1. Mason was confident that his client would be _______ as she was innocent.   convicted   surpassed   substantiated   vindicated   stultified   Hint Hint       2. It is a Herculean task to nab the criminals when they are in _______ with politicians.   affirmation   coercion   profusion   collusion   circumlocution   Hint       3. The political _______ attacked each other in such _______ terms that they came to blows just before the election.   bureaucrats..profound   adversaries..acrimonious   braggarts..acerbic   artisans..acidulous   mentors..malicious   Hint       4. Although he was very strict with the students in the classroom, his envious colleagues were under the impression that the students _______ him because of his _______.   revered..leniency   adored..ingenuousness   derided..indolence   deplored..ingenuity   extolled..insolence   Hint       5. The spider having eight legs is an _______ because nearly all adult insects have six legs.   anticlimax   ambivalence   ambiguity   anomaly   amphibian   Hint       6. If your _______ sense is very acute, you may be blindfolded and still be able to recognize materials merely by sniffing.   evanescent   clairvoyant   iridescent   olfactory   ophthalmic   Hint       7. The _______ of this prestigious examination has remained intact over the years because a system of checks and balances has been _______ that ensures no one person knows all that appears in the final paper.   insularity..inured   incongruity..diffused   ingenuity..inferred   integrity..devised   innovation..deposed   Hint