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Text Completion #40-popularization of science by writers
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The popularization of science by writers with a knack for making the abstruse ____________ is not an exclusively modern calling. Indeed the origins of this specific craft harken back to Voltaire, who, in his Elements of the Philosophy of Newton, made the ____________ writing of the revered British physicist digestible to a lay audience.
| Blank (i) | Blank (ii) |
| ordinary | greatly cherished |
| pellucid | practically inscrutable |
| unapproachable | virtually unknown |
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’Popularization’ implies making that which is abstruse, or difficult to understand, easy to understand. (B) pellucid means clear and easy to understand. In the second blank we have an example of the abstruse work that Voltaire made ‘digestible.’ (E) practically inscrutable, meaning almost unfathomable, matches up best
’Popularization’ implies making that which is abstruse, or difficult to understand, easy to understand. (B) pellucid means clear and easy to understand. In the second blank we have an example of the abstruse work that Voltaire made ‘digestible.’ (E) practically inscrutable, meaning almost unfathomable, matches up best
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27 Feb 2021, 01:53
1st blank why not option c ?
