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Worksheets14 Readings Vocab Quiz
Total questions: 246
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Class
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1.
Prey species are ___ well defended during the day but rather helpless at night
a)
relatively
b)
per se
c)
inevitably
d)
conversely
2.
candy-striped spiders were observed ___ securing sleeping targets with sticky silk.
a)
surreptitiously
b)
relatively
c)
per se
d)
inevitably
3.
___, if you’re broke, but you save a little bit every month, you’re on the path toward financial freedom.
a)
conversely
b)
surreptitiously
c)
relatively
d)
per se
4.
___, they had wanted to win the race every year before
a)
presumably
b)
per se
c)
surreptitiously
d)
relatively
5.
all of these examples are ___ going to have features that have nothing essentially to do with “triangularity”
a)
inevitably
b)
relatively
c)
conversely
d)
surreptitiously
6.
features that are simply not part of the essence or nature of triangularity ___
a)
per se
b)
surreptitiously
c)
presumably
d)
conversely
7.
the study proves a certain anti-avian ___ needs revising
a)
turn of phrase
b)
lagging measure
c)
double-edged sword
d)
prevailing wisdom
8.
the Brits ___ as they set nine Olympic records and seven world records
a)
raised the bar
b)
turn of phrase
c)
by the same token
d)
double-edged sword
9.
Your outcomes are a ___ of your habits.
a)
lagging measure
b)
double-edged sword
c)
turn of phrase
d)
prevailing wisdom
10.
Habits are a ___ .
a)
double-edged sword
b)
prevailing wisdom
c)
lagging measure
d)
turn of phrase
11.
___ claims that the best way to achieve what we want is to set goals.
a)
Prevailing wisdom
b)
Double-edged sword
c)
Lagging measure
d)
By the same token
12.
___, the physical objects themselves exist only insofar as they participate in the Forms
a)
By the same token
b)
Surreptitiously
c)
Relatively
d)
A lagging measure
13.
Since 2020, many will have become ___ at using Zoom
a)
adept
b)
immaterial
c)
coherent
d)
metaphysical
14.
professional networks within the company become more ___ and isolated
a)
static
b)
adept
c)
immaterial
d)
coherent
15.
these problems represent an increase in co-ordination costs, making collective enterprise more ___.
a)
unwieldy
b)
hybrid
c)
adept
d)
immaterial
16.
documented a ___ decline in learning for workers at home
a)
relative
b)
benevolent
c)
static
d)
coherent
17.
it had a ___ impact on productivity
a)
negligible
b)
metabolic
c)
coherent
d)
static
18.
For many people, then, the future of work will remain ___.
a)
hybrid
b)
negligible
c)
relative
d)
unwieldy
19.
greater appreciation that ___ functions are intimately linked
a)
cognitive
b)
undifferentiated
c)
negligible
d)
relative
20.
You can’t look at ___ function in isolation
a)
cognitive
b)
benevolent
c)
hybrid
d)
clandestine
21.
___ to each tone, the subjects’ heartbeat intervals lengthened.
a)
subsequent
b)
predatory
c)
benevolent
d)
coherent
22.
people around the world found themselves facing stretches of ___ time
a)
undifferentiated
b)
inescapable
c)
static
d)
immaterial
23.
___ experiences are remembered as drawn out
a)
instantaneous
b)
metabolic
c)
coherent
d)
cognitive
24.
the ___ internal information you need to control to keep alive
a)
inescapable
b)
predatory
c)
undifferentiated
d)
clandestine
25.
time is closely related to ___ needs
a)
metabolic
b)
arachnid
c)
hybrid
d)
undifferentiated
26.
Candy-stripers of the eight-legged variety are not so ___.
a)
benevolent
b)
metabolic
c)
inescapable
d)
instantaneous
27.
They also engineered ___ opportunities
a)
predatory
b)
undifferentiated
c)
metabolic
d)
inescapable
28.
there are many surprising ___ behaviors still waiting to be discovered
a)
arachnid
b)
avid
c)
static
d)
metaphysical
29.
