Now that doesn’t mean that plainness is the only good style, or that you should (A) ________ a slave to spare, unadorned writing. Formality and ornateness have their place, and in competent hands complexity can carry us on a (B) _________ , breathtaking journey. But most students, most of the time, should strive to be sensibly simple, to develop a baseline style of short words, active verbs, and relatively simple sentences conveying clear actions or identities. It’s faster, it makes arguments easier to follow, it increases the (C) ________ a busy reader will bother to pay attention, and it lets you focus more attention on your moments of (D) _________ flourish, which I do not advise abandoning altogether.

chance            rhetorical             chances              have              become            dizzying

Measuring poverty on a global scale requires establishing a uniform poverty level across extremely divergent economies, which can result in only rough comparisons. The World Bank has defined the international poverty line as U.S. $1 and $2 per day in 1993 Purchasing Power Parity (PPP), which adjusts for differences in the (A) _________ of goods and services between countries. The $1 per day level is generally used for the (B) ________ developed countries, primarily African; the $2-per-day level is used for middle income (C) _________ such as those of East Asia and Latin America.

purchasing            prices          lower          economies           least