WIC Set 2

Nina couldn't stop looking at the sepia-toned photograph in an oak frame. Propped on the window ledge, it FEATURED a portrait of Great-Great-Grandmother Rosita as a young woman.

• ignored

• approved

• questioned

• displayed

Tom appeared on the sidewalk with a bucket of whitewash and a long-handed brush. He SURVEYED the fence, and all gladness left him and a deep melancholy settled down upon his spirit. Thirty yards of board fence nine feet high.

• promoted

• organized

• adapted

• examined

Politicians routinely claim that journalists are _____, but while it's true that some journalists allow their own views to creep into their reporting more than others do, most journalists make a good-faith effort to be neutral in their reporting.

• sensitive

• irrelevant

• biased

• misinformed

The Danube River delta system is located in Romania, where the river drains into the Black Sea, and is shaped by _____ factors: for example, the geography of the coastline influences sedimentary disposition, which overtime alters coastal geography.

• comprehensive

• unyielding

• interdependent

• tenuous

Although Oscar Micheaux's 1920 film Within Our Gates and Ossie Davis's 1970 film Cotton Comes to Harlem may have had some ____ at the time of their initial release, their place in critics' estimations is now more secure. In 2018, for example, critics for the New York Times described the former as "stunning" and the latter as "especially pointed."

• precursors

• collaborators

• imitators

• detractors

Political scientists have found that although voters claim to prefer candidates who have nuanced perspectives on issues and who show a willingness to compromise, when asked to compare speeches expressing such views with speeches expressing _____ views, voters tend to regard the unyielding rhetoric of the latter more favorably.

• dogmatic

• disingenuous

• vacillating

• banal

A number of recording artists _____ distinctions between Indigenous music and other musical styles. For example, Choctaw singer-songwriter Samantha Crain incorporated elements of Choctaw hymns into folk-pop on her single "When We Remain," and Oji-Cree/Mi'kmaq musician Anachnid combined Indigenous flute and powwow vocals with electronic music on her album Dreamweaver.

• disguise

• reject

• observe

• replace

I sat across the table from Deborah and Teresa and ate my atole and the hot tortilla with butter. I said very little. I usually spoke very little to my two sisters. They were older than I and they were very close. They usually spent the entire day in the attic, playing dolls and giggling. I did not CONCERN MYSELF WITH those things.

• craft

• get angry about

• care about

• earn

The percentage of US forest land that a 2023 federal report identified as being rather mature or old growth exceeds other recent estimates. Given how little _____ there is among scientists regarding the scope of these categories, this discrepancy shouldn't be surprising: forest researchers regularly dispute one another's classifications.

• interest

• deliberation

• vigilance

• consensus

Karam Kang has demonstrated that lobbying does little to alter the probability that a particular energy policy under consideration by the Unites States Congress will be enacted, but lobbying is not as _____ finding seems to suggest. As Kang herself notes, lobbying can shape which policy proposals members of Congress bring forward for consideration in the first place.

• counterproductive

• cynical

• biased

• ineffectual