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Word in Context
Homework #5
1. (416) Dance choreographer Jawole Willa Jo Zollar aims to give people
the opportunity to be ______ her creative process. For example, live
performances of her dance HairStories, which debuted in 2001, featured
videos of people across the United States talking about their hair and
audience members sharing pictures of their interesting hairstyles.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word
or phrase?
A. nervous about
B. completed by
C. delayed by
D. involved in
2. The following text is adapted from Nathaniel Hawthorne’s 1844 short
story “Drowne’s Wooden Image.” Drowne, a young man, is carving a
wooden figure to decorate the front of a ship. Day by day, the work
assumed greater precision, and settled its irregular and misty outline into
distincter grace and beauty. The general design was now obvious to the
common eye.
As used in the text, what does the word “assumed” most nearly mean?
A. Acquired
B. Acknowledged
C. Imitated
D. Speculated
3. Former astronaut Ellen Ochoa says that although she doesn’t have a
definite idea of when it might happen, she ______ that humans will
someday need to be able to live in other environments than those found
on Earth. This conjecture informs her interest in future research missions
to the moon.
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Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word
or phrase?
A. demands
B. speculates
C. doubts
D. establishes
4. A musician and member of the Quechua of Peru, Renata Flores Rivera
was eager to promote the Quechua language in her music, but she was
______ speaking it. She met this challenge by asking her grandmother, a
native speaker of Quechua, to help her pronounce words in her song
lyrics and also by taking classes in the language.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word
or phrase?
A. prepared for
B. inexperienced with
C. skilled in
D. excited about
5. Seminole/Muscogee director Sterlin Harjo ______ television’s tendency
to situate Native characters in the distant past: this rejection is evident in
his series Reservation Dogs, which revolves around teenagers who dress
in contemporary styles and whose dialogue is laced with current slang.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word
or phrase?
A. repudiates
B. proclaims
C. foretells
D. recants
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6. The following text is from Yann Martel’s 2001 novel Life of Pi. The
narrator’s family owned a zoo when he was a child.
It was a huge zoo, spread over numberless acres, big enough to require a
train to explore it, though it seemed to get smaller as I grew older, train
included.
©2001 by Yann Martel
As used in the text, what does the word “spread” most nearly mean?
A. Hidden
B. Discussed
C. Extended
D. Coated
7. According to botanists, a viburnum plant experiencing insect damage
may develop erineum—a discolored, felty growth—on its leaf blades. A
______ viburnum plant, on the other hand, will have leaves with smooth
surfaces and uniformly green coloration.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word
or phrase?
A. struggling
B. beneficial
C. simple
D. healthy
8. Research conducted by planetary scientist Katarina Miljkovic suggests
that the Moon’s surface may not accurately ______ early impact events.
When the Moon was still forming, its surface was softer, and asteroid or
meteoroid impacts would have left less of an impression; thus, evidence
of early impacts may no longer be present.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word
or phrase?
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A. reflect
B. receive
C. evaluate
D. mimic
9. Charles “Teenie” Harris was a photographer for the Pittsburgh Courier
from 1936 to 1975. During his career he took over 70,000 photographs
documenting everyday life in Pittsburgh’s Black communities. The
Carnegie Museum of Art maintains thousands of his photographs,
carefully ______ them so that audiences can continue to view them well
into the future.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word
or phrase?
A. replacing
B. inventing
C. preserving
D. counting
10. The following text is adapted from George Eliot’s 1871–72 novel
Middlemarch.
[Mr. Brooke] had travelled in his younger years, and was held in this part
of the country to have contracted a too rambling habit of mind. Mr.
Brooke’s conclusions were as difficult to predict as the weather.
As used in the text, what does the word “contracted” most nearly mean?
A. Restricted
B. Described
C. Developed
D. Settled
11. Although science fiction was dominated mostly by white male
authors when Octavia Butler, a Black woman, began writing, she did not
view the genre as ______: Butler broke into the field with the publication
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of several short stories and her 1976 novel Patternmaster, and she later
became the first science fiction writer to win a prestigious MacArthur
Fellowship.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word
or phrase?
A. legitimate
B. impenetrable
C. compelling
D. indecipherable
12. In the 1970s, video cameras became increasingly affordable for
ordinary consumers and gave Ulysses Jenkins and other artists
capabilities that were previously unavailable except to television
broadcasters. Jenkins recognized and took full advantage of this ______
access to powerful technology to create groundbreaking works of video
art, such as Mass of Images (1978).
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word
or phrase?
A. newfound
B. delicate
C. inevitable
D. habitual
13. A brief book review cannot fully convey the ______ of Olga
Tokarczuk’s novel The Books of Jacob, with its enormous cast of
characters, its complicated, wandering plot, and its page numbers that
count backward (beginning at 965 and ending at 1).
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word
or phrase?
A. accuracy
B. inactivity
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C. complexity
D. restraint
14. The following text is from Nella Larsen’s 1928 novel Quicksand.
The trees in their spring beauty sent through her restive mind a sharp
thrill of pleasure. Seductive, charming, and beckoning as cities were, they
had not this easy unhuman loveliness.
