That literary translation is finally shedding its status as an afterthought owes everything to a handful of publishers willing to treat translators as more than invisible technicians. For decades, the work was dismissed wholesale as (i) _______ -competent at best, mechanical at worst-and translators who took pride in their craft routinely found their names omitted from covers entirely, a slight so (ii) ______ in its casualness that many simply stopped expecting acknowledgment, having learned through repetition to feel nothing more than a weary (iii) ______ whenever a review praised "the author's voice" without once mentioning who had rendered it into English.

Blank (i)	Blank (ii)	Blank (iii)
A. epigonic	D. calculated	G. umbrage
B. assiduous	E. cavalier	H. acquiescence
C. synergistic	F. premeditated	I. exuberance