GRE Text Completion
Dreams are ________ in and of themselves, but when combined with other data, they can tell us much about the dreamer.
#1
The Muses are ________ deities: they avenge themselves without mercy on those who weary of their charms.
#2
Without the psychiatrist’s promise of confidentiality, trust is ________ and the patient’s communication limited; even though confidentiality can thus be seen to be precious in therapy, moral responsibility sometimes requires a willingness to ________ it.
#3
Having fully embraced the belief that government by persuasion is preferable to government by _____, the leaders of the movement have recently _____ most of their previous statements supporting totalitarianism.
#4
The powers and satisfactions of primeval people, though few and meager, were ________ their few and simple desires.
#5
Some scientists argue that carbon compounds play such a central role in life on Earth because of the possibility of ________ resulting from the carbon atom’s ability to form an unending series of different molecules.
#6
Whereas the art critic Vasari saw the painting entitled the Mona Lisa as an original and wonderful ________ feat, the reproduction of a natural object, the aesthetes saw it as ________ that required deciphering.
