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[{"context": "In Europe, football, otherwise known as soccer, is the most popular sport by several orders of magnitude whereas in the United States of America, fandom is fairly evenly _____ among a few different sports.", "answer": "apportioned", "choices": ["regarded", "inspired", "enjoyed", "measured", "apportioned"]}, {"context": "The astrophysicist argues that our books and films about intersteller space travel are a form of mass _____, and that only a miracle on a scale heretofore unseen could allow a human being to voyage to even the closest star in another solar system.", "answer": "delusion ", "choices": ["innovation", "delusion ", "dementia", "catastrophe", "hysteria"]}, {"context": "Even the _____ and alluring charms of Paris were not sufficient to cure the young expatriate of his yearning for the simple and quaint charms of his rural American home.", "answer": "sophisticated", "choices": ["lascivious", "sophisticated", "foreign", "alien", "alienating"]}, {"context": "On an aptitude test in 1986, an argument posited that the possibility of conducting banking transactions from home was as likely as flying cars, an argument that sounds _____ today, when such transactions are commonplace.", "answer": "preposterous", "choices": ["prescient", "preternatural", "preordained", "preposterous", "pithy"]}, {"context": "The widespread tendency to _____ retired political leaders who were successful stems from an arguably primal human need to venerate men and gods.", "answer": "lionize", "choices": ["castigate ", "remember ", "lionize ", "appreciate ", "indemnify"]}, {"context": "Every generation is accused of slacking by the preceding ones, before in turn calling its own progeny lackadaisical; such is the _____ of life. ", "answer": "circle", "choices": ["vicissitude ", "irony ", "circle  ", "serendipity  ", "comedy"]}, {"context": "Although retired, the professor takes pains to remain _____ the latest developments in her field. ", "answer": "abreast of", "choices": ["akimbo to ", "abreast of ", "obtuse to ", "subservient to", "askance to"]}, {"context": "Once considered able to only _____ emulate actions without understanding the action's deeper significance, bearded dragons have recently been observed copying non-instinctive actions of other bearded dragons, prompting scientists to question whether other reptiles might also be capable of genuine imitation.", "answer": "insensibly", "choices": ["attentively", "insensibly", "listlessly ", "actively", "consciously"]}, {"context": "December's earthquake was but a _____ to a terrible year for a small island nation recently wracked by civil strife devastating tropical storms.", "answer": "coda", "choices": ["prologue", "catharsis", "coda", "homily", "rampage"]}, {"context": "After many years of war and bloodshed, some became _____ suffering, casting a blind eye to scenes of misery around them.", "answer": "inured to ", "choices": ["inured to ", "exempted from ", "dominant over ", "effusive towards", "maudlin over"]}, {"context": "After a brief initial struggle over power, the group elected a leader and _____ into a surprisingly harmonious team. ", "answer": "coalesced", "choices": ["fractured", "syncopated", "coalesced", "agglomerated", "amortized"]}, {"context": "24. The highly anticipated finale of the TV series was divisive: newcomers to the show found the fast-paced action enjoyable while long-time fans _____ the storyline unfinished. ", "answer": "considered", "choices": ["appreciated", "generated", "examined", "considered", "secured"]}, {"context": "During his sales pitch, the car salesman attempted to _____ the young couple into purchasing the luxury automobile, despite the pair\u2019s obvious indifference to his flattery.", "answer": "inveigle", "choices": ["Support", "inveigle", "deliberate", "marginalize", "hector"]}, {"context": "Just as reminiscences of a childhood spent in rural Mexico color the poet\u2019s work, so too does the experience of war _____ her poetry. ", "answer": "inform", "choices": ["inform", "mimic", "invalidate", "defer", "presage"]}, {"context": "During the prolonged and elaborate farewell tour, no one thought the plaudits heaped upon him were _____ , since his heroics were well documented and admired by all.", "answer": "obsequious", "choices": ["obsequious", "derivative", "deserved", "vestigial", "antiquated"]}, {"context": "The beauty pageant contestant told the judges she wanted world peace, but her suggestion to bring about world peace was _____ - apparently, she naively thinks everyone could just be told to \"love one another\" and all the world's disagreements would fade away.", "answer": "facile", "choices": ["convoluted", "facile", "impeccable", "amicable", "dulcet"]}, {"context": "In front of her parents, adults euphemistically referred to the overly talkative young girl as precocious, though they privately found her to be ____ .", "answer": "garrulous", "choices": ["garrulous", "skittish", "solicitous", "endearing", "naive"]}, {"context": "In contrast to environmental economics, an older field that concerns itself with the monetary valuation of natural resources, the emergent field of ecological economics positions the human economy as a subsystem of natural ecologies, thus _____ environmental economists' subordination of the natural world.", "answer": "reversing", "choices": ["circumscribing", "corroborating", "refuting", "ameliorating", "reversing"]}, {"context": "Today\u2019s highly partisan political environment is far from _____; not so long ago, ideological opponents were still able to set aside differences and work across party lines, as is typically necessary to pass productive legislation.", "answer": "efficacious", "choices": ["civil", "immutable", "polemical", "efficacious", "enjoyable"]}, {"context": "For centuries, commercial portrait painters have employed a bifurcated aesthetic: like other artists, they strive to represent the truth that gives their works life, but commerce dictates that they simultaneously employ subtle ____ that make the likeness more attractive than the sitter. ", "answer": "artifacts", "choices": ["palettes", "aesthetics", "artifacts", "artifices ", "sentiments"]}, {"context": "Dogmatic professors often alienate their classes because they fail to realize that their _____ enervates rather than inspires students. ", "answer": "pedantry", "choices": ["wisdom", "pedantry", "parsimony", "pulchritude ", "wit"]}, {"context": "General McClellan focused so intently on the petty, logistical details of the upcoming campaign that Lincoln felt that said attention to _____ , however necessary, had superseded more lofty goals.", "answer": "minutiae", "choices": ["irrelevancies", "tactics", "minutiae", "strategy", "peccadilloes"]}, {"context": "For all the student's meticulous preparation, he received _____ grade on his final exam.", "answer": "a deplorable", "choices": ["a passable", "a deplorable", "an exacting", "a surprising", "an outstanding"]}, {"context": "Just as ancient Greek culture in some ways provided the Romans with a model, the remnants of Roman culture _____ the development of medieval European mores.", "answer": "informed", "choices": ["duplicated", "curbed", "foresaw", "informed", "hindered"]}, {"context": "As an evolutionary adaptation, cats have developed a mechanism whereby their heads are measuring devices, as their bodies can fit through any space that their heads can, and this physiology is a safeguard that _____ their success as a species. ", "answer": "enhances", "choices": ["reproduces", "ensures", "enhances", "mitigates", "inundates"]}, {"context": "The Donner party made a _____ choice to try to cross the Sierra Nevada too late in the season, and they paid dearly for that dangerous decision. ", "answer": "parlous", "choices": ["prudent", "parlous", "suicidal", "semiotic", "providential"]}, {"context": "The engineer is not interested in developing products to meet market needs; her work is known for its technical brilliance much more than for its _____ potential. ", "answer": "commercial", "choices": ["scientific", "ergonomic", "commercial", "academic", "revolutionary"]}, {"context": "The senator's _____ upbringing seemingly had no effect on his policy: he vociferously championed economic, political, and even cultural isolationism. ", "answer": "cosmopolitan", "choices": ["cosmopolitan", "bucolic", "liberal", "tendentious", "opulent"]}, {"context": "The comedian's _____ wit has long been the cause of the polarized sentiments she evokes in her audience; some adore her caustic sense of humor, while others abhor it. ", "answer": "acerbic", "choices": ["ample", "acerbic", "anachronistic", "abstruse", "astounding"]}, {"context": "Contrary to the assumptions that many Westerners hold about mindfulness practices, meditation is often anything but _____ ; while using various methods to calm the mind, meditators frequently experience intense periods of restlessness and doubt. ", "answer": "halcyon", "choices": ["beneficial", "mystical", "orthodox", "benign", "halcyon"]}, {"context": "Faced with _____ job market, many young people are returning to graduate school rather than attempting to compete for the few available jobs. ", "answer": "an anemic", "choices": ["a myopic", "an anemic", "a botched", "a booming", "an educated"]}, {"context": "There are many reasons to construct urban traffic lanes for cyclists: city infrastructure is already _____ under the strain of excess auto traffic, and the safety advantages of limiting road-sharing between cyclists and vehicles are all too clear. ", "answer": "groaning", "choices": ["seething", "waiting", "groaning", "baying", "intensifying"]}, {"context": "The apparent simplicity of a cup of coffee _____ the dizzying number of hours of toil required to produce it, from months of cultivation of the bean tree to