FILL IN THE BLANKS

QUESTION

The (i) _________ child approached the diving board; (ii) _________ water in the first place, he found the
prospect of jumping into it from some height even more frightening.

Blank (i) Blank (ii)
tremulous beguiled by
coltish chary of
cumbersome repulsed by

ANSWER

Tremulous, chary of

QUESTION

The fact that the average life expectancy ten thousand years ago was so much shorter than it is now is often (i)
________ as evidence supporting the notion that the world always improves with time. However, if you (ii)
_________ for the fact that most children in that epoch died in childbirth, it turns out that life expectancy back
then was nearly the same as it is now. On a (iii) _________ note, it also turns out that many “barbaric” huntergatherer
tribes were taller on average than the average person now living.