1. 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.   pedantic   esoteric   eclectic   pedestrian   dogmatic   Hint Hint       2. Any increase in coal-fired furnaces beyond a particular level necessitates greater _______ the fossil fuels; thus, the capability of an economy to effectively manage energy resources depends partially on _______ the number of industrial fired heaters.   depletion of..renewing   expenditure on..budgeting   yield from..conforming   recourse to..restricting   trust in..enhancing   Hint       3. He believes in getting value for money, and it would be inappropriate to interpret his _______ as _______.   indolence..indigence   lassitude..levity   insolence..intransigence   diffidence..paucity   frugality..penury   Hint       4. The aria was _______ with the tempo changing continuously in a most unpredictable fashion.   cacophonous   impecunious   antediluvian   capricious   abstemious   Hint       5. The _______ allowance he received as a pension forced him to spend the rest of his life in _______.   mendacious..luxury   magnanimous..austerity   munificent..conundrum   mundane..malady   meager..penury   Hint       6. The senior professor was _______ thinker who believed in doing even tedious calculations by hand rather than using a computer.   a cogent   a doctrinaire   an eclectic   an insensible   an ingenuous   Hint       7. This _______ verse mourns for the valiant soldiers who lost their lives in the battle.   derivative   satiric   desultory   elegiac   ironic   Hint