Day 2 – Post-session Quiz: Words + ideas

The commission criticized the legislature for making college attendance dependent on the ability to pay, charging that, as a result, hundreds of qualified young people would be  _______ further education.

Cynics believe that people who ______ compliments do so in order to be praised twice.

There may be a threshold below which blood pressure reductions become ________ given that a long-running study showed no decreased heart risk for
drops in blood pressure below a certain point.

At several points in his discussion, Graves, in effect, ______ evidence when it does not support his argument, tailoring it to his needs.

Even the charisma and technical prowess of two fine actors are not ________ the task of fully invigorating a gray domestic drama with a tired tale to tell.

Far from being ________ the corporate world because of cutbacks, serious researchers are playing a growing role in innovation at many firms.

Remelting old metal cans rather than making primary aluminum from bauxite ore shipped from overseas saves producers millions of dollars in_______ and production costs.

Psychology has slowly evolved into an _______ scientific discipline that now functions autonomously with the same privileges and responsibilities as other sciences.

A recent survey shows that, while ninety-four percent of companies conducting management training programs open them to women, women are ______ only seventy-four percent of those programs.

Compared mathematically to smoking and driving, almost everything else seems relatively risk-free, _______ almost nothing seems worth regulating.

There are no solitary, free-living creatures; every form of life is _______ other forms.

As serious as she is about the bullfight, she does not allow respect to _______ her sense of whimsy when painting it.