OFFICIAL EXPLANATION


$\(\mathbf{A}, \mathbf{F}\)$

There are no obvious road signs here, so read the sentence carefully for clues to the blanks. The first sentence explains that cultural norms, or what a society views as acceptable, evolve over time. The two blanks describe two different views of the same piece of art, and each blank describes a different extreme, as indicated by "inordinately" ("exceeding limits") and "utterly" ("to the highest degree"). Note that there's no way to tell which way the views evolved; they may have gone from acceptable to unacceptable, or vice versa. You'll have to consider both blanks to find words with the appropriate relationship. The only words that fit are (A) salacious, which means "morally offensive" or "indecent," and (F) pedestrian, which in this context means "commonplace" or "mundane." Taken together, they describe how a work of art can at one point be seen as shocking but later be seen as ordinary.

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