(C) a contrast between two theories about the effects of a lowering of CO2 levels in the atmosphere
(D) a generalization about the efficiency of meteorological recording stations
(E) a hypothesis about the relationship between atmospheric gases and changes in climate
28. ABBREVIATE:
(A) extend
(B) advance
(C) reach
(D) diffuse
(E) deter
29. REFUTABLE:
(A) understandable
(B) unavoidable
(C) indispensable
(D) inexpressible
(E) indisputable
30. OSCILLATF:
(A) remain static
(B) measure approximately
(C) describe qualitatively
(D) impede movement
(E) impose silence
31. EXODUS:
(A) search
(B) retraction
(C) influx
(D) application
(E) meeting
32. REPROBATE:
(A) difficult situation
(B) righteous individual
(C) complex relationship
(D) healthy society
(E) unified group
33. PIQUANCY:
(A) delicacy
(B) solidity
(C) acidity
(D) wholesomeness
(E) blandness
34. CAPITULATION:
(A) resistance
(B) detraction
(C) dejection
(D) perception
(E) perversity
35. DESICCATE:
(A) reactivate
(B) squeeze
(C) calcify
(D) rarefy
(E) drench
36. HERMETIC:
(A) easily comprehended
(B) logically designed
(C) superficially attractive
(D) graceless
(E) naive
37. DAUNT:
(A) make resolute
(B) increase vigor
(C) instill in
(D) demand from
(E) summon up
38. EQUANIMITY:
(A) exaggeration
(B) foolishness
(C) excitability
(D) notoriety
(E) capability
(A) revived.. empirical
(B) germinated.. unfounded
(C) endured.. irrelevant
(D) erupted.. reasonable
(E) proliferated.. substantiated
2. Even though many persons in the audience jeered the star throughout the play, she ---- curtain calls.
(A) refused all
(B) adored some
(C) delayed several
(D) appeared for
(E) balked at
3. The most technologically advanced societies have been responsible for the greatest ----; indeed, savagery seems to be in direct proportion to ----.
(A) wars.. viciousness
(B) catastrophes.. ill-will
(C) atrocities.. development
(D) inventions.. know-how
(E) triumphs.. civilization
4. The combination of ------and ------ in Edmund's speech can be starting, especially when he slyly slips in some juicy vulgarity amid the mellifluous circumlocutions of a gentleman of the old school.
(A) tact.. innocence
(B) raciness.. ribaldry
(C) piousness.. modesty
(D) elegance.. earthiness
(E) propriety.. bashfulness
5. For many young people during the Roaring Twenties, a disgust with the excesses of American culture ---- a wanderlust to provoke an exodus abroad.
(A) stymied
(B) overwhelmed
(C) reflected
(D) combined with
(E) conflicted with