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The rebellion was _____________ one, driven less by ardor than by reason and calculation.
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To say that John Adams was forthright was to be _____________; friends as well as enemies were more likely to characterize his stark honesty and direct manner as blunt and awkward.
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Enlarged sensory organs in cave-dwelling organisms are not necessarily the rule: the phreatic Texas blind catfish has actually developed ________ barbels, whisker-like sensory organs near the mouth that are a prominent feature of other catfish species.
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The headmaster believed that the school's strict code of conduct was very useful for making teenagers give up their _______ ways, turning them into minders of tradition and discipline.
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Catherine the Great comes across in her memoirs as (i) _______ ruler with a razor-sharp intellect, letting nothing stand in the way of her ambitions. In short, the impression the memoirs give is entirely in accord with her reputation for being (ii) ________
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The Cassini spacecraft initially found the bodies of liquid methane on Saturn's moon Titan to be very (i) _______, a surprising result since the reduced surface tension and viscosity of liquid methane, as compared to water on Earth, should make it (ii) _______ waves.
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The enthusiasm for dancing in New Zealand during the 1920s and 1930s to some extent (i) _____________ in both the United States and Britain, where new dance halls (ii) ___________ in response to customer demand, although the rampant commercialization associated with larger populations in the United States was not so apparent in New Zealand.
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When a new scientific discovery is discussed in a scientific paper or book, the process of discovery is often represented as something (i) _____________ and almost (ii) __________. Unfortunately, science publishers simply do not have space for detailed descriptions of experiments that fail along with discussions of every false start and blind alley, elements that are associated with even quite (iii) ________ endeavors.
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For decades, Pluto seemed to be the mysteriously _______ planet: it was first thought to be about as large as Earth, but, subsequently, measurements had it smaller and smaller.
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Khirigsuurs, distinctive stone-mounded monuments, are so ________ in central and western Mongolia that it has been argued that they were the defining features of the human landscapes of prehistoric Inner Asia.
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Some social insects, such as bees and ants, are celebrated for their industriousness and engineering feats, but popular culture has not generally_____________termites for theirs—even though they can build mounds twenty feet high.
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The painter Fu Baoshi lived and worked through a tumultuous period in Chinese history, _________ by exceptional talent and a steely dedication to his art.
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Many Latin American writers and critics have come to bristle at the very mention of the type of fiction termed "magic realism", but to the common reader the appeal of such fiction is ____________.
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In the 1980s the press release announcing the discovery of a new fundamental particle turned a once _____________ hypothesis of interest to no more than a few hundred physicists into an undisputed fact of global significance.
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The politician was famously restrained, with a tendency to focus his fury inward: while he would defend himself publicly against detractors' attacks, he would never stoop to ________.
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She may have been (i) ________ when she was finance minister, fighting deficits, but now as prime minister she is marked by her (ii) _____________.
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The fantastic conceit of the film's plot is that global warming (i) __________ global freezing. After a chunk of Antarctic ice the size of Rhode Island suddenly melts, most of what follows—an instant ice age, for example—is impossible as science but not as metaphor. The data from the Greenland ice sheet show that, over the past hundred thousand years, temperatures have often (ii) ___________—so often that it is our own relatively static experience of climate that should now be seen as (iii) ___________.
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Despite its title and the recipes it provides, the main purpose of The Insect Cookbook is not (i) ________. Instead, the book seeks to (ii) _____________of entomophagy. i.e., the consumption of insects as food: it is composed of interviews with chiefs, farmers, politicians, and United Nations figures, all of whom attempt to (iii) ________ the custom of eating insects.
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Ultimately, according to Zuger, all medical advice is _________ : it is educated guesswork, perhaps, but guesswork all the same.
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One early sign of this new thirst for _________ is the fact that eight members of the committee on professional conduct have already recused themselves in the name of unbiased justice.
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