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By its subtitle, Pamela Lu's Pamela: A Novel assigns itself to a literary genre whose constitutive elements it _____________: if it is a novel, it is an anomalous one, with no story to unfold.
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As companies dealing in satellite imagery begin to _____________ their data products diurnally, people will soon be able to see huge swaths of the planet change daily.
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The Holy People in Navajo sacred narratives do not act as moral _____________: when they teach, it is as often by what they do wrong as by what they do right.
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Not only are RNA viruses common, they are _____________ in that they adapt quickly to new environments and new hosts.
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Elephants are known to use a wide variety of calls, many of them infrasonic (below the level of human hearing), in coordinating group behavior, The infrasonic calls usually have a component that is (i)______________, but these higher frequency aspects of the calls (ii)_____________ very quickly with distance, so that in the wild, human observers are often (iii)_____________ sudden coordinated movements of large groups of elephants when no signal was apparent to the observer.
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Critics have raved about the beauty of Peck's prose, but in his fiction, at least, the diction has only gotten more portentous with time, the writing more overwrought, and the symbolism more _____________.
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She was _____________ debater, always choosing to press an argument to its logical
conclusion even if the results would be subversive of the whole existing order of society.
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Receiving sole credit for a scientific breakthrough is tantamount to acquiring a much-coveted prize: small wonder, then, that scientists often _____________ the claim of first discovery.
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It is misleading to (i)_____________ the scientific literature by focusing on (ii)_____________ research as the newspaper's science reporters have sometimes done. Forced retractions of scientific publications are, in fact, relatively rare.
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Fedigan argues that, in actuality, ethologists who claim to _____________ anthropomorphism often end up simply substituting one set of anthropomorphic terms for another.
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Bank X calculates a customer satisfaction index for the Web site after the redesign. Responses of "very satisfied" are each assigned a value of 3, responses of "somewhat satisfied" are each assigned a value of 2, responses of "somewhat dissatisfied" are each assigned a value of 1, and responses of “very dissatisfied" are each assigned a value of 0. The customer satisfaction index is the average (arithmetic mean) of the values. Which of the following is closest to the customer satisfaction index for the Web site after the redesign?
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One of the 200 customers is to be selected at random. What is the probability that the customer will be one who was very satisfied with the Web site after the redesign and whose favorite feature was easy transfers?
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The number of customers who were very satisfied with the Web site after the redesign is approximately what percent greater than the number of customers who were very satisfied with the Web site before the redesign?
Give your answer to the nearest whole percent.
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Let a represent the increase from 1992 to 1999 in the total value of public and private construction, let b represent the corresponding increase from 1999 to 2006, and let c represent the corresponding increase from 2006 to 2013. Which of the following statements is true?
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In 2013 the value of construction for highways was approximately how much greater than the value of construction for industrial buildings?
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Of the following pairs of types of construction in 2013, where the first type is a public type and the second type is a private type, which pair had dollar values that were closest to each other?
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The average (arithmetic mean) of 6 different positive integers is 12, and x is the greatest of these integers. What is the greatest possible value of $$x$$?
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