1.The prospects of discovering new aspects of the life of the life of a painter as thoroughly studied as Vermeer are not, on the surface, ___.
encouraging daunting unpromising superficial challenging
2.I 've long anticipated this retrospective of the artist's work, hoping it would make___judgments about him possible, but greater familiarity with his paintings highlights their inherent ___ and actually makes one's assessment ___.
modish settled detached
gloom ambiguity delicacy
similarly equivocal, less sanguine, more cynical
3.Though dealers insist that professional art dealers can make money in the art market, even an___ knowledge is not enough: the art world is so fickle that stock-market prices are___ by comparison.
amateur's investor's insider's
erratic predictable sensible