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One of the reasons why so many rodent species live in rocky habitat is because it is______: it contains plenty of crevices and cavities in which animals can nest, seek shelter, and find shade.
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When the columnist wrote about controversial issues, her own position was not always (i) _____________her analysis of the arguments being put forth on either side. If she (ii) _____________ the reasoning of proponents of one side, that did not mean that she rejected their position.
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Poets in the United States usually speak with more (i) _____________ for authentic experience than for the imagination. They cultivate strategies to make themselves sound (ii) _____________, as if poems were eyewitness accounts and not (iii) _____________.
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Maintaining a tolerant attitude toward pseudoscience might be considered _____________, but it could be argued that such a disposition lowers our defenses against more dangerous delusions that are based on similar confusions and fallacies.
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Humans can have (i) _____________tastes: crab brains and squeezable cheese are delicacies to many people, even as others find them repulsive. The preference for sweet and abhorrence of bitter is (ii) _____________, however.
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At public appearances the leader was remarkably taciturn, typically making _____________ observations before turning the floor over to a colleague.
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Theses defended by contemporary philosophers under the banner of metaphysics typically_____________ the claims of science, that is, they cannot be borne out by experiment as the claims of science are expected to be.
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In medieval China, the Confucian emphasis on rites as an outward manifestation of virtue explains Chinese bureaucrats'_____________ the accurate performance of tributary rituals by foreigners at the imperial court.
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The fierce drought that is gripping the area-and imminent rationing and steep water price increases-is_____________ the area's deep economic divide, as wealthy communities guzzle water while poorer communities nearby conserve by necessity.
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Much as our taste for sugar and fat served us well in a world of scarce nutrition but has become _____________ in a world of plenty, where we satisfy it to the point of obesity, our memories can work against us in our contemporary information age.
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Most of the bank-efficiency literature suggests that bank mergers culminating in larger, more complex organizations (i)_____________ significant economies of scale or scope that are (ii) _____________ to consumers. Indeed, some of this literature suggests diseconomies, which would lead to higher loan rates or lower deposit rates for consumers.
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There is a clear trend away from automobile ownership and solo driving among young people. One view holds that these young people will (i)_____________ as they age, but Willson argues that the trend is (ii)_____________ one. As a result, car-free lifestyles will become more (iii)_____________ .
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The journalist seems to have _____________ attitude about truth and falsehood, as exhibited, for example, in a disdain for fact-checking and a repeated failure to correct errors in articles once they are pointed out.
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While lunar geology may appear to be a relatively _____________ area of planetary science, it is important to realize that the Moon's surface and interior retain records that shed light on the histories of all terrestrial planets.
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Since the deficit predicament is fundamentally a long-term problem, the legislature's _____________ short-term approaches has actually compounded the difficulty in each succeeding year, eroding the state's credit rating in the process.
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For a philosopher of the analytic tradition, Williams' approach is somewhat (i)_____________ . Unlike most analytic philosophers, Williams has not kept himself (ii)_____________ the rest of the humanities; in fact, he wishes to address colleagues in other fields in terms that will make sense to them. In particular, he objects to the (iii) _____________ character of analytic philosophy: the amount it tries to accomplish by conceptual analysis and a priori argument alone. Williams is convinced that philosophy must use history, including historical imagination, to understand and defend values of any kind.
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Adapting to its changing environment and building its own ecological niche in interactions with other disciplines, the scientific discipline of ecology can be seen as highly _____________.
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Political debates supposedly exist to inform viewers, who watch them with open minds to learn about the candidates and decide how to vote. Of course, given the (i)_____________ that routinely permeates most debates, it is hard to (ii)_____________ that they fulfill their purpose.
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Unlike those glossy Architectural Digest photographs that are deliberately (i)_____________ lest they distract from a focus on the building itself, Friedlander's architectural photography is the product of his insistence that he is an individual looking at buildings and scenes as they actually exist. Friedlander reminds us that everyday objects (ii)_____________ or, more exactly, that the unimpeded visual scene of a building without cars or power lines or street signs is a highly (iii) _____________ photographic artifact.
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Self-driving cars appear in countless science-fiction movies; indeed, in that context they are so _____________ that they do not get noticed.
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