GRE Exam Verbal Ability One Word Substitution

Question
Because we assume the (i)………….. of natural design, nature can often (ii)………….. us: as the Wright brothers noted, the birds initially misled them in almost every particular, but their Flyer eventually succeeded by being the least avian of the early flying machines.
Blank (i)
(A) quirkiness
(B) preeminence
(C) maladroitness
Blank (ii)
(D) galvanize
(E) befriend
(F) beguile

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Colleagues describe Padgett as both forthright and reticent, humble and (i)…………. , good-natured and (ii)…………… . And in her behavior as a businesswoman, Padgett herself does little to (iii)……………… these contradictions. She says she is proemployee but is avowedly antiunion. She calls herself procustomer but acknowledges that she runs a store with higher profit margins and prices than almost any other grocer.
Blank (i)
(A) diffident
(B) eccentric
(C) arrogant
Blank (ii)
(D) prickly
E) solicitous
(F) phlegmatic
Blank (iii)
(G) dispel
(H) fulfill I accentuate Question
Television promotes (i)………… of emotion in viewers through an unnatural evocation, every five minutes, of different and (ii)……….. feelings.
Blank (i)
(A) a withdrawal
(B) an obscuring
(C) a discontinuity
Blank (ii)
(D) incompatible
(E) sympathetic
(F) interminable