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Although weeds often (i)_______ and are (ii)_______ human activities, their cussedness and refusal to play by human rules makes them subversive and the very essence of wildness.
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The poem is not nearly as (i)_______ as it has often been said to be. Granted, it would be (ii)_______ to claim that the poem is self-contained or that its proliferating allusions are self-explanatory. But the poem is more self-contained than it appears when you read only fragments of it, and its allusions are often (iii)_______ by their contexts or by their repeated appearances in changing contexts.
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Because the fundamental nature of language is so intangible, because there is no agreed-upon way to determine its existence, it is easy to dismiss new evidence of ostensible animal language as inadequate—quite _______, but insufficient.
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Far from (i)_______ the actions taken by the newspaper's executives. Willes praised the executives' resistance to corruption—yet he doubted that their policies were practical enough to warrant (ii)_______ by other papers.
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Her argument, though stimulating, is far from being proof against all reproach: several of its most crucial hypotheses are rather more (i)_______ than (ii)________.
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Phrenology was _______ in taking tentative steps to connect personality traits with the brain at a time when other nineteenth-century investigators considered the heart, liver, or spleen as the anatomical repository of psychological characteristics.
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Accustomed to the author's ponderous prose, readers will likely be startled by the _______ that characterizes his new work.
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Once Plowright's research is complete, she will be prepared to talk about it (i)_______, but for now, because she is discussing theories rather than facts and does not want to commit herself to an unsubstantiated claim, she prefers to make only the most (ii)_______ comments.
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The so-called "sensation novel", popular in mid-nineteenth-century Britain, was dismissed by some as _______ form of fiction, partly because these spine-tingling novels often appeared as serials in cheap, disposable periodicals.
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Bridges are often offered as _______ examples of engineering, given that a bridge's structure is out in the open for all to see.
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The legislators didn't merely sell out to business; they retreated to _______ style of governing whereby the interest group that is currently lobbying the hardest on an issue determines the party's position.
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Because organisms can't _______ sodium, as they can do with nitrogen, carbon, and phosphorus, they need external sources to replenish this vital element constantly.
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The effect of the film's expansive, darkly mournful opening sequence was magnified by a score that was similarly ________ and unrelenting.
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Dr. Nicolelis believes that scientists are going to (i)_______ all the brain's information-processing mechanisms—or at least enough of them to yield improvements in neural medicine. Yet he also believes that certain aspects of our minds may remain (ii)_______ because our most meaningful thoughts are written in a code that is unique to each of us.
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When we forgive a person, we (i)_______ our (i)_______ his or her transgression but (iii)_______ certain punitive responses that we would ordinarily be justified in taking on the basis of that person's objectionable conduct.
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Despite the rather _______ conditions required for its preservation, the evidence for glaciation during the late Proterozoic is found on every continent, suggesting that ice sheets were present throughout the globe.
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The rate of sediment deposition may be _______ desertification in Central Asia: data from a Tajik site show the rate to have increased during Pleistocene glacial periods as aridity increased.
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It is true that with too much exposure, one can weary of visionary poems; their rhetoric can become (i)_______. And yet, there are few among us who are completely (ii)_______ visionary rhetoric for the obvious reason that we do, on rare occasions, have an experience that (iii)_______ and leaves us baffled, deeply moved, and ready to believe things we hadn't dreamed of.
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Statistics is the branch of applied mathematics that studies ways of drawing inferences from limited and imperfect data. Of course, if all data sources were totally (i)_______, statisticians could do little but (ii)_______ every conclusion with “but we could be wrong about this.” A mathematical science of statistics is possible because, although repeating an experiment numerous times may not yield uniform results, some results are more (iii)_______ than others.
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