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", "left_context": "At work, she is far less", "right_context": "than she is around her friends, but from time to time her staff sees her in a volatile state.", "answers": ["capricious", "fickle "], "choices": ["pretentious", "capricious", "informal", "fickle ", "direct ", "explicit"]}, {"sentence": "Forty years ago, anthropologists firmly believed that Neanderthals and modern homo sapiens had never mated, but advances in genetic testing have since proven that incorrect - such is the _____ nature of science. ", "left_context": "Forty years ago, anthropologists firmly believed that Neanderthals and modern homo sapiens had never mated, but advances in genetic testing have since proven that incorrect - such is the", "right_context": "nature of science.", "answers": ["evolving", "advancing"], "choices": ["fallacious", "evolving", "counterfactual", "advancing", "vacillating ", "indeterminable"]}, {"sentence": "The music of the late '70s is often described as _____ , despite the notable exception of a few innovators in the budding punk and hip-hop scenes. ", "left_context": "The music of the late '70s is often described as", "right_context": ", despite the notable exception of a few innovators in the budding punk and hip-hop scenes.", "answers": ["derivative", "trite "], "choices": ["derivative", "trite ", "inspired", "visionary", "enigmatic", "cerebral"]}, {"sentence": "A field trip was arranged so that this troupe of _____ dancers could observe the real masters of their art. ", "left_context": "A field trip was arranged so that this troupe of", "right_context": "dancers could observe the real masters of their art.", "answers": ["fledgling ", "novice"], "choices": ["seasoned", "fledgling ", "expert", "torpid ", "novice", "lithe"]}, {"sentence": "The exhibit is not so much a retrospective as a _____ ; the artist's weaker, early work is glossed over, and any evidence of his ultimate dissolution is absent entirely. ", "left_context": "The exhibit is not so much a retrospective as a", "right_context": "; the artist's weaker, early work is glossed over, and any evidence of his ultimate dissolution is absent entirely.", "answers": ["paean", "tribute"], "choices": ["paean", "polemic", "tirade", "panacea", "tribute", "critique"]}, {"sentence": "After a long, hard practice in the summer sun, the players were visibly _____ .", "left_context": "After a long, hard practice in the summer sun, the players were visibly", "right_context": ".", "answers": ["flagging", "enervated"], "choices": ["flagging", "hale", "lissome", "loathsome", "vigorous", "enervated"]}, {"sentence": "Nothing evoked memories of her grandmother's house like the _____ of scents associated with the variety of dishes at the holiday feast. ", "left_context": "Nothing evoked memories of her grandmother's house like the", "right_context": "of scents associated with the variety of dishes at the holiday feast.", "answers": ["medley", "m\u00e9lange"], "choices": ["paucity", "anomaly", "medley", "m\u00e9lange", "dearth", "rarity"]}, {"sentence": "Unlike the politician's earlier evasions and equivocations, this latest statement is _____ lie.", "left_context": "Unlike the politician's earlier evasions and equivocations, this latest statement is", "right_context": "lie.", "answers": ["a bald", "an overt"], "choices": ["a bald", "a tacit", "an overt", "a didactic", "a rhetorical", "an implicit"]}, {"sentence": "Possessed of a lighthearted approach to life, Winnie thought that those who were _____ in regards values and mores missed out on a certain liveliness and spontaneity.", "left_context": "Possessed of a lighthearted approach to life, Winnie thought that those who were", "right_context": "in regards values and mores missed out on a certain liveliness and spontaneity.", "answers": ["priggish", "punctilious"], "choices": ["lax", "equable", "priggish", "auspicious", "impious", "punctilious"]}, {"sentence": "Where gay and lesbian individuals and couples were once ignored, at best, by mainstream media and marketing companies, they are now being _____ as the new frontier in consumer spending.", "left_context": "Where gay and lesbian individuals and couples were once ignored, at best, by mainstream media and marketing companies, they are now being", "right_context": "as the new frontier in consumer spending.", "answers": ["touted", "promoted"], "choices": ["touted", "subverted", "revered", "scrutinized", "promoted", "predicted"]}, {"sentence": "For of the 20th century, American political contentions reflected pragmatic rather than ideological differences: candidate debates centered around whether programs were _____ .", "left_context": "For of the 20th century, American political contentions reflected pragmatic rather than ideological differences: candidate debates centered around whether programs were", "right_context": ".", "answers": ["feasible", "viable"], "choices": ["partisan", "voluble", "feasible", "innocuous", "prejudiced", "viable"]}, {"sentence": "Though