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1. After a slow sales start early in the year, mobile homes have been gaining favor as______to increasingly expensive conventional housing.
(A) reaction
(B) an addition
(C) an introduction
(D) an alternative
(E) a substitute
(F) a challenge
2. Hydrogen is the ______element of the universe in that it provides the building blocks from which the other elements are produced.
(A) steadiest
(B) expendable
(C) lightest
(D) final
(E) fundamental
(F) essential
3. Psychology has slowly evolved into an______scientific discipline that now functions autonomously with the same privileges and responsibilities as other sciences.
(A) independent
(B) unusual
(C) outmoded
(D) uncontrolled
(E) inactive
4. The sociologist responded to the charge that her new theory was______by pointing out that it did not in fact contradict accepted sociological principles.
(A) banal
(B) heretical
(C) unproven
(D) complex
(E) unorthodox
(F) superficial
5. Few of us take the pains to study our cherished convictions; indeed, we almost have a natural___ doing so.
(A) aptitude for
(B) repugnance to
(C) interest in
(D) aversion of
(E) ignorance of
(F) reaction to
6. The paradoxical aspect of the myths about Demeter, when we consider the predominant image of her as a tranquil and serene goddess, is her______search for her daughter.
(A) extended
(B) agitated
(C) frantic
(D) comprehensive
(E) motiveless
(F) heartless
7. Although Johnson’s and Smith’s initial fascination with the fortunes of those jockeying for power in the law firm______after a few months, the two paid sufficient attention to determine who their lunch partners should be.
(A) revived
(B) emerged
(C) intensified
(D) flagged
(E) persisted
(F) declined
8. It is to the novelist’s credit that all of the episodes in her novel are presented realistically, without any______or playful supernatural tricks.
(A) elucidation
(B) discrimination
(C) artlessness
(D) authenticity
(E) whimsy
9. The significance of the Magna Carta lies not in its______provisions, but in its broader impact: it made the king subject to the law.
(A) revolutionary
(B) specific
(C) implicit
(D) controversial
(E) particular
(F) finite
10. The self-important cant of musicologists on record jackets often suggests that true appreciation of the music is an______process closed to the uninitiated listener, however enthusiastic.
(A) unreliable
(B) arcane
(C) arrogant
(D) elementary
(E) intuitive