty to, their home country.
(A) demonstrated
(B) weakened
(C) determined
(D) altered
(E) undermined
(F) distinguished
5. Because it has no distinct and recognizable typographical form and few recurring narrative conventions, the novel is, of all literary genres, the least susceptible to _____.
(A) misuse
(B) imprecision
(C) inquiry
(D) definition
(E) innovation
(F) demarcation
6. Because time in India is conceived statically rather than dynamically, Indian languages emphasize nouns rather than verbs, since nouns express the more _____ aspects of a thing.
(A) paradoxical
(B) stable
(C) prevalent
(D) unvarying
(E) temporal
(F) successive
7. The prime minister tried to act but the plans were __ by her cabinet.
(A) discussed
(B) embellished
(C) overlooked
(D) unleashed
(E) frustrated
(F) thwarted
8. He had expected gratitude for his disclosure, but instead he encountered _____ bordering on hostility.
(A) patience
(B) discretion
(C) openness
(D) ineptitude
(E) indifference
(F) disregard
9. Although ordinarily skeptical about the purity of Robinson’s motives, in this instance Jenkins did not consider Robinson’s generosity to be _____ consideration of personal gain.
(A) lacking in
(B) contrary to
(C) alloyed with
(D) mitigated by
(E) repudiated by
(F) marred by
10. Because the report contained much more information than the reviewers needed to see, the author was asked to submit a _____ instead.
(A) abstract
(B) compendium
(C) soliloquy
(D) treatise
(E) prerequisite
(F) critique