From the list below, supply the words needed to complete the paragraph. Some words will not
be used.
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adventitious
1. The
two-hour lecture only
respected the guest speaker's experience, but every time she
complex topic, she added ten
was the
the students. They
from the
minutes to the harangue. The speech
of the brief overview that had been promised. The conditions of
for long lectures; the air conditioner
was
the auditorium were not,
broken, and the heat and poor lighting forced many of the students to fight drowsiness.
One young man nodded off and woke with a
start when his head struck his desk; he
quickly sat up straight with a look of
him for a few seconds, but never stopped speaking.
The speaker
at
rds will not