1. 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   pedant   paragon   malingerer   recluse   Hint Hint       2. 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   substantiated   disseminated   undermined   Hint       3. Many business schools are avoiding an _______ narrow management curriculum because a good manager in today's competitive economic conditions must be well-versed in diverse aspects such as finance, marketing, operations and technology.   ambiguous   endemic   unwittingly   inadvertently   overly   Hint       4. The biologist described how vultures _______ portions of carcasses and play a crucial role in maintaining the ecological balance as _______.   seize..predators   devour..scavengers   hunt..carnivores   depend on..parasites   gobble..xenophobes   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 _______.   explicable   true   substantiated   uncommon   pragmatic   Hint       6. Having definite information about drugs being smuggled in, the customs officials decided to switch from a _______ examination of the passenger baggage to a rigorous inspection.   meticulous   specious   cursory   inchoate   mellifluous   Hint       7. Scientific experiments demonstrate that the ready availability of food and the lack of stimulation over a prolonged period of time can lead to even predators transforming into _______ creatures.   frantic   carnivorous   agrarian   placid   caustic   Hint