Style, Intensity, and Connotation in Two-Blank Sentences Practice Test

Choose the word or set of words that best completes the following sentence.

The demagogue worked day and night,                      the passions of the                      against those whom he declared to be the “privileged few.”

Choose the pair of words that best completes the following sentence.

The teacher remarked that many of the students essays were far too                      and would therefore need to be                      to make them simpler and easier to understand.