1. As she watched the hang glider soaring in the sky _______ gravity, she admired his dexterity and _______ nature.   depleting..transient   augmenting..dubious   intimidating..hypocritical   inverting..pragmatic   defying..intrepid   Hint Hint       2. Holmes _______ over the case looking for the _______ motive, since there was no evident reason for the murder.   acquiesced..altruistic   confounded..intrepid   pondered..ulterior   devised..obscure   concurred..furtive   Hint       3. The _______ of this prestigious examination has remained intact over the years because a system of checks and balances has been _______ that ensures no one person knows all that appears in the final paper.   incongruity..diffused   ingenuity..inferred   insularity..inured   integrity..devised   innovation..deposed   Hint       4. Mason was confident that his client would be _______ as she was innocent.   surpassed   convicted   stultified   vindicated   substantiated   Hint       5. It is a Herculean task to nab the criminals when they are in _______ with politicians.   coercion   circumlocution   affirmation   collusion   profusion   Hint       6. My belief that she is a talented researcher has been _______ by the numerous awards she has won over the last year.   impeded   usurped   vindicated   scrutinized   truncated   Hint       7. The spider having eight legs is an _______ because nearly all adult insects have six legs.   anomaly   anticlimax   amphibian   ambiguity   ambivalence   Hint