(C) triumph.. engaging
(D) reverberate.. clamoring
(E) trample.. tangling
7. Melodramas, which presented stark oppositions between innocence and criminality, virtue and corruption, good and evil, were popular precisely because they offered the audience a world ----of----.
(A) bereft.. theatricality
(B) composed.. adversity
(C) full.. circumstantiality
(D) deprived.. polarity (E) devoid.. neutrality
8. NURTURE: CHILD::
(A) cultivate: crop (B) quench: fire
(C) marvel: infant (D) secure: possession
(E) delimit: obligation
9. SAW: CARPENTER::
(A) brush: painter (B) typewriter: author
(C) trowel: bricklayer (D) wagon: farmer
(E) scissors: tailor
10. EPITAPH: TOMBSTONE::
(A) pedestal: statue (B) prologue: play
(C) melody: song (D) salutation: letter
(E) motto: shield
11. SIMPER: SMILE::
(A) babble: talk (B) thought: blank
(C) look: espy (D) leer: ogle (E) wink: eye
12. EGG: CHICKEN::
(A) pearl: oyster (B) roe: salmon
(C) shell: clam (D) skin: shark
(E) tusk: walrus
13. GLIMMER: DAZZLE::
(A) delineate: disclaim (B) recede: abandon
(C) recite: harangue (D) muse: reflect
(E) murmur: resound
14. RESCIND: LAW::
(A) postpone: performance
(B) withdraw: candidacy
(C) default: debt (D) demote: hierarchy
(E) retire: position
15. ENTANGLE: INNOLVE::