FIB Practice Set 67
Question 1: Laws do not ensure social order since laws can always _____ which makes them unless the authorities have the will and the power to detect and punish wrongdoing.| contested..provisional | |
| circumvented..antiquated | |
| repealed..vulnerable | |
| violated..ineffective | |
| modified..unstable |
Question 2: Since she believed him to be both candid and just¬ worthy she refused to consider the possibility that his statement had been ______
| irrelevant | |
| facetious | |
| mistaken | |
| critical | |
| insincere |
Question 3: Ironically, the party leaders encountered no greater ______ their efforts to build a progressive party than the ______ of the progressives already elected to the legislature.
| support for.. advocacy | |
| threat to..promise | |
| benefit from..success | |
| obstacle to.. resistance | |
| praise for..reputation |
Question 4: It is strange how words shape our thoughts and trap us at the bottom of deeply ______ canyons of thinking, their imprisoning sides carved out by the ______ of past usage.
| cleaved..eruptions | |
| rooted..flood | |
| incised...river | |
| ridged..ocean | |
| notched..mountains |
Question 5: That his intransigence in making decisions ______ no open disagreement from any quarter was well known; thus, clever subordinates learned the art of ______ their opinions in casual remarks.
| elicited..quashing | |
| engendered..recasting | |
| brooked..intimating | |
| embodied. _instigating | |
| forbore..emending |
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