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The apparent simplicity of a savanna or a prairie landscape is illusory, but the illusion takes real effort to _____________ because much of what actually occurs in these places takes place underground.
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The two scientists' achievements are _____________ only in a narrowly conceived history of science: although both erred in scientific judgment, both also defended science in its infancy and established it as an intelligible and useful activity.
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Although most economists believe European growth will pick up this year, the numbers do not point that way _____________; in Germany, for instance, manufacturing orders are rising but industrial production is slowing.
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The pronghorn antelope in northern Mexico may be viewed as (i)_____________ species, as most of the North American prairie, its chief historical habitat, has (ii)_____________.
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It is _____________ among psychotherapists that an intimate human relationship is good for a person: none other than Freud himself once famously said that health requires success in love as well as in work. Martin, however, is not quite as (ii)_____________ : it seems that for some people, according to Martin, love and intimacy might not just be (iii)_____________, but downright toxic.
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Films that hew to genre conventions are not necessarily (i) _____________: some of the best movies ever made are (ii) _____________ westerns, detective stories, melodramas, and marriage comedies, and (iii) _____________ conventions is not in itself a virtue. But nonetheless it can be thrilling to see something that feels new, risky, unusual, or even confounding.
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According to one prominent critic, scientists enamored of the metaphor of the frontier tend to be _____________: they believe their single-authored work has more cultural value than collaborative research.
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We could think of virtuosity as the exhibition of something difficult done with apparent ease. Yet, if this is so, the (i) _____________ of virtuosity is necessarily somewhat (ii) _____________, for spectators must recognize that the appearance of ease is (iii) _____________.
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Subsistence activities are often (i) _____________ by people in industrialized societies who see them as (ii) _____________. In point of fact, however, these activities are not mere holdovers from the past; rather, they are essential elements of cultural identity in some societies today, such as those of arctic aboriginal people.
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In the (i) _____________ world of the pioneering Walker Art Center, artful provocation is (ii) _____________ blockbuster entertainment, the (iii) _____________ is privileged over the tried-and-true, and willful insouciance is cultivated about the market forces that rein in the creativity of most big museum establishments.
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The theater's stately production certainly does keep (i) _____________, and the high praise it has received for its (ii) _____________ could thus be called justified. But perhaps the performance goes too far in that direction. The (iii) _____________ story line that makes this one of Shakespeare' s most wayward (and least performed) plays has been smoothed into a well-drilled parade of avowals and betrayals, plots and counterplots, deaths and resurrections.
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For all the flexibility of mind and spirit yoga is supposed to bestow upon those who embrace it, some yoga students can be surprisingly _____________ in their approaches to the practice.
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Pop music continually recycles itself, building new hits around familiar themes, and successful new acts often do not even bother to disguise their _____________.
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The idea that a map in all its flatness can replicate a topographical surface that is most typically anything but flat is based on a basic assumption of representation: that one thing can serve as _____________ another.
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Pauline Kael' s first movie review tore into Charlie Chaplin for taking up the mantle of comic artist rather than claiming his roots as slapstick clown. lt might seem strange that a reviewer with such highbrow reading tastes as Kael had would attack upward-reaching film entertainers for their pretensions and champion films that were mainstream entertainments. Yet such a stance could itself be seen as (i) _____________, as it (ii) _____________ a certain idea of true art from (iii) _____________, as if only literature should aspire to seriousness.
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China has a long tradition of _____________ the written word; whereas in Renaissance Europe, painting, sculpture, and architecture were viewed as the apex of artistic achievement, in China calligraphy was the preeminent art form.
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ldentifying the age of a human cell is tricky because of frequent _____________ its biological and chronological ages: a cell that has existed for a relatively short time could function erratically, as if elderly.
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The novelists' works are _____________ : the poetic language they employ resists ready comprehension.
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Recent research has shown a (i)_____________ scientific thinking during preadolescence: while some studies demonstrate (ii) _____________ the areas of experimentation, data interpretation, and understanding the nature of science, others, focusing on somewhat simplified tasks, have demonstrated competencies in elementary school or even younger children.
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Groundwater responds slowly to droughts and floods and, as a result, is much more _____________ to such climate variability than are water supplies drawn from rivers or ponds.
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