1. Their bantering talk seemed ____, but in fact it masked an underlying ____ .
A. hostile - antipathy
B. amicable - antagonism
C. jovial - assumptions
D. exasperating - frustrations
E. friendly - geniality
2. The new nomenclature was so ____ that many chemists preferred to revert to the older trivial names that were at least shorter.
A. succinct
B. cumbersome
C. irrational
D. facile
E. systematic
3. Even though the auditors ____ the accountant, his reputation was ____ by the allegations of fraud.
A. vindicated - enhanced
B. indicted - blemished
C. betrayed - ruined
D. exonerated - tarnished
E. cleared - condoned