1. Because outlaws were denied______under medieval law, anyone could raise a hand against them with legal______.
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A propriety D impunity
B protection E intervention
C collusion F collaboration
2. Parts of seventeenth-century Chinese pleasure gardens were not necessarily intended to look_____; they were designed expressly to evoke the agreeable melancholy resulting from a sense of the ______of natural beauty and human glory.
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A cheerful D transitoriness
B luxuriant E taciturnity
C collusion F frivolity
3. Although he attempted repeatedly to______her of her conviction of his insincerity, he was not successful; she remained______in her judgment.
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A discernment D entangling
B skepticism E reinstating
C quixotism F deciphering
4. It is ironic that a critic of such overwhelming vanity now suffers from a measure of the oblivion to which he was forever______others, in the end, all his______has only worked against him.
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A consigning D self-adulation
B relegating E self-sacrifice
C condemning F self-analysis
5. The old man could not have been accused of______ his affection; his conduct toward the child betrayed his______her.
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A promising D adoration of
B stinting E sympathy for
C lavishing F tolerance of
6. That his intransigence in making decisions______no open disagreement from any quarter was well known; thus, clever subordinates learned the art of ______their opinions in casual remarks.
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A elicited D intimating
B engendered E instigating
C brooked F emending
7. In the machinelike world of classical physics, the human intellect appears______, since the mechanical nature of classical physics does not ______creative reasoning, the very ability that had made the formulation of classical principles possible.
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A abstract D allow for
B anomalous E deny
C enduring F speak to
