1. Although David was severely critical of his wife, he did not dare treat her with _______.   sarcasm   insularity   mendacity   contempt   superciliousness   Hint Hint       2. The imposition of heavy taxes on industries that emit toxic substances into the environment could prove to be an effective _______ to maintaining a clean, green earth.   abeyance   incentive   apparition   appellation   deterrent   Hint       3. After the sudden death of their leader, the terrorists thought it best to be _______ for a period before resuming their attacks on their adversaries.   prodigious   quiescent   bellicose   belligerent   audacious   Hint       4. The members of the parliamentary committee had such strongly _______ views that even after several meetings they could not reach a _______.   divergent..consensus   conciliatory..concord   convoluted..resolution   radical..conundrum   eclectic..consonance   Hint       5. The media reports on cross-border terrorism _______ all assertions made by the government that peace had been restored.   bolstered   substantiated   stipulated   belied   buttressed   Hint       6. Although the closed system did not encourage individuals to _______ out on their own, nonetheless it irrationally _______ the lack of the spirit of entrepreneurship in the people.   risk..stimulated   hazard..mollified   venture..decried   explore..eulogized   gouge..condoned   Hint       7. It is not mere fiction that a dolphin can carry on two conversations simultaneously, one by whistling and the other by making clicking sounds; in fact, the phenomenon is not even _______.   uncommon   explicable   pragmatic   true   substantiated   Hint