In each of the following sentences from question 1-10, there is a word underlined and one gap. From the list of words, choose the word that is most nearly opposite in meaning to the underlined word and that will, at the same time, correctly fill the gap in the sentence. While most regional capitals are d̳e̳n̳s̳e̳l̳y̳ populated, a number of them are ___ populated.