1.	A sentence completion question: The sentence below has one or two words missing. From the lettered choices that follow, pick the word or pair of words that best fills the blank(s). Dr. Maria Luvanos believes that as more Hispanics enter the prolonged process of Americanization, so too, will each ethnicity act under the new directive of ________, absent lofty American ________ to guide them.
	(A)   assimilation . . aberrations
	(B)   ethnic preservation . . guidelines
	(C)   acculturation . . principles
	(D)   resistance . . goals
	(E)   absorption . . processes

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2.	A sentence completion question: The sentence below has one or two words missing. From the lettered choices that follow, pick the word or pair of words that best fills the blank(s). The author's ________ manner in person and ________ demeanor in interviews made it quite difficult to discern insight into his abstruse works.
	(A)   condescending . . garrulous
	(B)   demeaning . . eloquent
	(C)   laconic . . gregarious
	(D)   reticent . . taciturn
	(E)   fluctuating . . frivolous

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3.	An analogy question: The pair of words in capitals expresses a relationship. From the choices that follow, pick the pair of words that most nearly expresses the same relationship. PROFLIGATE : ASCETICISM ::
	(A)   spendthrift : frugality
	(B)   heathen : atheism
	(C)   devotee : religion
	(D)   heretic : iconoclasm
	(E)   teacher : pedantry

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4.	An analogy question: The pair of words in capitals expresses a relationship. From the choices that follow, pick the pair of words that most nearly expresses the same relationship. ENIGMATIC : EXPLICATE ::
	(A)   guilty : exonerate
	(B)   obscure : obfuscate
	(C)   inappropriate : coach
	(D)   obsolete : update
	(E)   contumelious : confound

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