considered a somewhat somber drama at the time of its release in 1975, the film Shampoo, about a philandering hairdresser, now seems more the _____ comedy. ", "left_context": "Though considered a somewhat somber drama at the time of its release in 1975, the film Shampoo, about a philandering hairdresser, now seems more the", "right_context": "comedy.", "answers": ["puckish", "wry"], "choices": ["puckish", "inhibited", "prurient", "wry", "dated", "puritanical"]}, {"sentence": "With almost 40 titles to her name, the popular novelist has _____ imagination and is never at a loss for new ideas, though the quality of her works is far from consistent.", "left_context": "With almost 40 titles to her name, the popular novelist has", "right_context": "imagination and is never at a loss for new ideas, though the quality of her works is far from consistent.", "answers": ["a prolific", "a fecund"], "choices": ["a prolix", "a prolific", "an exemplary", "a fecund", "an ingenious", "a profligate"]}, {"sentence": "Representative government arose in part from dissatisfaction with too many monarchs making _____ decisions without regard for precedents. ", "left_context": "Representative government arose in part from dissatisfaction with too many monarchs making", "right_context": "decisions without regard for precedents.", "answers": ["capricious", "erratic"], "choices": ["capricious", "considered", "malicious", "pessimistic", "insidious", "erratic"]}, {"sentence": "Because the Lewis and Clark expedition through the West was conceived primarily as a mapping project, government officials were _____ by the wealth of information on a myriad of topics that the explorers gathered.", "left_context": "Because the Lewis and Clark expedition through the West was conceived primarily as a mapping project, government officials were", "right_context": "by the wealth of information on a myriad of topics that the explorers gathered.", "answers": ["flabbergasted", "bedazzled "], "choices": ["aggravated ", "flabbergasted", "crushed", "bedazzled ", "bored", "disappointed"]}, {"sentence": "Many people erroneously believe that humans are naturally _____ to distrust or even fear those outside of their social or cultural group; anthropologists and social scientists, however, have consistently shown that xenophobia is a learned behavior.", "left_context": "Many people erroneously believe that humans are naturally", "right_context": "to distrust or even fear those outside of their social or cultural group; anthropologists and social scientists, however, have consistently shown that xenophobia is a learned behavior.", "answers": ["prone", "disposed"], "choices": ["indoctrinated", "proven", "prone", "disposed", "taught", "compelled"]}, {"sentence": "Geneticists find Iceland a living laboratory for the study of _____ because virtually all of its current 300,000 citizens descend from less than a thousand Icelanders who survived the medieval Black Death. ", "left_context": "Geneticists find Iceland a living laboratory for the study of", "right_context": "because virtually all of its current 300,000 citizens descend from less than a thousand Icelanders who survived the medieval Black Death.", "answers": ["diversity", "mutation"], "choices": ["diversity", "revivification ", "therapy", "history", "mutation", "rejuvenation"]}, {"sentence": "Given the influx of information via social media, the only way that a person can function effectively is to _____ , to metaphorically separate the wheat from the chaff.", "left_context": "Given the influx of information via social media, the only way that a person can function effectively is to", "right_context": ", to metaphorically separate the wheat from the chaff.", "answers": ["triage", "prioritize"], "choices": ["delete", "triage", "prioritize", "respond", "requite ", "eliminate"]}, {"sentence": "Although accommodating in person, George Orwell _____ defended his political positions in print.", "left_context": "Although accommodating in person, George Orwell", "right_context": "defended his political positions in print.", "answers": ["tenaciously ", "doggedly"], "choices": ["tenaciously ", "obsequiously ", "inadvertently ", "doggedly", "sycophantically ", "idiosyncratically"]}, {"sentence": "Although historically, paints were often tinted with toxic elements such as lead, cadmium, and mercury, _____ number of painters lived to be seventy, eighty. and even ninety.", "left_context": "Although historically, paints were often tinted with toxic elements such as lead, cadmium, and mercury,", "right_context": "number of painters lived to be seventy, eighty. and even ninety.", "answers": ["a flabbergasting", "a confounding "], "choices": ["an incomprehensible ", "a flabbergasting", "an impossible ", "a confounding ", "a dismaying ", "an enlightening"]}, {"sentence": "The phrase \u201cgilding the lily\u201d is a late 19th-century expression that was first coined to describe the ostentatious gestures of some of the newly rich, such as applying gold gilt to the carved lilies on the