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  1. Although the villagers' lives were profoundly different from her own, Jing-Mae felt a deep ______ for the people when she served in the Peace Corps.
  2. A.
    reparation
    B.
    affinity
    C.
    injunction
    D.
    exigency
    E.
    analogy

  3. Sometimes late at night Sharon would gaze joyfully at her children as they slept and ______ in their innocence.
  4. A.
    sneer
    B.
    ostracize
    C.
    revel
    D.
    repudiate
    E.
    antiquate

  5. In the famous balcony scene, Romeo ______ Juliet's beauty in one of the most romantic soliloquies ever written.
  6. A.
    sanctions
    B.
    extols
    C.
    peruses
    D.
    beguiles
    E.
    fetters

  7. It was ______ to think that it could possibly snow in the middle of the desert.
  8. A.
    advantageous
    B.
    philosophical
    C.
    eroding
    D.
    preventative
    E.
    preposterous

  9. Every evening at the restaurant, the reporter would eavesdrop on the Mayor's conversations in order to ______ any information that could make headlines.
  10. A.
    ignore
    B.
    glean
    C.
    extol
    D.
    extend
    E.
    narrate

  11. The surgeon placed a ______ on the femoral artery to bind it during the long and exhausting surgery.
  12. A.
    ligature
    B.
    doctrine
    C.
    premise
    D.
    synopsis
    E.
    degeneration

  13. By sheer ______ force, the men pushed the truck to the side of the road and out of danger.
  14. A.
    virile
    B.
    persnickety
    C.
    meticulous
    D.
    suave
    E.
    contentious

  15. Based on his recent poor decisions, it was obvious that Seth lacked even a ______ of good sense.
  16. A.
    debasement
    B.
    diversion
    C.
    disapprobation
    D.
    submission
    E.
    modicum

  17. To settle the dispute, the students elected a faculty member to serve as a(n) ______.
  18. A.
    maverick
    B.
    dystopia
    C.
    arbiter
    D.
    fiduciary
    E.
    martyr

  19. The ______ newspaper accounts of the city scandal caused some readers to question the truth of the stories.
  20. A.
    lurid
    B.
    vivacious
    C.
    blithesome
    D.
    prolific
    E.
    amicable