SECTION III TIME - 30 minutes 40 QUESTIONS :RA For each question in this section choose the best answer. Each question below consists of a word in capital letters, followed by five lettered words or phrases. Choose the word or phrase that is most nearly OPPOSITE in meaning to the word in capital letters. Since some of the questions require you to distinguish fine shades of meaning, consider all the choices before deciding which is best. :RA :Q0 1. DIURNAL: (a) nocturnal (b) daily (c) satiated (d) mellow (e) infrequent :RCA :Q0 2. FELL: (a) malodorous (b) propitious (c) cruel (d) bent (e) aphoristic :RCB :Q0 3. PAUCITY: (a) indigence (b) quickness (c) order (d) plethora (e) alertness :RCD :Q0 4. PLEBEIAN: (a) civil (b) democratic (c) poll (d) proletariat (e) patrician :RCE :Q0 5. PROLIX: (a) clear (b) concise (c) frank (d) erudite (e) affluent :RCB :Q0 6. STEADFAST: (a) selective (b) whimsical (c) eligible (d) forceful (e) audacious :RCB :Q0 7. COMELY: (a) gainly (b) homely (c) silly (d) gaudy (e) gauche :RCB :Q0 8. SERAPHIC: (a) blurred (b) sardonic (c) cherubic (d) distorted (e) diabolic :RCE :Q0 9. TYRO: (a) altruist (b) virtuoso (c) plutocrat (d) republican (e) democrat :RCB :Q0 10. CRABBED: (a) piquant (b) sour (c) tawdry (d) saccharine (e) sonorous :RCD Each sentence below has one or two blanks, each blank indicating that something has been omitted. Beneath the sentence are five lettered words or sets of words. Choose the word or set of words that BEST fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole. :RA :Q0 11. To outsiders he is obviously wise, kind, and patriotic, but still - even within the glare of publicity which has so long surrounded him, - he remains something of a(n) ____. (a) paragon (b) distortion (c) execration (d) enigma (e) aberration :RCD :Q0 12. ____ is excessive ____. (a) cupidity - affection (b) gluttony - fasting (c) eulogy - lamentation (d) effrontery - boldness (e) calumniation - adulation :RCD :Q0 13. To the men of science must fall the task of surveying their ____ world and deciding what portions of it must be transmitted and interpreted to the ____ who at present is in ignorance of this area of knowledge. (a) esoteric - layman (b) nebulous - scholar (c) iniquitous - savant (d) abstruse - connoisseur (e) limitless - dilettante :RCA :Q0 14. In the opinion of Sallust, he only may be truly said to live and enjoy his being who is engaged in some ____ pursuit and who acquires a name by some ____ action or useful art. (a) meritorious - inefficacious (b) laudable - illustrious (c) quixotic - meritorious (d) illustrious - vicarious (e) laudable - ostentatious :RCB :Q0 15. ____ is implying something markedly ____ what is actually said. (a) paradox - contrary to (b) heterodox - contrary to (c) inference - different from (d) irony - different from (e) prevarication - contrary to :RCD Each question below consists of a related pair of words or phrases, followed by five lettered pairs of words or phrases. Select the lettered pair that BEST expresses a relationship similar to that expressed in the original pair. :RA :Q0 16. TRAVEL:PROVINCIAL:: (a) devoutness:parochial (b) debate:dogmatic (c) religion:orthodox (d) liberalism:liberal (e) reading:parochial :RCE :Q0 17. TRANSGRESSION:JUSTICE:: (a) trespass:expiation (b) guilt:remorse (c) crime:punishment (d) culpable:incarceration (e) judgment:violation :RCC :Q0 18. HORSE:DINOSAUR:: (a) animal:vegetable (b) effete:extinct (c) extant:nebulous (d) primeval:antediluvian (e) extant:extinct :RCE :Q0 19. GELID:TORRID:: (a) rampaging:ravaging (b) apathetic:implacable (c) pathetic:sympathetic (d) inclement:irate (e) relentless:compassionate :RCE :Q0 20. CAUSE:RENEGADE:: (a) party:partisan (b) battle:deserter (c) army:recruit (d) mission:leader (e) affirmative:denial :RCB :Q0 21. INJURY:REQUITE:: (a) transgression:repent (b) crime:expiate (c) alms:remunerate (d) reprisal:atone (e) aggression:retaliate :RCE :Q0 22. QUALM:PENITENCE:: (a) irresolution:compunction (b) misgiving:remorse (c) doubt:inquiry (d) twinge:opprobrium (e) appeasement:wrath :RCB :Q0 23. HUNTER:QUARRY:: (a) pedant:learning (b) graduate:degree (c) justice:criminal (d) censor:error (e) actor:cue :RCC :Q0 24. POST:PRE:: (a) posthumous:prenatal (b) postpone:predatory (c) postulate:prelude (d) dialogue:prologue (e) harbinger:precursor :RCA :Q0 25. EXERTION:FATIGUE:: (a) flattery:happiness (b) truculence:insult (c) insolence:arrogance (d) petulance:dismay (e) reading:stimulation :RCE Each passage below is followed by questions based on its content. Answer all questions following a passage on the basis of what is STATED or IMPLIED in that passage. :RA :PB Perhaps the most fertile area for the cultivation of quackery in the dental profession today is a group of ailments known collectively as TMJ disorder. TMJ stands for temporomandibular joint, which is the hinge that connects the upper and lower