entrances of their Beaux Arts homes; it still serves as a shorthand for any ____ and showy behavior.", "left_context": "The phrase \u201cgilding the lily\u201d is a late 19th-century expression that was first coined to describe the ostentatious gestures of some of the newly rich, such as applying gold gilt to the carved lilies on the entrances of their Beaux Arts homes; it still serves as a shorthand for any", "right_context": "and showy behavior.", "answers": ["gauche", "uncouth"], "choices": ["gauche", "eccentric ", "idiosyncratic", "prosperous ", "affluent", "uncouth"]}, {"sentence": "While she still advocated for the wholesale restructuring of society based on principles of equity and sustainability, the radical blogger-turned-essayist had to _____ the expression of her views in order to appeal to the more middle-of-the-road sensibilities of the publishing market. ", "left_context": "While she still advocated for the wholesale restructuring of society based on principles of equity and sustainability, the radical blogger-turned-essayist had to", "right_context": "the expression of her views in order to appeal to the more middle-of-the-road sensibilities of the publishing market.", "answers": ["moderate ", "temper "], "choices": ["abridge", "moderate ", "amalgamate ", "undermine", "galvanize  ", "temper"]}, {"sentence": "A \u201cMycenaean waist\u201d refers to the taut, impossibly small waists characteristic of people depicted in certain ancient drawings found on Crete, and it certainly does not ____ any characteristic of most people in modern, overweight Western societies. ", "left_context": "A \u201cMycenaean waist\u201d refers to the taut, impossibly small waists characteristic of people depicted in certain ancient drawings found on Crete, and it certainly does not", "right_context": "any characteristic of most people in modern, overweight Western societies.", "answers": ["depict", "mirror"], "choices": ["deify ", "depict", "denigrate", "mirror", "defame", "distort"]}, {"sentence": "The commentator's analysis of the recent conflict was anything but _____; he parroted his ideological compatriots, adding nothing new or insightful to the discussion. ", "left_context": "The commentator's analysis of the recent conflict was anything but", "right_context": "; he parroted his ideological compatriots, adding nothing new or insightful to the discussion.", "answers": ["novel", "fresh"], "choices": ["novel", "derivative", "tendentious", "fresh", "evenhanded", "hackneyed"]}, {"sentence": "In uncertain times, _____ theories often gain greater and faster adherence among the populace than proven ones do.", "left_context": "In uncertain times,", "right_context": "theories often gain greater and faster adherence among the populace than proven ones do.", "answers": ["putative", "conjectural"], "choices": ["corroborated", "putative", "conjectural", "incorrect ", "irrefutable", "irreconcilable"]}, {"sentence": "Each civil engineer in the firm acted as _____  the others: no one submitted a construction project proposal if another concerns about either the feasibility of the project or the cost estimates. ", "left_context": "Each civil engineer in the firm acted as", "right_context": "the others: no one submitted a construction project proposal if another concerns about either the feasibility of the project or the cost estimates.", "answers": ["a reviewer for    ", "an overseer to"], "choices": ["a go between for", "a reviewer for    ", "an estimator for    ", "a negotiator for", "a hindrance to      ", "an overseer to"]}, {"sentence": "Arthur Conan Doyle\u2019s upstanding hero Sherlock Holmes engages in just as much clever deception as his nemesis, Professor Moriarty providing that _____ is not inherently evil.", "left_context": "Arthur Conan Doyle\u2019s upstanding hero Sherlock Holmes engages in just as much clever deception as his nemesis, Professor Moriarty providing that", "right_context": "is not inherently evil.", "answers": ["cunning", "subterfuge "], "choices": ["immorality", "brilliance", "cunning", "subterfuge ", "wrongdoing", "judgment"]}, {"sentence": "The etymologies of the words alpha and omega couldn\u2019t be more different; the former is obscure \u2013 the original symbol for alpha was an ox's head and an ox is \u2018alp in Phoenician -  while the latter is _____ , as omega simply means \u201cbig O.\u201d", "left_context": "The etymologies of the words alpha and omega couldn\u2019t be more different; the former is obscure \u2013 the original symbol for alpha was an ox's head and an ox is \u2018alp in Phoenician -  while the latter is", "right_context": ", as omega simply means \u201cbig O.