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" means the caveats are part of the claim itself.
2The committee rejected the ............... proposal because it read like a slogan rather than a plan.
Wrong!
"Buzzword-laden" means the proposal is full of fashionable but empty-sounding terms.
3Her ............... footnote quietly undermines the headline conclusion without changing the main text.
Select 2 answers.
Wrong!
"Easily missed" and "easy-to-miss" both describe a footnote that readers may overlook.
4The journal demanded a ............... methodology section, not the vague gestures the draft offered.
Wrong!
"Replicable" describes a methodology that other researchers can repeat.
5What looks like a neutral summary is actually an ............... framing of the evidence.
Wrong!
"Agenda-driven" describes framing shaped by a hidden aim or bias.
6The reviewer praised the ............... prose, where every clause carries its own qualification.
Wrong!
"Information-dense" describes prose packed with a lot of meaning.
7In the results section, the ............... table captions did more work than the paragraphs.
Wrong!
"Self-explanatory" means the captions can be understood without extra explanation.
8The editor flagged the ............... sentence as needlessly hard to parse on a first reading.
Wrong!
"Garden-path" describes a sentence that misleads readers at first.
9The ............... paragraph compresses three objections into one, at the cost of clarity.
Select 2 answers.
Wrong!
"Densely argued" and "tightly argued" both describe a paragraph with compressed reasoning.
10His ............... aside signals disagreement while pretending to be merely descriptive.
Select 2 answers.
Wrong!
"Thinly veiled" and "barely disguised" both describe disagreement that is only slightly hidden.
11The ............... definition looks precise, but it quietly smuggles in a controversial assumption.
Wrong!
"Loaded" describes a definition that includes a hidden assumption or bias.
12In the conclusion, the ............... concession makes the argument seem balanced while conceding almost nothing.
Wrong!
"Token" describes a concession that is only small and symbolic.
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 an 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.
