GRE Set 11

The _______ of the judging process might be compromised unless each contestant is assigned a unique code number by which he or she is identified.

The qualities expected of a professional musician seem _______, for she must be studious, disciplined, and technically impeccable while bringing passion and _______ to each performance.

Hong Kong prospered as the center of trade with China, _______ until it fell to the Japanese in 1941.

The fossil record reveals innumerable instances of environmental _______ by which one can draw an analogy between the evolution of life and a tree's branches, a few of which _______ but most of which branch again and again.

When it was constructed, the gymnasium was highly _______; the students for whom it was planned were _______, but community members who faced losing their neighborhood park were outraged.

Shakespeare's _______ of Richard III is so _______ that it is difficult to imagine that the ruler had been dead for more than a century before the Bard cast him as the central character in one of his plays.

Although many of the company's board members were _______ about the impending deal, others were _______ the benefits it would bring to the company.

In classical literature, love was depicted not as an ennobling passion but as an unfortunate _______ that disabled judgment, almost a kind of _______.

One aim of educational technology should be to _______ instruction more precisely to students' individual needs, since vast differences in the ways students learn are _______ when they are taught the same thing.

Even detractors who warn of its potential for abuse agree that genetic engineering, if used _______, can reduce the incidence of the sort of physical deformities that any society would want to eliminate.