BIG BOOK SENTENCE COMPLETIONS PART-2

GRE TEST 4

1. Her----should not be confused with miserliness; as long as I have known her, she has always been willing to assist those who are in need.
(A) intemperance
(B) intolerance
(C) apprehension
(D) diffidence
(E) frugality

2. Natural selection tends to eliminate genes that cause inherited diseases, acting most strongly against the most severe diseases; consequently, hereditary diseases that are----would be expected to be very----, but, surprisingly, they are not.
(A) lethal.. rare
(B) untreated.. dangerous
(C) unusual.. refractory
(D) new.. perplexing
(E) widespread.. acute

3. Unfortunately, his damaging attacks on the ramifications of the economic policy have been----by his wholehearted acceptance of that policy's underlying assumptions.
(A) supplemented
(B) undermined
(C) wasted
(D) diverted
(E) redeemed

4. During the opera's most famous aria the tempo chosen by the orchestra's conductor seemed----, without necessary relation to what had gone before.
(A) tedious
(B) melodious
C) capricious
(D) compelling
(E) cautious

5. In the machinelike world of classical physics, the human intellect appears----, since the mechanical nature of classical physics does not ----creative reasoning, the very ability that had made the formulation of classical principles possible.
(A) anomalous.. allow for
(B) abstract.. speak to
(C) anachronistic.. deny
(D) enduring.. value
(E) contradictory.. exclude

6. Documenting science's----philosophy would be----, since it is almost axiomatic that many philosophers use scientific concepts as the foundations for their speculations.
(A) distrust of.. elementary
(B) influence on.. superfluous
(C) reliance on.. inappropriate
(D) dependence on.. difficult
(E) differences from.. impossible

7. For centuries animals have been used as----for people in experiments to assess the effects of therapeutic and other agents that might later be used in humans.
(A) benefactors
(B) companions
(C) examples
(D) precedents
(E) surrogates

8. Social tensions among adult factions can be----by politics, but adolescents and children have no such----for resolving their conflict with the exclusive world of adults.
(A) intensified.. attitude
(B) complicated.. relief
(C) frustrated.. justification
(D) adjusted.. mechanism
(E) revealed.. opportunity

9. The state is a network of exchanged benefits and beliefs, ----between rulers and citizens based on those laws and procedures that are----to the maintenance of community.
(A) a compromise.. inimical
(B) an interdependence.. subsidiary
(C) a counterpoint.. incidental
(D) an equivalence.. prerequisite
(E) a reciprocity.. conducive

10. 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 judicious
(E) a cynical

11. To have true disciples, a thinker must not be too ----: any effective intellectual leader depends on the ability of other people to----thought processes that did not originate with them.
(A) popular.. dismiss
(B) methodical.. interpret
(C) Idiosyncratic.. Reenact
(D) self-confident.. revitalize
(E) pragmatic.. discourage

12. Sponsors of the bill were----because there was no opposition to it within the legislature until after the measure had been signed into law.
(A) unreliable
(B) well-intentioned
(C) persistent
(D) relieved
(E) detained

13. 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) comprehensive
(D) motiveless
(E) heartless

14. Yellow fever, the disease that killed 4,000 Philadelphians in 1793, and so----Memphis, Tennessee, that the city lost its charter, has reappeared after nearly two decades in----in the Western Hemisphere.
(A) terrorized.. contention
(B) ravaged.. secret
(C) disabled.. quarantine
(D) corrupted.. quiescence
(E) decimated.. abeyance

15. Although----, almost self-effacing in his private life, he displays in his plays and essays a strong ----publicity and controversy.
(A) conventional.. interest in
(B) monotonous.. reliance on
(C) shy.. aversion toward
(D) retiring.. penchant for
(E) evasive.. impatience with

16. Comparatively few rock musicians are willing to laugh at themselves, although a hint of----can boost sales of video clips very nicely.
(A) self-deprecation
(B) congeniality
(C) cynicism
(D) embarrassment
(E) self-doubt

