어휘 관련 답과 보기에 나온 대학 수준 이상의 단어 총 88단어 중 85단어 적중

적중률: 96.6% (88단어 중 85단어 적중)

비적중 어휘: shimmer, homologous, stupefy

총평: 고대 시험 문제는 올 해 TOSEL식 변화를 예고했다. 문제 형태에서는 어느정도 TOSEL형식으로 출제되었다고 볼 수 있지만 난이도면에서는 TOSEL보다 많이 어려운 시험이었고 예전 KUET 시험의 난이도와 비슷한 시험이었다고 볼 수 있다. 어휘 문제는 동의어 문제가 없어졌고 문법 문제가 10문항에서 20문항으로 많아졌으며 독해 문제도 22문항에서 30문항으로 늘어났다. 빈 칸 완성의 어휘 문제는 20문항 그대로 출제되었다.

어휘 난이도는 다소 쉬워졌다고 볼 수 있지만 단순 동의어 찾기 문제가 없어졌고 그 대신 문법과 독해 문항 수가 증가했기 때문에 시험 시간이 부족한 학생들이 많았을 것이라 판단된다.

어휘 난이도는 WORD SPONGE Essential course1,2에서 대부분 출제되었고 Advanced course에서도 몇 개의 단어가 출제되었다. TOSEL 어휘 난이도보다는 상당히 고난이도라는 점을 명심하고 WORD SPONGE의 모든 단어를 확실히 암기해야 하겠고 그 이상의 난이도를 위해 더 높은 GRE 상급 수준의 어휘까지 준비하는 것은 거의 무의미하다고 볼 수 있겠다. WORD SPONGE의 어휘를 완벽히 암기하고 그 이상 수준의 어휘를 준비하는 대신 문법과 독해에 더 많은 시간을 투자하는 것이 현명한 방법일 것이다.

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밑줄 친 어휘: 위의 조사한 88단어로서 WORD SPONGE에서 적중한 어휘들

21.  Real progress in understanding nature is rarely _________. All important advances are sudden intuitions, new principles, new ways of seeing.

    A. compromised

    B. acclaimed

    C. ingenious

    D. incremental

22.  Moving an organizational mountain in a radically different, horizontal direction is not easy, regardless of benefit. Fear of change and widespread initiative fatigue make the status quo very ________.

    A. precarious

    B. cumbersome

    C. seductive

    D. obscure

23.  Claude Monet’s paintings are always blurry and vague. He paints this way deliberately, because he wants to capture the way sunlight makes things ________.

    A. shimmer

    B. conspicuous

    C. compact

    D. perish

24.  Political purpose is the desire to push the world in a certain direction, to alter other people’s idea of the kind of society they should strive after. No book is genuinely ______ political bias. The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude.

    A. compliant to

    B. free from

    C. controlled by

    D. accountable for

25.  It is ironic that businessmen are often morally __________ for their greed at seeking profit, even though profit is necessary if the wealth of a society is to grow and life is to get better.

    A. condemned

    B. uplifted

    C. justified

    D. extolled

26.  We can tell whether we are happy by the sound of the wind. It warns the unhappy man of the fragility of his house, hounding him from shallow sleep and violent dreams. To the happy man it is the song of his ______: its furious howling concedes that it has power over him no longer.

    A. exposure

    B. perplexity

    C. protectedness

    D. vulnerability

27.  To be fully normal is impossible. Everyone ________ the norm. Even if one belongs to the statistical majority in race, height, and weight, simply by the virtue of this unlikely combination of normalcies one’s profile would already be somewhat abnormal.

    A. conforms to

    B. acknowledges

    C. trivializes

    D. deviates from

28.  Personality types are not ________ - most of us are a combination of many complexly interwined traits. No one trait wholly determines our tastes - various overlapping personality traits each exert an influence, as do cognitive abilities like language mastery and overall intelligence.

    A. unclearly demarcated

    B. easily inherited

    C. essentially flexible

    D. mutually exclusive

29.  Our permanent enemy is __________. Man, biologically considered, and whatever else he may be in the bargain, is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own species.

    A. the bellicosity of human nature

    B. the lassitude of civilization

    C. the prevalent disregard of truth

    D. the aspiration to humanitarianism

30.  Literary awards are inherently subjective and potentially corrupting, but they are also perhaps the most powerful __________ we have regarding the decline of serious fiction, and the best way of bringing good narrative to a wider would that desperately needs it.

