Just as reminiscences of a childhood spent in rural Mexico color the poet�s work,

so too does the experience of war _________ her poetry.

inform mimic invalidate defer presage
28. The peanut is often (i) _________ referred to as a nut; (ii) _________ to such
people, it is actually a legume.
Blank (i) Blank (ii) archaically unbeknownst erroneously abhorrent
deftly consanguineous
29. The (i) _________ child approached the diving board; (ii) _________ water in
the first place, he found the prospect of jumping into it from some height even
more frightening.
Blank (i) Blank (ii) tremulous beguiled by coltish chary of cumbersome repulsed by
30. Soldier ants are wingless, sterile females that guard the colony and supply it
with food, thus acting as both (i) _________ and laborers as the (ii) _________
queen produces enough (iii) _________ to continually populate the colony.
Blank (i) Blank (ii) Blank (iii) sentries fecund forebears sages efficacious
progeny sycophants imperious harbingers
31. The Paris Commune was a government that ruled France for about two months in
1871; despite its (i) _________ reign, it was at the time (ii) _________ as a sign
of the emergence of a powerful working class.
Blank (i) Blank (ii) equivocal discounted ephemeral recanted omnipotent heralded
32. The property, hidden by overgrown plants, had not only fallen into (i)
_________, but appeared positively (ii) _________ by vermin.
Blank (i) Blank (ii) misanthropy overrun desuetude outdone debauchment hampered
33. That the CEO�s son was pleasant enough was not in doubt, but the (i) _________
young man was hardly (ii) _________ enough to bargain on the company�s behalf.
Blank (i) Blank (ii) puissant egoistic restive blithe complaisant artful
34. He has such a pleasingly (i) _________ personality that it�s hard to be
bothered by the (ii) _________ in his past.
Blank (i) Blank (ii) sanguine peccadilloes high-handed incendiaries salubrious
achievements
35. The substitute French teacher accidentally walked into the wrong classroom,
creating _________ situation when she began speaking French to 15 mystified physics
students.
an odious a potable a risible a cursory an arch
36. The (i) _________ young employee was so