Question 1

The coach observed that the athlete's decision to continue training without adequate rest would likely _____ her existing knee injury. Without a period of recovery, the repetitive strain threatened to sideline her for the remainder of the competitive season.

• A remedy
• B scrutinize
• C exacerbate
• D simulate

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The probe transmitted clean data for eleven months and then went silent in a pattern that ground controllers described as _____: no mechanical failure could be identified, and every system had passed its most recent diagnostic cycle.

• A aberrant
• B anomalous
• C ambiguous
• D inexplicable

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Throughout her long career as an education researcher, she remained a vocal _____ of bilingual instruction, publishing dozens of studies demonstrating measurable cognitive advantages for children who acquired two languages simultaneously.

• A advocate
• B proponent
• C opponent
• D critic

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Facing significant pushback from international trading partners, the administration chose to _____ the tariff order before it could take effect, citing revised economic projections that cast doubt on the original rationale for the measures.

• A uphold
• B enact
• C revoke
• D rescind

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The analyst cautioned that the economic recovery remained _____ at best, noting that consumer confidence had improved only slightly and could reverse quickly if unemployment figures rose in the coming quarter.

• A cogent
• B ambiguous
• C tenuous
• D precarious

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Cloud storage has become so _____ in the corporate world that many employees are surprised to discover that certain organizations still rely on local servers, which they had assumed were long obsolete.

• A omnipresent
• B idiosyncratic
• C ubiquitous
• D anomalous

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The release of newly unsealed government documents appeared to fully _____ the whistleblower's account, confirming the specific details she had reported years earlier, details that her critics had dismissed as speculation and overstatement.

• A vindicate
• B corroborate
• C rescind
• D exacerbate

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Auditors flagged the transaction as _____ not because the dollar amount was unusually large, but because the pattern of transfers differed sharply from three years of prior financial behavior documented in the company's records.

• A anomalous
• B ambiguous
• C tenuous
• D aberrant

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The study's findings were widely described as _____, not because the data was unreliable, but because the variables measured could be read as supporting at least two competing theoretical frameworks that the researchers had not fully distinguished from each other.

• A ambiguous
• B aberrant
• C equivocal
• D tenuous

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The defense attorney presented what observers later described as the most _____ closing argument they had witnessed in years: every point built on the one before it, the evidence was arranged to eliminate alternative conclusions, and the final argument seemed almost inescapable.

• A compelling
• B tenuous
• C ambiguous
• D cogent