jaws. TMJ disease owes its current vogue in some segments of the profession to the fact that almost anyone, given a little imagination, can be said to suffer from it. This fact suggests enormous possibilities to dentists bent on beefing up their practices, since they can add TMJ treatment to their stock of procedures without having to find new patients. The May 1981 issue of JADA carried an ad for a Long Island University :RA continuing-education course called 'How To Increase, Revitalize and Inflation-Proof Your Practice Through TMJ'. The same course was also described elsewhere as 'The only TMJ seminar that will show you how to tap unused dental and medical insurance resources and build on your already existing practice'. TMJ disorder is not a single disease but at least half a dozen distinct conditions that produce pain in the face and jaw. These conditions can include osteoarthritis, trigeminal neuralgia, and sustained involuntary contraction of muscles in the face. The first of these is ordinary arthritis, the second is a :RA neurological disorder, and the third is a myofascial syndrome that is apparently sex-linked (only women have it). Despite the diversity of these ailments, TMJ dentists tend to treat them as though they were the same condition and as though they were caused by the same thing: a bad bite. Common treatments include pulling teeth, grinding down teeth, capping teeth, inserting removable 'bite plates' to alter occlusion, and even drilling holes in jawbones. Most of these treatments are irreversible, all of them are expensive, and - according to Dr. Joseph Marbach, Head of Columbia University's highly respected TMJ clinic and perhaps the country's leading researcher in the field of facial pain - none of them works. :RA :PE :Q0 26. The title below that best expresses the main idea of the passage is: (a) TMJ: A New Name for an Old Disorder (b) TMJ and N.Y.U. (c) TMJ: Causes and Cures (d) TMJ and Bad Bite (e) TMJ: A Disorder to Beef-up Dental Practice :RCE :Q0 27. We can infer from the passage that the writer: (a) is disturbed by dentists selling a disease (b) has little interest in TMJ (c) has taught seminars on the subject of TMJ (d) is a dentist himself (e) has been treated for TMJ :RCA :Q0 28. One reason why TMJ is popular among dentists is that: (a) it helps to bring in new patients (b) it can be universally applied (c) its treatment is efficacious (d) government grants are available to study the disorder (e) its treatment is reversible :RCB :PQ :PB To think of the lifeless as merely inert, to make the contrast merely in terms of a negative, is to miss the real strangeness. Not the shapeless stone which seems to be merely waiting to be acted upon but the snowflake or the frostflower is the true representative of the lifeless universe as opposed to ours. They represent plainly, as the stone does not, the fixed and perfect system of organization which includes the sun and its planets, includes therefore this earth itself, but against which life has set up its seemingly puny opposition. Order and obedience are the primary characteristics of that which is not alive. The snowflake eternally obeys its one and only law: :RA 'Be thou six pointed'; the planets their one and only: 'Travel thou in an ellipse'. The astronomer can tell where the North Star will be ten thousand years hence; the botanist cannot tell where the dandelion will bloom tomorrow. Life is rebellious and anarchistic, always testing the supposed immutability of the rules which the nonliving changelessly accepts. Because the snowflake goes on doing as it was told, its story up to the end of time was finished when it first assumed the form which it has kept ever since. But the story of every living thing is still in the telling. It may hope and it may try. Moreover, :RA though it may succeed or fail, it will certainly change. No form of frostflower ever became extinct. Such, if you like, is its glory. But such also is the fact which makes it alien. It may melt but it cannot die. If I wanted to contemplate what is to me the deepest of all mysteries, I should choose as my object lesson a snowflake under a lens and an amoeba under the microscope. To a detached observer - if one can possibly imagine any observer who could be detached when faced with such an ultimate choice - the snowflake would certainly seem the 'higher' of the two. Against its intricate glistening perfection one would have to place a shapeless, :RA slightly turbid glob, perpetually oozing out in this direction or that but not suggesting so strongly as the snowflake does, intelligence and plan. Crystal and colloid, the chemist would call them, but what an inconceivable contrast those neutral terms imply! Like the star, the snowflake seems to declare the glory of God, while the promise of the amoeba, given only perhaps to itself, seems only contemptible. But its jelly holds, nevertheless, not