Questions 1 to 10 below are Sentence Equivalence Questions.Select the two answer choices that, when used to complete the sentence, fit the meaning of the sentence as a whole and produce completed sentences that are alike in meaning.
1. ____ adherence to outdated political ideas and defunct sects characterized the last years of a man who had, surprisingly, been one of the most flexible thinkers of the 1920s.
Intransigent
Vacillating
Sectarian
Confused
Frantic
Dogged
2. The ____ effects of constant noise drove Natasha to seek refuge in a more salubrious spot until she recovered her mental equilibrium.
stimulating
debilitating
deafening
enervating
soporific
precipitating
3. Grandfather liked us children to learn self-discipline, and, unlike many others of his generation, seldom ____ us even for those actions that we felt deserved censure.
rewarded
consoled
upbraided
applauded
cherished
chided
4. To the layman, a philosopher who attempts to elucidate a complex moral dilemma by reducing it to a simple yet apparently ridiculous test case seems rather to ____ the issue.
ridicule
obfuscate
over-simplify
denigrate
becloud
attenuate
5. Fraser taught by example: he ____ long-windedness in his own lectures and berated his students for any tendency toward circumlocution.
eschewed
epitomized
accentuated
embraced
welcomed
shunned
6. If he had not had the ____ to follow his own iconoclastic theories in the face of the apparently unassailable conclusion of the accepted experts in the field, progress would have been inestimably slower in this area of knowledge.
incentive
audacity
temerity
incapacity
unwillingness
wisdom
7. With an abiding interest in Medieval poetry, Boris found it difficult to relate to his peers in school whose ____ ran to nothing even remotely literary.
predilections
successes
inclinations
backgrounds
achievements
amities
8. The novel is admittedly not the finest example of its genre, but I object to the ____ preface written by a supposed expert on detective fiction from whom we might have expected at least one or two perceptive comments.
egregious
inane
pretentious
subliminal
vacuous
unexamined
9. It is not only the poor and uneducated that fall prey to ____ ; desperate or unhappy individuals from any walk of life or social background can be duped.
mavericks
malcontents
quacks
charlatans
agitators
hypochondriacs
10. The director, accustomed to unquestioning loyalty, was chagrined when she discovered that her directions had been ____ by the chief executive.
