227. It is her supremely skillful use of sophisticated laboratory instruments that makes Veronica the ______ research technician that she is.
A. susceptible
B. consummate
C. visionary
D. vitriolic
E. doctrinaire
228. Women in the United States gained ______ long after Black American men did, but Black citizens had greater difficulty exercising their new voting rights.
A. restitution
B. suffrage
C. solace
D. initiatives
E. levies