In the text below some words are missing. Select appropriate words to fill the gaps.

Now that doesn’t mean that plainness is the only good style, or that you should become a (1)……….to spare, unadorned writing. Formality and ornateness have their place, and in (2)………hands complexity can carry us on a dizzying, breathtaking journey. But most students, most of the time, should (3)……….to be sensibly simple, to develop a (4) ……………style of short words, active verbs, and relatively simple sentences (5)…………clear actions or identities. It’s faster, it makes arguments easier to follow, it increases the chances a busy (6)…………will bother to pay attention, and it lets you (7)……………more attention on your moments of rhetorical flourish, which I do not advise (8)…………altogether.

(1) Abandoning  (2) Competent (3) Active (4) Follow (5) Strive (6) Baseline (7)  Conveying (8) Reader (9) Focus (10) Slave

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