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The geometry student struggled with the request to demonstrate the ________ proposition, feeling that, since opposite angles were self-evidently equal, there was no need for a proof.
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That there were a dozen complex debates on the lawyer' s mind at any given moment did not (i)________ his ability to perform physical work; on the contrary, he labored more vigorously when simultaneously engaged in such (ii)________ forensic exercises.
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In writing about environmental issues, the author takes on some special artistic challenges. It is hard to write a good novel that takes a strong stand on a social issue, although there are a few novelists, Zola and Norris for example, who do manage to (i)________ the often circumscribing effects of (ii)________.
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The manufacturing company' s swift maneuver enabled it to evade the full impact of the increasing cost of raw materials, which brought the downfall of firms that responded less _______.
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Despite the critic' s assertion that Willa Cather' s place in the literary canon is now so entrenched that it scarcely matters if she were really a modernist, her reputation arguably remains _________.
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The primary purpose of the passage is to
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According to the passage, Legal Realists determined the usefulness of legal principles on the basis of which of the following?
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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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These preludes and fugues might be thought of as _________ Bach' s final works, glimpses of what he would accomplish in later pieces such as The Art of the Fugue.
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Science is so good at what it does that many people feel a (i)________ to apply it to social and political issues, yet experience shows that science may add little to or even (ii)_________ social and political questions.
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Anonymous sources have a tendency to (i)________ the information content of news stories in which they are quoted. Most of these sources are (ii)________ because they spin and leak selectively for political, personal, or institutional gain; all the balancing quotations from other sources can never remove their (iii)________.
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While offering important insights into supernova remnants, Finch's paper is often rather (i)________: it is (ii)________ unexplained concepts and details.
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The figure shows the width, length, and height of a rectangular solid. Which of the following statements must be true?
Indicate all such statements.
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The number of cases in which of the following case categories was closest to $$\frac{1}{8}$$ of the total number of cases for 1994?
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In which of the following two categories was the combined total number of cases handled closest to $$20,000$$?
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If Legal Services' average cost per case for family matters was twice the average cost per case for housing matters, then the ratio of Legal Services' total cost for family matter cases to Legal Services' total cost for housing matter cases was closest to
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$$x \gt 8$$
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In his article, Bazerman highlights Edison' s _________ manipulation of the press, including gifts of stock to friendly reporters.
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Although initially it may be difficult to discern the essay's message of peace and conciliation, a close reading reveals its essentially ________ nature.
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A recent survey of 120 United States corporations found that a third of employees in blue-chip corporations wrote poorly in their electronic mail. Millions of these (i)________ e-mail messages are clogging computers by setting off requests for (ii)________, and many of the requests, in turn, are also (iii)________ written, resulting in whole cycles of confusion.
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