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46. Employers who retire people who are willing and able 53. We need more men of culture and enlightment; we
to continue work should realise that ________ age is have too many ________ among us
not an effective ________ in determining whether an (A) educationists
individual is capable of working. (B) students
(A) physical - barrier ( C) philistines
(B) chronological - factor (D) pragmatists
( C) intellectual - criterion (E) philosophers
(D) chronological - criterion
54. The Trojan War proved to the Greeks that cunning and
(E) declining - standard
________ were often more effective than military
might.
47. Her true feelings ________ themselves in her sarcastic (A) treachery
remarks; only then was her ________ revealed.
(B) artifice
(A) concealed - sweetness
( C) strength
(B) manifested - bitterness (D) wisdom
( C) hid - sarcasm (E) beauty
(D) developed - anxiety
(E) grieved - charm 55. His remarks were filled with ________ which
sounded lofty but presented nothing new to the
48. To ________ is to try to ________ an individual. audience.
(A) gainsay - corrupt (A) aphorisms
(B) evacuate - dismiss (B) platitudes
( C) exhume - bury ( C) bombast
(D) proselytise - convert (D) adages
(E) inhibit - frighten (E) symbols

49. When I listened to his cogent argument, all my 56. Achilles had his ________, Hitler has his Elite Corps.
________ were ________ and I was forced to agree (A) myrmidons
with his point of view. (B) antagonists
(A) senses - stimulated ( C) arachnids
(B) doubts - confirmed (D) myriads
(E) anchorities
( C) friends - present
(D) questions - asked
57. In order to photograph ________ animals, elaborate
(E) doubts - dispelled
flashlight equipment is necessary.
(A) predatory
50. She was ________ because her plans had gone (B) wind
________
( C) nocturnal
(A) pleased - awry (D) live
(B) imminent - efficient (E) rate
( C) importunate - splendidly
(D) distraught - awry 58. He was deluded by the ________ who claimed he
could cure all the diseases with his miracle machine.
51. The ties that bind us together as a single group are so (A) salesman
________ that they can disappear at any moment. (B) inventor
(A) tentative ( C) charlatan
(B) tenuous (D) doctor
( C) restrictive (E) particular
(D) consistent
(E) tenacious 59. The attorney protested that the testimony being
offered was not ________ for the case and asked for
52. I did not anticipate reading such an ________ its removal from the record as irrelevant.
discussion of the international situation in the mornng (A) proper
newspaper; normally such a treatment could be found (B) sound
only in scholarly magazines. ( C) befitting
(A) erudite (D) matching
(B) arrogant (E) relevant
( C) ingenious
(D) overt (E) analytical
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