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[amishera2007]

2) The old man could not have been accused of ___ his affection; his conduct toward the child betrayed his ___ her.
A) lavishing ... fondness for
B) sparing ... tolerance of
C) rationing ... antipathy for
D) stinting ... adoration of
E) promising ... dislike of

SPOILER: d

If his conduct betrays X then he cant be accused of X
hence A seems reasonable.

Cynics believe that people who ___ compliments do so in order to be praised twice

A) bask in
B) give out
C) despair of
D) gloat over
E) shrug off

SPOILER: e

how to rule out b?

To have true disciples, a thinker must not be too ----: any effective intellectual leader depends on the ability of other people to----thought processes that did not originate with them.
(A) popular.. dismiss
(B) methodical.. interpret
(C) idiosyncratic.. reenact (what is reenact????)
(D) self-confident.. revitalize
(E) pragmatic.. discourage

SPOILER: d

Like many eighteenth-century scholars who lived by cultivating those in power, Winckelmann neglected to neutralize, by some ___ gesture of comradeship, the resentment his peers were bound to feel because of his ___ the high and mighty.

a) quixotic ... intrigue with
b) enigmatic ... familiarity with
c) propitiatory ... involvement with
d) salutary ... questioning of
e) unfeigned ... sympathy for

SPOILER: c

why not e?

[meruchi]

1.One cannot be accused of "lavishing of affection , here the emphasis is given to the word accused of....that is why the option D...

2.Give out means : emit , issue , fail or collapse.And none of these makings making sense here. One shrugs of sth means to refuse or ignore. Try it out with this meaning...

3.If a thinker is too practical in that case the quality of effective leadership will get affected.Here , B looks the close option but the second blank replaces it with E.Its also necessary to discourage those ideas .

4.comradeship = Frienship and the clue word is "neglected to neutralize" i.e, what kind of gesture made him neglected to neutralize, and also caused resentment to his peers ...Propitiatory gesture is a passive gesture and his involvement with high and mighty made his peers to feel resentment.And if it would have been real (unfeign)gesture of frienship,does it make his peers feel resentment?