Question
Each of the following sentences has two blanks. Choose the most appropriate pair of words from the five given options to fill the blanks so that the sentence is grammatically and contextually correct. The committee’s findings, though initially dismissed as speculative and lacking empirical grounding, were later found to be remarkably ______, as subsequent data began to ______ the validity of its original assumptions.
Solution
Clue: initially dismissed → later proven correct prescient = having foresight corroborate = confirm with evidence Thus: findings were visionary → later confirmed Other options are opposite: erroneous/refute → negative obscure → unclear undermine → weaken
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