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Melinda' s political beliefs were a matter of _____________: she held true only to those positions that served her own best interest.
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Because human emotions are behavioral complexes, they presumably took a very long time to develop. Therefore, a complete lack of any (i) _____________ human emotions in ancestral species is (ii) _____________.
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As he has matured as a scholar, Felmar has come to see the merit of qualification. His conclusions, which early in his career he (i)_____________, are now often (ii) _____________.
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Penrose is (i) _____________ theoretical physicists for engaging in (ii) _____________ by (iii) _____________ what is implied by the known data. One of his favorite examples is inflationary cosmology, which, according to him, is treated as an established theory despite a lack of evidence.
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People who are reluctant to oppose a court nominee straightforwardly on ideological grounds often search for any sort of peccadillo to serve as a _____________their opposition.
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One important ocean current moves warm water north and east from the Gulf Stream. As that current moves into higher latitudes, its water cools and finally sinks. This cold, highly oxygenated water is crucial in (i)_____________ the ocean's gaseous elements, rather than allowing them to become (ii) _____________, with oxygenated tops and oxygen-free bottoms.
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The type of cultural snobbery long associated with painting in the art world, whereby beloved popular works are (i)_____________ by critics, has appeared in the popular music industry. Bands with (ii)_____________ are critically (iii)_____________, ,whereas the more rarefied and minimally marketed performers can do no wrong in the opinion of the critics.
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Nothing in the book is (i)_____________, but happily there is no sense that the author is merely rummaging among minutiae, pursuing (ii) _____________ lines of inquiry neglected by other biographers.
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lt has been demonstrated that on Earth, no single landscape feature can be used as a quantitative indicator of past climatic conditions. The same is probably true for Mars; nevertheless, as the martian landscape is not as (i) _____________ as the terrain on Earth, with no plate tectonics, no vegetation, less water, and lower erosion rates, the landscape's (ii) _____________ the climate on Mars could be (iii)_____________.
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The watchword in astronomy is _____________: all claims must be examined critically in the light of current knowledge, and one' s mind should never be closed to the possibility that a theory could be wrong.
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Increasing (i)_____________ to use land for purposes other than food production (ii) _____________expanding agriculture into currently uncultivated lands. Therefore, in order to meet growing global demand for food, more efficient means of crop production must be found.
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Calasso is not an academic, but the head of a distinguished publishing house in Milan. So being (i) _____________literary intellectual, he feels no obligation to adhere to the rules of the academy: he does not (ii)_____________ the academic buzzwords and does not (iii) _____________ the prestige networks of a persistently self-regarding, insular, and entrenched academic world.
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Delilo' s writing seems strangely attenuated in the pages, stripped of its usual pop and fizz, its tactile sense of detail, and as a result the novel has_____________feel.
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In the late nineteenth century, many English lace-making towns and villages sold postcards that showed lace makers at work. The postcard images, designed to promote lace by imbuing the product with romantic nostalgia, were frequently (i)
_____________: the same women appear in numerous pictures, even those that ostensibly (ii)_____________.
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The failure of scholarly efforts to adequately characterize the fairy tale as a genre is (i)_____________ because the genre is so(ii)_____________: despite its currency and apparent simplicity, the term "fairy tale”(iii)_____________.
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At one time television was_____________: an episode aired and, if you missed it, you might, at best, have one more chance to see it during a summer rerun.
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Historically, it has been unusual for scientific terms, once coined, to enter common usage with much_____________: "scientist" and "dinosaur"(coined in 1833 and 1842,respectively), for instance, were rarely used before the late nineteenth century.
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The (i)_____________of a rain forest is (ii)_____________. The extinction of a pollinator or seed disperse may cause the death of a plant species and with it many other species that depend on it.
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The so-called English heritage film, often adapted from well-known literary works and characterized by lavish period detail, has been derided for its artful packaging of a fantasized and sentimental version of a lost Englishness. Even when such films (i)_____________the national past, the (ii)_____________ of their commentaries is (iii)_____________by the nostalgia-inducing effect of their spectacle.
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Natasha Kholgade Banerjee notes that photo-editing applications have allowed everyday users to (i)_____________ the (ii)_____________ of a camera by providing the means to change image colors, move pixels around, and combine natural photographs with artificial elements.
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