17. Parts of seventeenth-century Chinese pleasure gardens were not necessarily intended to look---;they were designed expressly to evoke the agreeable melancholy resulting from a sense of the ---- of natural beauty and human glory.
(A) beautiful.. immutability
(B) cheerful.. transitoriness
(C) colorful.. abstractness
(D) luxuriant.. simplicity
(E) conventional.. wildness

18. Since it is now----to build the complex central processing unit of a computer on a single silicon chip using photolithography and chemical etching, it seems plausible that other miniature structures might be fabricated in----ways.
(A) unprecedented.. undiscovered
(B) difficult.. related
(C) permitted.. unique
(D) mandatory.. congruent
(E) routine.. similar

19. 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

20. Laws do not ensure social order since laws can always be----, which makes them----unless the authorities have the will and the power to detect and punish wrongdoing.
(A) contested.. provisional
(B) circumvented.. antiquated
(C) repealed.. vulnerable
(D) violated.. ineffective
(E) modified.. unstable

21. 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

22. It is strange how words shape our thoughts and trap us at the bottom of deeply----canyons of thinking, their imprisoning sides carved out by the----of past usage.
(A) cleaved.. eruptions
(B) rooted.. flood
(C) incised.. river
(D) ridged.. ocean
(E) notched.. mountains

23. That his intransigence in making decisions----no open disagreement from any quarter was well known; thus, clever subordinates learned the art of----their opinions in casual remarks.
(A) elicited.. quashing
(B) engendered.. recasting
(C) Brooked.. intimating
(D) embodied.. instigating
(E) forbore.. emending

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GRE TEST 5

1. Created to serve as perfectly as possible their workaday----, the wooden storage boxes made in America's Shaker communities are now----for
their beauty.
(A) environment.. accepted
(B) owners.. employed
(C) function.. valued
(D) reality.. transformed
(E) image.. seen

2. In order to----her theory that the reactions are ----, the scientist conducted many experiments, all of which showed that the heat of the first reaction is more than twice that of the second.
(A) support.. different
(B) comprehend.. constant
(C) evaluate.. concentrated
(D) capture.. valuable
(E) demonstrate.. problematic

3. The sheer bulk of data from the mass media seems to overpower us and drive us to----accounts for an easily and readily digestible portion of news.
(A) insular
(B) investigative
(C) Synoptic
(D) subjective
(E) sensational

4. William James lacked the usual----death; writing to his dying father, he spoke without----about the old man's impending death.
(A) longing for.. regret
(B) awe of.. inhibition
(C) curiosity about.. rancor
(D) apprehension of.. eloquence
(E) anticipation of.. commiseration

5. Current data suggest that, although----states between fear and aggression exist, fear and aggression are as distinct physiologically as they are psychologically.
(A) simultaneous
(B) serious
(C) exceptional
(D) partial
(E) transitional

6. Famous among job seekers for its----, the company, quite apart from generous salaries, bestowed on its executives annual bonuses and such----as low-interest home mortgages and company cars.
(A) magnanimity.. reparations
(B) inventiveness.. benefits
(C) largesse.. perquisites
(D) discernment.. prerogatives
(E) altruism.. credits

7. There are no solitary, free-living creatures; every form of life is----other forms.
(A) segregated from
(B) parallel to
(C) dependent on
(D) overshadowed by
(E) mimicked by

8. The sale of Alaska was not so much an American coup as a matter of----for an imperial Russia that was short of cash and unable to----its own continental coastline.
(A) negligence.. fortify
(B) custom.. maintain
(C) convenience.. stabilize
(D) expediency.. defend
(E) exigency.. reinforce

9. While not completely nonplussed by the usually 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) tantalized

10. In eighth-century Japan, people who---- wasteland were rewarded with official ranks as part of an effort to overcome the shortage of----fields.
(A) conserved.. forested
(B) reclaimed.. arable
(C) cultivated.. domestic
(D) irrigated.. accessible
(E) located.. desirable

11. If duty is the natural----of one's ----the course of future events, then people who are powerful have duty placed on them whether they like it or not.
(A) correlate.. understanding of
(B) outgrowth-control over
(C) determinant.. involvement in
(D) mitigant.. preoccupation with
(E) arbiter.. responsibility for

