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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