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Living by core values allows one to be honest and upfront. The other options do not create a coherent description of personal integrity.

The sentence discusses a professional falling behind due to lack of ongoing learning in a fast-paced environment. The words continuing and dizzying fit logically to denote ongoing education and extremely fast rates of change.

A person boasts about achievements. You can boast about traditions, not societies or cliques. Subordinate cannot be correct as one would not boast about it. One can be an heir of traditions and still boast about it. Hence, option 4 is correct.

Resilient people respond to stress in a calm and steady manner. Rational (logical, reasonable) completes the description of this response style. Note: the question has a typo (resilent instead of resilient), but the meaning is clear.

Life and death are antonyms. The most opposite of pleasure is pain.

 Embezzle is the word used for fraud in financial transactions.

 All the options except 'rote' are helpful for the mental growth of a child. 'Rote' means fixed; habitual.

The most appropriate word is 'approached'.

Refute means 'to prove (a statement or theory) to be wrong or false; to disprove', and is the most appropraite for the blank. A theory is not refused, repressed or subdued. 

The question is a positive statement ('You're coming'), so the tag question must be negative. 'You are' becomes 'aren't you'.

'In course of time' is the correct idiomatic expression meaning eventually or as time passes.

In the context of 'quick', 'decision' is the most appropriate noun that fits the phrase 'quick decision'.

'Advice' is an uncountable noun in English. Therefore, it cannot be pluralized as 'advices' or 'advises' (the latter is a verb).

'Should' here means 'if'. 

The phrase 'for all the world' is an idiom meaning 'not for anything' or 'under no circumstances'.