choices have a pair among the other answers.
76.
Moribund, waning.
The sentence indicates that the number of PhD
applicants in linguistics “has either grown or held steady in each of the past
15 years” while also suggesting that this fact is surprising. This could be
surprising for a number of reasons, but the only words that would pair in this
sentence are “moribund,” which means dying, and “waning,” which means
growing smaller. “Waxing” and “burgeoning” do form a pair, but if the field
were growing, it would not be a surprise that the number of applicants has
also grown. Neither “dissolute” nor “debased,” which both mean lacking in
morals, fits the desired meaning of the blank.
77.
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