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Practice Set 2

1.	Although special effects have existed in cinema for decades, today’s special effects engineers have access to ------- that would have ------- their counterparts in years past.

	(A)	technology . . amazed
	(B)	knowledge . . regaled
	(C)	creativity . . altered
	(D)	largesse . . instigated
	(E)	profits . . amused

2.	Driven by her competing desires to further her political vision and to pursue music, Joanna ------- her goals and became an activist folk singer.

	(A)	refuted
	(B)	combined
	(C)	disallowed
	(D)	gauged
	(E)	conceded

3.	The mathematician’s proof was so ------- executed that her colleagues had to concede that it was -------, yet another example of her powerful insight.

	(A)	faultlessly . . imprecise
	(B)	hastily . . judicious
	(C)	sporadically . . meticulous
	(D)	cleverly . . brilliant
	(E)	improperly . . disastrous

4.	His supervisor’s comments ------- Luis, causing him to feel awkward and embarrassed in front of his coworkers.

	(A)	excited
	(B)	mortified
	(C)	rejuvenated
	(D)	calmed
	(E)	gladdened

5.	Naomi wanted to save money, but she found being ------- difficult when there were still so many places she wanted to travel.

	(A)	inflexible
	(B)	lavish
	(C)	dynamic
	(D)	frugal
	(E)	concise

6.	As the year wore on, his study schedule, which was already -------, became so burdensome as to be completely -------.

	(A)	beguiling . . uncontrollable
	(B)	strenuous . . unmanageable
	(C)	unproductive . . discordant
	(D)	negligible . . purposeless
	(E)	impractical . . superlative

7.	Not content to offer his readers a ------- account of his life in politics, Winston Churchill ------- a deeply penetrating look at the inner workings of government.

	(A)	meaningless . . disavows
	(B)	facile . . provides
	(C)	hurried . . constructs
	(D)	precise . . promotes
	(E)	capricious . . unveils

8.	The food critic called the new restaurant -------, going so far as to describe it as -------; the menu, the service, and the décor had all been extraordinary.

	(A)	mediocre . . pedestrian
	(B)	preternatural . . déclassé
	(C)	glorious . . moribund
	(D)	irksome . . enervating
	(E)	astounding . . sublime

9.	There was no need to send food supplies to the village after the devastating floods; the storehouses had been spared and the villagers had a ------- of grain.

	(A)	panoply
	(B)	regalia
	(C)	plethora
	(D)	bastion
	(E)	lacuna

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