1. After the sudden death of their leader, the terrorists thought it best to be _______ for a period before resuming their attacks on their adversaries.   quiescent   audacious   prodigious   belligerent   bellicose   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.   undermined   underscored   substantiated   disseminated   documented   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   overly   endemic   inadvertently   unwittingly   Hint       4. It was _______ on the part of the senate that obstructed the adoption of a revolutionary teaching methodology in the executive MBA program.   magnanimity   propriety   anachronism   effrontery   conservatism   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 _______.   uncommon   pragmatic   explicable   true   substantiated   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.   deterrent   apparition   abeyance   incentive   appellation   Hint       7. 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   flags   entails   flays   infiltrates   Hint