1. Unlike a judge, who must act alone, a jury discusses a case and then reaches its decision as a group, thus minimizing the effect of ---bias.
(A) legal
(B) professional
(C) individual
(D) unexpected
(E) unarticulated
2. One reason why pertinent fossils are ---is that crucial stages of evolution occurred in the tropics where it is difficult to explore for fossils, and so their discovery has ----.
(A) unique... resulted
(B) unconcealable.. declined
(C) uncommon.. lagged
(D) recent.. resumed
(E) prominent .. failed
3. The harmonious accommodation reached by the warring factions exemplifies the axiom that --is possible among people of goodwill, even when they have previously held quite ---perspectives.
(A) candor.. indistinguishable
(B) tension.. congenial
(C) agreement.. unequivocal
(D) compromise.. antagonistic
(E) coexistence.. fixed
4. The prime minister tried to act but the plans were ---by her cabinet.
(A) frustrated
(B) discussed
(C) embellished
(D) overlooked
(E) unleashed
5. Amid the collapsing or out-of-control mechanical devices, the belching volcano had a disturbingly---quality, like a character who has stumbled onstage by mistake.
(A) anomalous
(B) overwrought
(C) obdurate
(D) ephemeral
(E) derelict
6. It is an error to regard the imagination as a mainly ---force; if it destroys and alters, it also---hitherto isolated beliefs, insights, and mental habits into strongly unified systems.
(A) visionary.. conjures
(B) beneficial.. converts
(C) revolutionary.. fuses
(D) negative.. shunts
(E) synthetic.. integrates
7. The semantic ---of ancient documents is not unique; even in our own time, many documents are difficult to decipher.
(A) aspect
(B) pattern
(C) opacity
(D) intention
(E) erudition
8. SCYTHE: REAPER::
(A) pipe: plumber
(B) crop: farmer
(C) grease: mechanic
(D) game: hunter
(E) axe: woodcutter
9. DISCOMBOBULATED: ORDER::
(A) political.. anarchy
(B) promiscuous: chaos
(C) rumpled: wrinkle
(D) strategic: logic
(E) erratic: consistency
10. FERVOR: ZEALOT::
(A) anger: critic
(B) wisdom: convert
(C) doubt: skeptic
(D) caution: philosopher
(E) fearlessness: investor
11. COLTISH: DISCIPLINE::
(A) selfish: ego
(B) mindless: memory
(C) loutish: grace
(D) fiendish: patience
(E) comely: rancor
12. AWL: PIERCE::
(A) lathe: penetrate
(B) drill: flatten
(C) pestle: hash
(D) sickle: smooth
(E) sifter: bake
13. COMPLIMENT: FLATTERY::
(A) eulogy: excoriation
(B) deference: subservience
(C) wisdom: wit
(D) sincerity: hypocrisy
(E) pride: obsequiousness
14. TAXONOMIST: CLASSIFY::
(A) carpenter: build
(B) parodist: laugh
(C) physician: study
(D) spy: equivocate
(E) neophyte: pray
15. UPBRAID: DISAPPROVAL::
(A) rankle: resentment
(B) mortify: distress
(C) beg: favor
(D) stifle: concealment
(E) lament: grief
16.ANATHEMA: CURSE::
(A) charity: saint
(B) pagan: magic
(C) bishop: vestment
(D) prayer: sin
(E) theocracy: state
Although scientists observe that an organism's behavior falls into rhythmic patterns, they disagree about how these patterns are affected when the organism is transported to a (5) new environment. One experimenter, Brown, brought oysters from Connecticut waters to Illinois waters. She noted that the oysters initially opened their shells widest when it was high tide in Connecticut, but that after fourteen (10)days their rhythms had adapted to the tide schedule in Illinois. Although she could not posit an unequivocal causal relationship betwe