Choose the word or set of words that best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.

1. He was treated like a ____ and cast out from his community.

2. The teacher accused me of ____ because my essay was so similar to that of another student.

3. We live in a ____ age; everyone thinks that maximizing pleasure is the point of life.

4. Thankfully the disease has gone into ____ ; it may not recur for many years.

5. People from all over the world are sent by their doctors to breathe the pure, ____ air in this mountain region.

6. As were many colonial administrators, Gregory was ____ in his knowledge of the grammar of the local language, though his accent was ____ .

7. Though Adam Bede is presented to us by the author as ____ fiction, there are none of the life-like meanderings of the story of Amos Barton.

8. There is a general ____ in the United States that our ethics are declining and that out moral standards are ____ .

9. Homo sapiens, the proud splitter of the atom, inventor of the electronic computer, ____ of the genetic code may be humbled by a lowly ____ of the sewers and soils - the microbe.

10. After centuries of obscurity, this philosopher's thesis is enjoying a surprising ____ .

11. The threat of war, far from ____ , lay heavily in the air, and the villagers, while ____ going about their normal activities, were unable to shake off the feeling of impending catastrophe.

12. Although alarmed by the ____ , Professor Symes had no reason to doubt the ____ of his student's results, for this student was nothing if not reliable.