In a thousand years, archaeologists will be digging through the -----------------------------of what was once San Francisco.

• premises

• ruins

• peruse

• platitude

I used to spend hours listening to my grandfather --------------------- about life in the army.

• abound

• posit

• dictate

• reminisce

It is a ---------------------but effective device for raising water from a well.

• incisive

• postulated

• primitive

• subdued

We should therefore seek evidence for long-distance exchange as indications of a political ---------------------- and the growth of centralized political organization.

• conviction

• subduction

• alliance

• demise

n the wake of the Los Angeles riots, it would be foolish to ignore Galbraith's -------------------- warnings.

• prescient

• imminent

• abound

• inherited

This bird is-------------------- of most species here in that it does not build a nest

• primitive

• atypical

• amble

• bolstered

Parents should avoid hanging a dark cloud by communicating that life is dangerous and that failure is--------------------.

• imminent

• posited

• darned

• bolstered

The most powerful ------------------we have is our skilled, dedicated workforce.

• patriotism

• asset

• conviction

• impatience

Under these circumstances, his intervention could not possibly be perceived as an unambiguously ------------------------ and non-partisan gesture.

• frayed

• patriotic

• unambitious

• unsettling

When the long-delayed -------------------- of the dinosaurs finally occurred, the crash was spectacular.

• convention

• demand

• demise

• alliance