453. Although she often described reason as the noblest ______ , author Ayn Rand never implied that she rejected ______ .
A. enigma, logic
B. faculty, emotion
C. fantasy, rhetoric
D. good, rationality
E. honor, semantics

454. The governor concluded that, because the city's fiscal problems were ______ by entrenched mismanagement, providing rescue funding would be foolhardy.
A. supplanted
B. mitigated
C. ascertained
D. exacerbated
E. assailed

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