Sentence completion 9-10

Although usually warm and ------- in greeting friends, Lauren was too reserved ever to be truly -------.

• joyous . . conventional

• cordial . . effusive

• restrained . . gracious

• dismissive . . ebullient

• genial . . antisocial

Legal scholars argue that when "justice" is interpreted too broadly, the concept becomes -------, easily changed and controlled by outside forces.

• malleable

• influential

• coherent

• felicitous

• prosaic

The instructor's voice was so ------- that most students preferred taking a test to listening to its grating sound.

• receptive

• cajoling

• melodious

• muted

• strident

Originally ------- mainly by young, urban audiences, rap music was ultimately ------- by its appreciative listeners of all ages across the country.

• admired . . embraced

• performed . . condemned

• derided . . ignored

• appropriated . . relinquished

• applauded . . instigated

It was out of ------- that Professor Green, the author of several highly respected books in his field, described himself to his colleagues as -------.

• embarrassment . . a paragon

• magnanimity . . an avenger

• insolence . . a pedant

• egotism . . an apprentice

• modesty . . a dilettante

Historian Carlo Botta often contradicted himself, as when he first championed and then ------- the ideals of the French Revolution.

• invoked

• investigated

• conceived

• coveted

• denounced

Luisa worked with extreme precision, ------- that served her well in her law career.

• a meticulousness

• an effrontery

• an inhibition

• a litigiousness

• an impetuousness

In 1916 Yellowstone National Park had only 25 bison, but the population has since ------- to more than 2,000.

• dispersed

• mediated

• attenuated

• burgeoned

• reconciled

Though surgeon and researcher Charles Drew never enjoyed celebrity, he truly deserves to be ------- for his life's achievements.

• mollified

• lionized

• accosted

• galvanized

• vilified

The architect advised tearing down the old structure, since he did not consider it sufficiently ------- to ------ the heavy winds of the tropical storm the peninsula was expecting.

• flimsy . . forestall

• hardy . . forecast

• robust . . withstand

• noteworthy . . justify

• ramshackle . . repel