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88. Unlike the carefully weighed and ________ 95. The ________ of our civilisation from an agricultural
compositions of Dante, Goethe’s writings have always society to today’s complex, industrial world was
the sense of ________ and enthusiasm. accompanied by upheaval and, all too often, war.
(A) inspired - vigour (A) adjustment
(B) spontaneous - immediacy (B) migration
( C) contrived - languor ( C) phasing
(D) metamorphosis
(D) planned - immediacy
(E) route
(E) developed - construction
96. To be ________ is to be ________
89. In Homer’s work, Achilles is the ________ of Greek
warriors; Odysseus ________ the shrewd man. (A) petulant - agreeable
(B) turbid - swollen
(A) epitome - abhors
( C) torpid - sluggish
(B) antithesis - exemplifies
(D) turgid - clear
( C) paragon - exemplifies
(E) evergreen - deciduous
(D) prototype - eschews
(E) adversary - abhors
97. Man is essentially a ________ animal and tends to
________ others.
90. ________ enables us to know the past and to use it in
preparing for the future. (A) selfish - resent
(A) Beauty (B) vicarious - work with
(B) Truth ( C) maudlin - bittle
( C) Language (D) perverse - adopt
(D) Antiquity (E) gregarious - associate with
(E) Thought
98. Singers have a definite advantage over musicians who
91. Victims of glaucoma find that their ________ vision is play an instrument; they can appeal to us through
impaired and that they can no longer see objects not ________ as well as ________
directly in front of them (A) personality - charm
(A) peripatetic (B) emotions - sounds
(B) peripheral ( C) thoughts - ideas
( C) periphrastic (D) ideas - music
(D) ocular
(E) perspicacious (E) sight - personality
99. Because the inspector gave the plant a ________
92. The child’s earliest words deal with concrete objects
examination, he ________ many defects.
and actions, it is much later that he is able to grapple
with ________ (A) semi-annual - uncovered
(A) decisions (B) significant - neglected
(B) abstractions ( C) perfunctory - overlooked
( C) maxims (D) pertinent - unveiled
(D) opponents (E) routine - discovered
(E) mathematics
100.The playwright was known not for his original ideas
93. It is regrettable that the author saved many of his most but for his ________ of ideas that had been
brilliant line for the ________ by that time, most of the propounded by others.
audience had left. (A) invention
(A) ingenue (B) reiteration
(B) epilogue ( C) consideration
( C) climax (D) enlightenment
(D) curtain (E) rejection
(E) book

94. It would be difficult for one so ________ to be led to
believe that all men are equal and that we must
disregard race, colour and creed.
(A) adjustment (B) broadminded
( C) tolerant (D) intolerant
(E) democratic
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