Complete the 12 sentences below. Choose the best answer for each one. Some sentences have two correct answers. Choose both.
1In the abstract, the author’s ............... caveats make the claim sound narrower than it first appears.
Wrong!
built-in fits because the caveats are included within the claim itself, making it sound narrower.
2The committee rejected the ............... proposal because it read like a slogan rather than a plan.
Wrong!
buzzword-laden fits because the proposal sounded full of trendy phrases, like a slogan instead of a real plan.
3Her ............... footnote quietly undermines the headline conclusion without changing the main text.
Select 2 answers.
Wrong!
easily missed and easy-to-miss both fit because they describe a footnote that readers can overlook.
4The journal demanded a ............... methodology section, not the vague gestures the draft offered.
Wrong!
Replicable fits because the methodology section must be able to be repeated clearly.
5What looks like a neutral summary is actually a ............... framing of the evidence.
Wrong!
agenda-driven works because it means guided by an agenda, matching the biased framing of the evidence.
6The reviewer praised the ............... prose, where every clause carries its own qualification.
Wrong!
information-dense fits because it describes prose packed with meaning in every qualified clause.
7In the results section, the ............... table captions did more work than the paragraphs.
Wrong!
self-explanatory fits because it describes table captions that can be understood without extra explanation.
8The editor flagged the ............... sentence as needlessly hard to parse on a first reading.
Wrong!
Garden-path works because it describes a sentence that misleads readers at first reading.
9The ............... paragraph compresses three objections into one, at the cost of clarity.
Select 2 answers.
Wrong!
densely argued and tightly argued work because they describe a paragraph packed with objections, reducing clarity.
10His ............... aside signals disagreement while pretending to be merely descriptive.
Select 2 answers.
Wrong!
thinly veiled and barely disguised fit because the aside hides disagreement while only seeming descriptive.
11The ............... definition looks precise, but it quietly smuggles in a controversial assumption.
Wrong!
Loaded fits because a loaded definition secretly includes a controversial assumption in the sentence.
12In the conclusion, the ............... concession makes the argument seem balanced while conceding almost nothing.
Wrong!
token works because a token concession is only a minimal, symbolic admission here.
Done.
Score: 0/12
Answers
- In the abstract, the author’s built-in caveats make the claim sound narrower than it first appears.
- The committee rejected the buzzword-laden proposal because it read like a slogan rather than a plan.
- Her easily missed/easy-to-miss footnote quietly undermines the headline conclusion without changing the main text.
- The journal demanded a replicable methodology section, not the vague gestures the draft offered.
- What looks like a neutral summary is actually a agenda-driven framing of the evidence.
- The reviewer praised the information-dense prose, where every clause carries its own qualification.
- In the results section, the self-explanatory table captions did more work than the paragraphs.
- The editor flagged the garden-path sentence as needlessly hard to parse on a first reading.
- The densely argued/tightly argued paragraph compresses three objections into one, at the cost of clarity.
- His thinly veiled/barely disguised aside signals disagreement while pretending to be merely descriptive.
- The loaded definition looks precise, but it quietly smuggles in a controversial assumption.
- In the conclusion, the token concession makes the argument seem balanced while conceding almost nothing.