He first suspected the spiders’ ___ habits.
a)
clandestine
b)
metabolic
c)
relative
d)
negligible
30.
Which is an antonym of apathetic?
a)
avid
b)
undifferentiated
c)
entombed
d)
unwieldy
31.
numerous sleeping wasps ___ in web
a)
entombed
b)
undifferentiated
c)
synchronized
d)
embellished
32.
Which word is a synonym of ghastly?
a)
grisly
b)
nimble
c)
avid
d)
coherent
33.
they checked to see if other scientists had documented the ___ killing of sleeping insects
a)
nocturnal
b)
embellished
c)
coherent
d)
avid
34.
using no web at all while nabbing ___ leafhoppers
a)
nimble
b)
mediocre
c)
grisly
d)
prosaic
35.
Which word is a synonym of banal?
a)
prosaic
b)
embellished
c)
nocturnal
d)
logistical
36.
Which word is an antonym of humid?
a)
arid
b)
prosaic
c)
nimble
d)
nocturnal
37.
waste companies have mostly been ___ performers in recent years
a)
mediocre
b)
arid
c)
hybrid
d)
instantaneous
38.
performing joint observations or carrying out ___ operations
a)
rendezvous
b)
mediocre
c)
arid
d)
inescapable
39.
whether lunar time should be set on the moon or ___ with Earth
a)
synchronized
b)
embellished
c)
entombed
d)
undifferentiated
40.
They will face similar ___ hurdles that a Martian time zone could address
a)
logistical
b)
biofeedback
c)
linear
d)
cognitive
41.
bamboo ___ fans with which to cool ourselves
a)
latticework
b)
aerodynamic
c)
synchronized
d)
unwieldy
42.
ink cakes ___ with designs of peonies and bamboo
a)
embellished
b)
synchronized
c)
entombed
d)
undifferentiated
43.
their performance had been so ___ that one bike manufacturer refused to sell bikes to the team
a)
underwhelming
b)
tangible
c)
latent
d)
logistical
44.
a strategy that he referred to as “the aggregation of ___ gains,”
a)
marginal
b)
underwhelming
c)
labyrinthine
d)
nocturnal
45.
they used ___ sensors to monitor how each athlete responded
a)
biofeedback
b)
counterintuitive
c)
underwhelming
d)
embellished
46.
indoor racing suits proved to be lighter and more ___
a)
aerodynamic
b)
pristine
c)
linear
d)
underwhelming
47.
tiny changes would seem to make a ___ difference at best
a)
modest
b)
nimble
c)
posterior
d)
inescapable
48.
You expect to make progress in a ___ fashion
a)
linear
b)
mutable
c)
labyrinthine
d)
biofeedback
49.
You fail to see a ___ result, and decide to stop.
a)
tangible
b)
pristine
c)
metaphysical
d)
posterior
50.
what I call the Plateau of ___ Potential
a)
Latent
b)
Static
c)
Linear
d)
Posterior
51.
if you maintain the same sloppy, ___ habits that led to a messy room
a)
pack-rat
b)
hippocampal
c)
synchronized
d)
linear
52.
That’s the ___ thing about improvement.
a)
counterintuitive
b)
cognitive
c)
labyrinthine
d)
nocturnal
53.
The ___ assumption behind any goal is this.
a)
implicit
b)
posterior
c)
entombed
d)
immaterial
54.
on every single test of general ___ ability, the mental athletes’ scores came back well within the normal range
a)
cognitive
b)
mutable
c)
synchronized
d)
inescapable
55.
the brain’s basic anatomical structure was more or less ___
a)
static
b)
embellished
c)
implicit
d)
nocturnal
56.
all that driving around the ___ streets of London
a)
labyrinthine
b)
static
c)
mutable
d)
telling
57.
The right ___ hippocampus (a part of the brain)
a)
posterior
b)
labyrinthine
c)
static
d)
cognitive
58.
the same right posterior ___ region
a)
hippocampal
b)
pristine
c)
linear
d)
underwhelming
59.