    A. obstacle

    B. endorsement

    C. antidote

    D. trigger

31.  Unlike the carefully weighted and planned compositions of Dante, Goethe’s writings have always the sense of _______ and enthusiasm. He was a constant experimenter with life, with ideas, and with forms of writing.

    A. immediacy

    B. consistency

    C. reflexivity

    D. tenacity

32.  Infants as young as 4 months can tell when a speaker switches languages just by watching the mouth ― a marker of how important visual cues are to language learning. But by 8 months, only babies raised in bilingual households have this ability; without continued exposure, some perceptual abilities ________.

    A. recuperate

    B. intensify

    C. evolve

    D. wane

33.  As long as the acquisition of knowledge is rendered habitually repugnant, so long will there be a prevailing tendency to discontinue it when liberated from the _______ of parents and teachers.

    A. nonchalance   

    B. coercion

    C. apathy

    D. indolence

34.  Although most e-mail users have come to understand that messages remain on their computers even if deleted, text messages are often regarded as more ________. But messages can remain on the sender’s and receiver’s phones, and even if they are deleted, communication companies store them for anywhere from days to weeks.

    A. ephemeral

    B. confounding

    C. obsolete

    D. enduring

35.  A writing style that depends on modifying nearly every noun with one or two adjectives and every verb with an adverb will end up being slow-moving and tedious. The fundamental principle in this matter is that exact verbs and nouns are to be preferred to general verbs and abstract nouns accompanied by adjective and adverb modifiers. What Mark Twain said about the adjective applies equally well to the adverb: "When in doubt, ______________."

    A. flesh it out

    B. embellish it

    C. strike it out

    D. highlight it

36.  He who __________ runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as a basis for his private interest. The detached observer is as much entangled as the active participants; the only advantage of the former is insight into his entanglement, and the infinitesimal freedom that lies in knowledge as such.

    A. is naturally selfless

    B. stands aloof

    C. lives the present

    D. respects mankind

37.  Our repeated failure to fully act as we would wish must not discourage us. It is the sincere intention that is the essential thing, and this will in time release us from the bondage of _______ which at present seem almost ________.

    A. temptations ― impotent

    B. regulations ― liberating

    C. decisions ― impulsive

    D. habits ― insuperable

38.  Divergence in response to evolution is commonly expressed by altering the form and function of some part of the organism, the original identity of which is clearly ______. Thus, the structure that shows main change in connection with this adaptive divergence is commonly identified readily as _______.

    A. remarkable ― dissimilar

    B. disparate ― identical

    C. discernible ― homologous

    D. convertible ― analogous

39.  There may be no better example of what is meant by _______ medicine than the strategy of vaccination. A healthy person is given a tiny taste of a virus ― flu or polio, say ― that is too weak to cause illness but just enough to introduce the body to the pathogen. If the virus later shows up for real, the immune system is _______ and waiting for it.

    A. preventive ― primed

    B. conservative ― numbed

    C. alternative ― sabotaged

    D. innovative ― stupefied

40.  Virtues, like viruses, have their season of _________. When catastrophe strikes, generosity spikes like a fever. Courage spreads in the face of tyranny. But some virtues _______ for generations, as we have seen with thrift, making its comeback after 40 years in cold storage.

    A. malaise ― are pliant

    B. contagion ― go dormant

    C. desolation ― are potent

    D. sequestration ― remain rampant 

43.  Choose the one that best fills in the blank.

    A. a costume 

    B. a reality 

    C. a snare 

    D. a homage

45.  According to the passage, style is associated with the __________ of clothes.

    A. pretentiousness 

    B. extravagance 

    C. conveyance  (종로, 위드유, 광수, 유니넷)

    D. alteration (김영, 하이탑)

52.  Choose the one that best fills in the blank.

    A. straightforward

    B. exhilarating

    C. superfluous

    D. imperative

53.  What is the tone of the passage?

    A. critical

    B. laudatory

   C. optimistic

    D. flippant

54.  Choose the one that best fills in the blank.

    A. increased

    B. preserved

    C. distorted

    D. offset

64.  According to The passage, which aspect is not associated with care theory?

    A. receptivity

    B. relatedness

    C. rehabilitation

    D. responsiveness