Intellectuals who seek to escape the issues of today by withdrawing from problems of reality are not ,begin underline, evading, end underline, these problems. Lack of contact with the real world not only stalemates progress by preventing needed thinkers from contributing answers, it also starves intellectuals' minds by denying them the stimulation of fresh experience. Question In this paragraph, what word means the same as ,begin emphasis, evade, end emphasis,?