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Not all Native American languages have lexical classes corresponding to those of other languages: many have no adjectival category, and some have even brought the _______ of nouns and verbs into question.
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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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While it would be hard to categorize her as a(i)______liberal, the governor appears to have ceded some of her carefully cultivated reputation as (ii)______ and is now more in line with the liberal wing of her party.
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Reviews written by music critic and composer Stephenson were hardly (i)______: musicians who performed his music could count on sympathetic coverage, while those who ignored him were held to (ii)_______ standard.
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Climate change is posited to be a frequent factor in mass extinctions by some scientists who speculate that minor climate shifts can trigger a catastrophic cascade of effects. Although this pattern is (i)_______ in that it confirm warnings about our own possibly dire future, it is also somehow (ii)_______ , as it sets forth a context for today's turbulent weather as(iii)_______ in a natural, cyclical process.
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The danger of isolation appears often in Anishinaabe stories but is nowhere more_______than in the Cree and Ojibwa tales about the Windigo, a terrifying ice monster that is literally a lost soul.
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Although streams of solar particles cause beautiful auroras-the northern and southern lights--sometimes their consequences are less_____ : their electromagnetic effects, for instance, can overload power grids and damage orbiting satellites.
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Although many parents tend to be extremely critical of the public school educational system as a whole, they are reluctant to treat their children`s teachers with equal_______ .
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What differentiates this book from more traditional works on grammar is that it reserves its______ not for students of writing, but for teachers who harbor unduly restrictive views.
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_______ is an important ingredient in the success of the jazz collective "The West Coast Get Down": to explain the confluence of circumstances leading to their stardom, one almost has to resort to mysticism.
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Science is a seemingly inexhaustible source of______,yet paradoxically scientists have been portrayed in recent decades as rather conservative--resisting innovation in their discipline sometimes to the point of dogmatism.
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The politician was famously restrained, with a tendency to focus his fury inward: while he would defend himself publicly against detractor`s attacks, he would never stoop to _______.
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By using(i)______prose throughout, the contributors to this anthology have been able to make their subject seem (ii)_____in the extreme--of concern only to one another.
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For decades scientists believed in the(i) ______of long-term memories; they were unstable for a few hours but then became etched into the brain for good. Current research, however, suggests that recalling a memory causes it to revert temporarily to an insecure state in which the recollection can be(ii) ______. Thus, memory is much more(iii)_______ than scientists had previously thought it to be.
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Lasting inflation trains consumers to expect that goods will be more expensive tomorrow, so the (i)______ thing to do is buy today. When inflation is (ii)______, in other words, people believe the value of their money is(iii) ______and act accordingly.
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The series of documentaries certainly does seem to promote the country`s recent diplomatic initiatives; in fact, some of the films appear to be
_______those initiatives.
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The book captures the______of several politicians who spoke publicly of old-time virtues in order to mask private vices.
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The rebellion was______one, driven less by ardor than by reason and calculation.
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______ neuroscience's explanatory power, Patricia Churchland maintains that questions that have been discussed to no effect by philosophers over many centuries are solvable once rephrased as questions of neuroscience.
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Children will often present their egocentric frustrations with appeals to objective standards of fairness; doing so does not indicate duplicity but rather the fact that, for many children, private sufferings and social imbalances are______ .
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