7. a. By the end of the long, arduous hike, 7. e.

Sally was a lighthearted and even-

Chris was walking with a -------- gait, tempered woman; she had none of her
limping slowly back to the campsite. sister’s --------.
A. halting A. affluence
B. robust B. affability
C. constant C. equanimity
D. prompt D. resilience
E. facile E. truculence

7. b. The actor was noted for his -------- 7. f. Laila performed her tasks at the office
behavior: he quickly became irritated if with --------, completing all her projects
his every whim was not immediately in record time.
satisfied. A. alacrity
A. fastidious B. conformity
B. sedulous C. deliberation
C. vindictive D. recrimination
D. petulant E. exasperation
E. mercenary
7. g. Although it stayed in business for
7. c. Johnson’s writing is considered several months, the company was
-------- and ---------- because it is filed actually -------- and met its financial
with obscure references and baffling obligations only by engaging in --------
digressions. activities.
A. deceiving . . ingenuous A. insolvent . . fraudulent
B. arcane . . abstruse B. prudent . . speculative
C. spare . . didactic C. autonomous . . subordinate
D. lucid . . definitive D. bankrupt . . charitable
E. concise . . esoteric E. stable . . manipulative

7. d. The author -------- the last act of her 7. h. Annoyed by the new employee’s
play to appease those critics who -------- excessively -------- manner, the
the work for its brevity. supervisor advised him that such
A. eliminated . . extolled fawning was inappropriate.
B. condensed . . censured A. obsequious
C. expanded . . disparaged B. mysterious
D. intensified . . glorified C. lackadaisical
E. rearranged . . endorsed D. argumentative
E. aggressive