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People love to talk about their commutes to and from work: those with an easy commute tend to
(i)_____, while those who hate their commute think and speak of it as a core affliction, like a chronic illness. Once you raise the subject, the testimonies pour out, and, if your ears are tuned to it, you begin overhearing commute talk everywhere. People who are normally (ii)_____ may, when describing their commutes, be unexpectedly(iii)_____ divulging the intimate details of their lives.
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Every illness is a story, and when Annies began it was characterized by the kinds of _____
details that mean nothing until seen in hindsight.
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Peoples decisions about childbearing depend on innumerable personal consideration and societal factors, yet even knowing this, demographers are often _____: their projections of birth rates frequently turn out to be embarrassingly at odds with reality.
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The brain has become, for many people, _____ the biological machinations of the self, and the self-knowledge promised by neuroscience has ignited a hunger to understand how new findings weigh in on age-old questions.
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Although scientific progress leads to constant revision of ideas, one observation that has remained _____ over the years is that there are a lot of insects in the world: some 950,000 species have been identified.
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A significant element of the Gothic genre, the literary grotesque is sometimes inaccurately discussed as if it were a_____ Gothic or, conversely, as if it were something entirely different from Gothic.
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_____ is valuable in science, even when a scientific idea is true, it can be misused through grandiosity.
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Though she had some exposure to great art and high culture, it must be said the ultra athletic Marion Carstairs remained throughout her life primarily (i)_____ mental and artistic pursuits. She was by nature (ii)______.
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At the heart of present-day studies computational authorship attribution lies the hypothesis that each author has so personal a writing style that it can function as stylistic DNA. Any given author style, in other words, is regarded as (i)______ and (ii)______ every other authors writing style.
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When pulsars were first discovered, some of the astrophysicists involved briefly (i)____________ these types of stars might be (ii)____________ extraterrestrial intelligence. Specifically, the pulsar's periodic radiation pattern was initially interpreted as (iii)____________ rather than—as it turned out to be—the natural product of the spinning of a neutron star.
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Scientists suspect that the impact with which a bat lands is a function of (i)_____. Bats that roost on hard cave ceiling must land (ii)_____ to avoid injury. By contrast, since foliage is (iii)_____, a hard landing won`t hurt, and might even give the bat time to make sure it has a good grip.
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Humanity's struggle with bedbugs is ______: archaeologists have recovered remains of the parasites dating back 3,500 years to the time of the Egyptian pharaohs.
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The composer's string quartets exhibit a structural ______ that seems to challenge the conventions of the string quartet genre, which have long been celebrated for their rigor and coherence.
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It is _____ and rather, surprising, for someone with a considerable background in philosophy, that Taylor fails to distinguish adequately between forms of communication and forms of knowledge.
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As a proponent of women's traditional roles, Sarah Hale was adamant against women's suffrage as thrusting women into an improper sphere; yet she _____ female textile strikers when they publicly protested their mistreatment at miles.
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A sunset, the poet asserted, is beautiful in part because it is _____: fleeting and never to be exactly repeated.
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The evidence depicts an _____ system of tree inspections and care, one in which the crucial job of spotting dangers is left to untrained workers, and essential repairs and pruning are delayed to save money.
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Here was one of the main (i)_____ of oceanography during the first two decades after the Second World War. Support for oceanographic research was based on its utility for making war on other nation. Yet at the same time, oceanography retained an identity that tied it closely to (ii)_____.
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Ancient cart ruts found on Malta were created in soft limestone that begins to dissolve when exposed to rainfall. Their forms thus necessarily become (i)______ over time and their original features are (ii)______.
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Overall, fish farming may provide a (i)_____ wild fish stocks, but for certain species, the farmers cause a net loss of wild fish. Some fish farmers use upwards of five kilograms of wild fish as feed to grow one kilogram of carnivorous species like sea bass. Such (ii)_____ feed plus other environmental side effects undermine the expected (iii)_____ fish farming.
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