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The passage implies which of the following about Thomas Couture' s painting The Romans of the Decadence ?
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Which of the following is an assumption on which the argument depends?
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The law student found traditional legal reference works unhelpful, since such works assume from the reader a considerable familiarity with the intricacies of contract law, an assumption that was, in his case at least, ________.
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Pre-Columbian peoples had a significant impact on Amazonian forest diversity; at least 8,000 years ago, they must have begun domesticating plants recently found to be _________ around sites once occupied by humans.
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"revolutionary" and "unique" are words that have become________ : every century in human history is described as unique, and every year, somewhere in the world, some event is characterized as revolutionary.
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Climbing mountains in search of an awe-inspiring view can be (i)________ experience. Too often, the peak seems forever out of reach, always disappearing over the next crest. It's a feeling that (ii)________ physicists, who have spent much of the last century trudging up a seemingly endless slope in search of truly cosmic vistas. It is proving (iii)________ climb.
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Although automated agricultural technology boosts yields and profits, its high degree of prescriptiveness diminishes the role of individual farmers by making their ________ almost irrelevant.
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Asteroids of diameter less than 100 km never melted, but asteroids with larger diameters did so and became _________ with the heavier Fe-Ni material forming the core and the silicates forming the crust.
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The growth of kelp in the kelp bed communities of the North Pacific Ocean is _________ sea otters: the otters prey on kelp-eating sea urchins, keeping the urchin population in check.
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In her early years as a theater critic, Willa Cather was ________, veering between ecstatic raves and brutal takedowns.
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A core assumption of evolutionary biology is that adaptation is always ________: organisms adapt to their environment, never vice versa.
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The theory that the young Mercury collided with another planet appears ________ given Mercury' s abundance of volatile elements: a collision would have boiled such elements away.
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Although Wanda Coleman' s sonnets sometimes employ ________ word choices, they aptly bring to the fore a distinctly modern anxiety.
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Bone is a physiologically ________ tissue: it can change size and shape to meet the body' s needs during the various stages of an animal' s life.
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Literary fiction is (i)________ genre fiction. Why? Because its plots are less predictable, its characters deeper, its reality (ii)_________ actual reality. That, at least, is the commonly held view, shared even by readers, and writers, of genre fiction-or so it appears from their readiness to (iii)________ their tastes. But many new "serious" novels are just as constrained by their genre as any multivolume fantasy epic or cheap romance.
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Among historians, conjecture and grand vision have given way to (i) ________ ,an intensified focus on ever smaller units of time and space, and a (ii)________ to build analytical frames that can fully articulate the broad sweep of history.
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The guarantee of academic freedom to professors is intended to encourage intellectual independence. But so long as faculty members receive training in a specific academic discipline and are appointed to positions defined by discipline, and so long as colleges and universities are organized by departments that (i)_______ long-standing disciplinary traditions, academic freedom will also (ii)________ unique discipline-specific expectations. Yet the right to (iii)_______ disciplinary paradigms is also fundamental to academic freedom.
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Software makers typically write licensing agreements disclaiming responsibility for any negative consequences of using their products, but as computers become integrated into everything from cars to medical devices, that stance will become ________.
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Rather than use the traditional therapy, the physician employed unorthodox treatments ________ by her more conventional colleagues.
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