From William Hazlitt's essay *On the Ignorance of the Learned* (1821). Select the word that fits the blank. "He clings to [his book] for his intellectual support... He can only breathe a learned atmosphere, as other men breathe common air. He is a ______ of sense. He has no ideas of his own, and must live on those of other people."

The sentence's second half makes the figure explicit: *He has no ideas of his own, and must live on those of other people.* The blank must name the kind of person who lacks original ideas and must take them from elsewhere. "Borrower" captures it directly: he *borrows* sense from others rather than producing it himself. - "Master" reverses the relation — masters supply sense, not take it. - "Judge" suggests evaluative authority Hazlitt is denying his target. - "Champion" attributes a positive defending role. Hazlitt's pejorative — *borrower of sense* — is the signature phrase of the passage and a recurring GRE-flavor figure of speech for *intellectually derivative*.