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EXERCISES ON PHD READING VOCABULARY A. Complete the sentence with the best choice. 1. The picture ______ happy memories of his heyday.A. relived B. necessitated C. revoked D. evoke 2. America is suffering from what it could otherwise have ______ itself.A. spared B. spoiled C. obscured D. incurred 3. The city was _______ by bomb threats. A. haunted B. harnessed C. hampered D. misguided 4. Their hypothesis was ______ by their new findings.A. coveted B. counteracted C. corroborated D. coordinated 5. The room looked different in ______ light.A. seduced B. subdued C. reduced D. endued 6. He was ______ by his failure in business.A. unnerved B. undiminished C. unwarranted D. undaunted 7. She has a ______ for writing poetry. A. flair B. resource C. conjecture D. posterity 8. Most inns are less costly than hotels of ______ standards. A. peer B. equivalent C. approximate D. commensurate 9. The minister ______ the governments intention to reduce tax. A. affirmed B. admitted C. confessed D. acknowledged 10. Good secretarial skills _______ chances of getting a job. A. enhance B. facilitate C. nourish D. sharpen 11. This shirt needs to be ______. A. shaped B. molded C. altered D. alternated 12. Since the 5th century eastern philosophy has been ____ by Buddhism. A. beset B. imbued C. disseminated D. preoccupied 13. The office must see that no one ______ his authority. A. outdoes B. outperforms C. overpowers D. oversteps 14. The new book ______ all the hot issuesA. overlaps B. constitutes C. composes D. encompasses 15. Competitiveness is, ________, not going to happen by leaving events to market forces alone. A. assuredly B. assertively C. confidently D. immensely 16