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Researchers concluded that although the success of pearl millet crops in the region varied with seasonal climatic conditions, cultivation remains ____________ because of pearl millet's predisposition to perform under stressful growing conditions, including drought.
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There is a risk in _________ vagueness in speech: all kinds of distortions and lies can go unrecognized in the general haziness and so come off as facts.
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The United States Constitution was intended to be adaptable to the demands of the various crises of human affairs, and judicial reinterpretation is the necessary means by which this _____________ is preserved.
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The watchword in astronomy is _____________: all claims must be examined critically in the light of current knowledge, and one's mind should never be closed to the possibility that a theory could be wrong.
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The idea that arguments based on probability are deployed only by (i) _____________ persons is (ii) _____________ even among scientists. Perhaps such an evaluation has partly to do with the origins of the subject in the mathematics of gambling games, not generally regarded as pastimes for people of good character.
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Because the currents that flow back and forth between the Galapagos Islands and the Ecuadoran mainland create connections, the evolutionary (i) _____________ of the sea creatures in the two areas, compared with that of the land dwellers, has been (ii) _____________.
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Although his detractors tend to disparage him as (i) _____________, Santayana did not (ii)_____________. On the contrary, his many creations, in a wide variety of genres, proved to be remarkably of a piece, each a different way of organizing and expressing the same philosophical vision.
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Twenty years ago, when the book was first published, most reviewers dismissed the author's predictions as (i) _____________. Sometimes people (ii) _____________ their errors: those same reviewers today, comparing the predictions with actual events, acknowledge how (iii) _____________ the author was.
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It is commonly said that each person's aesthetic taste is _____________, yet that notion overlooks a large body of shared aesthetic preferences.
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The scholars' hypothesis challenges the scope of human psychological and behavioral universals, but does not dispense with them entirely: the team remains confident that displays of pride, for instance, are _____________.
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In literature, thrillers thrive on heroes and villains, and usually the characterization is not very _____________; writers don't want to confuse or slow the plot.
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The historical study of pregnancy and childbearing began fairly recently and has been hindered by the relative _____________ of records concerning these particular experiences.
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Some species' camouflage patterns may be _____________, granting those species a higher chance of survival in a heterogeneous environment.
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If we admire Winslow Homer as he wished to be admired, for his avoidance of claptrap and sentimentality, we may fear that Wood has done him a disservice by introducing _____________ note into his discussion of the painter.
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The psychologists' new findings present the discipline with a (i) _____________: although her results pose a problem for the standard theory, the alternative theories she proposes are (ii)______________.
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With so many scientific papers chasing so few pages in the most prestigious journals, the winners could be the ones most likely to oversell themselves—to trumpet amazing or important results that later turn out to be false. This would produce a (i) _____________ picture of scientific knowledge, with less (ii) _____________ but more (iii)_____________ results either relegated to obscure journals or left unpublished.
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Books about humor are rarely funny. Their goal, after all, is to (i)_____________ the workings of that which we find comic, not to (ii) ____________ laughter, and understanding why jokes are funny is not in itself (iii)_____________.
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The latest encyclopedia (i)_____________ the (ii)_____________ made by many other books on how things work—giving (iii)_____________ for every device, no matter how complicated—by taking just as long as is needed to explain things.
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The folktale is perhaps the most _____________ form of literature: a story that everyone is free to tell and embellish because it belongs to no one in particular.
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Too much focus on what might have been can cause in us feelings of powerlessness and regret, but some scientists are beginning to think that imagining an alternative reality might have _____________ effects as well.
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