Each item in this subtest consists of a sentence with one or two blanks. Choose the word or set of words for each blank that best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.
You will have 12 minutes to complete 30 questions.
The sheer bulk of data from the mass media seems to overpower us and drive us to ------- accounts for an easily and readily digestible portion of news.
Linguists have now confirmed what experienced users of ASL—American Sign Language—have always implicitly known: ASL is a grammatically ------- language in that it is capable of expressing every possible syntactic relation.
The newborn human infant is not a passive figure, nor an active one, but what might be called an actively ------- one, eagerly attentive as it is to sights and sounds.
Despite assorted effusions to the contrary, there is no necessary link between scientific skill and humanism, and, quite possibly, there may be something of a ------- between them.
Their ------- of loyalties is first to oneself, next to kin, then to fellow tribe members, and finally to compatriots.
The notion that cultural and biological influences ------- determine cross-cultural diversity is discredited by the fact that, in countless aspects of human existence, it is cultural programming that overwhelmingly accounts for cross-population variance.
William James lacked the usual ------- death; writing to his dying father, he spoke without ------- about the old man's impending death.
He was regarded by his followers as something of -------, not only because of his insistence on strict discipline, but also because of his ------- adherence to formal details.
Opponents of the expansion of the market economy, although in -------, continued to constitute ------- political force throughout the century.
A common argument claims that in folk art, the artist's subordination of technical mastery to intense feeling ------- the direct communication of emotion to the viewer.
The belief that science destroys the arts appears to be supported by historical evidence that the arts have ------- only when the sciences have been -------.
Because medieval women's public participation in spiritual life was not welcomed by the male establishment, a compensating ------- religious writings, inoffensive to the members of the establishment because of its -------, became important for many women.
Current data suggest that, although ------- states between fear and aggression exist, fear and aggression are as distinct physiologically as they are psychologically.
The influence of the Timaeus among early philosophical thinkers was -------, if only because it was the sole dialogue ------- in Europe for almost 1,000 years.
Nature's energy efficiency often ------- human technology: despite the intensity of the light fireflies produce, the amount of heat is negligible; only recently have humans developed chemical light-producing systems whose efficiency ------- the firefly's system.
While not completely nonplussed by the unusually caustic responses from members of the audience, the speaker was nonetheless visibly ------- by their lively criticism.
The action and characters in a melodrama can be so immediately ------- that all observers can hiss the villain with an air of smug but enjoyable -------.
This final essay, its prevailing kindliness ------- by occasional flashes of savage irony, bespeaks the ------- character of the author.
It is ironic that a critic of such overwhelming vanity now suffers from a measure of the oblivion to which he was forever ------- others; in the end, all his ------- has only worked against him.
The Gibsons were little given to ------- in any form; not one of them was afraid of -------, of being and seeming unlike their neighbors.
Scholars' sense of the uniqueness of the central concept of "the state" at the time when political science became an academic field quite naturally led to striving for a correspondingly ------- mode of study.
In eighth-century Japan, people who ------- wasteland were rewarded with official ranks as part of an effort to overcome the shortage of ------- fields.
In the design of medical experiments, the need for ------- assignment of treatments to patients must be ------- the difficulty of persuading patients to participate in an experiment in which their treatment is decided by chance.
Although his attempts to appear psychotic were so ------- as to be almost -------, there is evidence that Ezra Pound was able to avoid standing trial for treason merely by faking symptoms of mental illness.
Famous among job seekers for its -------, the company, quite apart from generous salaries, bestowed on its executives annual bonuses and such ------- as low-interest home mortgages and company cars.
Even after ------- against the ------- of popular sovereignty were included, major figures in the humanistic disciplines remained skeptical about the proposal to extend suffrage to the masses.
Just as astrology was for centuries ------- faith, countering the strength of established churches, so today believing in astrology is an act of ------- the professional sciences.
If duty is the natural ------- of one's ------- the course of future events, then people who are powerful have duty placed on them whether they like it or not.
Though dealers insist that professional art dealers can make money in the art market, even an ------- knowledge is not enough: the art world is so fickle that stock-market prices are ------- by comparison.
The ------- questions that consistently structure the study of history must be distinguished from merely ------- questions, which have their day and then pass into oblivion.