Diagnostic Test: He has ___ for acquiring rare arts objects led him to commit an act of felony as ___ has no limit. • Stupefaction. • Penchant. • Consumerism. • Talent. • Temerity. • Avarice. Factory production made an absence of imperfection so blandly commonplace that the _____ of hand-produced goods were now cherished where they once might have been shunned. Advantages. Revivals. Benefits. Pretensions. Blemishes. Defects. The following appeared in a letter to the editor of the Balmer Island Gazette. It was her view that the country’s problems had been _______ by foreign technocrats, so that to ask for such assis...