1. The media reports on cross-border terrorism _______ all assertions made by the government that peace had been restored.   bolstered   stipulated   belied   substantiated   buttressed   Hint Hint       2. She is certain to alienate her colleagues in a short period of time because of her overall _______ attitude.   munificent   truculent   amiable   amicable   gregarious   Hint       3. After the sudden death of their leader, the terrorists thought it best to be _______ for a period before resuming their attacks on their adversaries.   prodigious   bellicose   belligerent   quiescent   audacious   Hint       4. Although she did not take any formal biology classes in school, her discovery _______ the notion that she was unfamiliar with the way living organisms behaved.   underscored   documented   undermined   substantiated   disseminated   Hint       5. It was _______ on the part of the senate that obstructed the adoption of a revolutionary teaching methodology in the executive MBA program.   anachronism   propriety   magnanimity   conservatism   effrontery   Hint       6. At the farewell function, the dignitary's address to the young graduates was _______, offering no new words of wisdom but common knowledge.   ambivalent   platitudinous   pragmatic   opprobrious   labyrinthine   Hint       7. 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 _______.   pragmatic   true   substantiated   explicable   uncommon   Hint