\u201d", "answers": ["transparent", "overt"], "choices": ["transparent", "complicated", "overt", "erudite", "abstruse", "scholarly"]}, {"sentence": "While the muted colors do suggest a certain sobriety, the overall effect is undeniably _____ .", "left_context": "While the muted colors do suggest a certain sobriety, the overall effect is undeniably", "right_context": ".", "answers": ["vivacious", "mirthful"], "choices": ["vivacious", "poignant", "dull", "lackluster", "mirthful", "benign"]}, {"sentence": "Although the system's _____ is not currently in dispute at the national level, increasing local allegations of preferential treatment are threatening to change the situation.", "left_context": "Although the system's", "right_context": "is not currently in dispute at the national level, increasing local allegations of preferential treatment are threatening to change the situation.", "answers": ["probity", "equity"], "choices": ["unfairness", "solemnity", "probity", "equity", "partiality", "solicitousness"]}, {"sentence": "Response to the provocative proposal was predictably _____ : little care was given to the concealment of dislike for its aims or scorn for its authors. ", "left_context": "Response to the provocative proposal was predictably", "right_context": ": little care was given to the concealment of dislike for its aims or scorn for its authors.", "answers": ["polemical", "scathing"], "choices": ["inscrutable", "polemical", "iconoclastic", "scathing", "fictitious", "impenetrable"]}, {"sentence": "The prime minister affected empathy for the impoverished citizenry, but most economic historians believe that her austerity measures, which were unduly _____ , further injured them.", "left_context": "The prime minister affected empathy for the impoverished citizenry, but most economic historians believe that her austerity measures, which were unduly", "right_context": ", further injured them.", "answers": ["arduous", "onerous"], "choices": ["arduous", "commercial", "mercantilist", "onerous", "strict", "venal"]}, {"sentence": "While traveling to the spa's remote location could be hectic, visitors more than made up for the stress by unwinding in a supremely _____ environment. ", "left_context": "While traveling to the spa's remote location could be hectic, visitors more than made up for the stress by unwinding in a supremely", "right_context": "environment.", "answers": ["pacific", "placid"], "choices": ["effusive ", "pacific", "elegant", "luxurious", "placid", "blithe"]}, {"sentence": "The man looked much older than his 70 years, his _____ frame looking as though it had endured at least 40 years in the desert; although the casting director had initially pictured a more physically robust Moses, the actor was, in the end perfect for the role. ", "left_context": "The man looked much older than his 70 years, his", "right_context": "frame looking as though it had endured at least 40 years in the desert; although the casting director had initially pictured a more physically robust Moses, the actor was, in the end perfect for the role.", "answers": ["desiccated  ", "wizened "], "choices": ["fetid", "vigorous", "desiccated  ", "wizened ", "arid", "hale"]}, {"sentence": "The children\u2019s attempt at a Mother\u2019s Day brunch was _____ ; soggy French toast, lukewarm coffee, and a syrup fight in the kitchen that would inevitably end up being cleaned up by the very recipient of the brunch.", "left_context": "The children\u2019s attempt at a Mother\u2019s Day brunch was", "right_context": "; soggy French toast, lukewarm coffee, and a syrup fight in the kitchen that would inevitably end up being cleaned up by the very recipient of the brunch.", "answers": ["comical", "farcical"], "choices": ["convivial", "amiable", "comical", "satirical", "farcical", "labile"]}, {"sentence": "Many major websites today have _____ privacy policy: written by lawyers to protect the website that hired them, the language in the document is so abstruse that most consumers could not read it even if they tried to.", "left_context": "Many major websites today have", "right_context": "privacy policy: written by lawyers to protect the website that hired them, the language in the document is so abstruse that most consumers could not read it even if they tried to.", "answers": ["an inscrutable", "an unreadable"], "choices": ["an inscrutable", "a decipherable", "a repetitive ", "a lucid ", "a sanctioned ", "an unreadable"]}, {"sentence": "Through chronicling the heroism and sacrifice of the common soldier, Erich Remarque's classic novel. All quit on the Western Front, is profoundly _____ and thus was banned by the Nazis since it implicitly opposed their vision of armed conquest.", "left_context": "Through chronicling the heroism and sacrifice of the common soldier, Erich Remarque's classic novel. All quit on the Western Front, is profoundly", "right_context": "and thus was banned by the Nazis since it implicitly opposed their vision of armed conquest.", "answers": ["pacific", "conciliatory"], "choices": ["inspirational", "pacific", "prescient", "conciliatory", "prophetic", "clairvoyant"]}, {"sentence": "Just months from retirement. the disgraced executive was forced to make _____ exit from the company.", "left_context": "Just months from retirement. the disgraced executive was forced to make", "right_context": "exit from the company.", "answers": ["an ignominious", "an