painstaking refinement in highly sophisticated machinery.", "answer": "belies", "choices": ["redresses", "confirms", "belies", "furnishes", "fosters"]}, {"context": "It is in no way shocking that scientific experiments sometimes lead to _____ ; however, in order for results to be deemed valid, peer review studies must consistently duplicate the normal pattern of the original study. ", "answer": "anomalies", "choices": ["anxiety", "malfunctions", "anomalies", "vaccines", "paradigms"]}, {"context": "Commentators and comedians had a field day with the widespread corruption in politics, so much so that one _____ defined a \"gaffe\" as a politician accidentally telling the truth. ", "answer": "wag", "choices": ["wag", "apologist", "diplomat", "egoist", "transgressor"]}, {"context": "Ms. Llewellyn is known to gently _____ students who don't do their homework, but because of her generally amiable demeanor, she refuses to punish anyone, and seldom even raises her voice.", "answer": "chide", "choices": ["pillory", "detest", "malign", "penalize", "chide"]}, {"context": "For eons, _____ was considered not only polite, but virtuous; now, fashionable behavior lauds laxity and tardiness, and arriving at a function an hour late is considered appropriate. ", "answer": "punctiliousness", "choices": ["probity", "parsimoniousness", "prodigality", "punctiliousness", "panache"]}, {"context": "The danger of giving too many long and bombastic speeches while on the campaign trail is that a politician can come off as _____ rather than eloquent. ", "answer": "voluble", "choices": ["unscrupulous", "voluble", "frank", "hostile", "languid"]}, {"context": "It is strange to think that for the majority of the 1950s, the _____ of nuclear holocaust was a daily part of people's lives, so much so that elementary school students ran drills in which they had to dive under their desks and curl up into a ball. ", "answer": "specter", "choices": ["specter", "annihilation", "brutality", "detonation", "arms race"]}, {"context": "Nora Ephron's 1989 film, When Harry Met Sally, was more than a hit movie \u2013 for a generation, it was a cultural _____ regarding the often fraught relations between men and women. ", "answer": "touchstone", "choices": ["rudder", "bolster", "touchstone", "stanchion", "cornerstone"]}, {"context": "The professor explains the Efficient Market Hypothesis with _____ uncommon among business finance faculty: she is not fully convinced of the validity of the theory. ", "answer": "a level of skepticism ", "choices": ["an enthusiasm", "a degree of humility", "a thoroughness", "a level of skepticism ", "an eloquence"]}, {"context": "In an age of near-instantaneous fact checking, political candidates must be careful of making spontaneous statements intended to appease a crowd, as any fictitious claim will inevitably be found to be _____ .", "answer": "bogus", "choices": ["dull", "bogus", "genuine", "unnecessary", "unfamiliar"]}, {"context": "Patients who stop taking antibiotics when symptoms subside contribute to the evolution of drug-resistant strains, because an incomplete course of treatment spares the most _____ bacteria. ", "answer": "robust", "choices": ["widespread", "immature ", "robust", "benign", "notorious"]}, {"context": "Children who are recognized as preternaturally intelligent often go on to fulfill their early promise, contrary to the stereotype of maladjusted _____ wasting their gifts. ", "answer": "prodigies", "choices": ["prodigies", "teenagers", "cranks", "theorizers", "pragmatists"]}, {"context": "When first introduced by senior management, the new boss was viewed as a figurehead at best, but after months of watching him shake up the office hierarchy and double productivity, even the most _____ of his employees was astonished at what he was able to accomplish. ", "answer": "skeptical", "choices": ["scrutinized", "clueless ", "skeptical", "senior", "resolute"]}, {"context": "The independent audit that the company was not _____ , let alone flourishing. as its initial report to its stockholders tried to aver. ", "answer": "solvent", "choices": ["copious", "evasive", "thriving", "unprecedented", "solvent"]}, {"context": "Unfortunately for the young hire, the amiable, gregarious air of his boss during the initial interview belied a vastly more _____ style on the job, a fact that he learned to his chagrin within the first few days of employment. ", "answer": "draconian", "choices": ["draconian", "friendly", "fatuous", "illicit", "nonplussed"]}, {"context": "In this day and age, side show barkers, competing with the unfathomable number of spectacular oddities daily displayed on the internet for free, must increasingly lard their pitches with flights of fancy and soaring ____ , arching far beyond reality, to fill the seats in their arcades. ", "answer": "hyperboles", "choices": ["tit-for-tat", "parables", "conundrums", "innuendos", "hyperboles"]}, {"context": "Evoking both horror