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Responsibility for the nation's decline rests squarely with a people who take for granted their claims to preeminence but do not _____________ interest in or commitment to actually maintaining it.
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The _____________ of criteria for determining what is meant by "balance" and whether it is beneficial makes it difficult to evaluate claims that probiotics promote a healthy balance of microorganisms in the body.
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The economist argued that however much the government might trumpet the value of _____________ , it had been as bold as any other in its spending programs.
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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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