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15. Since she believed him to be both candid and trustworthy, she refused to consider the possibility that his statement had been______.
(A) irrelevant
(B) facetious
(C) mistaken
(D) critical
(E) insincere
(F) hypocritical
16. While the delegate clearly sought to______the optimism that has emerged recently, she stopped short of suggesting that the conference was near collapse and might produce nothing of significance.
(A) substantiate
(B) dampen
(C) encourage
(D) elucidate
(E) rekindle
(F) check
17. Far from viewing Jefferson as a skeptical but enlightened intellectual, historians of the 1960’s portrayed him as______thinker, eager to fill the young with his political orthodoxy while censoring ideas he did not like.
(A) an adventurous
(B) a doctrinaire
(C) an eclectic
(D) a dictatorial
(E) a judicious
(F) a cynical
18. Rather than enhancing a country’s security, the successful development of nuclear weapons could serve at first to increase that country’s _________.
(A) boldness
(B) influence
(C) fragility
(D) responsibility
(E) moderation
(F) vulnerability
19. After a slow sales start early in the year, mobile homes have been gaining favor as______to increasingly expensive conventional housing.
(A) reaction
(B) an addition
(C) an introduction
(D) an alternative
(E) a substitute
(F) a challenge
20. Hydrogen is the ______element of the universe in that it provides the building blocks from which the other elements are produced.
(A) steadiest
(B) expendable
(C) lightest
(D) final
(E) fundamental
(F) essential
21. Psychology has slowly evolved into an______scientific discipline that now functions autonomously with the same privileges and responsibilities as other sciences.
(A) independent
(B) unusual
(C) outmoded
(D) uncontrolled
(E) inactive