FIB Practice Set 14
Question 1: Having no sense of moral obligation, Shipper was as little subject to the of conscience after he acted as he was motivated by it’s ____before he acted.rewards..chastisement | |
balm..eloquence | |
reproaches..promptings | |
ridicule..allure | |
qualms..atonement |
Question 2: Freud derived psychoanalytic knowledge of child¬hood indirectly: he ____childhood processes from adult
reconstructed..memory | |
condoned..experience | |
incorporated..behavior | |
released..monotony | |
inferred..anticipation |
Question 3: While she initially suffered the fate of many pio¬neers—the incomprehension of her colleagues ______octogenarian Nobel laureate Barbara McClintock has lived to ____the triumph of her once scientific theories.
descry..innovative | |
regret..insignificant | |
perpetuate..tentative | |
enjoy..authoritative | |
savor..heterodox |
Question 4: Broadway audiences have become inured to ----¬and so --- to be pleased as to make their ready ovations meaningless as an indicator of the quality of the production before them.
sentimentality..reluctant | |
condescension. _disinclined | |
histrionics..unlikely | |
cleverness..eager | |
mediocrity..desperate |
Question 5: Any language is a conspiracy against experience in the sense that it is a collective attempt to ____ experience by reducing it into discrete parcels.
extrapolate | |
transcribe | |
complicate | |
amplify | |
manage |
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