unseemly"], "choices": ["a glorious", "a triumphant", "a boorish", "an ignominious", "a defiled", "an unseemly"]}, {"sentence": "_____ in scandal, the company could regain favor with customers only through mass firings of guilty executives. ", "left_context": "", "right_context": "in scandal, the company could regain favor with customers only through mass firings of guilty executives.", "answers": ["Bogged down", "Mired"], "choices": ["Wallowing ", "Stoic", "Bogged down", "Brave ", "Mired", "Besotted"]}, {"sentence": "By framing the new law as a question of urgent safety rather than of privacy, the government obviated the need to pass through the standard channels of legislation, effectively _____ all formal dissent and relegating any would-be naysayer from a position of engaged activist to that of powerless bystander. ", "left_context": "By framing the new law as a question of urgent safety rather than of privacy, the government obviated the need to pass through the standard channels of legislation, effectively", "right_context": "all formal dissent and relegating any would-be naysayer from a position of engaged activist to that of powerless bystander.", "answers": ["curtailing", "undermining"], "choices": ["curtailing", "undermining", "targeting", "lobbying", "instigating", "facilitating"]}, {"sentence": "Exactly which bird species fell victim first to the deadly virus is the subject of ongoing controversy; what is known, however, is that it took but a slight mutation in the pathogen's genetic constitution to render it lethal to _____ of related species. ", "left_context": "Exactly which bird species fell victim first to the deadly virus is the subject of ongoing controversy; what is known, however, is that it took but a slight mutation in the pathogen's genetic constitution to render it lethal to", "right_context": "of related species.", "answers": ["a myriad", "a plethora"], "choices": ["a contraband", "a surplus", "an aurora", "a myriad", "a pantheon", "a plethora"]}, {"sentence": "Although known for bon mots such as, \u201cIf you don\u2019t have anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me,\u201d Alice Roosevelt Longworth was said to very kind; her circulated _____ did not reflect vindictiveness.", "left_context": "Although known for bon mots such as, \u201cIf you don\u2019t have anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me,\u201d Alice Roosevelt Longworth was said to very kind; her circulated", "right_context": "did not reflect vindictiveness.", "answers": ["witticisms", "quips"], "choices": ["vituperations", "rants", "witticisms", "zeal", "quips", "taciturnity"]}, {"sentence": "Always on the lookout for a shady deal or quick con, she became known and scorned as an _____ opportunist. ", "left_context": "Always on the lookout for a shady deal or quick con, she became known and scorned as an", "right_context": "opportunist.", "answers": ["unprincipled", "unscrupulous"], "choices": ["unqualified ", "unprincipled", "alluring", "unprecedented", "attractive", "unscrupulous"]}, {"sentence": "After many hours of debate, things seemed to have reached _____ , as neither side as willing to give so much as an inch, and no one had anything new to offer.", "left_context": "After many hours of debate, things seemed to have reached", "right_context": ", as neither side as willing to give so much as an inch, and no one had anything new to offer.", "answers": ["an impasse", "a stalemate"], "choices": ["an impasse", "a pause", "a timeout", "a confrontation", "an engagement ", "a stalemate"]}, {"sentence": "While kidney stones are known to produce a truly _____ sensation, often compared to the agony of childbirth, they are almost never fatal. ", "left_context": "While kidney stones are known to produce a truly", "right_context": "sensation, often compared to the agony of childbirth, they are almost never fatal.", "answers": ["excruciating", "torturous "], "choices": ["anodyne", "inoffensive", "painstaking", "tortuous", "excruciating", "torturous"]}, {"sentence": "Given the breadth and speed of social media, the only way celebrities can hope to conceal their foibles is by employing practices as _____ as those of a spy ring. ", "left_context": "Given the breadth and speed of social media, the only way celebrities can hope to conceal their foibles is by employing practices as", "right_context": "as those of a spy ring.", "answers": ["duplicitous", "cloaked"], "choices": ["draconian", "arduous", "conspicuous", "duplicitous", "fanciful", "cloaked"]}, {"sentence": "The director of the musical admitted that while he was very good with characterization, scenery, lighting and music, choreography was not at all his _____. ", "left_context": "The director of the musical admitted that while he was very good with characterization, scenery, lighting and music, choreography was not at all his", "right_context": ".", "answers": ["strong suit ", "forte"], "choices": ["strong suit ", "weakness", "forte", "hobby", "deficiency", "pastime"]}, {"sentence": "Though most