and joy in its audience in equal measure, the opera became an instant classic of _____ technique. ", "answer": "counterpoint", "choices": ["macabre", "figurative", "articulate", "counterpoint", "contrived"]}, {"context": "The famous Notre Dame cathedral in Paris took almost 200 years to complete; this immense architectural effort included the first notable use of a flying ______, but this renowned feature was not part of the original design and was only employed when the walls forming the nave began to crumble and needed additional support. ", "answer": "buttress", "choices": ["partition", "albatross", "hallmark", "buttress", "trademark"]}, {"context": "Finally, after refusing for a decade, the family patriarch, weakened by age and infirmity. surrendered to the impassioned pleas of his avaricious nieces, and gave his _____ to the risky investment stratagem.", "answer": "assent", "choices": ["assent", "ascent", "dissent", "descent", "assertion"]}, {"context": "There is little agreement among specialists about whether the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution provides _____ guarantee of a right to bear arms for private citizens, or whether it was instead meant to allow the populace to protect itself in lieu of a military.", "answer": "an ironclad", "choices": ["an earnest", "an amended", "a questionable", "a defeasible", "an ironclad"]}, {"context": "The writer Lillian Hellman honestly called her disingenuous argumentative strategy \u201cthe nobility racket\u201d: a _____ that involved taking the moral high ground no matter how removed from the subject at hand. ", "answer": "sophistry", "choices": ["philosophy", "sophistry", "sinecure", "volubility ", "serendipity"]}, {"context": "The fitness guru, seemingly an advocate of overall salubrious living, often, late at night and behind closed doors, _____ his integrity by consuming vast quantities of sugar and chemical-riddled junk food.", "answer": "undermined", "choices": ["ridiculed", "restored", "undermined", "redacted", "insinuated"]}, {"context": "While Abdul's _____ with his children made him well loved, he worried what too much laxity might cost him in their teenage years. ", "answer": "permissiveness", "choices": ["complacence ", "sternness", "satisfaction", "equanimity", "permissiveness"]}, {"sentence": "Perculiarly enough, Shakespeare has been often _____ as the best English language playwright, and often  dismissed as man lacking the education to write those plays.", "left_context": "Perculiarly enough, Shakespeare has been often", "right_context": "as the best English language playwright, and often  dismissed as man lacking the education to write those plays.", "answers": "crowned", "choices": ["crowned", "stigmatized", "castigated"]}, {"sentence": "Perculiarly enough, Shakespeare has been often crowned as the best English language playwright, and often _____ as man lacking the education to write those plays.", "left_context": "Perculiarly enough, Shakespeare has been often", "right_context": "as the best English language playwright, and often  dismissed as man lacking the education to write those plays.", "answers": "dismissed", "choices": ["demonized", "dismissed", "defied"]}, {"sentence": "While far from the bane that some scholars have declared them to be, _____ versions of novaels and essays do indeeed excise essential elements; sutdents would have to supplment their reading with  complementary sources to fully understand the intent", "left_context": "While far from the bane that some scholars have declared them to be,", "right_context": "versions of novaels and essays do indeeed excise essential elements; sutdents would have to supplment their reading with  complementary sources to fully understand the intent", "answers": "abridged", "choices": ["annotated", "abridged", "antedated"]}, {"sentence": "While far from the bane that some scholars have declared them to be, abridged versions of novaels and essays do indeeed excise essential elements; sutdents would have to supplment their reading with _____ sources to fully understand the intent", "left_context": "While far from the bane that some scholars have declared them to be,", "right_context": "versions of novaels and essays do indeeed excise essential elements; sutdents would have to supplment their reading with  complementary sources to fully understand the intent", "answers": "complementary", "choices": ["complementary", "complimentary", "compelling"]}, {"sentence": "The fact that the average life expectancy ten thousand years was much shorter than it is now is often _____ as evidence supporting the notion that the world always improves with time. However, if you  correct ) for the fact that most children in that epoch died in childbirth, life expectancy for those who survived birth was nearly the same then as it is now.", "left_context": "The fact that the average life expectancy ten thousand years was much shorter than it is now is