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24 Feb 2025, 11:02
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75% (02:19) wrong based on 4 sessions
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Seeing (i) _________ as perhaps the most significant cause of preventable illness, such twelfth-century physicians as Moses Maimonides aimed the bulk of their (ii) _________ pamphlets at the prescription of medieval dietary regimens, offering advice that often appears (iii) _________ to modern sensibilities.
Blank (i)
A. costiveness
B. bathos
C. convalescence
Blank (ii)
D. didactic
E. maleficent
F. tenable
Blank (iii)
G. disingenuous
H. risible
I. burgeoning
Blank (i)
A. costiveness
B. bathos
C. convalescence
Blank (ii)
D. didactic
E. maleficent
F. tenable
Blank (iii)
G. disingenuous
H. risible
I. burgeoning
27 Feb 2025, 02:55
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Convalescence (a period of recovery from illness; recuperation) might seem reasonable for the first blank, but it is a theme trap. Convalescence would follow an illness, not cause it. The topic is medieval medicine, with an emphasis on diet, so the correct choice is costiveness, which is a fancy way of describing constipation. Bathos (anticlimax) does not fit. The pamphlets are seemingly designed to tell people what to eat; they are educational, or didactic. There is no indication that the pamphlets are maleficent (malicious; intending or producing harm or evil) or tenable (able to be maintained; credible). The dietary regimens might have been tenable, but there is no indication that the pamphlets were, and it’s worth checking the second blank against the third blank and sentence ending. Since dietary and health views are quite different today from those held by medieval doctors, “modern sensibilities” are likely to find their advice funny, or risible. Both disingenuous (insincere; hypocritical) and burgeoning (growing rapidly; flourishing) add meaning that isn’t supported by any proof in the sentence.
Answer: A,D,H
Convalescence (a period of recovery from illness; recuperation) might seem reasonable for the first blank, but it is a theme trap. Convalescence would follow an illness, not cause it. The topic is medieval medicine, with an emphasis on diet, so the correct choice is costiveness, which is a fancy way of describing constipation. Bathos (anticlimax) does not fit. The pamphlets are seemingly designed to tell people what to eat; they are educational, or didactic. There is no indication that the pamphlets are maleficent (malicious; intending or producing harm or evil) or tenable (able to be maintained; credible). The dietary regimens might have been tenable, but there is no indication that the pamphlets were, and it’s worth checking the second blank against the third blank and sentence ending. Since dietary and health views are quite different today from those held by medieval doctors, “modern sensibilities” are likely to find their advice funny, or risible. Both disingenuous (insincere; hypocritical) and burgeoning (growing rapidly; flourishing) add meaning that isn’t supported by any proof in the sentence.
Answer: A,D,H
