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To succeed in the training program requires great ______; you have to endure many months of rigorous exercise.

  1. reluctance
  2. creativity
  3. diffidence
  4. insensitivity
  5. tenacity

Answer(s): E

Explanation:

To endure many months of training you need great tenacity, or persistence



Since eating that ______ amount of food I have become ______.

  1. substantial .. unchanged
  2. miniscule .. corpulent
  3. gargantuan .. emaciated
  4. prodigious .. bilious
  5. impeccable .. fastidious

Answer(s): D

Explanation:

If you eat a substantial amount of food, you will not be unchanged(unaffected). If you eat a miniscule amount, you will not become corpulent(excessively fat). If you eat a gargantuan(suitable to a giant) amount, you will certainly not become emaciated(thin to the point of starvation). But if you eat a prodigious(unusually enormous) amount, you are very likely to become bilious(sick to the stomach).



The performer was exceedingly ______; she could juggle three apples at once.

  1. inept
  2. contentious
  3. complacent
  4. adroit
  5. astute

Answer(s): D

Explanation:

If the performer can juggle three apples at once, she is remark ably skillful, or adroit.



I am ______ about the job; although the atmosphere is pleasant, the work is boring.

  1. ambivalent
  2. exultant
  3. timorous
  4. laconic
  5. reticent

Answer(s): A

Explanation:

A job that is both pleasant and boring is likely to arouse feelings that are mixed, or ambivalent.






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