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One theory holds that humans became highly …………….. because evolution selected those of our forefathers who were especially good at solving problems.

Choose the word that best completes the sentence. Is it true that the greenhouse , the feared heating of the earth's atmosphere by burning coal and oil, is just another false alarm?

Choose the word that best completes the sentence. In most people, the charitable and ………….. motives operate in some reasonable kind of balance.

Whatever the immediate ................. of the Nigerian-led intervention, West African diplomats said the long-term impact of recent events in Sierra Leone would be disastrous.

Choose the word or phrase that best completes the sentence. The last thing I would wish to do is to ……………….. a sense of ill will, deception or animosity in an otherwise idyllic environment.

Choose the word or phrase (1), (2), (3), or (4) that best completes the sentence. While the movie offers unsurpassed action, …………….. script makes this the least of the three "Die Hards."

Relations between Communist China and the Soviet Union have unfortunately begun to ……………….. again after a period of relative restraint in their ideological quarrel. We can only hope that common sense…

But at this point, it's pretty hard to hurt my ………… . I've heard it all, and I'm still here.

Be sure your child wears sunscreen whenever she's ……………… to the sun.

Many of these popular best-sellers will soon become dated and ………………., and will eventually go out of print.

Choose the word or phrase (1), (2), (3), or (4) that best completes each sentence. The men who arrived in the ………………… of criminals were actually undercover police officers.

Choose the word or phrase (1), (2), (3), or (4) that best completes the sentence. It was more …………… to take my meals in bed, where all I had to do was push away my tray with its uneaten food and fall…

His victory sparked a rare wave of ………….. in his home country. Nicaraguans poured into the streets, honking car-horns and waving the national flag.

He liked the ease and glitter of the life, and the luster .................. on him by being a member of this group of rich and conspicuous people.

Choose the word that best completes the sentence. ---------- eye contact with your audience while giving your presentation.

If ---------- hold true, future global population growth will be heavily concentrated in Latin America, Africa, and South Asia. 1) projections 2) inclinations 3) interventions 4) realizations

Warning: Anyone caught stealing from these premises will be ----------.

The manager's inflammatory comments are just ---------- an already difficult situation. He should think before he opens his mouth next time.

Choose the word that best completes the sentence. The internet seems to have almost every mode of communication ever invented!

The woman is known as an ---------- woman because she gives away millions of dollars every year to various charities.

Jen takes medicine at the first sight of a/an ---------- headache; Lin, by contrast, resists taking medicine even when she's really sick. 1) incipient 2) skeptical 3) ambiguous 4) credible

Please leave ---------- directions for the housekeeper, so she knows what needs to be done.

The islands ---------- their name from the sacred images found on them by the early European navigators.

Choose the word or phrase that best completes the sentence. People love the Presidio because it is in close ---------- to many area attractions, including the famous aquarium, the SFB Morse Botanical…

Choose the word or phrase that best completes the sentence. This system, which for many years subsequently was regarded as authoritative, has been subjected to ---------- criticism by later…

Choose the word that best completes the sentence. Although Norman could ---------- his sister's story about her innocence to absolve her, he refused to do so because he was angry at her.

When he came in to tea, silent, ----------, and with tear-stained face, everybody pretended not to notice anything.

Since color is absorbed as it travels through water, the deeper you are, the more likely you will notice a --------- in the clarity of reds, oranges and yellows.

As the students argued, the teacher tried to ---------- them into silence with the threat of a detention. 1) coerce 2) condense 3) condemn 4) impose

Choose the word that best completes the sentence. Teachers who consider cartoons and comic books ---------- to students' literacy skills often use class time to deride these media.

Choose the word or phrase (1), (2), (3), or (4) that best completes the sentence. Salt is valued not only because of its ---------- as a condiment and preservative, but also because they are…

During the ---------- between arriving at the airport and boarding the plane, we'll probably do a bit of window shopping. 1) interval 2) intervention 3) imbalance 4) inconsistency

Choose the word that best completes the sentence. That ugly vacant lot ---------- from the beauty of the neighborhood.

Choose the word or phrase (1), (2), (3), or (4) that best completes the sentence. At first, the Savings Mart didn't do well, but after it lowered its prices and increased its advertising, the store…

The movement of clouds may seem to be ----------, but scientists know that there is a pattern to how they move. 1) compatible 2) specific 3) transient 4) random

Since my math class was very difficult for me, I consider the B that I got for the course to be a great ----------. 1) illusion 2) triumph 3) obligation 4) disapproval

Choose the word that best completes the sentence. The hardware store sells ---------- stones made of plastic that you can open and hide a house key in. Then you can hide the key by leaving the…

Choose the word or phrase (1), (2), (3), or (4) that best completes the sentence. Rhoda's budget is so tight that she felt it would be ---------- to buy herself even a ten-dollar pair of earrings.

When the climbers reached the peak of the tallest mountain in the world, they felt it was a ----------- occasion and were filled with pride.

Choose the word that best completes the sentence. The ramification of committing a murder is to serve a prison sentence even if you ---------- your actions.

It is often an attorney's job to construe the meaning of a contract and then share that ---------- with a client and, if needed, with a judge or jury. 1) justification 2) interpretation 3)…

His words should be understood in ................ in order to be correctly interpreted. 1) direction 2) context 3) expert 4) interest

She told her friends about her intention to go abroad, changing her first decision to keep it ................... . 1) secret 2) familiar 3) final 4) positive

Choose the word that best completes the sentence: She has ................ in her library the complete works of many Persian poets such as Hafez, Mowlana, Sa'di, Nezami and Ferdowsi.

A defining ................... of online art is that it can be seen anywhere by anyone with an Internet-connected computer.

Choose the word (1), (2), (3), or (4) that best completes the sentence. For decades, the hygiene hypothesis has posited that the germs we are exposed to in early childhood can .................. us…

Choose the word that best completes the sentence: I was in need of money and not at all ..................... about experiments, so I concurred and received the new medicine at the local hospital.

Some people suffer from a chronic case of rabid chauvinism; they brandish the banners and shields of their own tribe and .................. those of the others.