often", "right_context": "as evidence supporting the notion that the world always improves with time. However, if you  correct ) for the fact that most children in that epoch died in childbirth, life expectancy for those who survived birth was nearly the same then as it is now.", "answers": "cited", "choices": ["cited", "Disregarded", "embodied"]}, {"sentence": "The fact that the average life expectancy ten thousand years was much shorter than it is now is often cited as evidence supporting the notion that the world always improves with time. However, if you _____ ) for the fact that most children in that epoch died in childbirth, life expectancy for those who survived birth was nearly the same then as it is now.", "left_context": "The fact that the average life expectancy ten thousand years was much shorter than it is now is often", "right_context": "as evidence supporting the notion that the world always improves with time. However, if you  correct ) for the fact that most children in that epoch died in childbirth, life expectancy for those who survived birth was nearly the same then as it is now.", "answers": "correct", "choices": ["prepare", "read", "correct"]}, {"sentence": "Academic work can be as taxing as manual labor The misconception that _____ work strains the mind less than physical work strains the body has been proven wrong by scientific investigation as well as by anecdotal evidence. It is simply no true that the  intellectual musings of a mathematician are necessarily easier than the physical labor of, say, a carpenter.", "left_context": "Academic work can be as taxing as manual labor The misconception that", "right_context": "work strains the mind less than physical work strains the body has been proven wrong by scientific investigation as well as by anecdotal evidence. It is simply no true that the  intellectual musings of a mathematician are necessarily easier than the physical labor of, say, a carpenter.", "answers": "cerebral", "choices": ["cerebral ", "intense", "actuarial"]}, {"sentence": "Academic work can be as taxing as manual labor The misconception that cerebral work strains the mind less than physical work strains the body has been proven wrong by scientific investigation as well as by anecdotal evidence. It is simply no true that the _____ musings of a mathematician are necessarily easier than the physical labor of, say, a carpenter.", "left_context": "Academic work can be as taxing as manual labor The misconception that", "right_context": "work strains the mind less than physical work strains the body has been proven wrong by scientific investigation as well as by anecdotal evidence. It is simply no true that the  intellectual musings of a mathematician are necessarily easier than the physical labor of, say, a carpenter.", "answers": "intellectual", "choices": ["quotidian", "extraordinary", "intellectual"]}, {"sentence": "Known for her humorous but acerbic wit, the fashion doyenne commented, in her usual, simultaneously _____ and  caustic manner, that in Los Angeles, \u201cthe women dressed like men and the men dressed like boys. \u201c", "left_context": "Known for her humorous but acerbic wit, the fashion doyenne commented, in her usual, simultaneously", "right_context": "and  caustic manner, that in Los Angeles, \u201cthe women dressed like men and the men dressed like boys. \u201c", "answers": "amusing", "choices": ["slanderous", "amusing", "serious"]}, {"sentence": "Known for her humorous but acerbic wit, the fashion doyenne commented, in her usual, simultaneously amusing and _____ manner, that in Los Angeles, \u201cthe women dressed like men and the men dressed like boys. \u201c", "left_context": "Known for her humorous but acerbic wit, the fashion doyenne commented, in her usual, simultaneously", "right_context": "and  caustic manner, that in Los Angeles, \u201cthe women dressed like men and the men dressed like boys. \u201c", "answers": "caustic", "choices": ["considerate", "hysterical", "caustic"]}, {"sentence": "She was not the only _____ of the long-proposed legislation, but she was the  catalyst who finally got the bill onto the legislative agenda.", "left_context": "She was not the only", "right_context": "of the long-proposed legislation, but she was the  catalyst who finally got the bill onto the legislative agenda.", "answers": "proponent", "choices": ["apologist ", "critic ", "proponent"]}, {"sentence": "She was not the only proponent of the long-proposed legislation, but she was the _____ who finally got the bill onto the legislative agenda.", "left_context": "She was not the only", "right_context": "of the long-proposed legislation, but she was the  catalyst who finally got the bill onto the legislative agenda.", "answers": "catalyst", "choices": ["catalyst ", "mercenary", "lackey"]}, {"sentence": "Jeremy was nor one to _____ his success, let alone talk much at all, so his family was shocked when they finally discovered