11. In response to the follies of today's commercial and political worlds, the
author does not ____ inflamed indignation, but rather ____ the
detachment and smooth aphoristic prose of an eighteenth-century wit.
(A) display.. rails at
(B) rely on.. avoids
(C) suppress.. clings to
(D) express.. affects
(E) resort to.. spurns

12. Vaillant, who has been particularly interested in the means by which people
attain mental health, seems to be looking for ____ answers: a way to
close the book on at least a few questions about human nature.
(A) definitive
(B) confused
(C) temporary
(D) personal
(E) derivative

13. Imposing steep fines on employers for on-the-job injuries to workers could

be an effective ____ to creating a safer workplace, especially in the case of
employers with poor safety records.
(A) antidote
(B) alternative
(C) addition
(D) deterrent
(E) incentive

14. In retrospect, Gordon's students appreciated her ____ assignments,
realizing that such assignments were specifically designed to ____ original
thought rather than to review the content of her course.
(A) didactic.. ingrain
(B) intimidating.. thwart
(C) difficult.. discourage
(D) conventional.. explicate
(E) enigmatic.. stimulate

15.The insecticide proved ____; by killing the weak adults of a species, it
assured that the strong ones would mate among themselves and produce
offspring still more ____ to its effects.
(A) ineffective.. hostile
(B) cruel.. vulnerable
(C) feasible.. susceptible
(D) necessary.. immune
(E) counterproductive.. resistant

16. She writes across generational lines, making the past so ____ that our
belief that the present is the true locus of experience is undermined.
(A) complex
(B) distant
(C) vivid
(D) mysterious
(E) mundane

17. The technical know-how, if not the political ____, appears already at hand
to feed the world's exploding population and so to ____ at last the ancient
scourges of malnutrition and famine.
(A) will.. weaken
(B) expertise.. articulate
(C) doubt.. banish
(D) power.. denounce
(E) commitment.. eradicate

18. In small farming communities, accident victims rarely sue or demand
compensation: transforming a personal injury into a ____ someone else is
viewed as an attempt to ____ responsibility for one's own actions.
(A) conspiracy against.. assume
(B) claim against.. elude
(C) boon for.. minimize
(D) distinction for.. shift
(E) trauma for.. proclaim

19. The pungent verbal give-and-take among the s makes the novel
____ reading, and this very ____ suggests to me that some of the opinions
voiced may be the author's.
(A) disturbing.. flatness
(B) tedious. inventiveness
(C) lively.. spiritedness
(D) necessary.. steadiness
(E) rewarding.. frivolousness

20. The fortresslike facade of the Museum of Cartoon Art seems calculated to
remind visitors that the comic strip is an art form that has often been ____
by critics.
(A) charmed
(B) assailed
(C) unnoticed
(D) exhilarated
(E) overwhelmed