FIB Practice Set 47

Question 1: There are no solitary, free-living creatures; every form of life is _____other forms.
segregated from
parallel to
dependent on
overshadowed by
mimicked by

Question 2: The sale of Alaska was not so much an American coup as a matter of _____for an imperial Russia that was short of cash and unable to _____ its own continental coastline.
negligence..fortify
custom..maintain
convenience..stabilize
expediency..defend
exigency..reinforce

Question 3: Despite assorted effusions to the contrary, there is no necessary link between scientific skill and human¬ism, and, quite possibly, there may be something of a _____between them.
generality
fusion.
congruity
dichotomy
reciprocity

Question 4: A common argument claims that in folk art, the artist's subordination of technical mastery to intense feeling _____ the direct communication of emotion to the viewer.
facilitates
averts
neutralizes
implies
represses

Question 5: While not completely nonplussed by the unusually caustic responses from members of the audience, the speaker was nonetheless visibly _____by their lively criticism.
humiliated
discomfited
deluded
disgraced
tantalized

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