FIB Practice Set 74

Question 1: Science advances in ____spiral in that each new conceptual scheme ____ the phenomena explained by its predecessors and adds to those explanations.

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	a discontinuous ... decries
	a repetitive..vitiates
	a widening..embraces
	an anomalous..captures
	an explosive..questions

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Question 2: Politeness is not a ____attribute of human behavior, but rather a central virtue, one whose very existence is increasingly being ____ by the faddish requirement to "speak one's mind."

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	superficial..threatened
	pervasive..undercut
	worthless..forestalled
	precious. repudiated
	trivial..affected

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Question 3: The painting was larger than it appeared to be, for, hanging in, a darkened recess of the chapel, it was ____ by the perspective.

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	improved
	aggrandized
	embellished
	jeopardized
	diminished

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Question 4: Because folk art is neither completely rejected nor accepted as art form by-art historians, their final evaluations of it necessarily remain ____.

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	arbitrary
	estimable
	orthodox
	unspoken
	equivocal

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Question 5: Because it is ______to ______ all the business costs related to employee discontent, an accurate estimate of the magnitude of these costs is not easily calculated.

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	difficult..measure
	impossible..justify
	improper..overlook
	useless..discover
	necessary..pinpoint

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