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

  1. eulogy
  2. elegy
  3. epigraph
  4. eponymy
  5. 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 grave stone. That leaves A. and (B).Elegy is a poem written in memory. You don't "give" a poem. That leaves (A), the correct answer.



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

  1. enthusiasm. .elated
  2. vigor. .inundated
  3. ebullience. .dispirited
  4. dourness. .undone
  5. 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). ChoiceC.is the best answer.



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

  1. commending
  2. denigrating
  3. mollifying
  4. conceding
  5. 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.
ChoiceB.is the best choice.



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

  1. felicitously. .enticing
  2. swiftly. .defeating
  3. acrobatically. .apprehending
  4. maladroitly. .undermining
  5. 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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