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.   bolster   deride   reconcile   confound   delineate   Hint Hint       2. Although there was hardly any scope to find fault with the minister's cautiously worded response, several members of the opposition took _______ it.   pleasure in   exception to   advice from   liberties with   liking for   Hint       3. The _______ allowance he received as a pension forced him to spend the rest of his life in _______.   magnanimous..austerity   munificent..conundrum   meager..penury   mendacious..luxury   mundane..malady   Hint       4. Legislation has been introduced in some states that requires plastic bags be made of biodegradable material which gradually _______ over a period of time when exposed to sunlight.   subsides   proliferates   ossifies   secretes   decomposes   Hint       5. 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.   tractable   malleable   turbulent   implacable   permeable   Hint       6. He believes in getting value for money, and it would be inappropriate to interpret his _______ as _______.   indolence..indigence   lassitude..levity   frugality..penury   insolence..intransigence   diffidence..paucity   Hint       7. 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.   dogmatic   esoteric   pedestrian   eclectic   pedantic   Hint