For an artist of such circumscribed talent, Mario was given ____________ attention, many connoisseurs ____________ over works that warranted nothing more than a(n) ____________ glance.The phrase "For an artist of such circumscribed talent" expects us to imagine that he received more appreciation than he deserved. An expectation further proved by the phrase "over works that warranted nothing more than".
Thus we can imagine he was given plenty of attention, and hence the word for the first blank should be
scrupulous. We can definitely rule out
scant(little) and
sporadic(intermittent).
Holding the same logic in our heads we can imagine connoisseurs poring over works that warranted the least attention. Hence the word for the second blank is
poring.
And the word for the last blank which will give us the meaning of "deserving least attention" would be
cursory. The sentence fragment would complete as
- warranted nothing more than a(n)
cursory glance.
There is nothing in the sentence to suggest that his art deserved contempt and ridicule, so we can rule out
derisive. Neither does the sentence suggest that his art deserved only a provisional look or a hesitant look. Hence we rule out
tentative.
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