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Practice Set 1

1.	Despite harsh punishments for fugitive slaves and difficult journeys through the night, Harriet Tubman proved her strength in the years before the Civil War by ------- capture and ------- many slaves along the Underground Railroad.

	(A)	avoiding . . barring
	(B)	allowing . . advising
	(C)	eluding . . guiding
	(D)	disproving . . abandoning
	(E)	choosing . . defending

2.	Throughout the past decade, the turnip crop has been -------, sometimes yielding abundant harvests and sometimes offering only meager quantities.

	(A)	unprecedented
	(B)	illusory
	(C)	temporary
	(D)	unstable
	(E)	impracticable

3.	As a painter, Raoul needs to improve his ------- skills; his palette is often striking, but his forms seem ill-placed on the canvas.

	(A)	remedial
	(B)	compositional
	(C)	deductive
	(D)	mnemonic
	(E)	intuitive

4.	Although the erection of the Berlin Wall in 1961 had been carried out -------, with the East German government making no public announcement of its intention to seal the border, the wall’s destruction in 1989 was ------- years earlier.

	(A)	zealously . . impacted
	(B)	warily . . acclaimed
	(C)	openly . . concerned
	(D)	hostilely . . approved
	(E)	clandestinely . . foreseen

5.	The press misunderstood the politician’s remarks about the economy; instead of taking them as -------, as the politician intended, the press heard them as defeatist.

	(A)	optimistic
	(B)	regulatory
	(C)	fiscal
	(D)	reliable
	(E)	indiscriminate

6.	Although Rosa’s apartment always seemed ------- to her guests, Rosa was not naturally ------- and had to make a great effort to keep her home in order.

	(A)	harmonious . . congenial
	(B)	nondescript . . understated
	(C)	immaculate . . fastidious
	(D)	impressive . . generous
	(E)	respectable . . vivacious

7.	The advent of the compact disc in the 1980s relegated the vinyl record album to -------, making vinyl more important as a collectible than as a means of distributing new music.

	(A)	perpetuity
	(B)	obsolescence
	(C)	success
	(D)	renown
	(E)	infamy

8.	Last year, the president of the company donated ------- percentage of her income to charity, a shocking generosity unmatched among other executives of her stature.

	(A)	an incompatible
	(B)	a paltry
	(C)	a monolithic
	(D)	an exorbitant
	(E)	an unspoken

9.	The magnificent antique watch demonstrated both technical precision and aesthetic skill; the watchmaker obviously possessed a ------- talent.

	(A)	prodigious
	(B)	lamentable
	(C)	quotidian
	(D)	tenuous
	(E)	normative

10.	Before the Vietnam era, the American government had seemed beyond reproach, a virtual citadel of -------, but the war and events like Watergate helped to tarnish that image.

	(A)	dubiety
	(B)	languor
	(C)	temerity
	(D)	usurpation
	(E)	rectitude

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