GRE Text Completion
Clearly refuting sceptics, researchers have ________ not only that gravitational radiation exists but that it also does exactly what theory ________ it should do.
#1
Sponsors of the bill were ________ because there was no opposition to it within the legislature until after the measure had been signed into law.
#2
The paradoxical aspect of the myths about Demeter, when we consider the predominant image of her as a tranquil and serene goddess, is her ________ search for her daughter.
#3
Yellow fever, the disease that killed 4,000 Philadelphians in 1793, and so ________ Memphis, Tennessee, that the city lost its charter, has reappeared after nearly two decades in ________ in the Western Hemisphere.
#4
Although _________, almost self-effacing in his private life, he displays in his plays and essays a strong ________ publicity and controversy.
#5
Comparatively few rock musicians are willing to laugh at themselves, although a hint of ________ can boost sales of video clips very nicely.
#6
Parts of seventeenth-century Chinese pleasure gardens were not necessarily intended to look ________; they were designed expressly to evoke the melancholy resulting from a sense of the ________ of natural beauty and human glory.
