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Several environmental organizations have found themselves in the ____________ position of endorsing a legislature that they have long criticized as being too quick to approve development projects.
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The scientific study of laughter faces a frustrating paradox: ideal experiments take place in rigidly controlled environments with all but the most salient variables eliminated, but such sterile settings are often ____________ laughter.
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Historians of medicine are resigned to doctors' ____________ medical history: physicians offer hagiographic biographies of obscure nineteenth-century medical figures, triumphalist narratives of medical progress, and retrospective diagnoses of ailments afflicting historical characters.
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Much of the recent literature on the emergence of the United States postal system has (i)____________ ways in which the mails divided the democracy, documenting how women and African Americans were particularly marginalized. Henkins writes (ii) ____________ much of this recent historiography, highlighting commonalities across lines of region, race, and gender.
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If telecommuting ever did reduce traffic congestion noticeably, the excess capacity on the highways would almost certainly be quickly (i) ____________ by changes in current travel patterns. For example, more people might decide to drive alone instead of using public transportation. Historically, transportationand communications have been (ii) ____________ to each other-both of them increasing concurrently-rather than (iii) ____________ for each other.
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Like the detective, the biographer applies his or her powers of deduction and analysis to uncover new facts and to ____________ known ones.
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Critics of the company's senior management will be (i) ____________ by Hays's careful and meticulous account of its actions. Despite the book's (ii) ____________ title, the author has no designs on scandal; in fact, if anything, her account tends toward (iii) ____________, applauding the company's all-conquering success without reservation.
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Leaders within the Native American culture known as Fort Ancient differed from those of the neighboring Mississippian groups, whose authority was often ____________: indeed, one expert has described the Fort Ancient society as intensely egalitarian.
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The biographer laments the ____________ that abound in texts from antiquity; they are so prevalent, she says, that they nearly amount to a “conspiracy of silence."
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The Newseum was a museum created by, for, and about journalists and newshounds. But for all its celebration of the news industry, its creators took care to avoid (i)____________. Along with many testimonials to journalistic courage and a memorial to journalists who lost their lives on the job, the museum presented noteworthy examples of journalistic (ii)____________.
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It's possible that the (i)____________of the musicians about the director's appointment is mostly an expression of (ii) ____________ the selection process. No matter how much input orchestra players are allowed in choosing a music director, they never feel they have enough. Regardless, their criticisms of Webster's expertise and stature within the field are nothing short of (iii) ____________. Would they really prefer some of the other potential candidates whose names have been released?
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The series of paintings, as a whole, is remarkably ____________ despite the distinctive character of each canvas.
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At the peak of the stock market's vertiginous rise, some corporate pension plans became overfunded: their assets ____________ their liabilities.
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One of the reasons why so many rodent species live in rocky habitat is because it is______: it contains plenty of crevices and cavities in which animals can nest, seek shelter, and find shade.
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When the columnist wrote about controversial issues, her own position was not always (i) _____________her analysis of the arguments being put forth on either side. If she (ii) _____________ the reasoning of proponents of one side, that did not mean that she rejected their position.
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Poets in the United States usually speak with more (i) _____________ for authentic experience than for the imagination. They cultivate strategies to make themselves sound (ii) _____________, as if poems were eyewitness accounts and not (iii) _____________.
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Maintaining a tolerant attitude toward pseudoscience might be considered _____________, but it could be argued that such a disposition lowers our defenses against more dangerous delusions that are based on similar confusions and fallacies.
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Humans can have (i) _____________tastes: crab brains and squeezable cheese are delicacies to many people, even as others find them repulsive. The preference for sweet and abhorrence of bitter is (ii) _____________, however.
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At public appearances the leader was remarkably taciturn, typically making _____________ observations before turning the floor over to a colleague.
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