Whether the long decades the itinerant composer spent in crushing, neartotal penury ever actually (i) ______ his creative powers remains, on close examination, a genuinely uncertain question; what seems far clearer, however, is that those same powers were, in some wholly inexplicable fashion, (ii) ______ precisely because of the privation he so stoically endured.

Blank (i)	Blank (ii)
A. attenuated	D. rationalized
B. adjudicated	E. intensified
C. dictated	F. obfuscated