Part II Vocabulary (30 points)
　　Directions: There are thirty sentences in this section. Beneath each sentence there are four words or phrases marked a, b, c and d. Choose one word or phrase that correctly completes the sentence. Be sure mark your answer on your Answer Sheet.

　　1. He could explain an abstruse theory in very simple terms.
　　A. a puzzling
　　B. a hard to remember
　　C. a difficult to understand
　　D. an important

　　2. Dr. James said medical malpractice was a paradox in the United States, which he said had the best medical care in the world as well as the highest liability claim rate.
　　A. a maxim
　　B. a self-contradiction
　　C. an infrequent occurrence
　　D. a controversial issue

　　3. Almost every chemical plant we received information about is releasing staggering high rates of hazardous chemicals, even in routine releases.
　　A toxic
　　B. insecure
　　C. polluted
　　D. radiating

　　4. After three postwar decades during which they became cozily accustomed to raising wages and proliferating fringe benefits, the labor unions are being asked to tighten their belts to hold down inflation.
　　A causing little uneasiness to people who receive them
　　B. causing harm to one’s health
　　C. easy to acquire
　　D. spreading rapidly and excessively

　　5. The poem was a parody of nineteenth-century romantic verse.
　　A. a development
　　B. a reinforcement
　　C. a reflection
　　D. an imitation

　　6. The fireman had made an egregious blunder: they had to fill their gas tanks. Thus, the new hotel burned to the ground!
　　A. intolerable
　　B. moderate
　　C. superfluous
　　D. commensurate

　　7. Ever since, employers had complained they were bogged down under a welter of rules.
　　A. pressed
　　B. forbidden
　　C. controlled
　　D. buried

　　8. One of the salient characteristics of Ernest Hemingway’s novel is compact expression.
　　A. attractive
　　B. common
　　C. prominent
　　D. salty

　　9. Freedom from superstition is the result of the conviction that the world is not governed by caprice, but that it is a world of order and can be understood by man.
　　A. God
　　B. ghost
　　C. disorder
　　D. superpower

　　10. Crops are probably not affected significantly by the acid rain and, if they are, the effects can be mitigated.
　　A. shown clearly
　　B. studied carefully
　　C. explained
　　D. diminished

　　11. Since he was a votary of astrology, he believed implicitly in truth revealed by the stars.
　　A. veteran
　　B. believer
　　C. devotee
　　D. participant

　　12. Such orthodox thinking will not lead to a new solution to the problem.
　　A. strange
　　B. unusual
　　C ordinary
　　D. simple
　　13. Which of the following pairs are homonyms?
　　A. good bad
　　B. Paul Peter
　　C. lie die
　　D. two too

　　14. He was a man of _________size and great physical strength.
　　A prodigious
　　B protracted
　　C predominant
　　D. prolonged

　　15. Winsor McCay, the cartoonist, could draw with incredible _______: his comic strip about Little Nemo was characterized by marvelous draftsmanship and sequencing.
　　A. authenticity
　　B. inadequacy
　　C. virtuosity
　　D. briskness