Rimsky-Korsakov, who reharmonized Boris Godunov after Mussorgsky's death, was sure he was rescuing his friend from his own (i) ______ ; yet the opera's (ii) ______ vocal lines were designed to (iii) _______ the rise and fall of spoken Russian, a fidelity that his genteel polish, mistaking intention for error, quietly erased.

Blank (i)	Blank (ii)	Blank (iii)
A. pedantry	D. angular	G. bowdlerize
B. diffidence	E. mellifluous	H. transcend
C. maladroitness	F. sonorous	I.emulate