NOUNS
Attempts to find a ______ have failed.
A) wilderness
B) majority
C) solution
D) tolerance
E) optimism
C) solution
He _______ her no harm.
A) mended
B) altered
C) balanced
D) considered
E) intended
E) intended
The area is _____, mountanious and roadless.
A) sensible
B) remote
C) boring
D) practical
E) portable
B) remote
I'll _______ get the job finished by tomorrow evening.
A) possibly
B) especially
C) wildly
D) secretly
E) silently
A) possibly
Babies are curious _______ everything around them.
A) at
B) on
C) in
D) about
E) out
D) about
This event tests both physical and mental ________ .
A) shortage
B) endurance
C) assistance
D) dusk
E) ambition
B) endurance
He _____ them from mentioning the subject again.
A) reflected
B) defended
C) publicized
D) forbade
E) qualified
D) forbade
He is in the _______ position of having two job offers to choose from.
A) hasty
B) relevant
C) smooth
D) obvious
E) enviable
E) enviable
He _______ worked to prove the critics wrong.
A) punctually
B) eternally
C) increasingly
D) purposefully
E) namely
D) purposefully
_____ mistake, I opened Mary's letter instead ___ my own.
A) With / of
B) On / at
C) By / of
D) By / on
E) With / in
C) By / of
With increasing sample sizes, both methods improve their accuracy and _______ .
A) employment
B) response
C) wisdom
D) precision
E) variety
D) precision
One hundred and thirty-two students were randomly _______ to three groups.
A) mocked
B) assigned
C) forged
D) donated
E) rebelled
B) assigned
We had to listen to the _____ details of his operation.
A) listless
B) deceitful
C) tedious
D) adequate
E) awkward
C) tedious
We put up signs to warn motorists rather than just ______ catching them out.
A) sneakily
B) strictly
C) wholly
D) formerly
E) erratically
A) sneakily
The president had promised to run ______ all military operations in the region.
A) up
B) down
C) on
D) over
E) through
B) down
By the beginning of 1623, however, diplomatic efforts had produced some hopeful _______ of success.
A) indications
B) morality
C) affection
D) negligence
E) dispute
A) indications
Cotton,wheat and tobacco farmers _______ an uncertain economic environment and were willing to accept some restrictions.
A) sustained
B) confronted
C) sacrificed
D) reckoned
E) retreated
B) confronted
Unemployment is rising,output is _______ and living standards are about to fall.
A) pitiless
B) humble
C) stagnant
D) viable
E) compulsive
C) stagnant
The seference to the court was originally made so that the effects could be ______ and seriously considered.
A) fervently
B) soberly
C) eventually
D) steadily
E) graciously
B) soberly
Low-dose aspirin is often recomended ____ patients ____ risk of heart attack..
A) towards / off
B) to / at
C) by / to
D) with / for
E) in / from
B) to / at
Although they are based on different ________ of the situation, the same principles are to be applied .
A) accustions
B) ignorance
C) compensation
D) reputations
E) appreciations
E) appreciations
Future research needs to avoid the methodological and theoretical difficulties that have frequently _______ investigative studies.
A) jeopardized
B) humiliated
C) blinked
D) slaughtered
E) encompassed
A) jeopardized
Consequently,some schemes may produce _______ solutions on one set of grids but can fail on a different grid.
A) flawless
B) tranquil
C) futile
D) greasy
E) transient
A) flawless
Most of the students focused on health conditions or issues that pertain predominantly or ______ to women.
A) loosely
B) sparingly
C) alternately
D) progressively
E) exclusively
E) exclusively
Researches disagree _____ whether a large ocean ever existed on Mars, but one thing is certain; Martian geology is turning ____ to be strange and complex.
A) of / around
B) about / in
C) for / up
D) with / over
E) on / out
E) on / out