12. By divesting himself of all regalities, the former king----the consideration that customarily protects monarchs.
(A) merited
(B) forfeited
(C) debased
(D) concealed
(E) extended

13. A perennial goal in zoology is to infer function from----, relating the----of an organism to its physical form and cellular organization.
(A) age.. ancestry
(B) classification.. appearance
(C) size.. movement
(D) structure.. behavior
(E) location.. habitat

14. 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) superficial

15. Industrialists seized economic power only after industry had----agriculture as the preeminent form of production; previously such power had ----land ownership.
(A) sabotaged.. threatened
(B) overtaken.. produced
(C) toppled.. culminated in
(D) joined.. relied on
(E) supplanted.. resided in

16. Rumors, embroidered with detail, live on for years, neither denied nor confirmed, until they become accepted as fact even among people not known for their----.
(A) insight
(B) obstinacy
(C) introspection
(D) tolerance
(E) Credulity

17. No longer----by the belief that the world around us was expressly designed for humanity, many people try to find intellectual----for that lost certainty in astrology and in mysticism.
(A) satisfied.. reasons
(B) sustained.. substitutes
(C) reassured.. justifications
(D) hampered.. equivalents
(E) restricted.. parallels

18. People should not be praised for their virtue if they lack the energy to be----; in such cases, goodness is merely the effect of----.
(A) depraved.. hesitation
(B) cruel.. effortlessness
(C) wicked.. indolence
(D) unjust.. boredom
(E) iniquitous.. impiety

19. Animals that have tasted unpalatable plants tend to----them afterward on the basis of their most conspicuous features, such as their flowers.
(A) recognize
(B) hoard
(C) trample
(D) retrieve
(E) approach

20. As for the alleged value of expert opinion, one need only----government records to see----evidence of the failure of such opinions in many fields.
(A) inspect.. questionable
(B) retain.. circumstantial
(C) distribute.. possible
(D) consult.. strong
(E) evaluate.. problematic

21. In scientific inquiry it becomes a matter of duty to expose a ----hypothesis to every possible kind of----.
(A) tentative.. examination
(B) debatable.. approximation
(C) well-established.. rationalization
(D) logical.. elaboration
(E) suspect.. correlation

22. Charlotte Salomon's biography is a reminder that the currents of private life, however diverted, dislodged, or twisted by ----public events, retain their hold on the----recording them.
(A) transitory.. culture
(B) dramatic.. majority
(C) overpowering.. individual
(D) conventional.. audience
(E) relentless.. institution

23. Philosophical problems arise when people ask questions that, though very----, have certain characteristics in common.
(A) relevant
(B) elementary
(C) abstract
(D) diverse
(E) controversial

24. Not all the indicators necessary to convey the effect of depth in a picture work simultaneously, the picture's illusion of----three-dimensional appearance must therefore result from the viewer's integration of various indicators perceived----.
(A) imitative.. coincidentally
(B) uniform.. successively
(C) temporary.. comprehensively
(D) expressive.. sympathetically
(E) schematic.. passively

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GRE TEST 6

1. The natural balance between prey and predator has been increasingly----, most frequently by human intervention.
(A) celebrated
(B) predicted
(C) observed
(D) disturbed
(E) questioned

2. There is some----the fact that the author of a book as sensitive and informed as Indian Artisans did not develop her interest in Native American art until adulthood, for she grew up in a region rich in American Indian culture.
(A) irony in
(B) satisfaction in
(C) doubt about
(D) concern about
(E) presumptuousness in

3. Ecology, like economics, concerns itself with the movement of valuable----through a complex network of producers and consumers.
(A) commodities
(B) dividends
(C) communications
(D) nutrients
(E) artifacts

4. Observable as a tendency of our culture is a -----of ------psychoanalysis: we no longer feel that it can solve our emotional problems.
(A) divergence.. certainly about
(B) confrontation.. enigmas in
(C) withdrawal.. belief in
(D) defense.. weaknesses in
(E) failure.. rigor in

5. The struggle of the generations is one of the obvious constants of human affairs; therefore, it may be presumptuous to suggest that the rivalry between young and old in Western society during the current decade is ----critical.
(A) perennially
(B) disturbingly
(C) uniquely
(D) archetypally
(E) captiously

