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II Vocabulary Choose the answer that is closest in meaning to the underlined word in the sentence. The labor union and the company’s management,despite their long history of unfailingly acerbic disagreement on nearly every issue, have nevertheless reached an unexpectedly_________, albeit still tentative, agreement on next year’s contract. A.conclusive B.onerous C.hesitant D.swift Human reaction to the realm of thought is often as strong as that to sensible presences; our higher moral life is based on the fact that _______ Sensations actually present may have a weaker influence on our action than do ideas of ______ facts. A.familiar.....symbolic B.material......remote C.emotional.....impersonal D.definitive.....controversial In response to the follies of today’s parliaments, the councilor does not______ inflamed indignation, but rather ____________ the detachment and smooth aphoristic prose of an eighteenth-century wit. A.resort to...spurns B.rely on.....avoids C.suppress...clings to D.express....affects As is often the case with collections of lectures by ________ authors, The book as a whole is ________, although the individual contributions are outstanding in themselves. A.different...disconnected B.incompetent...abysmal C.famous...systematic D.mediocre....unexciting The essence of belief is the establishment of _______; different beliefs Are distinguishable by the different modes of action to which they give rise. A.allegiances B.practice C.trust D.commitments The results of the experiments performed by Elizabeth Hazen and Rachel Brown were _____ not only because these results challenged Old assumptions but also because they called the ______ methodology Into question. A.specious.....original B.predictable...contemporary C.provocative...prevailing D.inconclusive...traditional As early as the seventeenth century, philosophers