QUESTION: 49

The professor's oldest colleague was selected to give the ____________ at the funeral.

eulogy
elegy
epigraph
eponymy
epitaph

Answer(s): A

Explanation:

What is the name of the kind of talk that is delivered at a funeral? Eulogy. If you know this, the answer pops out at you. If you did not know it, consider each of the choices in their turn. Epigraph is a quote at the beginning of a piece of writing. Eponymy is something with the same name as something else. Epitaph is what is written on a gravestone. That leaves A. and (B). Elegy is a poem written in memory. You don't "give" a poem. That leaves (A), the correct answer.

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QUESTION: 50

The new team member's ____________ was an encouragement to the rest of the team, who had become ____________ by the string of defeats.

enthusiasm. .elated
vigor. .inundated
ebullience. .dispirited
dourness. .undone
excessiveness. .downcast

Answer(s): C

Explanation:

On this dual-blank sentence, let's do the first blank first since we know that the blank was an encouragement to the rest of the team. Good spirits would be an encouragement to the rest of the team. You can eliminate D. and (E). As for the second blank, what does a string of defeats do to a team? It discourages them. (A), elated, does not match this. Nor does (B), inundated. But (C), dispirited, fits well and you've already eliminated D. and (E). Choice C. is the best answer.

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QUESTION: 51

By the end of the campaign both candidates had resorted to ____________ the other.

commending
denigrating
mollifying
conceding
swindling

Answer(s): B

Explanation:

You might not know what resorted means, but if you know it's a negative word, you can make an educated guess. Which of the answer choices is also a negative verb? (A), (C), and D. are not. E. is not a good answer because swindling has nothing to do with campaigning. Choice B. is the best choice.

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QUESTION: 52

The cat ____________ crept across the lawn, gracefully ____________ the dog.

felicitously. .enticing
swiftly. .defeating
acrobatically. .apprehending
maladroitly. .undermining
deftly. .eluding

Answer(s): E

Explanation:

The second half of the sentence gives more clues, so you ought to start here. What are cats most likely to do to dogs? Avoid them, probably--which will lead you to (E), the correct answer. But for good measure, let's eliminate the other possibilities. For a cat to undermine a dog isn't logical. Being undermined is something that happens to humans or projects, so you can definitely eliminate (D). One could say that a cat enticed a dog to do something, but it isn't good usage simply to say that the cat enticed the dog. Eliminate (A). Is it likely for a cat to gracefully apprehend a dog? No. Eliminate (C).

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