1. The management and the labor union reached an unexpected agreement in the best interests of the company after managing to _______ the conflicts they had.   confound   deride   bolster   delineate   reconcile   Hint Hint       2. Although several critics denounced his _______ techniques, there was unanimous praise for his _______ performances over the last season.   precarious..unexceptional   laudable..internecine   anomalous..apocryphal   innovative..mediocre   unorthodox..unexceptionable   Hint       3. The _______ allowance he received as a pension forced him to spend the rest of his life in _______.   mundane..malady   meager..penury   munificent..conundrum   magnanimous..austerity   mendacious..luxury   Hint       4. This _______ verse mourns for the valiant soldiers who lost their lives in the battle.   derivative   ironic   desultory   satiric   elegiac   Hint       5. 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   inordinate   prudent   inchoate   optimum   Hint       6. 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.   implacable   turbulent   permeable   tractable   malleable   Hint       7. She was _______ liar who had mastered the art of making untrue statements in a manner they sounded _______.   a convincing..illogical   a blatant..incongruous   a congenital..creditable   an incorrigible..plausible   a mundane..credulous   Hint