多选题 DirectiOns: For the following questions, select the two answer choices that, when used to complete the sentence, fit the meaning of the sentence as a whole and produce completed sentences that are alike in meaning.

多选题 Truculent in defending their individual rights of sovereignty under the Articles of Confederation, the newly formed states ______ constantly. A. digressed B. conferred C. bickered D. dismembered [E[] rebuffed F. squabbled

多选题 In Anglo Saxon times, the monastic scribes made ______ distinction between Latin texts and texts in the vernacular by assigning the former an Anglo-Caroline script and reserving the pointed insular script for texts in Old English.

A. a nice
B. a subtle
C. a pointless
D. an obvious
E. an unconventional
F. a judgmental

多选题 Written in an amiable style, the book provides a comprehensive overview of European wines that should prove ______ to both the virtual novice and the experienced connoisseur.

A. inviting
B. tedious
C. engaging
D. inspirational
E. perplexing
F. opaque

多选题 Shy and hypochondriacal, Madison was uncomfortable at public gatherings; his character made him a most ______ orator and practicing politician.

A. conscientious
B. unlikely
C. fervent
D. gregarious
E. improbable
F. effective

多选题 Alec Guinness has few equals among English- speaking actors, and in his autobiography he reveals himself to possess an uncommonly ______ prose style as well.

A. ambivalent
B. infamous
C. felicitous
D. happy
E. redundant
F. ephemeral

多选题 Because Pauling stubbornly continued to believe in the power of Vitamin C to cure cancer despite much evidence to the contrary, his colleagues felt he had lost his scientific ______.

A. tenacity
B. inventiveness
C. contrariness
D. impartiality
E. hypothesis
F. objectivity

多选题 The distinctive qualities of African music were not appreciated or even ______ by Westerners until fairly recently.

A. deprecated
B. discerned
C. ignored
D. revered
E. remarked on
F. neglected

多选题 Bored by the verbose and rambling prose of the typical Victorian novelist, the student welcomed the change to the ______ prose of Ernest Hemingway.

A. consistent
B. terse
C. florid
D. equivocal
E. pithy
F. discursive

多选题 She is a pragmatist, as ______ to base her future on impractical dreams as she would be to build a castle on shifting sand.

A. determined
B. disinclined
C. loath
D. quick
E. diligent
F. foolhardy

多选题 Although eighteenth-century English society as a whole did not encourage learning for its own sake in women, it illogically ______ women's sad lack of education.

A. decried
B. postulated
C. criticized
D. tolerated
E. vaunted
F. legitimized

多选题 Unlike the gregarious Capote, who was never happier than when he was in the center of a crowd of celebrities, Faulkner, in later years, grew somewhat ______ and shunned company.

A. dispassionate
B. infamous
C. reclusive
D. ambivalent
E. withdrawn
F. notorious

多选题 Studded starfish are well protected from most predators and parasites by ______ surface whose studs are actually modified spines.

A. a vulnerable
B. an armored
C. an obtuse
D. a brittle
E. a concave
F. a rugged

多选题 Traffic speed limits are set at a level that achieves some balance between the desire of most people to travel as quickly as possible and the danger of ______ speed.

A. inordinate
B. marginal
C. inadvertent
D. inadequate
E. regulated
F. excessive

多选题 Baldwin's brilliant The Fire Next Time is both so eloquent in its passion and so penetrating in its candor that it is bound to ______ any reader.

A. embarrass
B. disgust
C. disquiet
D. unsettle
E. disappoint
F. bore

多选题 Glendon provides a dark underside to Frederick Jackson Turner's frontier thesis that saw rugged individualism as the essence of American society—an individualism that Glendon sees as ______ atomism.

A. antithetical toward
B. skeptical of
C. degenerating into
D. aspiring to
E. regressing to
F. revitalized by