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Science advances in ------- spiral in that each new
conceptual scheme ------- the phenomena explained
by its predecessors and adds to those explanations.
(A) a discontinuous … decries
(B) a repetitive … vitiates
i€) a widening … embraces
(D) an anomalous … captures
(E) an explosive … questions

How could words, confined as they individually are
to certain ------- meanings specified in a dictionary,
eventually come, when combined in groups, to
create obscurity and actually to prevent thought
from being -------?
(A) indefinite … articulated
(B) conventional. .conceivable
((::slight_smile: unlikely … classified
(D) archaic … expressed
(E) precise … communicable

  1. (C) widening, embraces
  2. (E) precise, communicable