As used in the text, what does the word “beckoning” most nearly mean?
A. Demanding
B. Signaling
C. Inviting
D. Shifting
15. Biologist Jane Edgeloe and colleagues have located what is
believed to be the largest individual plant in the world in the Shark Bay
area of Australia. The plant is a type of seagrass called Posidonia
australis, and it ______ approximately 200 square kilometers.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word
or phrase?
A. acknowledges
B. produces
C. spans
D. advances
16. In the early 1800s, the Cherokee scholar Sequoyah created the first
script, or writing system, for an Indigenous language in the United States.
Because it represented the sounds of spoken Cherokee so accurately, his
script was easy to learn and thus quickly achieved ______ use: by 1830,
over 90 percent of the Cherokee people could read and write it.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word
or phrase?
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A. widespread
B. careful
C. unintended
D. infrequent
17. In 1929 the Atlantic Monthly published several articles based on
newly discovered letters allegedly exchanged between President
Abraham Lincoln and a woman named Ann Rutledge. Historians were
unable to ______ the authenticity of the letters, however, and quickly
dismissed them as a hoax.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word
or phrase?
A. validate
B. interpret
C. relate
D. accommodate
18. Following the principles of community-based participatory
research, tribal nations and research institutions are equal partners in
health studies conducted on reservations. A collaboration between the
Crow Tribe and Montana State University ‐ ______ this model: tribal
citizens worked alongside scientists to design the methodology and
continue to assist in data collection.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word
or phrase?
A. circumvents
B. eclipses
C. fabricates
D. exemplifies
19. The process of mechanically recycling plastics is often considered
______ because of the environmental impact and the loss of material
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quality that often occurs. But chemist Takunda Chazovachii has helped
develop a cleaner process of chemical recycling that converts
superabsorbent polymers from diapers into a desirable reusable adhesive.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word
or phrase?
A. resilient
B. inadequate
C. dynamic
D. satisfactory
20. Bioluminescent beetles called fireflies may seem to create flashes
of light randomly, but each species of firefly actually has its own special
series of repeated flashes and pauses. These unique ______ allow fireflies
of the same species to find each other.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word
or phrase?
A. quantities
B. decorations
C. patterns
D. agreements
21. According to Potawatomi ecologist Robin Wall Kimmerer, the
Indigenous method of harvesting Hierochloe odorata, or sweetgrass, by
snapping the plant off at the root actually ______ wild populations: it
may seem counterintuitive, she says, but this method of removal allows
new sweetgrass plants to repopulate the space, with an overall increase in
number and vigor.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word
or phrase?
A. selects
B. originates
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C. conditions
D. replenishes
22. The work of molecular biophysicist Enrique M. De La Cruz is
known for ______ traditional boundaries between academic disciplines.
The university laboratory that De La Cruz runs includes engineers,
biologists, chemists, and physicists, and the research the lab produces
makes use of insights and techniques from all those fields.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word
or phrase?
A. epitomizing
B. transcending
C. anticipating
D. reinforcing
23. The güiro, a musical instrument traditionally made from a dried
and hollowed gourd, is thought to have originated with the Taíno people
of Puerto Rico. Players use a wooden stick to scrape along ridges cut into
the side of the gourd, creating sounds that are highly ______: the sounds
produced by güiros can differ based on the distance between the ridges,
the types of strokes the player uses, and the thickness of the gourd.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word
or phrase?
A. overlooked
B. powerful
C. routine
D. variable
24. Visual artist Gabriela Alemán states that the bold colors of comics,
pop art, and Latinx culture have always fascinated her. This passion for
the rich history and colors of her Latinx community translates into the
______ artworks she produces.
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Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word
or phrase?
A. vivid
B. unknown
C. definite
D. reserved
25. In studying the use of external stimuli to reduce the itching
sensation caused by an allergic histamine response, Louise Ward and
colleagues found that while harmless applications of vibration or
warming can provide a temporary distraction, such ______ stimuli
actually offer less relief than a stimulus that seems less benign, like a
mild electric shock.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word
or phrase?
A. deceptive
B. innocuous
C. novel
D. impractical
26. Beginning in the 1950s, Navajo Nation legislator Annie Dodge
Wauneka continuously worked to promote public health; this ______
effort involved traveling throughout the vast Navajo homeland and
writing a medical dictionary for speakers of Diné bizaad, the Navajo
language.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word
or phrase?
A. impartial
B. offhand
C. persistent
D. mandatory
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27. (475) In Nature Poem (2017), Kumeyaay poet Tommy Pico
portrays his ______ the natural world by honoring the centrality of nature
within his tribe’s traditional beliefs while simultaneously expressing his
distaste for being in wilderness settings himself.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word
or phrase?
A. responsiveness to
B. ambivalence toward
C. renunciation of
D. mastery over
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Key:
1D 4B 7D 10 C 13 C 16 A 19 B 22 B 25 B
2A 5A 8A 11 B 14 C 17 A 20 C 23 D 26 C
3B 6C 9C 12 A 15 C 18 D 21 D 24 A 27 B
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