1. Despite the fact that the two council members belonged to different political parties, they______ the issue of how to finance the town debt.
(A) complicated
(B) avoided
(C) attested to
(D) reported on
(E) agreed on
(F) consent to
2. Given the evidence of Egyptian and Babylonian ______later Greek civilization, it would be incorrect to view the work of Greek scientists as an entirely independent creation.
(A) disdain for
(B) imitation of
(C) ambivalence about
(D) deference to
(E) influence on
(F) impact on
3. Dreams are______in and of themselves, but, when combined with other data, they can tell us much about the dreamer.
(A) uninformative
(B) uncontrollable
(C) startling
(D) harmless
(E) unregulated
4. The commissions criticized the legislature for making college attendance dependent on the ability to pay, charging that, as a result, hundreds of qualified young people would be______ further education.
(A) entitled to
(B) striving for
(C) deprived of
(D) withheld from
(E) uninterested in
(F) participating in
5. Considering how long she had yearned to see Italy, her first reaction was curiously______.
(A) meditative
(B) tepid
(C) categorical
(D) unoriginal
(E) insightful
(F) lukewarm
6. Since she believed him to be both candid and trustworthy, she refused to consider the possibility that his statement had been______.
(A) irrelevant
(B) facetious
(C) mistaken
(D) critical
(E) insincere
(F) hypocritical
7. While the delegate clearly sought to______the optimism that has emerged recently, she stopped short of suggesting that the conference was near collapse and might produce nothing of significance.
(A) substantiate
(B) dampen
(C) encourage
(D) elucidate
(E) rekindle
(F) check
8. Far from viewing Jefferson as a skeptical but enlightened intellectual, historians of the 1960’s portrayed him as______thinker, eager to fill the young with his political orthodoxy while censoring ideas he did not like.
(A) an adventurous
(B) a doctrinaire
(C) an eclectic
(D) a dictatorial
(E) a judicious
(F) a cynical
9. Rather than enhancing a country’s security, the successful development of nuclear weapons could serve at first to increase that country’s _________.
(A) boldness
(B) influence
(C) fragility
(D) responsibility
(E) moderation
(F) vulnerability