For each blank select one entry from the corresponding column of choices. Fill all blanks in the way that best completes the text.

There is nothing more (i) for first time writers to see that their cherished ideas are actually far less (ii) than they had imagined. Often a publisher, or even a friend, will point out that another writer already captured the same plot twist, or created an almost identical fictional world. This feeling stings even greater when the publication of the neophyte writer’s work (iii) that of the more popular author; apparently the public often erroneously believes that the lesser known writer’s work is derivative.

Blank (i)

galling

bracing

alluring

Blank (ii)

novel

rigorous

precedented

Blank (iii)

belittles

precedes

elaborates upon

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