1. She is certain to alienate her colleagues in a short period of time because of her overall _______ attitude.   munificent   amicable   gregarious   amiable   truculent   Hint Hint       2. Wisdom is the mark of the sage; similarly, _______ is the mark of the _______.   temerity..coward   torpor..zealot   disloyalty..renegade   credulity..skeptic   munificence..curmudgeon   Hint       3. The religious head had no option but to ostracize the _______ immediately after he married a woman of another sect and decided to embrace her faith.   proselyte   recluse   paragon   pedant   malingerer   Hint       4. People have limited patience when browsing the internet; as a result, the individual's interest _______ if the web page does not appear on the screen within a few seconds.   incubates   entails   flays   flags   infiltrates   Hint       5. 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 _______.   substantiated   pragmatic   explicable   true   uncommon   Hint       6. 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.   incentive   deterrent   apparition   appellation   abeyance   Hint       7. It was _______ on the part of the senate that obstructed the adoption of a revolutionary teaching methodology in the executive MBA program.   conservatism   propriety   anachronism   effrontery   magnanimity   Hint