The brain is a ___ organ
a)
mutable
b)
hippocampal
c)
posterior
d)
logistical
60.
the brain’s basic ___ structure was more or less static
a)
anatomical
b)
nimble
c)
metaphysical
d)
posterior
61.
there was one ___ difference between the brains of the mental athletes and the control subjects
a)
telling
b)
coherent
c)
latent
d)
logistical
62.
some in fairly ___ shape, others partially erased
a)
pristine
b)
telling
c)
immaterial
d)
inescapable
63.
he wanted to show how the resulting ___ picture had implications for morality
a)
metaphysical
b)
pristine
c)
linear
d)
anatomical
64.
There is a ___ asymmetry in their ways of existing
a)
metaphysical
b)
nimble
c)
synchronized
d)
logistical
65.
to combine all the various themes into a ___ comprehensive system
a)
coherent
b)
cognitive
c)
labyrinthine
d)
pristine
66.
the relationships holding between the material and ___ realms
a)
immaterial
b)
coherent
c)
linear
d)
posterior
67.
the study proves a certain anti-___ turn of phrase needs revising
a)
avian
b)
coherent
c)
mutable
d)
posterior
68.
They behave like ___
a)
gremlins
b)
forays
c)
tilts
d)
cutlery
69.
Researchers showed the ___ of this curiousity
a)
innateness
b)
cortex
c)
broker
d)
membrane
70.
The photo shows an (a) .
71.
The photo shows (a) .
72.
first cut a ___ blocking the bird's access to the cashew
a)
membrane
b)
broker
c)
cortex
d)
lasso
73.
it enriches our discussions of comparative ___ when the similarities were made so clear
a)
cognition
b)
titans
c)
forays
d)
tilts
74.
The ___, as you know, were wise men.
a)
magi
b)
cuticle
c)
spinnerets
d)
cutlery
75.
Every minute of a ___'s hour is crowded.
a)
broker
b)
magi
c)
cuticle
d)
membrane
76.
Those firms have been among the most forceful in ___ workers to their offices
a)
summoning
b)
marauding
c)
slaying
d)
ambushing
77.
even many tech ___ have demanded staff show up to the office
a)
titans
b)
magi
c)
spinnerets
d)
stalks
78.
it looks like the revenge of corporate ___
a)
curmudgeons
b)
innards
c)
play-by-play
d)
stalks
79.
Didn’t a ___ of studies demonstrate that remote work was often more productive?
a)
spate
b)
penchant
c)
primacy
d)
predation
80.
even chess professionals play less well in online matches than face-to-face ___
a)
tilts
b)
forays
c)
curmudgeons
d)
titans
81.
Minor difficulties or snags are sometimes called ___.
a)
wrinkles
b)
tilts
c)
forays
d)
curmudgeons
82.
from their ___ might feel like an increase in productivity
a)
vantage point
b)
solitude
c)
truism
d)
cutlery
83.
Understanding those mechanisms may help us to manage ___
a)
trauma
b)
magi
c)
curmudgeons
d)
tilts
84.
It is a ___ that time seems to expand or contract depending on our circumstances:
a)
truism
b)
predation
c)
vantage point
d)
charge
85.
A day spent in ___ can drag.
a)
solitude
b)
truism
c)
trauma
d)
municipalities
86.
after a longer heartbeat ___, subjects tended to perceive the tone as longer
a)
interval
b)
cuticle
c)
penchant
d)
lasso
87.
the beats of the heart are noise to the ___
a)
cortex
b)
innards
c)
solitude
d)
truism
88.
people are looking at the ___ of the information you need to control
a)
primacy
b)
venom
c)
cuticle
d)
entities
89.
nighttime ___ is common in candy-stripers
a)
marauding
b)
primacy
c)
truism
d)
acreage
90.
on nighttime ___, they most likely navigate by touch and smell
a)
forays
b)
innards
c)
spinnerets
d)
titans
91.
