The reason minimum temperatures are going up more rapidly than maximums may involve cloud cover and evaporative cooling. Clouds tend to keep the days cooler by reflecting sunlight, and the nights warmer by (i)____________ loss of heat from Earth's surface. Greater amounts of moisture in the soil from additional precipitation and cloudiness (ii)____________ the daytime temperature increases because part of the solar energy is (iii)____________ the evaporation of that moisture. A. inhibiting B. augment C. intensified by D. exacerbating E. mask F. unrelated to G. replicating H. restrain I. used up in