technology used in the manufacture of bicycles is either decades old or adapted from other industries, the advent of carbon fiber frames brought with it genuine _____ .", "left_context": "Though most technology used in the manufacture of bicycles is either decades old or adapted from other industries, the advent of carbon fiber frames brought with it genuine", "right_context": ".", "answers": ["innovation", "transformation"], "choices": ["innovation", "antiquity", "flexibility", "venerability", "transformation", "seriousness"]}, {"sentence": "Through _____ antics that flouted the conventions of the establishment, the Yippies of the late 1960s impressed themselves into the public consciousness; their behavior culminated in the instigation of riots in Chicago during the Democratic convention in 1968.", "left_context": "Through", "right_context": "antics that flouted the conventions of the establishment, the Yippies of the late 1960s impressed themselves into the public consciousness; their behavior culminated in the instigation of riots in Chicago during the Democratic convention in 1968.", "answers": ["brazen", "insolent"], "choices": ["fastidious", "socialist", "brazen", "anarchist", "communist", "insolent"]}, {"sentence": "Sometimes _____ comes at a price; research suggests that among first-generation Chinese Americans, those who embrace the traditional Confucian values of their homeland are more likely to succeed academically than are those who do not. ", "left_context": "Sometimes", "right_context": "comes at a price; research suggests that among first-generation Chinese Americans, those who embrace the traditional Confucian values of their homeland are more likely to succeed academically than are those who do not.", "answers": ["acculturation", "assimilation"], "choices": ["acculturation", "assimilation", "investiture", "alienation", "indebtedness", "estrangement"]}, {"sentence": "Many Enlightenment philosophers viewed Machiavelli's book as a satire meant to expose and caricature the _____ claims to power of the very figures Machiavelli pretended to endorse. ", "left_context": "Many Enlightenment philosophers viewed Machiavelli's book as a satire meant to expose and caricature the", "right_context": "claims to power of the very figures Machiavelli pretended to endorse.", "answers": ["specious", "spurious"], "choices": ["sarcastic", "specious", "spurious", "squalid", "stolid", "stoic"]}, {"sentence": "The defendant impressed the jurors as _____ ; they did not believe that a woman of her education and experience could possibly as naive as she acted.", "left_context": "The defendant impressed the jurors as", "right_context": "; they did not believe that a woman of her education and experience could possibly as naive as she acted.", "answers": ["disingenuous", "artful"], "choices": ["disingenuous", "guileless", "innocent", "accomplished", "artful", "culpable"]}, {"sentence": "Crucial to fostering a realistic understanding of the potential boons - and perils - of the new drug will be a concerted effort to _____ the specific contexts and symptoms that render its use appropriate.", "left_context": "Crucial to fostering a realistic understanding of the potential boons - and perils - of the new drug will be a concerted effort to", "right_context": "the specific contexts and symptoms that render its use appropriate.", "answers": ["delineate ", "stipulate"], "choices": ["furnish", "delineate ", "outlaw", "transmute", "stipulate", "proscribe"]}, {"sentence": "Millions of dollars over budget and months late, the planned software was finally ready for release, much to the chagrin of its original investors; although it actually had all of the capabilities that the original specification _____ , the delay meant that it had already been surpassed by competitor\u2019s products.", "left_context": "Millions of dollars over budget and months late, the planned software was finally ready for release, much to the chagrin of its original investors; although it actually had all of the capabilities that the original specification", "right_context": ", the delay meant that it had already been surpassed by competitor\u2019s products.", "answers": ["boasted of ", "promised "], "choices": ["possessed", "boasted of ", "predicted", "updated ", "enhanced", "promised"]}, {"sentence": "Robert Gottlieb, who otherwise found much to admire in John Steinbeck, argued that Steinbeck was politically _____ , offering an adolescent disaffection in place of settled judgment.", "left_context": "Robert Gottlieb, who otherwise found much to admire in John Steinbeck, argued that Steinbeck was politically", "right_context": ", offering an adolescent disaffection in place of settled judgment.", "answers": ["naive", "callow"], "choices": ["naive", "perspicacious", "contemptible ", "keen", "callow", "disinterested"]}, {"sentence": "The mayor's _____ speech turned the bipartisan issue - traffic reduction - into a three-month-long fight between former allies. 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