(GRE) Sentence completion 3

1. Despite the increased attention ________ juvenile delinquency, a ________ in crimes committed by juveniles has been seen.

allotted to...dip
offered to...proliferation
given to...rise
spent on...decrease
withdrawn from...growth

2. Much of the Beatles' music, as evidenced by "all you need is love," was characterized by a superficial _____ subtly contradicted by an inherent, deeper cynicism.

competence
world-weariness
liveliness
naivete
gloss

3. During their famous clash, Jung regarded Freud ambivalently, attacking the father of modern psychoanalysis even as he ______ him.

enlightened
chastened
revered
despised
preferred

*chastened - escarmentado

4. Hers was not a quick but a thorough intelligence; however_______, she came to _____ all things touching her life.

unmindfully...embrace
desperately...appreciate
slowly...jettison
methodically...discern
ploddingly...understand

*Jettison ->Echar por la borda/dispose

5. Considering the _____ era in which the novel was written, its tone and theme are remarkably _____.

Enlightened...disenchanted
scholarly...undramatic
superstitious...medieval
permissive...puritanical
undistinguished...commonplace

*puritanical - morally rigorous and strict

6. The Colonel believed that even a minor ________ the rules could not go _____ if he were to maintain discipline.

disrespect for...unfelt
infraction of...unpunished
alteration of...unrewarded
deviation from...unappreciated
adherence to...unobserved

7. Feuds tend to arise in societies that _____ centralized government; when public justice is difficult to enforce, private recourse is more ______.

espouse...acceptable
affirm...objectionable
dislike...satisfying
rejet...brutal
lack...effective

8. He must always be the center of attention; he would rather be criticized than ______.

ignored
selfish
remembered
praised
different

9. Part of a person's immediate response to pain is determined not only by his _____ emotional state but also by his ______ previous painful experiences.

frightened...fears from
permanent...scars from
particular...lack of
current...memories of
recent...denial of

10. Greek philosophers tried to _____ contemporary notions of change and stability by postulating the existence of the atom, ______ particle from which all varieties of matter are formed.

personify...a mutating
reconcile...an indivisible
simplify...a specific
eliminate...an infinitesimal
confirm...an interesting


* postulate - (logic) a proposition that is accepted as true in order to provide a basis for logical reasoning