that their  taciturn son was a Rhodes Scholar.", "left_context": "Jeremy was nor one to", "right_context": "his success, let alone talk much at all, so his family was shocked when they finally discovered that their  taciturn son was a Rhodes Scholar.", "answers": "trumpet", "choices": ["demarcate", "whitewash", "trumpet"]}, {"sentence": "Jeremy was nor one to trumpet his success, let alone talk much at all, so his family was shocked when they finally discovered that their _____ son was a Rhodes Scholar.", "left_context": "Jeremy was nor one to", "right_context": "his success, let alone talk much at all, so his family was shocked when they finally discovered that their  taciturn son was a Rhodes Scholar.", "answers": "taciturn", "choices": ["improvident ", "taciturn ", "dissolute"]}, {"sentence": "In his youth, Oscar Wilde catapulted to sudden fame both because of and despite his _____ witticisms; however, the cutting remarks that won him renown also led to his financial and physical ruin and he died  impecunious and sickly in a shabby Parisian hotel.", "left_context": "In his youth, Oscar Wilde catapulted to sudden fame both because of and despite his", "right_context": "witticisms; however, the cutting remarks that won him renown also led to his financial and physical ruin and he died  impecunious and sickly in a shabby Parisian hotel.", "answers": "acerbic", "choices": ["innovative", "acerbic ", "inimical"]}, {"sentence": "In his youth, Oscar Wilde catapulted to sudden fame both because of and despite his acerbic witticisms; however, the cutting remarks that won him renown also led to his financial and physical ruin and he died _____ and sickly in a shabby Parisian hotel.", "left_context": "In his youth, Oscar Wilde catapulted to sudden fame both because of and despite his", "right_context": "witticisms; however, the cutting remarks that won him renown also led to his financial and physical ruin and he died  impecunious and sickly in a shabby Parisian hotel.", "answers": "impecunious", "choices": ["pallid", "aghast", "impecunious"]}, {"sentence": "The film was _____  panned  by critics; rightfully, not a single reviewer had any positive thing to say about it", "left_context": "The film was", "right_context": " panned  by critics; rightfully, not a single reviewer had any positive thing to say about it", "answers": "roundly ", "choices": ["warily", "mendaciously ", "roundly"]}, {"sentence": "The film was roundly _____ by critics; rightfully, not a single reviewer had any positive thing to say about it", "left_context": "The film was", "right_context": " panned  by critics; rightfully, not a single reviewer had any positive thing to say about it", "answers": "panned ", "choices": ["lauded ", "panned ", "venerated"]}, {"sentence": "Although they had never met, the two writers felt they were of one mind, each _____ anticipating the contents of the other's letters; never had two intellectuals been more  simpatico .", "left_context": "Although they had never met, the two writers felt they were of one mind, each", "right_context": "anticipating the contents of the other's letters; never had two intellectuals been more  simpatico .", "answers": "presciently ", "choices": ["ominously", "anachronistically", "presciently"]}, {"sentence": "Although they had never met, the two writers felt they were of one mind, each presciently  anticipating the contents of the other's letters; never had two intellectuals been more _____ .", "left_context": "Although they had never met, the two writers felt they were of one mind, each", "right_context": "anticipating the contents of the other's letters; never had two intellectuals been more  simpatico .", "answers": "simpatico", "choices": ["providential ", "shrewd", "simpatico"]}, {"sentence": "The author was far from _____ the novel. While most of the book was already written, he knew that it would take innumerable hours to review and edit. This was going to be  trying , not only because of the book\u2019s length, but also because of the convoluted plot.", "left_context": "The author was far from", "right_context": "the novel. While most of the book was already written, he knew that it would take innumerable hours to review and edit. This was going to be  trying , not only because of the book\u2019s length, but also because of the convoluted plot.", "answers": "finishing", "choices": ["finishing", "inscribing", "rejecting"]}, {"sentence": "The author was far from finishing the novel. While most of the book was already written, he knew that it would take innumerable hours to review and edit. This was going to be _____ , not only because of the book\u2019s length, but also because of the convoluted plot.", "left_context": "The author was far from", "right_context": "the novel. While most of the book was already written, he knew that it would take innumerable hours to review and edit. 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