1. There are simply no ---- for buying stock in certain industries since rapidly changing envi- ronmental restrictions will make a profitable return on any investment very unlikely.
(A) incentives
(B) arrangements
(C) explanations
(D) conditions
(E) procedures
2. He was widely regarded as a ---- man because he revealed daily his distrust of human nature and human motives.
(A) disrespectful
(B) cynical
(C) confused
(D) misinformed
(E) fanatical
3. Suspicious of too powerful a President, Americans nonetheless are ---- when a President does not act decisively.
(A) unified
(B) indifferent
(C) content
(D) uneasy
(E) adamant
4. For those Puritans who believed that ---- obligations were imposed by divine will, the correct course of action was not withdrawal from the world but conscientious ---- of the duties of business.
(A) practical.. mystification
(B) inherent.. manipulation
(C) secular.. discharge
(D) earthly.. disavowal
(E) trying.. moderation
5. Many philosophers agree that the verbal aggress- ion of profanity in certain radical newspapers is not ---- or childish, but an assault on ---- essential to the revolutionaries purpose.
(A) belligerent.. fallibility
(B) serious.. propriety
(C) insolent.. sociability
(D) deliberate.. affectation
(E) trivial.. decorum
6. Plants store a ---- of water in their leaves, stems, or understock to provide themselves with a form of ---- that will carry them through the inevitable drought they must suffer in the wild.
(A) supply.. tolerance
(B) hoard.. insurance
(C) reservoir.. accommodation
(D) provision.. restoration
(E) contribution.. support
7. Although ---- in her own responses to the plays she reviewed, the theatre critic was, paradoxically, ---- those who would deny that a reviewer must have a single method of interpretation
(A) dogmatic.. impatient with
(B) eclectic.. suspicious of
(C) partisan.. hostile toward
(D) capricious.. intrigued by
(E) indulgent.. indebted by
8. ANESTHETIC: NUMBNESS::
(A) meditation: happiness
(B) antibiotic: illness
(C) food: hunger
(D) fear: alertness
(E) intoxicant: drunkenness
9. DRUMMER: MUSICIAN:
(A) tragedian: actor
(B) prop: stage
(C) comedienne: audience
(D) camera: movie
(E) hero: drama
10. ARCHIVE: MANUSCRIPT::
(A) jail: custodian
(B) school: principal
(C) courtyard: fountain
(D) arsenal: weapon
(E) treasury: vault
11. RAMPART: INVASION::
(A) cellar: tornado
(B) tinder: fire
(C) plough: snowdrift
(D) levee: flood
(E) ration: drought
12. RETICENT: TALK:
(A) bland: savor
(B) probable: guess
(C) cranky: whine
(D) contumacious: rebel
(E) abstemious: gorge
13. MENTOR: GUIDANCE::
(A) oracle: prophecy
(B) pundit: diplomacy
(C) sage: criticism
(D) prodigy: youth
(E) scholar: wisdom
14. LIGEOUS：WOOD：：
(A) osseous: bone
(B) igneous: rock
(C) cellular: microbe
(D) fossilized: plant
(E) nautical: water
15. IRREVOCABLE: REPEAL::
(A) uncharted: survey
(B) unwieldy: lift
(C) inscrutable: mention
(D) immutable: anchor
(E) ineluctable: avoid
16. LITERATE: ERUDITE::
(A) garrulous: loquacious
(B) abstruse: recondite
(C) prosaic: subtle
(D) sober: informed
(E) agitated: frenetic