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Question
The sentence has one or two missing elements, as indicated by a series of dashes. Following the sentence, you will see lettered words or sets of words. Choose the word or set of words that best fit the meanings of the sentence as a whole.
While she initially suffered the fate of many pioneers -the incomprehension of her colleagues – octogenarian Nobel laureateBarbara McClintock has lived to __________ the triumph of her once ___________ scientific theories.
Options
Descry...innovative
Regret...insignificant
Perpetuate...tentative
Savor....heterodox
Solution
Savor....heterodox
The clue here in the phrase is a triumph of her once, which suggests that whatever she has done was different from the trend of that period. So it has to be heterodox. Since it means defying convention.
