Single-Blank Questions

For each blank, select one entry from the corresponding column of choices. Fill the blanks in the way that best completes the text. --- _Josephoartigasia monesi_ is an ancient, oversized rodent \_\_\_\_\_ South America that was purported to be the size of the modern buffalo and whose fossilized remains have portrayed the region of origin as an ancient coastal lagoon with diverse fauna due to its exclusively vegetarian diet.

Incorrect. [[snippet]] _Residing in_ means "living in." This choice is an __overly familiar/easy-words distractor__ that does not fit the context of the sentence; if the rodents are ancient and information about them is found through fossilized remains, they can't be living in South America.

Incorrect. [[snippet]] _Homogeneous to_ means "of the same kind," which does not fit the __sentence key__.

Correct! _Endemic to_ means "found in a certain area." The remains of the large rodents are regularly found in South America, which fits the __sentence key__, _fossilized remains have portrayed the region_.

Incorrect. [[snippet]] _Inclusive to_ means "containing a specific element as part of a whole." The root word include may make it sound like this choice describes the rodents' status in South America, but it is actually a __same-root distractor__ that doesn't fit the __sentence key__, which discusses the ancient, fossilized state of the rodents.

Incorrect. [[snippet]] _Extinct in_ means "having no living members." This choice is an __almost-but-not-quite distractor__; while the __sentence key__ does show that the rodents are clearly _extinct_, it also focuses on what their remains reveal about the area they lived in, which points to a different answer.

residing in

homogeneous to

endemic to

inclusive to

extinct in