6. Rhetoric often seems to----over reason in a heated debate, with both sides----in hyperbole.
(A) cloud.. subsiding
(B) prevail.. yielding
(C) triumph.. engaging
(D) reverberate.. clamoring
(E) trample.. tangling

7. Melodramas, which presented stark oppositions between innocence and criminality, virtue and corruption, good and evil, were popular precisely because they offered the audience a world ----of----.
(A) bereft.. theatricality
(B) composed.. adversity
(C) full.. circumstantiality
(D) deprived.. polarity
(E) devoid.. neutrality

8. In the current research program, new varieties of apple trees are evaluated under different agricultural----for tree size, bloom density, fruit size, ----to various soils, and resistance to pests and disease.
(A) circumstances.. proximity
(B) regulations.. conformity
(C) conditions.. adaptability
(D) auspices.. susceptibility
(E) configurations.. propensity

9. At first, I found her gravity rather intimidating; but, as I saw more of her, I found that----was very near the surface.
(A) seriousness
(B) confidence
(C) laughter
(D) poise
(E) determination

10. Even though in today's Soviet Union the---- the Muslim clergy have been accorded power and privileges, the Muslim laity and the rank-and-file clergy still have little----to practice their religion.
(A) practitioners among.. opportunity
(B) dissidents within.. obligation
(C) adversaries of.. inclination
(D) leaders of.. latitude
(E) traditionalists among.. incentive

11. Our new tools of systems analysis, powerful though they may be, lead to----theories, especially, and predictably, in economics and political science, where productive approaches have long been highly----.
(A) pragmatic.. speculative
(B) inelegant.. efficacious
(C) explanatory.. intuitional
(D) wrongheaded.. convergent
(E) simplistic.. elusive

12. Nineteenth-century scholars, by examining earlier geometric Greek art, found that classical Greek art was not a magical----or a brilliant---- blending Egyptian and Assyrian art, but was independently evolved by Greeks in Greece.
(A) stratagem.. appropriation
(B) exemplar.. synthesis
(C) conversion.. annexation
(D) paradigm.. construct
(E) apparition.. amalgam

13. Dreams are----in and of themselves, but, when combined with other data, they can tell us much about the dreamer.
(A) uninformative
(B) startling
(C) harmless
(D) unregulated
(E) uncontrollable

14. The Muses are----deities: they avenge themselves without mercy on those who weary of their charms.
(A) rueful
(B) ingenuous
(C) solicitous
(D) vindictive
(E) dispassionate

15. Without the psychiatrist's promise of confidentiality, trust is----and the patient's communication limited; even though confidentiality can thus be seen to be precious in therapy, moral responsibility sometimes requires a willingness to----it.
(A) implicit.. extend
(B) ambiguous.. apply
(C) prevented.. uphold
(D) assumed.. examine
(E) impaired.. sacrifice

16. Having fully embraced the belief that government by persuasion is preferable to government by----, the leaders of the movement have recently----most of their previous statements supporting totalitarianism.
(A) intimidation.. issued
(B) participation.. moderated
(C) proclamation.. codified
(D) demonstration.. deliberated
(E) coercion.. repudiated

17. The powers and satisfactions of primeval people, though few and meager, were----- their few and simple desires.
(A) simultaneous with
(B) commensurate with
(C) substantiated by
(D) circumscribed by
(E) ruined by

18. Some scientists argue that carbon compounds play such a central role in life on Earth because of the possibility of----resulting from the carbon atom's ability to form an unending series of different molecules.
(A) deviation
(B) stability
(C) reproduction
(D) variety
(E) invigoration

19. Whereas the art critic Vasari saw the painting entitled the Mona Lisa as an original and wonderful----feat, the reproduction of a natural object, the aesthetes saw it as----that required deciphering.
(A) collaborative.. an aberration
(B) historical.. a symbol
(C) technical.. a hieroglyph
(D) mechanical.. an imitation
(E) visual.. an illusion