In hospitals, ___ are selfless volunteers.
a)
candy stripers
b)
spinnerets
c)
curmudgeons
d)
titans
92.
to carry out violent ___ after dark
a)
predation
b)
municipalities
c)
spinnerets
d)
acreage
93.
an ___ conducted this research while working on her doctorate
a)
arachnologist
b)
cuticle
c)
cortex
d)
membrane
94.
a photographer with a ___ for snagging beauty shots of snoozing bugs
a)
penchant
b)
truism
c)
predation
d)
membrane
95.
He discovered mass ___ being carried out
a)
carnage
b)
innards
c)
primacy
d)
truism
96.
numerous sleeping wasps entombed in web, their (a) sucked dry
97.
the first to document candy-stripers’ ___ of sleeping prey
a)
slaying
b)
primacy
c)
cortex
d)
vantage point
98.
“It all happens very rapidly,” Dr. Scott said, giving a ___.
a)
play-by-play
b)
lasso
c)
truism
d)
predation
99.
Upon contact with the sleeping bug’s ___, candy-stripers pull sticky silk from spinnerets with their legs
a)
cuticle
b)
play-by-play
c)
stalks
d)
entities
100.
They pull sticky silk from ___ with their legs
a)
spinnerets
b)
municipalities
c)
curmudgeons
d)
titans
101.
The photo is of a(n) (a) .
102.
they alternately inject (a) and wrap with more silk
103.
ranging from familiar sticky webs to webless ___ of prey beyond insects
a)
ambushing
b)
municipalities
c)
stalks
d)
haggling
104.
Sure enough, spiders, sensing slow food, climbed ___ to do their deeds.
a)
stalks
b)
methane
c)
venom
d)
ledgers
105.
the industry have been relying on time to erase the ___ and send disposal prices skyward again.
a)
glut
b)
stalks
c)
methane
d)
venom
106.
there was a (a) of disposal space
107.
saving consumers, businesses and ___ billions of dollars a year
a)
municipalities
b)
acreage
c)
curmudgeons
d)
stalks
108.
municipalities have fit much bigger dumps than originally permitted onto existing ___
a)
acreage
b)
disparities
c)
lawn clippings
d)
methane
109.
with ___ or foam or lawn clippings instead of thick layers of soil
a)
tarps
b)
acreage
c)
peonies
d)
titans
110.
The wheelbarrow is full of (a) .
111.
requires that systems to extract water and ___ be installed
a)
methane
b)
peonies
c)
tarps
d)
acreage
112.
smooth out pricing ___ among regions
a)
disparities
b)
banks
c)
venom
d)
ledgers
113.
a $3.5 billion (a) against earnings to clean up its books.
114.
the various countries and ___, public and private, that are coordinating trips
a)
entities
b)
banks
c)
disparities
d)
ledgers
115.
The photo is of a(n) (a) .
116.
as NASA prepares to send four astronauts into ___ around the moon
a)
orbit
b)
hue
c)
methane
d)
charge
117.
it will serve as a ___ for future crews on their way to the lunar surface
a)
waystation
b)
spawn
c)
truism
d)
hue
118.
Both rivers and financial systems often have them.
(a)
119.
she was done ___ with the driver
a)
haggling
b)
marauding
c)
slaying
d)
ambushing
120.
This part of a boat, normally submerged, is called the (a) .
121.
ink cakes embellished with designs of ___ and bamboo
a)
peonies
b)
spawn
c)
acreage
d)
titans
122.
Your ___ will blossom into abundance
a)
ledgers
b)
rover
c)
soot
d)
haggling
123.
the top is nothing but ___, dead leaves, and mosquito spawn
a)
pond scum
b)
ledgers
c)
peonies
d)
curmudgeons
124.
the top is nothing but pond scum, dead leaves, and mosquito ___
a)
spawn
b)
soot
c)
ledgers
d)
stalks
125.
