1. What is most important to the monkeys in the sanctuary is that they are a group; this is so because primates are inveterately _____ and build their lives around each other.
(A) independent
(B) stable
(C) curious
(D) social
(E) proprietary
(F) gregarious
2. Even though formidable winters are the norm in the Dakotas, many people were unprepared for the _____ of the blizzard of 1888.
(A) inevitability
(B) ferocity
(C) importance
(D) fierceness
(E) probability
(F) mildness
3. Congress is having great difficulty developing a consensus on energy policy, primarily because the policy objective of various members of Congress rest on such _____ assumptions.
(A) commonplace
(B) trivial
(C) explicit
(D) disparate
(E) divergent
(F) fundamental
4. This poetry is not _____; it is more likely to appeal to an international audience than is poetry with strictly regional themes.
(A) familiar
(B) democratic
(C) technical
(D) complex
(E) provincial
(F) localized
5. Though one cannot say that Michelangelo was impractical designer, he was, of all nonprofessional architects knows, the most _____ in that he was the least constrained by tradition or precedent.
(A) pragmatic
(B) adventurous
(C) innovative
(D) empirical
(E) skilled
(F) learned
6. The documentary film about high school life was so realistic and _____ that feelings of nostalgia flooded over the college-age audience.
(A) logical
(B) stimulating
(C) pitiful
(D) evocative
(E) critical
(F) clinical
7. For many young people during the Roaring Twenties, a disgust with the excesses of American culture _____ a wanderlust to provoke an exodus abroad.
(A) stymied
(B) overwhelmed
(C) reflected
(D) combined with
(E) conflicted with
(F) blended
8. Certainly Murray’s preoccupation with the task of editing the Oxford English Dictionary begot a kind of monomania, but it must be regarded as a _____ or at least an innocuous one.
(A) tame
(B) conducive
(C) tendentious
(D) meretricious
(E) beneficent
(F) sincere
9. The semantic _____ of ancient documents is not unique; even in our own time, many documents are difficult to decipher.
(A) aspect
(B) pattern
(C) intention
(D) erudition
(E) opacity
(F) obscurity
10. Many welfare reformers would substitute a single，federally financed income support system for the existing _____ of overlapping programs.
(A) welter
(B) hodgepodge
(C)paucity
(D)core
(E)functionalism
(F)participation