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Since the Greeks could not capture Troy by force, they resorted to the celebrated _____ of the wooden horse to take the city.

• ruse

• pivotal

A fundamental _________ of democracy is that all people are equal before law.

• ungainly

• tenet

• voracious

Don't expect a wealthy old lady to _____ a fortune on you.

• bestow

• caustic

• levity

If any of the ____ substance gets on your clothing, wash it off right away.

• conventional

• negate

• caustic

Your attempts at ____ during the most serious moments of the dedication ceremony was out of place.

• levity

• tractable

• mendicant

The horse was often hard to manage, but he was _____ as long as he was headed to the barn.

• embargo

• conventional

• tractable

I have never seen a car with a trunk ___ enough to hold all the luggage for a trip.

• cite

• capacious

• ruse

My professor could ____ by heart, his favorite quotation from War and Peace novel.

• cite

• decoy

• quirk

The diva favored____ outfits that made her the center of attention in rooms filled with tastefully clothed patrons.

• shiftless

• outlandish

• belated

Some students find that college is an altogether different _______ from the world of high school.

• milieu

• universal

• calamitous