That shoppers greeted each of Ortega's collections as the embodiment of a taste they had long held (i) _______, as though she had eavesdropped on their private longings, owed less to clairvoyance than to her habit of weaving together (ii) _____ currents-skate culture, Bauhaus furniture, Andean textiles-that no one else had thought to combine.

Blank (i)	Blank (ii)
A. avowedly	D. seemingly incongruous
B. tacitly	E. symbiotically linked
C. fitfully	F. resolutely orthodox