GRE Text Completion
Although providing wild chimpanzees with food makes them less ________ and easier to study, it is also known to ________ their normal social patterns.
#1
There is something ________ about the way the building of monasteries proliferated in eighteenth- century Bavaria, while in the rest of the Western world religious ardor was ________ and church building was consequently declining.
#2
Because they had various meanings in nineteenth century biological thought, “mechanism” and “vitalism” ought not to be considered ________ terms; thus, I find the recent insistence that the terms had single definitions to be entirely ________.
#3
Many Americans believe that individual initiative epitomized the 1890’s and see the entrepreneur as the ________ of that age.
#4
Neither the ideas of philosophers nor the practices of ordinary people can, by themselves, ________ reality; what in fact changes reality and kindles revolution is the ________ of the two.
#5
There has been a tendency among art historians not so much to revise as to eliminate the concept of the Renaissance — to ________ not only its uniqueness, but its very existence.
#6
Employees had become so inured to the caprices of top management’s personnel policies that they greeted the announcement of a company-wide dress code with ________.
