GRE Text Completion
The ________ of mass literacy coincided with the first industrial revolution; in turn, the new expansion in literacy, as well as cheaper printing, helped to nurture the ________ of popular literature.
#1
Although ancient tools were ________ preserved, enough have survived to allow us to demonstrate an occasionally interrupted but generally ________ progress through prehistory.
#2
In parts of the Arctic, the land grades into the land fast ice so ________ that you can walk off the coast and not know you are over the hidden sea.
#3
Kagan maintains that an infant’s reactions to its first stressful experiences are part of a natural process of development, not harbingers of childhood unhappiness or ________ signs of adolescent anxiety.
#4
An investigation that is ________ can occasionally yield new facts, even notable ones, but typically the appearance of such facts is the result of a search in a definite direction.
#5
Like many eighteenth-century scholars who lived by cultivating those in power, Winckelmann neglected to neutralize, by some ________ gesture of comradeship, the resentment his peers were bound to feel because of his ________ the high and mighty.
#6
In a ________ society that worships efficiency, it is difficult for a sensitive and idealistic person to make the kinds of ________ decisions that alone spell success as it is defined by such a society.
