Farmhouse Interior, painted in the realist style by Jan Hendrik Weissenbruch, depicts a peasant woman knitting at a table while a cat sits underneath. The realists' emphasis on accurately portraying the experiences of average working people was largely a rejection of the romantic style evident in many paintings by Pierre-Auguste Cot, which instead ________ blank their subjects' positive traits, altering subjects to appear more beautiful or heroic than they actually were.Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

The tomato was domesticated in South America. Its physical structure is no longer identical to the structure of the wild plant it is descended from. Maize (corn) also ________ blank its wild ancestor. That ancestor plant had a few small kernels. Indigenous people in Mexico carefully bred the crop until it had numerous fleshy kernels.Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

The collectibles market is one of the most difficult segments of the consumer economy to ________ blank. Few economists would have predicted, for example, that the prices of vintage My Little Pony figures would soar in the 2010s, but soar they did.Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

Cochabamba, Bolivia, was named a City of Gastronomy by UNESCO in 2017, a title that ________ blank that Cochabamba has a unique and vibrant food culture worthy of celebration.Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

The following text is from Billie Jean King's 2021 autobiography All In. [P]eople on both sides of my family had repeatedly demonstrated an independent streak. In the end, that was the temperament I gravitated toward, too. Both the Moffitts and the members of my mother's clan, the Jermans, came from mining and oil-geyser towns on the western frontier. They kept their heads down and worked, worked, worked. But they also bucked convention.As used in the text, what does the word "demonstrated" most nearly mean?