only its promise but ours also, while the snowflake represents some achievement which we cannot possibly share. After the passage of billions of years, one can see and be aware of the other, but the relationship can never be reciprocal. :RA Even after these billions of years no aggregate of colloids can be as beautiful as the crystal always was, but it can know, as the crystal cannot, what beauty is. :RA :PE :Q0 29. The snowflake is: (a) anarchistic (b) mutable (c) constant (d) rebellious (e) haphazard :RCC :Q0 30. The crystal is superior to the colloid in that the crystal is: (a) turbid (b) shapeless (c) disobedient (d) suggestive of design (e) contemptible :RCD :Q0 31. From reading this passage, we might most reasonably infer that the author is a: (a) geologist (b) satirist (c) hermit (d) theist (e) tyrant :RCD :PQ :PB The notion that French possessions in the West Indies were menaced by a pending English-American coalition played an important part in bringing France into the War of Independence. It was this suggestion, supported by the somber name of Chatham, which first drew Vergennes' infra-Continental gaze to what was taking place on the other side of the Atlantic. It was with the same notion that Vergennes himself was able to counter Turgot's arguments against secret aid, that it invited war. Lastly, it was with this notion that Vergennes overcame Louis' reluctance to part company with his royal uncle for the sake of some rascally American rebels. Yet when all is said, the :RA theory in question throws little, if any, light on the nature of the principal advantage which the secretary expected that France would derive from intervention. And clearly, his statement at the moment of the royal council's decision in favor of an American alliance, that it was 'not the influence of his ministers that decided the king' but 'the evidence of facts, the moral certainty of peril', should be taken with a saving allowance of salt. No doubt Louis was convinced by the 'facts' as they were represented to him; but if the monarch was unable to discern the flimsy texture of hearsay and guesswork beneath the ministerial varnish, the secretary was not so unaware of the :RA quality of his own elaboration, as his constant admissions attest. Nor does 'the evidence of facts' from American sources assist his effort thus to bridge the gap between remote possibility and calculable probability. Not a single statement of either Franklin, Deane, or Lee is on record showing either that they ever heard the word 'coalition' from any British agent, or that, after Saratoga, they ever hinted such an idea to the French government, or that they supposed the French government to be alarmed on that score. The argument from silence is not always the most convincing, but its concurrence with more positive considerations, as in this instance, is at least reassuring. :RA :PE :Q0 32. The fear that England and America would combine against the French West Indies was: (a) Turgot's reason for opposing secret aid for America from France (b) not Vergennes' real reason for seeking French aid to America (c) encouraged by Franklin (d) based on a firm foundation of fact (e) of little weight with Louis :RCE :Q0 33. Up to this time Vergennes had been: (a) very interested in France's colonial possessions (b) unwilling to agree with Turgot (c) anxious to avoid a disagreement with the king (d) interested only in French affairs in Europe (e) trying to get France to aid America :RCD :Q0 34. Vergennes was: (a) a French General (b) an American rebel (c) a British spy (d) a member of the French Parliament (e) an adviser of King Louis :RCD :Q0 35. The King of France was: (a) unwilling to send his uncle to fight in America (b) undoubtedly aware of the weakness of Vergennes' arguments (c) hesitant about breaking with a neighboring power for so slight a cause (d) unwilling to listen to his ministers (e) not swayed by the influence of Franklin, Deane, or Lee :RCC :PQ Each question below consists of a related pair of words or phrases, followed by five lettered pairs of words or phrases. Select the lettered pair that BEST expresses a relationship similar to that expressed in the original pair. :RA :Q0 36. OCEAN:BAY:: (a) continent:peninsula (b) cape:gulf (c) stream:river (d) strait:isthmus (e) rotund:narrow :RCA :Q0 37. MEDLEY:SONG:: (a) syllabus:facts (b) chorus:melodies (c) coterie:friends (d) anthology:writing (e) symposium:forum :RCD :Q0 38. EPIGRAM:IDEA:: (a) foreword:book (b) platitude:axiom (c) proverb:truth (d) inscription:tombstone (e) base:pedestal :RCC :Q0 39. EPITOME:ABRIDGEMENT:: (a) synthesis:exposition (b) condensation:abstract (c) synopsis:abstract (d) characterization:compendium (e) precis:glossary :RCB :Q0 40. APOSTLE:CREED:: (a) emissary:communication (b) apostate:reformation (c) missionary:gospel (d) preacher:skepticism (e) advocate:rebellion :RCC :ET :ET
