SAT Words in Context -- Practice #3

Math poses difficulties. There's little room for eyewitness testimony, seasoned judgement, a skeptical eye or transcendental rhetoric.
Seasoned most nearly means...

• determined
• tasteful
• experienced
• objective

Around the middle of the 20th century, science dispensed with the fantasy that we could easily colonize the other planets in our solar system.  Science fiction writers absorbed the new reality:  soon, moon and asteroid settings replaced Mars and Venus.
Dispensed with most nearly means...

• distributed
• disposed of
• identified with
• renewed

Until the past few years, physicists agreed that the entire universe is generated from a few mathematical truths and principles of symmetry, perhaps throwing in a handful of parameters like the mass of an electron.  It seemed that we were closing in on a vision of our universe in which everything could be calculated, predicted, and understood.  However, two theories, eternal inflation and string theory, now suggest that the same fundamental principles from which the laws of nature derive may lead to many different self-consistent universes, with many different properties.
Parameters most nearly means...

• restrictions
• hypotheses
• calculations
• theories

Until the past few years, physicists agreed that the entire universe is generated from a few mathematical truths and principles of symmetry, perhaps throwing in a handful of parameters like the mass of an electron.  It seemed that we were closing in on a vision of our universe in which everything could be calculated, predicted, and understood.  However, two theories, eternal inflation and string theory, now suggest that the same fundamental principles from which the laws of nature derive may lead to many different self-consistent universes, with many different properties.
closing in on most nearly means

• experimenting
•  approaching
• hypothesizing
• shutting down