1. She is certain to alienate her colleagues in a short period of time because of her overall _______ attitude.   amiable   munificent   amicable   truculent   gregarious   Hint Hint       2. It is not mere fiction that a dolphin can carry on two conversations simultaneously, one by whistling and the other by making clicking sounds; in fact, the phenomenon is not even _______.   pragmatic   substantiated   explicable   uncommon   true   Hint       3. The biologist described how vultures _______ portions of carcasses and play a crucial role in maintaining the ecological balance as _______.   hunt..carnivores   seize..predators   gobble..xenophobes   depend on..parasites   devour..scavengers   Hint       4. It was _______ on the part of the senate that obstructed the adoption of a revolutionary teaching methodology in the executive MBA program.   magnanimity   anachronism   propriety   effrontery   conservatism   Hint       5. People have limited patience when browsing the internet; as a result, the individual's interest _______ if the web page does not appear on the screen within a few seconds.   infiltrates   flags   entails   flays   incubates   Hint       6. Scientific experiments demonstrate that the ready availability of food and the lack of stimulation over a prolonged period of time can lead to even predators transforming into _______ creatures.   agrarian   carnivorous   caustic   placid   frantic   Hint       7. At the farewell function, the dignitary's address to the young graduates was _______, offering no new words of wisdom but common knowledge.   platitudinous   ambivalent   opprobrious   pragmatic   labyrinthine   Hint