1. He has a reputation for being wooden and __________, but I think he comes across as both personable and thoughtful in his ads.
[ Note: Select 2 answer choices ]
A portentous
B standoffish
C blithe
D uncongenial
E convivial
F candid
2. The Russians sought formal Western recognition of their expanded borders and acceptance of, or at least __________ in, their emerging sphere of influence in Eastern Europe.
A desiccation
B acquiescence
C dissent
D insubordination
E surfeit
3. The former Bolshevik revolutionary "transformed the government he ran and even the country he ruled, during the 1930s, into a __________ extension of his own pathologically suspicious personality," suggests historian John Lewis Gaddis.
A heteromorphic
B fungible
C gargantuan
D sycophantic
E didactic