TUTERIA GRE VERBAL QUIZ WEEK 5

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This composer has never courted popularity: her rugged modernism seems to defy rather than to ______ the audience

• ignore

• discount

• woo

• teach

• cow

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The sight of a single actor portraying several characters in the same scene is no longer a shock to the average moviegoer, such special-effects trickery having become so __________.

• expensive

• specialized

• sinister

• commonplace

• unreliable

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The media once portrayed the governor as anything but ineffective; they now, however, make her to be the epitome of ______.

• fecklessness

• brilliance

• dynamism

• egoism

• punctiliousness

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In searching for norms in the sense of authoritative standards of what ought to be, rather than in sense of what is average and thus can be considered normal, normative ethics aims to ______.

• predict

• mitigate

• question

• dictate

• personalize

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When she first came to France from Bulgaria, she was hardly the ______ student she later made herself out to be, since she had access to considerable family wealth.

• naive

• precocious

• impecunious

• ambitious

• assiduous

In a recent history of the Renaissance, by showing how the artistic efflorescence of that era was (i)______ linked to its commercial vitality, Jardine demonstrated that the spirit of acquisitiveness may be (ii)______ that of cultural creativity.

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(a)  

The setting in which the concert took place (i)______: the group's performance was elegant and polished, but the sound, which seeped across the cold, unresonant high school auditorium, was oddly (ii)______, given the energy the players seemed to be putting into it

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(a)  

The figure-skating pair's convincing victory last week was particularly (i)______ to their rivals, who were in peak form and complained privately about the judging. That the pair won their rivals were (ii)______ too is also impressive.

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(a)  

In his initial works, the playwright made physical disease (i)______ factor in the action; from this, his early critics inferred that he had a predilection for focusing on (ii)______ subject matter.

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(a)  

Instant celebrity is often (i)______ asset because if there is no (ii)______ to interest the public -no stage or screen triumphs, no interesting books, no heroic exploits - people quickly become bored

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(a)