It’s the right ___, purple-black, not brown or gray
a)
hue
b)
insistence
c)
truism
d)
acreage
126.
the ___ is very fine, as smooth as the sliding banks of old rivers
a)
soot
b)
keel
c)
haggling
d)
venom
127.
On the fourth ___, we finally sat.
a)
insistence
b)
soot
c)
hue
d)
spawn
128.
professional cyclists in Great Britain had endured nearly one hundred years of ___
a)
mediocrity
b)
marauding
c)
soot
d)
ledgers
129.
they were afraid that it would hurt sales if other professionals saw the Brits using their ___
a)
gear
b)
mediocrity
c)
peonies
d)
soot
130.
You should be far more concerned with your current ___ than with your current results.
a)
trajectory
b)
gear
c)
acreage
d)
waystation
131.
a strategy that he referred to as “the ___ of marginal gains,”
a)
aggregation
b)
ledgers
c)
gear
d)
titans
132.
Good habits make time your (a) .
133.
It’s a ___ of any compounding process: the most powerful outcomes are delayed
a)
hallmark
b)
rover
c)
trauma
d)
conflagration
134.
Two ___ can grind against one another
a)
tectonic plates
b)
ledgers
c)
synapses
d)
lawn clippings
135.
The brain is capable of reorganizing itself, a phenomenon known as ___.
a)
neuroplasticity
b)
mediocrity
c)
introspection
d)
conflagration
136.
It had long been thought that the adult brain was incapable of ___ new neurons
a)
spawning
b)
ambushing
c)
haggling
d)
marauding
137.
The part of the brain thought to resemble this creature
(a)
138.
learning caused ___ to rearrange themselves and new links between brain cells to form
a)
synapses
b)
predecessors
c)
acreage
d)
denizen
139.
authors of the academic ___
a)
monograph
b)
piety
c)
hippocampus
d)
exemplars
140.
regions of the brain seemed to be working in ___ for the mental athletes
a)
overdrive
b)
asymmetry
c)
trauma
d)
introspection
141.
the first great attempt to combine all the various themes developed by his ___
a)
predecessors
b)
ledgers
c)
synapses
d)
curmudgeons
142.
Is it something subjective, an idea in our minds, knowable via ___?
a)
introspection
b)
predecessors
c)
overdrive
d)
parliament
143.
These individual ___ or instantiations are all imperfect in various ways
a)
exemplars
b)
Platonists
c)
predecessors
d)
ledgers
144.
Nor is this essence a mere cultural ___ or convention of language.
a)
artifact
b)
piety
c)
introspection
d)
denizen
145.
If the Canadian ___ should declare that triangles have four sides
a)
parliament
b)
artifact
c)
exemplars
d)
curmudgeons
146.
cast doubt on the sanity of Canadian ___
a)
parliamentarians
b)
archetypes
c)
haggling
d)
ledgers
147.
the Forms are perfect, being the ___ or standards by reference to which we judge something
a)
archetypes
b)
parliamentarians
c)
predecessors
d)
lawn clippings
148.
even if we blasted ourselves out of existence in a nuclear ___
a)
conflagration
b)
asymmetry
c)
waystation
d)
parliament
149.
existing in what ___ sometimes call a “third realm.”
a)
Platonists
b)
municipalities
c)
predecessors
d)
parliamentarians
150.
rocks, justice, beauty, goodness, ___, and so on and on.
a)
piety
b)
predecessors
c)
acreage
d)
introspection
151.
we grasp something that is thus a ___ of this “third realm.”
a)
denizen
b)
piety
c)
hue
d)
conflagration
152.
The Forms would exist whether or not the particular physical ___ did.
a)
instantiations
b)
Platonists
c)
truism
d)
parliamentarians
153.
There is a metaphysical ___ in their ways of existing
a)
asymmetry
b)
piety
c)
trauma
d)
charge
154.
using their beaks to ___ three tools
a)
fashion
b)
tilt
c)
inhibit
d)
charge
155.
