Need help with these TCs

GRE Verbal Problem Solving
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. Broadway audiences have become inured to -------
and ~o ------- to be pleased as to make their ready
ovatIons meaningless as an indicator of the quality
of the production before them.
(A) sentimentality … reluctant
(B) condescension … disinclined
© histrionics … unlikely
(D) cleverness … eager
(E) mediocrity … desperate

Any language is a conspiracy against experience in
the sense that it is a collective attempt to -------
experience by reducing it into discrete parcels.
(A) extrapolate (B) transcribe © complicate
(D) amplify (E) manage

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How I’d do it:

  1. Inured to -> you know the first blank is something unpleasant.
    What is on topic with the word “quality”? Mediocrity. This is the ONLY word that fits here because we’re talking about bad quality.
    Does “desperate” also work? Yes.

So, E.

  1. Reduce – manage (Synonym)

E