Re: In many pre-agrarian societies, the shaman or medicine-woman was consi
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29 Dec 2022, 05:00
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The colon signals that the second part of the sentence agrees with the first part, so the blank must express how the shaman’s knowledge seems “to include every subject.”
The only pair of words that would match in this sentence are “perspicacious” and “sagacious,” both of which mean wise or astute. “Mendacious” and “duplicitous” both mean dishonest or deceitful, but nothing in the sentence suggests that the shaman would be the most untruthful member of the group. “Superfluous” means unnecessary and “mellifluous” means sweet-sounding, neither of which fits in the context of this sentence.