1. The biologist described how vultures _______ portions of carcasses and play a crucial role in maintaining the ecological balance as _______.   seize..predators   depend on..parasites   hunt..carnivores   devour..scavengers   gobble..xenophobes   Hint Hint       2. She is certain to alienate her colleagues in a short period of time because of her overall _______ attitude.   amicable   truculent   amiable   gregarious   munificent   Hint       3. Although David was severely critical of his wife, he did not dare treat her with _______.   contempt   sarcasm   superciliousness   insularity   mendacity   Hint       4. 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.   endemic   overly   ambiguous   inadvertently   unwittingly   Hint       5. It was _______ on the part of the senate that obstructed the adoption of a revolutionary teaching methodology in the executive MBA program.   conservatism   magnanimity   propriety   anachronism   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.   opprobrious   pragmatic   ambivalent   platitudinous   labyrinthine   Hint       7. 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   disseminated   documented   substantiated   Hint