GRE Text Completion
Because they had expected the spacecraft Voyager 2 to be able to gather data only about the planets Jupiter and Saturn, scientists were ________ the wealth of information it sent back from Neptune twelve years after leaving Earth.
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Wearing the latest fashions was exclusively the ________ of the wealthy until the 1850’s, when mass production, aggressive entrepreneurs, and the availability of the sewing machine made them ________ the middle class.
#2
Linguists have now confirmed what experienced users of ASL—American Sign Language—have always implicitly known: ASL is a grammatically ________ language in that it is capable of expressing every possible syntactic relation.
#3
He was regarded by his followers, as something of ________, not only because of his insistence on strict discipline, but also because of his _______ adherence to formal details.
#4
The influence of the Timaeus among early philosophical thinkers was ________, if only because it was the sole dialogue ________ in Europe for almost 1,000 years.
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The Gibsons were little given to ________ in any form; not one of them was afraid of ________, of being and seeming unlike their neighbors.
#6
Even after ____ against the ________of popular sovereignty were included, major figures in the humanistic disciplines remained skeptical about the proposal to extend suffrage to the masses.
