1. Although there was hardly any scope to find fault with the minister's cautiously worded response, several members of the opposition took _______ it.   advice from   liking for   liberties with   exception to   pleasure in   Hint Hint       2. 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   delineate   deride   reconcile   confound   Hint       3. The success of the project was _______ team effort rather than any individual _______.   attributed to..accomplishment   commensurate to..compendium   subordinate to..idiosyncrasy   dependent on..perfidy   feted at..felicity   Hint       4. The senior professor was _______ thinker who believed in doing even tedious calculations by hand rather than using a computer.   an insensible   an ingenuous   an eclectic   a cogent   a doctrinaire   Hint       5. He believes in getting value for money, and it would be inappropriate to interpret his _______ as _______.   frugality..penury   lassitude..levity   insolence..intransigence   indolence..indigence   diffidence..paucity   Hint       6. 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   yield from..conforming   trust in..enhancing   expenditure on..budgeting   recourse to..restricting   Hint       7. 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.   proliferates   ossifies   subsides   decomposes   secretes   Hint