Because generations of tabletop role-playing enthusiasts, fearing mockery from classmates and coworkers, confined their campaigns to basements and back rooms, outsiders came to know the hobby chiefly through lurid secondhand rumor; the stigma that followed accordingly proved, for decades, (i) ______ , since every new rumor, repeated in schoolyards, sermons, and newspaper columns alike, left would-be players more (ii)_______ about joining and the hobby still more (iii) _______ -a cycle broken only when streamed sessions finally let skeptical viewers watch an evening's play for themselves.

Blank (i)	Blank (ii)	Blank (iii)
A. short-lived	D. sanguine	G. insular
B. self-perpetuating	E. curious	H. anarchic
C. unfounded	F. chary	I. ubiquitous

Official Answer: B, F, G (self-perpetuating, chary, insular)