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Even though the original settlement may not hold up, it at least proves that the deadlock can be broken and that a hitherto _____ party is ready to bargain. A. implacable B. unyielding C. impeccable D. flawless E. unqualified F. capricious

A few decades ago the idea of animal morality would have been met with _____: however, recent research suggests that animals not only act altruistically but also have the capacity for empathy, forgiveness, trust, and reciprocity. A. derision B. resentment C. dismissal D. conviction E. ridicule F. certainty

Our mass media are much more fascinated by bad ideas or the failure of good ones than by successes: we drown in bad news--tales of how things went wrong--but we have only the most ____ discussion on how they might go right. A. incisive B. tantalizing C. trenchant D. cursory E. illusory F. perfunctory

Although in the mid-1970s nuclear power seemed poised for a still greater role in energy supply, in fact the _____ of its prestige had already begun. A. evaluation B. waning C. defense D. undermining E. ebbing F. vindication

Her attempts to wrest fiction free from traditional constraints like plot and character were never entirely popular with readers; nonetheless, her fiction has had _____ influence on critical theory, novel, cinema, and even psychology. A. a studied B. a negligible C. a decisive D. an unmistakable E. an insignificant F. a restorative

According to Hill and Spicer, the term “nation-state” is a misnomer, since the ideal model of a monolingual, culturally homogeneous state has never existed, not even among Europeans, who invented the nation-state concept and introduced it to the rest of the world. Modern European states, they argue, emerged after the Renaissance through the rise of nations (i.e., specific ethnic groups) to positions of political and economic dominance over a number of other ethnic groups within the bounded political territories. The term “nation-state”, Hill and Spicer argue, obscures the internal cultural and linguistic diversity of states that could more accurately be called “conquest states.” The resurgence of multiple ethnic groups within a single state, Hill says, is not “potentially threating to the sovereign jurisdiction of the state,” as Urban and Sherzer suggest; rather, the assertion of cultural differences threatens to reveal ethnocentric beliefs and practices upon which conquest states wer...