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Transportation maps of Alaska are (i)_____ in large part by what they (ii)_____: lines identifying roads and railroads. With a single track bisecting the state and a handful of spokes to the east and south, Alaska is notable for its (iii)______ of transportation options.
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Psychologists have discovered that some of the most ______ advice on study habits is flat wrong, leading them to revise the guidelines they offer to students.
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Scenes of bustling streets full of well-dressed citizens going about their business ______ the growing hardship faced by all but the richest local residents.
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Though only nine years old, the dancer possesses______flexibility that suggests she may become a balletic superstar.
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Upstream dam construction can be _____ aquatic fauna: the natural seasonal flow patterns to which the fauna had become adapted are altered and populations therefore fragmented.
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The company`s steering committee, reluctant to be held any specific commitments, released a strategic plan that was deliberately _______.
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Within the field of emotional intelligence research, disagreements remain about whether emotional intelligence can be learned and strengthened or is _______ characteristic.
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At one time researchers viewed the placebo effect as (i)_____, a statistical (ii)_____ faced by those attempting an objective evaluation of the efficacy of potentially legitimate therapies. That view has changed: the placebo effect is today seen as an important part of the healing process.
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To function as (i)_____, literary critics must write well. A badly written book review is worse than a badly written political speech or greeting card; a badly written review is (ii)______, like a barber with a terrible haircut. If critics cannot write well, how can they authoritatively recognize and promote good writing?
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Despite the recent proliferation of gourmet and specialty salts, studies suggest that it would take an unusually (i)_____ palate to (ii)_____ foods prepared with different salts—most salts taste the same to most people.
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It is inevitable that ongoing research presupposes some accepted science as a principle. Usually no one even notices the implication that the accepted principle is being (i)______ unless there emerges (ii)______ that turns out to be sufficiently (iii)______ that the assumptions underlying the research come to be considered.
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Whereas there has been extensive sociological research into how globalization affects finance, religion, and population, comparable studies of globalization`s impact on lawmaking and the practice of law have been _____.
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The fact that most hypotheses turn out to be wrong does not mean that hypothesizing is ______. In fact, most hypotheses include useful ideas that survive to become part of the next model or scenario.
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New Zealand`s breakaway landmass proved ______ sanctuary for the tuatara, for the island lacked any terrestrial mammals that would dig up the tuatara`s slowly maturing eggs or pick off adolescents before they had a chance to breed.
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Though he said nothing, James ______ his father`s meaning; the boy was far from being so obtuse as everyone thought him to be.
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Demographic relationships that have been ______ may not be useful targets for prolonged study: that very characteristic suggests that they may continue to change rapidly.
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The ability to reproduce in her paintings the supple and shapely lines of her great-grandfather`s paintings seems to have ______ her the way a particular cast of mind might be perpetuated in another family.
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In the search for truth, the knowledge gained by scientists consists of approximations with varying degrees of certainty. Such (i)_____ truth can be highly (ii)_____, as the rapid and relatively steady progress of medical knowledge well exemplifies.
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The kilt has certainly had (i)______ history, outlawed as it was by Britain in 1746 as an emblem of nationalist subversion, then more recently (ii)______ from men`s to women`s apparel in a 2003 European Union survey, and ridiculed at various times for a wide variety of reasons.
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Having displayed his art collection in a vast modernist white space in (i)______ former warehouse, Mr. Saatchi has chosen for his new site its polar opposite, a riverside monument to civic pomposity that once housed the local government. There is nothing (ii)______ about the new location: the building`s design is bureaucratic baroque, (iii)______ style that is as declamatory as a task-force report and as self-regarding as a campaign speech.
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