1. People have limited patience when browsing the internet; as a result, the individual's interest _______ if the web page does not appear on the screen within a few seconds.   incubates   infiltrates   flags   entails   flays   Hint Hint       2. She is certain to alienate her colleagues in a short period of time because of her overall _______ attitude.   truculent   amiable   amicable   gregarious   munificent   Hint       3. The biologist described how vultures _______ portions of carcasses and play a crucial role in maintaining the ecological balance as _______.   devour..scavengers   gobble..xenophobes   depend on..parasites   hunt..carnivores   seize..predators   Hint       4. Wisdom is the mark of the sage; similarly, _______ is the mark of the _______.   disloyalty..renegade   temerity..coward   munificence..curmudgeon   credulity..skeptic   torpor..zealot   Hint       5. The religious head had no option but to ostracize the _______ immediately after he married a woman of another sect and decided to embrace her faith.   paragon   malingerer   pedant   recluse   proselyte   Hint       6. Compared to real estate, nearly all else appears relatively inexpensive, _______ nearly nothing appears not affordable.   nevertheless   although   provided   since   so   Hint       7. At the farewell function, the dignitary's address to the young graduates was _______, offering no new words of wisdom but common knowledge.   opprobrious   ambivalent   labyrinthine   platitudinous   pragmatic   Hint