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The model student won a
premium for good conduct. |
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(A) |
prize
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(B) |
penalty |
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(C) |
forfeit |
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(D) |
penchant |
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The ignored the
premonitions of disaster because they appeared to be based
on childish fears. |
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(A) |
auspices |
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(B) |
onsets |
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onslaughts |
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forewarnings
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The excuse he presented
was preposterous. |
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(A) |
serious |
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(B) |
absurd
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(C) |
formal |
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rational |
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A high-school course is
the usual prerequisite to college work. |
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(A) |
something required beforehand
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(B) |
disparity |
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(C) |
dispensation |
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(D) |
dispersion |
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It is the government's
prerogative to coin money. |
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(A) |
prestige |
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(B) |
right
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(C) |
prefix |
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(D) |
pregnancy |
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The explorer felt a
presentiment of danger. |
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(A) |
determination |
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(B) |
premonition
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(C) |
resolution |
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(D) |
predominance |
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The chief justice
presides over the supreme court. |
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(A) |
gives up |
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(B) |
dispenses with |
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(C) |
does away with |
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(D) |
chairs
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In such prestigious
company, his demand for attention was utterly presumptuous. |
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(A) |
appropriate |
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(B) |
submissive |
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(C) |
deferential |
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(D) |
too bold
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I don't feel that your
limited resources will permit you to carry out such a
pretentious program. |
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(A) |
appropriate |
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(B) |
genuine |
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(C) |
heartfelt |
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(D) |
ambitious
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She used her headache as
a pretext for not going to the party. |
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(A) |
prestige |
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(B) |
prescience |
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(C) |
presage |
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(D) |
excuse
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Answers 1A
2D 3B 4A 5B 6B
7D 8D 9D 10D |
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