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1. According to the newspaper critic, the performances at the talent contest last night ___ from acceptable to excellent.
(A) varied
(B) receded
(C) swept
(D) averaged
(E) declined
2. 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
3. Their ___ of loyalties is first to oneself, next to kin, then to fellow tribe members, and finally to compatriots.
(A) merging
(B) hierarchy
(C) definition
(D) judgment
(E) cognizance
4. Although the meanings of words may necessarily be liable to change, it does not follow that the lexicographer is therefore unable to render spelling, in a great measure, ___.
(A) arbitrary
(B) superfluous
(C) interesting
(D) flexible
(E) constant
5. While not completely nonplussed by the unusually caustic responses from members of the audience, the speaker was nonetheless visibly ___ by their lively criticism.
(A) humiliated
(B) discomfited
(C) deluded
(D) disgraced
(E) embarrassed
(F) tantalized
6. Though one cannot say that Michelangelo was impractical designer, he was, of all nonprofessional architects known, 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
7. 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
8. Though ___ to some degree, telling a small lie sometimes enables one to avoid ___ another’s feelings.
9. Carruthers’ latest literary criticism ___ her reputation for trenchant commentary; despit its intriguing title and the fulsome praise on its dust jacket, it is nothing more than a collection of ___ .
10. The Gibsons were little given to ___ in any form; not one of them was afraid of ___ , of being and seeming unlike their neighbors.