hard · GRE Verbal

That the memoirist's account should be at once scrupulously documented and yet, in its emotional claims, so thoroughly (i)______ struck her editors as no contradiction; they had long held that the (ii)______ of a life need not be forfeited merely because its outward facts are verifiable, since the inner meaning a writer assigns to those facts remains, of necessity, a construction.

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