81. I am often impressed by my own_________ other people's idiocies: what is harder to_________ is that they, in their folly, are equally engaged in putting up with mine.
(A) analysis of.. justify
(B) forbearance toward.. underestimate
(C) exasperation with .. credit
(D) involvement in .. allow
(E) tolerance of .. appreciate
82. Despite vigorous protestations, the grin on the teenager's face_________ her denial that she had known about the practical joke before it was played on her parents.
(A) belied
(B) illustrated
(C) reinforced
(D) exacerbated
(E) trivialized
83. Far from undermining the impression of permanent decline, the_________ statue seemed emblematic of its_________surroundings.
(A) indecorous.. opulent
(B) grandiose.. ramshackle
(C) pretentious.. simple
(D) ungainly.. elegant
(E) tawdry.. blighted
84. Despite the fact that it is almost universally_________ , the practice of indentured servitude still_________in many parts of the world.
(A) condemned… abates
(B) tolerated.. survives
(C) proscribed.. persists
(D) mandated.. lingers
(E) disdained.. intervenes
85. What these people were waiting for would not have been apparent to others and was perhaps not very_________ their own minds.
(A) obscure to
(B) intimate to
(C) illusory to
(D) difficult for
(E) definite in
86. The attempt to breed suitable varieties of jojoba by using hybridization to ________ favorable traits was finally abandoned in favor of a simpler and much faster ______:
the domestication of flourishing wild strains.
(A) eliminate.. alternative
(B) reinforce.. method
(C) allow.. creation
(D) reduce.. idea
(E) concentrate.. theory
87. According to one political theorist, a regime that has as its goal absolute_________, without any_________ law or principle, has declared war on justice.
(A) respectability.. codification of
(B) supremacy .. suppression of
(C) autonomy .. accountability to
(D) fairness .. deviation from
(E) responsibility .. prioritization of
88. Despite its , the book deals_________ with a number of crucial issues.
(A) optimism .. cursorily
(B) importance .. needlessly
(C) virtues .. inadequately
(D) novelty .. strangely
(E) completeness .. thoroughly
89. Although frequent air travelers remain unconvinced, researchers have found that, paradoxically, the_________ disorientation inherent in jet lag also may yield some mental health_________.
(A) temporal.. benefits
(B) acquired.. hazards
(C) somatic .. disorders
(D) random .. deficiencies
(E) typical .. standards
90. Ironically, the proper use of figurative language must be based on the denotative meaning of the words, because it is the failure to recognize this _________ meaning that leads to mixed metaphors and their attendant incongruity.
(A) esoteric
(B) literal
(C) latent
(D) allusive
(E) symbolic