1. Mason was confident that his client would be _______ as she was innocent.   convicted   vindicated   stultified   substantiated   surpassed   Hint Hint       2. My belief that she is a talented researcher has been _______ by the numerous awards she has won over the last year.   usurped   impeded   vindicated   truncated   scrutinized   Hint       3. The new government has vowed to _______ all traces of poverty in the underdeveloped country.   exacerbate   exonerate   eradicate   extricate   exculpate   Hint       4. The political _______ attacked each other in such _______ terms that they came to blows just before the election.   adversaries..acrimonious   mentors..malicious   braggarts..acerbic   artisans..acidulous   bureaucrats..profound   Hint       5. Nitric acid is a colorless _______ liquid with a sharp choking odor, and therefore requires to be _______ stored in tightly-stoppered glass bottles to prevent the fumes from escaping.   volatile..prudently   homogeneous..particularly   viscous..occasionally   viscid..unwittingly   acerbic..instantly   Hint       6. The spider having eight legs is an _______ because nearly all adult insects have six legs.   anomaly   ambiguity   amphibian   anticlimax   ambivalence   Hint       7. The surgeon indicated that he required the results of the biopsy to determine whether the tumor was _______ or benign.   malignant   malodorous   malleable   malicious   maladroit   Hint