“virtual water coolers” often ___ on crowded schedules with limited benefits.
a)
encroached
b)
fared
c)
deemed
d)
enshrined
156.
the balance of the work week is likely to ___ back to the office and away from home
a)
tilt
b)
rouse
c)
fashion
d)
inhibit
157.
video conferences ___ creative thinking
a)
inhibit
b)
compound
c)
replicate
d)
fashion
158.
It is harder for people to ___ from home.
a)
collaborate
b)
inhibit
c)
tilt
d)
hasten
159.
this species ___ by its web
a)
lurks
b)
differentiates
c)
deems
d)
tilts
160.
using no web at all while ___ nimble leafhoppers
a)
nabbing
b)
synchronizing
c)
haggling
d)
marauding
161.
The person is the photo is ___.
a)
rappelling
b)
nabbing
c)
haggling
d)
replicating
162.
it takes time for a sleeping insect to ___ enough to defend itself
a)
rouse
b)
inhibit
c)
degrade
d)
entrench
163.
Some operators are blowing water into landfills to ___ rotting and thus the shrinkage of buried garbage piles
a)
hasten
b)
replicate
c)
inhibit
d)
summon
164.
as if ___ the contents of a wastebasket
a)
tamping down
b)
synchronizing
c)
haggling
d)
rappelling
165.
Companies must write off, or ___, their landfill investments
a)
depreciate
b)
summon
c)
hasten
d)
rouse
166.
the European Space Agency has ___ the current system unsustainable
a)
deemed
b)
squinted
c)
fared
d)
hastened
167.
it will try to ___ a rover
a)
deploy
b)
inhibit
c)
depreciate
d)
compound
168.
___ time on the moon is tricky because clocks run faster there
a)
synchronizing
b)
nabbing
c)
haggling
d)
marauding
169.
he ___ at me, then laughed
a)
squinted
b)
deemed
c)
fared
d)
hastened
170.
so I could later tell her what I had seen, and ___ her envy
a)
tease out
b)
replicate
c)
degrade
d)
tamp down
171.
little bits of dust that could ___ the performance of the finely tuned bikes
a)
degrade
b)
summon
c)
depreciate
d)
rouse
172.
How can you ___ this approach in your own life?
a)
replicate
b)
degrade
c)
tease out
d)
compound
173.
by ___ poor decisions, our small choices compound into toxic results
a)
replicating
b)
nabbing
c)
haggling
d)
rappelling
174.
If you ___ the energy to tidy up, then you will have a clean room
a)
summon
b)
compound
c)
replicate
d)
degrade
175.
the goal cannot be what ___ the winners from the losers
a)
differentiates
b)
lurks
c)
hastens
d)
tilts
176.
they had ___ even worse in cycling’s biggest race
a)
fared
b)
deemed
c)
enshrined
d)
encroached
177.
see how your daily choices will ___ ten or twenty years down the line
a)
compound
b)
inhibit
c)
entrench
d)
hasten
178.
Roots ___ themselves and branches grow.
a)
entrench
b)
summon
c)
inhibit
d)
rouse
179.
many people find themselves ___ to their old habits
a)
reverting
b)
conjuring
c)
haggling
d)
rappelling
180.
Why would mental athletes be ___ images in their mind’s eye?
a)
conjuring
b)
reverting
c)
haggling
d)
marauding
181.
anyone who expresses disagreement with this judgment shall be ___ guilty of discriminatory hate speech
a)
deemed
b)
squinted
c)
fared
d)
hastened
182.
All of this is ___ in his famous Theory of Forms.
a)
enshrined
b)
deemed
c)
encroached
d)
fared
183.
all are going to lack, or at least not perfectly ___, features that are part of being a triangle
a)
exemplify
b)
inhibit
c)
tease out
d)
fashion
184.
Particular things are “participating in,” or “ (a) ,” or “instantiating” the Forms.
185.
Particular things are “participating in,” or “exemplifying,” or “___” the Forms.
a)
instantiating
b)
reverting
c)
marauding
d)
rappelling
186.
