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Paleontologists are always shown extracting dinosaur bones
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Paleontologists are always shown extracting dinosaur bones from pits in dusty deserts, but most of their research occurs in libraries, and most of their discoveries are ___________ from tomes every bit as dusty as the aforementioned deserts.
| Blank (i) |
| (A) perused |
| (B) garnished |
| (C) gleaned |
| (D) involved |
| (E) interpreted |
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Re: Paleontologists are always shown extracting dinosaur bones
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You’re told that paleontologists do research in libraries, so their discoveries must come from tomes (i.e., books). Gleaned means “extracted from various sources.” Perused is the act of reading — you can peruse a book, but you cannot peruse a discovery from a book.
Gleaned.
You’re told that paleontologists do research in libraries, so their discoveries must come from tomes (i.e., books). Gleaned means “extracted from various sources.” Perused is the act of reading — you can peruse a book, but you cannot peruse a discovery from a book.
Gleaned.
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Paleontologists are always shown extracting dinosaur bones from pits in dusty deserts, but most of their research occurs in libraries, and most of their discoveries are ___________ from tomes every bit as dusty as the aforementioned deserts.
The sentence displays parallelism and research in libraries with dusty tomes is compared with research involving extracting dinosaur bones from dusty pits in deserts.
We need a word that is a synonym of extracting. The word is gleaned.
The sentence displays parallelism and research in libraries with dusty tomes is compared with research involving extracting dinosaur bones from dusty pits in deserts.
We need a word that is a synonym of extracting. The word is gleaned.
