GRE Example Sentences Set IV

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Across
  1. 9. We sometimes think of these troll campaigns as the informational equivalent of food poisoning: bad inputs into a __________ but basically rational system. The Verge Mar 5, 2019
  2. 10. In both Gosling and Gyllenhaal, meanwhile, there’s a quiet, sad-eyed __________ that gestures toward a new kind of leading man, or at least a new perspective on the ones of yesteryear. The Guardian Nov 26, 2018
  3. 12. Vesting power in athletes to reform sports is not historically __________. New York Times Apr 8, 2019
  4. 14. Next month, the Supreme Court will consider whether Mr. Evans’s use of dozens of __________ challenges — ones that do not require giving a reason — to exclude black prospective jurors violated the Constitution. New York Times Feb 18, 2019
  5. 15. Cancer cells do not exhibit “carelessness” and are not “__________”; there are no “choices by a cell not to perform its regular housekeeping chores” or to use T cells as “human shields”. Nature　Apr 7, 2019
  6. 16. As with Samsung’s ill-fated Galaxy Gear, the Galaxy Fold is likely to yield many __________ lessons for its product category. The Verge　Feb 21, 2019
  7. 18. Comparisons with “Oleanna” are unavoidable, but Burgess is a far less __________ playwright than David Mamet. Los Angeles Times Apr 19, 2019
  8. 23. However, even the most __________ of tips lose their effect when a director of the company is on board and issues his orders. Murder on the Orient Express
  9. 24. Another issue we highlighted is that less __________ aspects of change accompanied eras of rapid progress. Nature　Feb 15, 2018
  10. 25. Fragmented by design, the book’s structure heightens the immediacy of its testimony but often __________ its inquiry into wider issues. The New Yorker　Mar 11, 2019
  11. 26. But in that 12-year period, Myspace was an unprecedented repository of the __________ products of endless subcultures, from fashion to memes to music. The Guardian　Apr 9, 2019
  12. 31. The violence in her household was a private matter; invoking the police was, in this perspective, seen to be siding with an element considered __________ to her community. The New Yorker Jan 11, 2019
  13. 32. Did it turn you into this brazen, __________ person who asked for what she wanted in spite of usually being racked with social anxiety? When Dimple Met Rishi
  14. 33. These kinds of mistakes were not __________ events. Blink
  15. 35. Wells are polluted, raw sewage courses through __________ streams, and residents rely on subsistence crops of corn, bean, yucca and bananas. Los Angeles Times　Apr 4, 2019
  16. 36. Massive construction vehicles drag building supplies through delicate habitat, and light and noise pollution disturb and displace __________ and nocturnal species. Scientific American　Jan 2, 2019
Down
  1. 1. Then they broke the evil bridge and set red flames in the __________ fields and departed. The Return of the King
  2. 2. No politician shines as brightly or behaves at their most crass and __________ as they do when they’re dancing for votes and money. Salon Mar 30, 2019
  3. 3. It competed against the __________ mob howl and the rhythmic cries of the Fundie claques that formed mob-islands within the mob. I, Robot
  4. 4. Of course, any __________ viewer of Rocky and Bullwinkle knew that the squirrel was the brains of the outfit. Scientific American Dec 7, 2017
  5. 5. Unable longer to endure the lash of his __________ wit, Shaynon turned and left them alone on the balcony. Brown, Arthur William
  6. 6. When he joined Ged and Serret for supper he sat silent, looking up at his young wife sometimes with a hard, __________ glance. A Wizard of Earthsea
  7. 7. Esi’s childhood world is one of dreams, visions, and premonitions, which burst onto the screen with a spare, frank simplicity, reflecting the precocious yet __________ sensitivity with which she confronts implacable realities. The New Yorker Mar 28, 2019
  8. 8. There is a plain irony in the pursuer, a master of __________, suing for defamation in this particular context. BBC Mar 27, 2019
  9. 11. All you needed at the beginning was a small group of geeks; and there was no need for the kind of initial massive initial funding that the __________ dotcoms absorbed. The Guardian Feb 3, 2019
  10. 13. The Times commissioned two first-person essays, one from Drake, on the “shameful stain” of these eruptions and the “__________ coddling of overly sensitive readers.” The New Yorker Mar 21, 2019
  11. 17. It is the face that everyone remembers: that __________ close-up of the tear-riven visage of French actress Maria Falconetti, maintaining agonised composure as her Joan of Arc is consumed by flames before a braying mob. The Guardian Feb 10, 2019
  12. 19. He said he wanted to marry her, although, given his romantic history otherwise, it seems as if their long separations were in some way a key to his ardor. The New Yorker Apr 8, 2019
  13. 20. The Pulitzer jurors cited him “for __________ and searching reviews and essays that joined warm emotion and careful analysis in examining a broad range of books addressing government and the American experience.” Washington Post Apr 15, 2019
  14. 21. As a narrator, Eli is a casual philosopher who takes in the glory and consequence of the smallest __________ details, and his acute observations are often refracted through his singular lens of farce and surrealism. Washington Post Apr 3, 2019
  15. 22. Heaven __________ that ABC should re-examine the writing and production values of a telecast that is notoriously bloated, forced and un-fun to watch. Washington Post　Aug 9, 2018
  16. 27. Brown was typically attired in all black and typically __________ when we met last week in his apartment with sweeping views of San Francisco. Washington Post Apr 10, 2019
  17. 28. Proulx’s stories are bumpy rides through a corner of the American West that seems fertile only in producing __________ and loneliness and pain.” New York Times Dec 4, 2018
  18. 29. But that does not __________ the validity of the old saying that “in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.” Forbes Jun 3, 2013
  19. 30. Vieira said the difficulties at both clubs made life “really quite interesting” for two such __________ coaches. The Guardian　Jan 15, 2019
  20. 34. On June 29, 2015, Dart wrote Visa and MasterCard a __________ letter implying that he would prosecute them if they continued to let Backpage.com—the sheriff’s new target, a classified ad site—use their services. Slate Dec 2, 2015