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Though the poet James Merrill was showered with prizes during his lifetime, his work has always elicited a certain amount of (¡)_____________. Everyone seems to agree that Merrill' s verse is elegant, but that adjective sometimes crries a faint (ii)_____________, implying an absence of depth or intensity. The formal facility and surface dazzle that some find so awesome represent for others (iii)_____________.
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It is surprising that such a handsomely produced volume does not reflect more (i)_____________ proofreading: typographical errors are copious enough to be (ii)____________. Somewhat more substantially, the book would have been greatly enhanced by the inclusion of more maps or illustrations, though against that it must be conceded that were the work as (iii)_____________ illustrated as desired, it would have been prohibitively expensive.
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His contributions to the discovery of penicillin are (i)_____________ and yet, when the scientific world duly recognized the work of those principally involved in the research, his name was, astonishingly, (ii)_____________.
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The climate researchers' _____________ method of presentation caused a stir among those who felt that scientific papers should be dispassionate in their delivery of evidence.
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Eighteenth-century translators who (i)_____________ deviations from their source texts were not (ii)_____________, since literalism in translation had been roundly denounced in the previous century.
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Models of the interior evolution of Venus suggest that the planet (i)_____________ periods of relative (ii)_____________ and periods of instability and rapid surface overturn. ln other words, Venus may "freak out" occasionally, getting rid of its internal heat in great planetwide (iii)_____________ of activity, rather than in the steadier cycling of lithospheric plates that occurs on Earth.
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Elephants are known to use a wide variety of calls, many of them infrasonic (below the level of human hearing), in coordinating group behavior, The infrasonic calls usually have a component that is (i)______________, but these higher frequency aspects of the calls (ii)_____________ very quickly with distance, so that in the wild, human observers are often (iii)_____________ sudden coordinated movements of large groups of elephants when no signal was apparent to the observer.
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Critics have raved about the beauty of Peck's prose, but in his fiction, at least, the diction has only gotten more portentous with time, the writing more overwrought, and the symbolism more _____________.
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It is misleading to (i)_____________ the scientific literature by focusing on (ii)_____________ research as the newspaper's science reporters have sometimes done. Forced retractions of scientific publications are, in fact, relatively rare.
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Bank $$X$$ calculates a customer satisfaction index for the Web site after the redesign. Responses of "very satisfied" are each assigned a value of 3, responses of "somewhat satisfied" are each assigned a value of 2, responses of "somewhat dissatisfied" are each assigned a value of 1, and responses of “very dissatisfied" are each assigned a value of 0. The customer satisfaction index is the average (arithmetic mean) of the values. Which of the following is closest to the customer satisfaction index for the Web site after the redesign?
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One of the 200 customers is to be selected at random. What is the probability that the customer will be one who was very satisfied with the Web site after the redesign and whose favorite feature was easy transfers?
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The number of customers who were very satisfied with the Web site after the redesign is approximately what percent greater than the number of customers who were very satisfied with the Web site before the redesign?
Give your answer to the nearest whole percent.
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The average (arithmetic mean) of 6 different positive integers is 12, and $$x$$ is the greatest of these integers. What is the greatest possible value of $$x$$?
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For a certain television show, $$\frac{1}{4}$$ of each $$\frac{1}{2}$$ hour episode is taken up by commercials. What is the total number of hours in a 24-episode season of the show that are not taken up by commercials?
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An employee at a parcel delivery company weighs four boxes labeled $$A, B, C$$, and $$D$$. Box $$A$$ weighs $$\frac{1}{4}$$ kilogram and boxes $$B$$ and C each weigh $$\frac{5}{4}$$ kilograms. The ratio of the weight of box $$A$$ to the weight of box $$B$$ is the same as the ratio of the weight of box $$C$$ to the weight of box $$D$$. What is the weight of box $$D$$, in kilograms?
Give your answer as a fraction. _________kilograms
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What is the greatest possible value of $$ ||x|-3|$$ for$$ -2 \leq x \leq 3$$?
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Carlos owns twice as many books as Surya and one-third as many books as Ian. Ian owns 10 more books than Emma.
Which of the following statements individually provide(s) sufficient additional information to determine how many books Carlos owns?
Indicate all such statements.
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The rental on a certain beach house is $1,225 per week during the months of June, July, and August, and $110 per day during the rest of the year. Renting the house for 1 week during June, July, or August is what percent greater than renting the house for 1 week during the rest of the year?
Give your answer to the nearest whole percent.
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When the integer k is divided by $$5$$, the remainder is $$2$$. What is the remainder when $$2k-1$$ is divided by $$5$$?
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Last year Juan planted a rectangular garden that was 20 feet long and 10 feet wide. This year he increased the length of the garden by 10 percent and the width by 20 percent. What was the percent increase in the area of Juan' s garden from last year to this year?
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