The laws of nature must be ___ rich enough
a)
intrinsically
b)
conversely
c)
unduly
d)
gravely
187.
he would look at the remains of the carcass and ask me, ___, “Jonah, do you think we’d be able to save this bird’s life?”
a)
gravely
b)
intrinsically
c)
conversely
d)
unduly
188.
My Dad was never ___ deferential to what passed for enlightened positions
a)
unduly
b)
gravely
c)
intrinsically
d)
conversely
189.
And, ___, what was obvious to most people could often be a complete mystery to him.
a)
conversely
b)
unduly
c)
gravely
d)
intrinsically
190.
the ratio of the ___ force to the gravitational force
a)
electromagnetic
b)
brute
c)
rudimentary
d)
anthropic
191.
the ___ Principle in Cosmology
a)
Anthropic
b)
Electromagnetic
c)
Metaphysical
d)
Rudimentary
192.
the universe would appear ___ to contract in upon itself
a)
doomed
b)
pickled
c)
deemed
d)
relatively
193.
material objects attract one another with a kind of ___ inevitability
a)
brute
b)
unavailing
c)
anthropic
d)
electromagnetic
194.
An appeal to logic is ___.
a)
unavailing
b)
postmodern
c)
pickled
d)
anthropic
195.
Blind ___ necessity could produce no variety of things.
a)
metaphysical
b)
deficient
c)
marauding
d)
presupposing
196.
Questions about the parameters of physics form a single ___ question
a)
insistent
b)
monotone
c)
unavailing
d)
disinterested
197.
Why are things as they are when what they are seems anything but ___?
a)
arbitary
b)
insistent
c)
metaphysical
d)
unavailing
198.
the answer that common sense might suggest is ___ in one respect
a)
deficient
b)
cognitive
c)
enshrined
d)
encroached
199.
Did you imagine that science was a ___ pursuit of the truth?
a)
disinterested
b)
deficient
c)
monotone
d)
insistent
200.
My Dad was never unduly ___ to enlightened positions simply because all the “right” people had them.
a)
deferential
b)
disinterested
c)
deficient
d)
arbitary
201.
it’s always ___ to imagine your parents dating
a)
bizarre
b)
deferential
c)
postmodern
d)
deficient
202.
off to one side where an un-___ small bird was standing alone
a)
presupposing
b)
bizarre
c)
deferential
d)
disinterested
203.
the ___ nature of the solar system
a)
heliocentric
b)
wonkish
c)
mutable
d)
deferential
204.
This is no ___ point.
a)
postmodern
b)
heliocentric
c)
presupposing
d)
electromagnetic
205.
I would show him something ___ I had written
a)
wonkish
b)
deficient
c)
heliocentric
d)
presupposing
206.
___ herring, dried fruits and other staples
a)
pickled
b)
deficient
c)
postmodern
d)
anthropic
207.
far more likely that astronauts would find a perfectly running pocket-watch on Mars than even a ___ life form
a)
rudimentary
b)
brute
c)
haggling
d)
postmodern
208.
in that dry, razor-like ___ monotone
a)
pitch-perfect
b)
rudimentary
c)
mutable
d)
wonkish
209.
material objects attract one another throughout the universe with a kind of brute and aching ___
a)
inevitability
b)
monotone
c)
hypothesis
d)
entropy
210.
he took refuge in the ___ that aliens were at fault
a)
hypothesis
b)
inevitability
c)
resonances
d)
intervals
211.
the Anthropic Principle in ___
a)
Cosmology
b)
Thermodynamics
c)
Impertinence
d)
Nucleosynthesis
212.
physicists and ___ have been quietly collecting examples of all too convenient ‘coincidences’
a)
cosmologists
b)
arachnologists
c)
intervals
d)
parameters
213.
The second law of ___ affirms that things are running down.
a)
thermodynamics
b)
cosmologists
c)
entropy
d)
plumage
214.