20. As late as 1891 a speaker assured his audience that since profitable farming was the result of natural ability rather than----, an education in agriculture was----.
(A) instruction.. vital
(B) effort.. difficult
(C) learning.. useless
(D) science.. intellectual
(E) luck.. senseless

21. In spite of the----nature of Scotland's terrain, its main roads are surprisingly free from severe----.
(A) rocky.. weather
(B) mountainous.. grades
(C) uncharted.. flooding
(D) unpredictable.. damage
(E) landlocked.. slipperiness

22. Walpole's art collection was huge and fascinating, and his novel The Castle of Otranto was never out of print; none of this mattered to the Victorians, who----him as, at best, ----.
(A) dismissed.. insignificant
(B) judged.. worthwhile
(C) revered.. talented
(D) reviled.. meager
(E) taunted.. dangerous

23. Since the author frequently----other scholars, his objection to disputes is not only irrelevant but also----.
(A) supports.. overbearing
(B) provokes.. frightening
(C) quotes.. curious
(D) ignores.. peevish
(E) attacks.. surprising

24. Without seeming unworldly, William James appeared wholly removed from the----of society, the conventionality of academe.
(A) ethos
(B) idealism
(C) romance
(D) paradoxes
(E) commonplaces

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GRE TEST 7

1. Heavily perfumed white flowers, such as gardenias,were favorites with collectors in the eighteenth century, when----was valued much more highly than it is today.
(A) scent
(B) beauty
(C) elegance
(D) color
(E) variety

2. In a most impressive demonstration, Pavarotti sailed through Verdi's "Celeste Aida," normally a tenor's----, with the casual enthusiasm of a folk singer performing one of his favorite----.
(A) pitfall.. recitals
(B) glory.. chorales
(C) nightmare.. ballads
(D) delight.. chanteys
(E) routine.. composers

3. Dependence on foreign sources of heavy metals, though----, remains----for United States foreign policy.
(A) deepening.. a challenge
(B) diminishing.. a problem
(C) excessive.. a dilemma
(D) debilitating.. an embarrassment
(E) unavoidable.. a precedent

4. Cynics believe that people who----compliments do so in order to be praised twice.
(A) bask in
(B) give out
(C) despair of
(D) gloat over
(E) shrug off

5. Although nothing could be further from the truth, freight railroads have been----of----the nation's shift from oil to coal by charging exorbitant fees to transport coal.
(A) accused.. impeding
(B) proud.. accelerating
(C) guilty.. delaying
(D) conscious.. contributing to
(E) wary. . interfering with

6. Although the revelation that one of the contestants was a friend left the judge open to charges of lack of----, the judge remained adamant in her assertion that acquaintance did not necessarily imply----.
(A) prudence.. tolerance
(B) detachment.. foreknowledge
(C) exoneration.. impropriety
(D) prejudice.. preference
(E) disinterestedness.. partiality

7. Within the next decade, sophisticated telescopes now orbiting the Earth will determine whether the continents really are moving, ----the incipient ----among geologists about the validity of the theory of continental drift.
(A) obviating.. consensus
(B) forestalling.. rift
(C) escalating.. debates
(D) engendering.. speculation
(E) resolving.. rumors

8. 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) uninterested in
(E) participating in

9. In most Native American cultures, an article used in prayer or ritual is made with extraordinary attention to and richness of detail: it is decorated more ----than a similar article intended for----use.
(A) delicately.. vocational
(B) colorfully.. festive
(C) creatively.. religious
(D) subtly.. commercial
(E) lavishly.. everyday

10. Having no sense of moral obligation, Shipler was as little subject to the----of conscience after he acted as he was motivated by its----before he acted.
(A) rewards.. chastisement
(B) balm.. eloquence
(C) reproaches.. promptings
(D) ridicule.. allure
(E) qualms.. atonement

11. Freud derived psychoanalytic knowledge of childhood indirectly: he----childhood processes from adult----.
(A) reconstructed.. memory
(B) condoned.. experience
(C) incorporated.. behavior
(D) released.. monotony
(E) inferred.. anticipation

