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3. The executives could only hope that the com-
   pany’s poor first-quarter performance was not
   ------- of the year to come.
   (A) an amalgam
   (B) a harbinger
   (C) an arbiter
   (D) a deception
   (E) a talisman


4. Around 1850, abolitionist and author
   Frederick Douglass sought to ------- those op-
   pressed by slavery by facilitating the under-
   ground railroad, a widespread network of
   individuals and organizations that worked to
   transport former slaves out of bondage.
   (A) evaluate (B) encumber (C) unfetter
   (D) disorient (E) forgo


5. Known for her ------- and decorative poetry, the
   author demonstrated her ------- by scribing a
   keenly analytical mystery novel.
   (A) flamboyant.. immutability
   (B) austere.. elegance
   (C) unadorned.. flexibility
   (D) florid.. versatility
   (E) grandiloquent.. insurgence


6. Because the mechanisms by which cancers at-
   tack the body are so -------, scientists have been
   ------- in their efforts to find a universal cure.
   (A) efficacious.. bilked
   (B) multifarious.. stymied
   (C) conspicuous.. thwarted
   (D) consistent.. hampered
   (E) lucid.. proscribed


7. The latest review for the restaurant was -------,
   suggesting that the -------cuisine came close to
   compensating for the insipid decor.
   (A) glowing.. indefatigable
   (B) banal.. mediocre
   (C) ambivalent.. sublime
   (D) severe.. piquant
   (E) antiquated.. tepid


8. As unexpected as the results of the experiment
   were, Dr. Thompson refused to characterize
   them as -------.
   (A) meticulous
   (B) belligerent
   (C) anomalous
   (D) convergent
   (E) warranted

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SECTION 8

Time—20 minutes

19 questions

Turn to Section 8 of your answer sheet to answer the questions in this section.

Directions:For each question in this section, select the best answer from among the choices given and

fill in the corresponding circle on the answer sheet.

Each sentence below has one or two blanks,

each blank indicating that something has been

omitted. Beneath the sentence are five words

or sets of words labeled A through E. Choose

the word or set of words that, when inserted

in the sentence, bestfits the meaning of the

sentence as a whole.

EXAMPLE:

Rather than accepting the theory unquestion-

ingly, Deborah regarded it with-----.

(A) mirth

(B) sadness

(C) responsibility

(D) ignorance

(E) skepticism

A B C DE