1. If those large publishers that respond solely to popular literary trends continue to dominate the publishing market, the initial publication of new writers will depend on the writers’ willingness to _____ popular tastes.
(A) struggle against
(B) cater to
(C) admire
(D) flout
(E) elude
2. Copyright and patent laws attempt to encourage innovation by ensuring that inventors are paid for creative work, so it would be _____ if expanded protection under these laws discouraged entrepreneurial innovation by increasing fears of lawsuits.
(A) desirable
(B) coincidental
(C) ironic
(D) natural
(E) sensible
3. Often the difficulties of growing up in the public eye cause child prodigies to _____ the world of achievement before reaching adulthood: happily, they sometimes later return to competition and succeed brilliantly.
(A) ridicule
(B) conquer
(C) retire from
(D) antagonize
(E) examine
4. He was widely regarded as a _____ man because he revealed daily his distrust of human nature and human motives.
(A) disrespectful
(B) cynical
(C) confused
(D) misinformed
(E) fanatical
5. Lizzie was a brave woman who could dare to incur a great danger for an adequate _____.
(A) risk
(B) combat
(C) object
(D) event
(E) encounter
6. The new biological psychiatry does not deny the contributing role of psychological factors in mental illnesses, but posits that these factors may act as a catalyst on existing physiological conditions and ______such illnesses.
(A) disguise
(B) impede
(C) constrain
(D) precipitate
(E) consummate
7. James had idolized the professor so much for so long that even after lunching with her several times, he remained quite _____ in her presence and as a result, he could not really be himself.
(A) pleased
(B) disregarded
(C) heartened
(D) relaxed
(E) inhibited
8. Scholars’ sense of the uniqueness of the central concept of “the state” at the time when political science became an academic field quite naturally led to striving for a correspondingly______mode of study.
(A) thorough
(B) distinctive
(C) dependable
(D) scientific
(E) dynamic
9. Linguists have now confirmed what experienced users of ASL - American Sign Language - have always implicitly known: ASL is a grammatically _____ language in that it is capable of expressing every possible syntactic relation.
(A) limited
(B) economical
(C) complete
(D) shifting
(E) abstract
10. From the outset, the concept of freedom of the seas from the proprietary claims of nations was challenged by a contrary notion—that of the _____ of the oceans for reasons of national security and profit.
(A) promotion
(B) exploration
(C) surveying
(D) conservation
(E) enclosure