FIB Practice Set 59

Question 1: While-Parker is very outspoken on issues she cares about, she is not _____; she concedes the _____ of opposing arguments when they expose weaknesses inherent in her own.

	fickle..validity
	arrogant..restraint
	fanatical ..strength
	congenial. -incompatibility
	unyielding..speciousness

Question 2: Hampshire's assertions, far from showing that we can _____ the ancient puzzles about objectivity, reveal the issue to be even more _____ than we had thought.

	adapt ..pressing
	dismiss..relevant
	rediscover..unconventional
	admire..elusive
	appreciate..interesting

Question 3: Usually the first to spot data that were inconsistent with-other findings; in-this particular experiment she let a number of _____ results slip by.

	inaccurate
	verifiable
	redundant
	salient
	anomalous

Question 4: There is perhaps some truth in that waggish old definition of a scholar _____a siren that calls attention to a fog without doing anything to _____ it.

	describe
	cause
	analyze
	dispel
	thicken

Question 5: Cryogenic-energy-storage has the advantage of being suitable in any _____ regardless of geography or geology, factors that may _____ both underground gas storage and pumped hydroelectric storage.