1. Because outlaws were denied____B__under medieval law, anyone could raise a hand against them with legal___E___.
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A propriety D impunity
B protection E intervention
C collusion F collaboration
2. Parts of seventeenth-century Chinese pleasure gardens were not necessarily intended to look__A__; they were designed expressly to evoke the agreeable melancholy resulting from a sense of the ___D ___of natural beauty and human glory.
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A cheerful D transitoriness
B luxuriant E taciturnity
C collusion F frivolity
3. Although he attempted repeatedly to___C___her of her conviction of his insincerity, he was not successful; she remained___F___in her judgment.
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A discernment D entangling
B skepticism E reinstating
C quixotism F deciphering
4. It is ironic that a critic of such overwhelming vanity now suffers from a measure of the oblivion to which he was forever___A___others, in the end, all his___D___has only worked against him.
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A consigning D self-adulation
B relegating E self-sacrifice
C condemning F self-analysis
5. The old man could not have been accused of___B___ his affection; his conduct toward the child betrayed his___E___her.
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A promising D adoration of
B stinting E sympathy for
C lavishing F tolerance of