The National Heritage Fellowship was created to publicly_______ exceptional folk and traditional artists in the United States. In 1995, the fellowship was given to the Navajo (Diné) basket weaver Mary Holiday Black to celebrate her lifetime contributions to the arts.

The following text is adapted from Kenneth Grahame's 1908 novel The Wind in the Willows. The Mole is dazed after briefly meeting a stranger while traveling with a friend.

[The] Mole stood still a moment, held in thought. As one wakened suddenly from a beautiful dream, who struggles to recall it, and can re-capture nothing but a dim sense of the beauty of it, the beauty! Till that, too, fades away in its turn.

Text corpora such as the Bank of English are enormous collections of electronically stored texts that can be used for empirical testing of hypotheses regarding how_______ a word is in spoken and written English. For instance, one might have a guess about the incidence of the word "get," but only an analysis of a corpus can prove that "get" is the fifth most commonly used verb.

British painter Peter Edwards is known for his portraits of notable figures in different fields, from poet Wendy Cope to mathematician Christopher Zeeman. Widespread admiration of these works has helped Edwards gain substantial_______ as an artist.

The Apalachicola River delta system is located in Florida, where the river drains into the Gulf of Mexico, and is shaped by_______ factors: for example, the geography of the coastline influences sedimentary deposition, which over time alters coastal geography.