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Historians have steadily ______ the study
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Historians have steadily ______ the study of how small firms set prices-terrain economists abandoned upon retreating into abstract mathematical modeling.
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| A. relinquished |
| B. annexed |
| C. axiomatized | D. abdicated | E. colonized |
| F. inaugurated |
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Historians have steadily ______ the study
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Understand the sentence: The key clue is “terrain economists abandoned”.
Economists left the study of how small firms set prices when they shifted toward abstract mathematical modeling. Historians have steadily moved into that abandoned area. The blank therefore needs words meaning to take over or occupy an area previously left by others.
Evaluate the choices
-A. relinquished - gave up or surrendered. Opposite of the intended meaning.
-B. annexed - took control of or added to one's territory. Fits.
-C. axiomatized - expressed in terms of axioms or fundamental principles. Doesn't fit the territorial metaphor.
-D. abdicated - gave up power or responsibility. Opposite of the intended meaning.
-E. colonized - occupied and established control over a territory. Fits.
-F. inaugurated - began or formally introduced something. Doesn't convey taking over abandoned territory.
Answer: B and E
Understand the sentence: The key clue is “terrain economists abandoned”.
Economists left the study of how small firms set prices when they shifted toward abstract mathematical modeling. Historians have steadily moved into that abandoned area. The blank therefore needs words meaning to take over or occupy an area previously left by others.
Evaluate the choices
-A. relinquished - gave up or surrendered. Opposite of the intended meaning.
-B. annexed - took control of or added to one's territory. Fits.
-C. axiomatized - expressed in terms of axioms or fundamental principles. Doesn't fit the territorial metaphor.
-D. abdicated - gave up power or responsibility. Opposite of the intended meaning.
-E. colonized - occupied and established control over a territory. Fits.
-F. inaugurated - began or formally introduced something. Doesn't convey taking over abandoned territory.
Answer: B and E
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