273. Because Alex was a very ______ person, he found satisfaction only in work that involved intellectual.
A. peripheral
B. cerebral
C. facetious
D. complacent
E. superficial
274. Readers of history often marvel that ______ events were triggered by actions that seemed ______ at the time.
A. marginal, unconscionable
B. arbitrary, capricious
C. momentous, trivial
D. revolutionary, cataclysmic
E. inconsequential, inane