FIB Practice Set 9

Question 1: There has been a tendency among art historians not so much to revise as to eliminate the concept of the Renaissance —to _________not only its uniqueness, but its very existence.

	explain
	extol
	transmute
	regret
	contest

Question 2: Employees had become so inured to the caprices of top management's personnel policies that they greeted the announcement of a company-wide dress code with____.

	astonishment
	impassivity
	resentment
	apprehension
	confusion

Question 3: Although adolescent maturational and developmental states occur in an orderly sequence, their timing ___________ with regard to onset and duration.

	lasts
	varies
	falters
	accelerates
	dwindles

Question 4: Many of the earliest colonial houses that are still standing have been so modified and enlarged that the ____ design is no longer ____.

	pertinent…relevant
	intended...necessary
	embellished…attractive
	appropriate...applicable
	initial...discernible

Question 5: While the delegate clearly sought to ____ the optimism that has emerged recently, she stopped short of suggesting that the conference was near collapse and might produce nothing of significance.