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Since she believed him to be both candid and trust-worthy, she refused to consider the possibility that his statement had been ..........
The sheer bulk of data from the mass media seemsto overpower us and drive us to ........ accounts for an easily and readily digestible portion of news.
Any numericaldescriptionofthe developmentofthe human population cannot avoid .......... simply becausethere has never been a census of all the people in the world.
Relatively few politicians willingly forsake center stage, although a touch of _____ on their parts now and again might well increase theirpopularity with the voting public.
Each question has an idiomatic phrase. Choose the word that is closest in meaning to idiomatic phrase.