He resisted his initial impulse to overreact to the provocation and was later ____ for his ___.
ridiculed…tenacity
praised…folly
chastised…thoughtlessness
commended…restraint
promoted…impetuousness
The essence of the scientific attitude is the abandonment of personal ___: one must, that is, ___ private likes and dislikes.
interests…divulge
experimentation…pursue
inquisitiveness…promote
inhibitions…integrate
prejudices…overcome
Her vague sense of ___ grew into anxiety and then alarm when she discovered that Frankenstein’s fears were well founded.
foreboding
remorse
anticipation
intrigue
complacency
The two travelers may have chosen ___ routes across the continent, but the starting point was the same for each.
coinciding
direct
charted
divergent
intersecting
The ___ act was ___ even to the perpetrator, who regretted his deed to the end of his life.
vulgar…unaffected
heinous…appalling
vengeful…acceptable
timorous…intrepid
forgettable…offensive
The shining beauty of the morning dew was merely ___, as nearly all of the moisture had ___ by midday.
transitory…expanded
anachronistic…overflowed
immutable…drained
itinerant…teemed
ephemeral…evaporated
Even as the doctor tried to simplify the history of medicine, it quickly became clear that there was far more ___ to the subject than any of them had imagined.
tranquility
immobility
consistency
desirability
complexity
Ironically, every argument intended to change Dr. Frankenstein’s thinking actually served to ___ his beliefs in the experiment.
digress
proliferate
ossify
germinate
incubate
As the doctor grew more ___ for his recent discoveries, his work decades earlier in the field of anatomy were ___ and nearly entirely forgotten.
perplexing…clarified
famous…overshadowed
pioneering…duplicated
neglected…invalidated
inspiring…complemented
They knew the impending snow would ___ the trip, but they went anyway, since there was no other time they would all be able to make it.
condone
foster
quicken
exalt
hamper