FILL IN THE BLANKS - NOV 9 - THEORY AND QUESTIONS

1 Although the parents do not think highly of the educational system “as a whole”, they fail to treat teachers with ______ equally.

[A] consideration
[B] veneration
[C] lucubration
[D] opprobrium
[E] reverence
[F] disdain

2 It is surprising to see such a child that is at his sixteenth manifest a great measure of ______, for he delivers too cogent, brilliant a speech among adults.

[A] maturity
[B] precociousness
[C] convolution
[D] nefariousness
[E] naïveté
[F] ingenuousness

3 The ______ parts of the book threaten to disappear beneath repetitive and familiar depictions of the city as a busy world.

[A] insular
[B] original
[C] dismay
[D] parochial
[E] innovative
[F] provincial

4 The apparent flaws in the sculptor’s work didn’t ______ the respect critics gave him.

[A] undermine
[B] preclude
[C] prevent
[D] send
[E] tilt
[F] intuitive

5 Advertising, formerly called the last resort to create or distribute music, has transformed itself to ______ of music that would otherwise be unheard.

[A] a camouflage
[B] a derivative
[C] a champion
[D] an impediment/ foe
[E] an advocate
[F] an impetus

6 An audition, someone ______ any attempt to make a melody. Nothing more unpleasant was possible.

[A] warble
[B] coo
[C] shriek
[D] judicious
[E] proactive
[F] intelligent

7 Even the man was reserved in his speech, he thoroughly understood his mother, which made him far from ______ as people usually thought.

[A] comprehensive
[B] ingenuous
[C] sophisticated
[D] foolish
[E] simple
[F] sententious

8 Mark Messina’s book The Simple Soybean and Your Health exudes recognition much less unrestrained in the description of the soy’s medical efficiency than its versatility, but the author’s cautions arrest soy to be a ______.

[A] cure-all
[B] solitude
[C] efficacy
[D] effectuality
[E] panacea
[F] placebo

9 People from one community always take each other as ______ since they automatically classify the others as their family line.

[A] acquaintance
[B] consort
[C] neighborhood
[D] kinfolks
[E] relative
[F] patron

10 Although an author repeats that he is a ______ uncle in his book, he makes a persuasive case to prove the safety of mutating genes to create new foods in his book.

[A] reticent
[B] verbose
[C] garrulous
[D] reserved
[E] exacerbates
[F] portends

Answers:

1. DF 2. AB 3. BE 4. BC 5. CE 6. AB 7. BE 8. AE 9. DE 10. AD