GRE Text Completion
Even though formidable winters are the norm in the Dakotas, many people were unprepared for the ________ of the blizzard of 1888.
#1
As the first streamlined car, the Airflow represented a ________in automotive development, and although its sales were ________, it had an immense influence on automobile design.
#2
While nurturing parents can compensate for adversity, cold or inconsistent parents may ________ it.
#3
The architects of New York’s early skyscrapers, hinting here at a twelfth-century cathedral, there at a fifteenth-century palace, sought to legitimize the city’s social strivings by ________ a history the city did not truly ________.
#4
Actual events in the history of life on Earth are accidental in that any outcome embodies just one ________ among millions; yet each out-come can be ________ interpreted.
#5
Although some of her fellow scientists ________ the unorthodox laboratory methodology that others found innovative, unanimous praise greeted her experimental results: at once pioneering and ________.
#6
Early critics of Emily Dickinson’s poetry mistook for simplemindedness the surface of artlessness that in fact she constructed with such ________.