The ___ of the universe is everywhere increasing.
a)
entropy
b)
panorama
c)
impertinence
d)
ballast
215.
after studying the ___ of carbon during nucleosynthesis
a)
resonances
b)
swan songs
c)
facets
d)
intervals
216.
after studying the resonances of carbon during ___
a)
nucleosynthesis
b)
thermodynamics
c)
Impertinence
d)
marauding
217.
Why do the constants and ___ of theoretical physics obey such tight constraints?
a)
parameters
b)
intervals
c)
resonances
d)
facets
218.
rich enough to specify the ___ of the universe
a)
panorama
b)
swan songs
c)
staples
d)
resonances
219.
he took ___ in the hypothesis that aliens were at fault
a)
refuge
b)
ballast
c)
synapses
d)
ledgers
220.
others puffed out their chests, fanned their ___, or offered their swan songs
a)
plumage
b)
refuge
c)
panorama
d)
parameters
221.
after long ___ and for no apparent reason
a)
intervals
b)
facets
c)
ballast
d)
entropy
222.
Looking to snuff out the oldster’s ___ quickly
a)
impertinence
b)
intervals
c)
plumage
d)
nucleosynthesis
223.
my Dad’s wisdom and his humor were different ___ of his personality
a)
facets
b)
cosmologists
c)
intervals
d)
curmudgeons
224.
It needs ___. It’s floating away.
a)
ballast
b)
facets
c)
impertinence
d)
intervals
225.
the humble ___ is slowly revealed as the genius
a)
slob
b)
tilt
c)
trauma
d)
cutlery
226.
the brilliant ___ is just as slowly revealed to be something of a fool
a)
fop
b)
slob
c)
plumage
d)
artifact
227.
I don’t want to indulge in ___
a)
psycho-babble
b)
facets
c)
resonances
d)
intervals
228.
He was too much of a ___ for that.
a)
mensch
b)
panorama
c)
truism
d)
denizen
229.
others puffed out their chests, fanned their plumage, or offered their ___
a)
swan songs
b)
facets
c)
ballast
d)
parliament
230.
My Dad was never cowed by the ___
a)
received wisdom
b)
swan songs
c)
herring
d)
psycho-babble
231.
the ___ would be worse than any horror movie ever seen
a)
spectacle
b)
staples
c)
plumage
d)
intervals
232.
he would always look at the remains of the ___ on the platter
a)
carcass
b)
slob
c)
fop
d)
entropy
233.
the traditional provisions of ___ and bagels
a)
lox
b)
carcass
c)
trauma
d)
peonies
234.
pickled ___, dried fruits and other staples
a)
herring
b)
cosmologists
c)
predecessors
d)
archetypes
235.
pickled herring, dried fruits and other ___
a)
staples
b)
facets
c)
intervals
d)
parameters
236.
I started flushing my eye with water from the ___
a)
tap
b)
refuge
c)
panorama
d)
venom
237.
in that dry, razor-like pitch-perfect ___
a)
monotone
b)
panorama
c)
tilt
d)
herring
238.
What an odd ___—fine-tuned.
a)
turn of phrase
b)
master stroke
c)
double-edged sword
d)
lagging measure
239.
The universe looks like a ___.
a)
put-up job
b)
turn of phrase
c)
double-edged sword
d)
master stroke
240.
In this ___ he was joined later by Francis Crick.
a)
master stroke
b)
put-up job
c)
turn of phrase
d)
lagging measure
241.
my parents are, ___, an odd match
a)
at first blush
b)
per se
c)
surreptitiously
d)
by the same token
242.
Looking to ___ the oldster’s impertinence quickly
a)
snuff out
b)
indulge
c)
procure
d)
hasten
243.
I don’t want to ___ in psycho-babble
a)
indulge
b)
tilt
c)
rouse
d)
procure
244.
My Dad was never ___ by the received wisdom
a)
cowed
b)
disinterested
c)
deemed
d)
fared
245.
my Dad would take us to ___ the traditional provisions
a)
procure
b)
indulge
c)
rouse
d)
snuff out
246.
I started ___ my eye with water from the tap
a)
flushing
b)
reverting
c)
haggling
d)
rappelling
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