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A new television documentary focuses on of the prime minister's defining contradiction, portraying her as a woman who cultivated an image of _____, but who liked to live grandly.
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The paleontologist examined the problem afresh, believing that the accepted classification _____ the essential continuity of the specimens by making specious distinctions among them.
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With the numerous opponents of the controversial new taxation measure in such a fury, anyone who publicly advocated the measure did not fail to meet with _____ usage.
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Which of the following, if true, provides additional evidence to support the conclusion?
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The passage is primarily concerned with
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According to the passage, which of the following is true of an Eurasia-Africa land bridge during ice ages?
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Governments frequently justify their attempts to ______material by claiming that such material must be kept strictly confidential for national security reasons when in fact the principal motive may be a desire to avoid political embarrassment.
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For literary critics and book reviewers, the notion of critical authority has become ______in an age of quick, teeming Internet response, where all the old critical standards and parameters are in the process of being reinvented.
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The enlightenment philosophers of the eighteenth century acknowledged that unrestricted freedom to publish could (i)_______ motivated by envy or hatred, but they hoped that any such (ii)_________ enabled by expanded liberties would suffer from being publicly exposed.
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For the early years of the twentieth century, ecology remained essentially a ______ science: ecologists went into the field, counted plants and animals, made lists, and that was pretty much that.
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The author mentions "studies of lake and shallow ocean sediments" primarily in order to
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According to the passage, writers of the Irish Renaissance revived Irish heroic legends in order to
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Each new generation of students grow up (i)_____ the world of classical physics, with its mostly intuitive, billiard-ball causality; that is the everyday vantage from which we approach the alien world of quantum physics, which has for this reason never lost its air of (ii)_____.
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If you follow your intuition, you will more often than not err by misclassifying a random event as (i)_____. We are far too willing to (ii)_____ the belief that much of what we see in life is random.
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The spacecraft`s considerable heft forces an unusually _____ route that meanders through the solar system and depends on the gravitational pull of three heavenly bodies.
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The series of documentaries certainly does not promote the country's recent diplomatic initiatives; in fact, some of the films appear to be _____ those initiatives.
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The concept of increasing complexity of organisms has _____ history among evolutionary biologists, and yet many laypeople would unhesitatingly say that the pattern applies to the history of life on Earth.
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A small degree of _____ is always desirable in a published diary. A sense of authenticity is seldom worth the diarist's questionable grammar or careless phrasing.
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Reading chunks of Shapiro's verse in one sitting, it must be said, exposes the _____ nature of his writing: scads of poems are too glancing to strike a nerve, scarcely worth a second reading.
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The (i)______ current-generation solar cells are (ii)______: although experimental cells have reached efficiencies greater than 40 percent, most commercially available cells in the early part of the twenty-first century still struggle to get past about 20 percent.
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