12. While she initially suffered the fate of many pioneers-the incomprehension of her colleagues-octogenarian Nobel laureate Barbara McClintock has lived to----the triumph of her once----scientific theories.
(A) descry.. innovative
(B) regret.. insignificant
(C) perpetuate.. tentative
(D) enjoy.. authoritative
(E) savor.. heterodox

13. Broadway audiences have become inured to----and so----to be pleased as to make their ready ovations meaningless as an indicator of the quality of the production before them.
(A) sentimentality.. reluctant
(B) condescension.. disinclined
(C) histrionics.. unlikely
(D) cleverness.. eager
(E) mediocrity.. desperate

14. Any language is a conspiracy against experience in the sense that it is a collective attempt to----experience by reducing it into discrete parcels.
(A) extrapolate
(B) transcribe
(C) complicate
(D) amplify
(E) manage

15. There is perhaps some truth in that waggish old definition of a scholar-a siren that calls attention to a fog without doing anything to---- it.
(A) describe
(B) cause
(C) analyze
(D) dispel
(E) thicken

16. Cryogenic energy storage has the advantage of being suitable in any----, regardless of geography or geology, factors that may---- both underground gas storage and pumped hydroelectric storage.
(A) location.. limit
(B) climate.. deter
(C) site.. forebode
(D) proportion.. typify
(E) surface.. hamper

17. The newborn human infant is not a passive figure, nor an active one, but what might be called an actively----one, eagerly attentive as it is to sights and sounds.
(A) adaptive
(B) selective
(C) inquisitive
(D) receptive
(E) intuitive

18. Opponents of the expansion of the market economy, although in----, continued to constitute----political force throughout the century.
(A) error.. an inconsequential
(B) retreat.. a powerful
(C) disarray.. a disciplined
(D) jeopardy.. an ineffective
(E) command.. a viable

19. Nature's energy efficiency often----human technology: despite the intensity of the light fireflies produce, the amount of heat is negligible; only recently have humans developed chemical light-producing systems whose efficiency----the firefly's system.
(A) engenders.. manipulates
(B) reflects.. simulates
(C) outstrips.. rivals
(D) inhibits.. matches
(E) determines.. reproduces

20. 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

21. Just as astrology was for centuries----faith, countering the strength of established churches, so today believing in astrology is an act of----the professional sciences.
(A) an individual.. rebellion by
(B) an accepted.. antagonism toward
(C) an underground.. defiance against
(D) a heretical.. support for
(E) an unknown.. concern about

22. 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

23. The breathing spell provided by the----arms shipments should give all the combatants a chance to reevaluate their positions.
(A) plethora of
(B) moratorium on
(C) reciprocation of
(D) concentration on
(E) development of

24. The notion that cultural and biological influences----determine cross-cultural diversity is discredited by the fact that, in countless aspects of human existence, it is cultural programming that overwhelmingly accounts for cross-population variance.
(A) jointly
(B) completely
(C) directly
(D) equally
(E) eventually

25. Because medieval women's public participation in spiritual life was not welcomed by the male establishment, a compensating----religious writings, inoffensive to the members of the establishment because of its----, became important for many women.
(A) involvement with.. privacy
(B) attention to.. popularity
(C) familiarity with.. scarcity
(D) dissatisfaction with.. profundity
(E) resistance to.. domesticity

26. This final essay, its prevailing kindliness----by occasional flashes of savage irony, bespeaks the----character of the author.
(A) illuminated.. imperturbable
(B) marred.. dichotomous
(C) untainted.. vindictive
(D) exemplified.. chivalrous
(E) diluted.. ruthless

27. Although his attempts to appear psychotic were so----as to be almost----, there is evidence that Ezra Pound was able to avoid standing trial for treason merely by faking symptoms of mental illness.
(A) spontaneous.. amusing
(B) contrived.. believable
(C) clumsy.. ludicrous
(D) stylized.. distressing
(E) sporadic.. premeditated

28. The ----questions that consistently structure the study of history must be distinguished from merely----questions, which have their day and then pass into oblivion.
(A) recurrent.. practical
(B) instinctive.. factual
(C) ingrained.. discriminating
(D) philosophical.. random
(E) perennial.. ephemeral