1. The debate lasted _____on into the night.
A. long B. longer C. well D. better
2. “whoever gave you that information is guilty of a clear breach of professional behavior,” she said when she felt able to control the ____ tremor in her voice.
A. Sensitive B. incipient C. transient D. revealing
3. ____Steve said:”I will be coming back and if conditions do not worsen so unexpectedly I hope to meet you again.”
A. Cryptically B. Deservedly C. Exceedingly D. Excessirely
4. She hurried across the course and pushed through a knot of ____ spectators who were standing gloomily by the area which had been cordoned off.
A. Nebulous B. certifiable C. indisputable D. groulish
5. The well-known journalist says that despite the excesses if some tabloids, freedom of the press is ____ and should remain so.
A. Lavish B. sacrosanct C. gracious D. odious
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6. People have a great deal of respect for the scientist, therefore what he says ____ weight.
7. With his revolutionary zeal and scientific approach he is sure to come off with ____ colors on this research task.
8. Man gains the ____ hand over nature in the struggle against natural calamities.
9. I was intending to go at once, but on second____ I decided to wait for a few days.
10. The tailor never gets work finished on time, but to give the devil his ____ , he always makes a beautiful job of it.
11. His line of reasoning is so shot through with fallacies that it does not ____ water at all.
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