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Although Professor Pearson's colleagues often complained that he was (i)_______, his friends were quick to defend him from this charge of (ii)_______.
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Of the lizard species capable of traveling long distances beneath desert sands, most have very _______ limbs; by contrast, the sandfish lizard has well-developed limbs with which it propels itself through the sand.
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Whereas in earlier kinds of writing about manners, such as conduct books, advice about behavior was (i)_______ an eternal and autonomous ethical ideal, the early-nineteenth-century etiquette book based its precepts on more (ii)_______ norms: as do ever-shifting fashion trends, etiquette's imperatives rose and fell routinely.
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This collection is something of a (i)_______. The connections between sections are largely ephemeral, and the differences in the styles of the chapters often (ii)_______: some appear to be in entirely the wrong section. Nonetheless, there are many high-quality chapters here, and the issues addressed are important and timely. Readers will therefore find much of interest in parts of this book, especially if prepared to take individual chapters in isolation, although when the book is taken as a whole, they will experience a certain amount of conceptual (iii)_______.
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Other company insiders have recently offered testimony that _______ several of the more lurid anecdotes found in Belmer's account, though that testimony hardly minimizes the company's culture of malfeasance and mismanagement.
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Smil's analysis of climate change is even more _______ than that supplied by most well-informed writers, and thus deserves serious consideration.
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She approached the restored hotel with (i)_______, feeling that all too often much-loved buildings have their character (ii)_______ by elaborate renovations.
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Like many composers of electronic music, this composer is a pianist by training, and one might be tempted to hypothesize that this (i)_______ is due to the fact that early electronic instruments, such as the synthesizer, were keyboard controlled. (ii)_______, the fact that, historically, most composers in any genre began as pianists (iii)_______ that hypothesis.
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Human hearing is remarkably _______: an attentive listener knows if a band's drummer is as little as one thousandths of a second late on the beat.
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One disadvantage of reading (i)_______ accounts of historical events is that the textual (ii)_______ often lead to abrupt transitions and (iii)_______ references.
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While the band's music is loud and aggressive, it is never _______.
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Community gardens are frequently considered _______ since they are often established on land that does not belong to the gardens' creators and is therefore subject at any time to being reappropriated.
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Researchers studying India's monsoon weather have evaluated more than 100 years of rain gauge data; _______ such information, South American scientists are forced to reconstruct centuries of monsoon history by analyzing lake-bottom sediment cores.
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Although genetic mutation had been fingered as the cause of the disease, recent experimental results have muddied the picture, making the link between mutation and disease seem more _______ than it once did.
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In Roth's fiction, politics is an element that doesn't naturally occur in _______ form but is always getting confused and mixed up with shame and anger, baseball and sex.
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The moral sentiments expressed in Aesop's fables are not considered to be imaginative today, and in the seventeenth century they were similarly regarded as _______.
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When urged to give up his place in line, the child initially _______ but eventually acquiesced.
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The regulatory agency's attempts to impose new and harsher restrictions on the business community were met with such _______ that the agency finally opted to maintain its existing rules.
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In his discussion of art, Ramachandran makes no distinction between the arousal value of a stimulus and its aesthetic value; he takes the emotional power of an artwork to be _______ that work's aesthetic quality.
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The only way to definitively test a large civil engineering structure such as a bridge is to build it in anticipation of possible challenges from nature and then let nature take its course. That is not to say that every new large structure is a (i)_______. Engineers understand a great deal about the behavior and limitations of their structures' components. Furthermore, it is the (ii)________ structure that is built more than 10 or 20 percent larger than its predecessors, thus allowing engineers to move (iii)_______ into unknown territory.
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