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　　292. In 1903 the members of the governing board of the University of  Washington, in Seattle, engaged a firm of landscape architects, specialists in  the design of outdoor environments --- Olmsted Brothers of Brookline,  Massachusetts --- to advise them on an appropriate layout for the university  grounds.

　　The word "engaged" is closest in meaning to which of following?

　　(A) trained

　　(B) hired

　　(C) described

　　(D) evaluated

　　2922. John Olmsted did the investigation and subsequent report on Seattle's  parks.

　　The word "subsequent" is closest in meaning to which of following?

　　(A) complicated

　　(B) alternate

　　(C) later

　　(D) detailed

　　293. With such unparalleled sumsat their disposal, with the Olmsted  guidelines to follow, and with the added incentive of wanting to have the city  at its best for the Alaska-Yukon- Pacific Exposition of 1909, the Parks Board  bought agtoeflssively.

　　The word "sums" is closest in meaning to which of following?

　　(A) problems

　　(B) amounts

　　(C) services

　　(D) debts

　　294. Many prehistoric people subsisted as hunters and gatherers.   Undoubtedly, game animals, including some very large species, provided major  components of human diets.

　　The word "Undoubtedly" is closest in meaning to which of following?

　　(A) occasionally

　　(B) unexpectedly

　　(C) previously

　　(D) certainly

　　The word "components" is closest in meaning to which of following?

　　(A) parts

　　(B) problems

　　(C) changes

　　(D) varieties

　　295. Hunter-gatherers may have contributed to Pleistocene extinctions in  more indirect ways. Besides overhunting, at least three other kinds of effects  have been suggested: direct competition, imbalances between competing species of  game animals, and early agricultural practices.

　　The word "Besides" is closest in meaning to which of following?

　　(A) caused by

　　(B) whereas

　　(C) in addition to

　　(D) in favor of

　　296. If such hunters first competed with the larger predators and then  replaced them, they may have allowed more young to survive each year, gradually  increasing the populations of favored species.

　　The word "favored" is closest in meaning to which of following?

　　(A) large

　　(B) escaping

　　(C) preferred

　　(D) local

　　27. They became an integral part of the gardens of the Ottoman Empire from  the sixteenth century onward, and, soon after, part of European life as  well.

　　The word "integral" is closest in meaning to which of following?

　　(A) interesting

　　(B) fundamental

　　(C) ornamental

　　(D) overlooked

　　298. They flourished in Pennsyvania too, where in 1698 William Penn  received a report of John Tateham's "toeflat and Stately Palace," its garden  full of tulips.

　　The word "flourished" is closest in meaning to which of following?

　　(A) were discovered

　　(B) were marketed

　　(C) combined

　　(D) thrived

　　299. Thomas Hancock, an English settler, wrote thanking his plant supplier  for a gift of some tulip bulbs from England, but his letter of the following  year grumbled that they were all dead.

　　The word "grumbled" is closest in meaning to which of following?

　　(A) denied

　　(B) warned

　　(C) complained

　　(D) explained

　　300. No two comets ever look identical, but they have basic features in  common, one of the most obvious of which is a coma.

　　The word "identical" is closest in meaning to which of following?

　　(A) equally fast

　　(B) exactly alike

　　(C) near each other

　　(D) invisible

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