1. The aria was _______ with the tempo changing continuously in a most unpredictable fashion.   antediluvian   cacophonous   impecunious   capricious   abstemious   Hint Hint       2. The success of the project was _______ team effort rather than any individual _______.   dependent on..perfidy   commensurate to..compendium   attributed to..accomplishment   feted at..felicity   subordinate to..idiosyncrasy   Hint       3. The senior professor was _______ thinker who believed in doing even tedious calculations by hand rather than using a computer.   a cogent   an insensible   a doctrinaire   an ingenuous   an eclectic   Hint       4. The students appreciated the professor's _______ style of preparing notes for the lectures because the effort in collecting vital information from various sources truly enhanced their learning.   pedestrian   esoteric   pedantic   dogmatic   eclectic   Hint       5. The educational system had _______ over a period of time when the authorities got preoccupied with petty politics and did not bother to update the curriculum.   ossified   burnished   relegated   underscored   adulterated   Hint       6. The air-conditioning unit was operated so as to strike some balance between the danger of _______ electricity bills and the desire of employees to be comfortable during the summer months.   exigent   inchoate   optimum   inordinate   prudent   Hint       7. Scientific investigations of fluid flow behavior around objects like high-speed aircrafts are complex; however, the systems are _______ when experiments are performed in scaled-down versions such as wind tunnels.   malleable   tractable   permeable   implacable   turbulent   Hint