GRE Text Completion
Despite the fact that the two council members belonged to different political parties, they ________ the issue of how to finance the town debt.
#1
The breathing spell provided by the ________ arms shipments should give all the combatants a chance to reevaluate their positions.
#2
The notion that cultural and biological influences ________ determine cross-cultural diversity is discredited by the fact that, in countless aspects of human existence, it is cultural programming that overwhelmingly accounts for cross-population variance.
#3
Because medieval women’s public participation in spiritual life was not welcomed by the male establishment, a compensating ________ religious writings, inoffensive to the members of the establishment because of its ________, became important for many women.
#4
This final essay, its prevailing kindliness ________ by occasional flashes of savage irony, bespeaks the ________ character of the author.
#5
Although his attempts to appear psychotic were so ________ as to be almost _________, there is evidence that Ezra Pound was able to avoid standing trial for treason merely by faking symptoms of mental illness.
#6
The ________ questions that consistently structure the study of history must be distinguished from merely ________ questions, which have their day and then pass into oblivion.
