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Help a ruthless food critic finish his scathing restaurant review. Select ALL the options that use the grammatically correct preposition to complete the sentence.
"The chef's latest creation is essentially a hollowed-out cabbage, completely _____ any recognizable flavor."
The correct answers are devoid of, bereft of, and lacking in.
Adjectives describing a "lack" or "absence" of something often take very specific prepositions.
- Devoid and bereft both strictly take the preposition of.
- Lacking usually takes in when used as an adjective (though "lacking flavor" without a preposition is also correct when used as a participle).
The distractors pair the adjectives with the wrong prepositions: the correct collocations are deficient in and empty of.