21.The legislators of 1563 realized the ____ of trying to regulate the flow of
labor without securing its reasonable remuneration, and so the second part
of the statute¹ dealt with establishing wages.
(A) intricacy
(B) anxiety
(C) futility
(D) necessity
(E) decadence²

22.The ____ with which the French aristocracy greeted the middle-class
Rousseau was all the more ____ because he showed so little respect for
them.
(A) deference³.. remarkable
(B) suspicion.. uncanny
(C) reserve.. unexpected
(D) anger.. ironic
(E) appreciation⁴.. deserved

23.The action and characters in a melodrama⁵ can be so immediately ____ that
all observers can hiss⁶ the villain⁷ with an air of smug but enjoyable ____.
(A) spurned⁸.. boredom
(B) forgotten.. condescension
(C) classified. .self-righteousness
(D) plausible⁹.. guilt
(E) gripping. .skepticism

24.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 decided¹⁰ by chance.
(A) independent.. amended¹¹ by
(B) competent.. emphasized by
(C) mechanical.. controlled by
(D) swift. .associated with
(E) random¹².. reconciled with

25.Though dealers¹³ 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.
(A) amateur's. .sensible
(B) expert's.. erratic
(C) investor's.. booming
(D) insider's.. predictable
(E) artist's.. irrational¹⁴

26.Read's apology to Heflin was not exactly abject¹⁵ and did little to ____ their
decades-long quarrel, which had been as ____ as the academic etiquette¹⁶ of
scholarly journals permitted.
(A) encourage.. sporadic¹⁷
(B) dampen.. courteous
(C) obscure.. ceremonious
(D) resolve.. acrimonious¹⁸
(E) blur¹⁹.. sarcastic

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