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While the _____________ of reliable sources in later narratives make many details of the early history of China's Zhou dynasty unverifiable, the Zhou rulers' successful rise to power is certain.
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Those who admired Callas felt that she was one of the greatest opera singers of all time, while others believed that her vocal inadequacies _____________ such a claim.
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Refusing to speak plainly, the candidate tested her audience's patience with her _____________ speech.
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Their remote jungle habitat and their extreme shyness have (i)_____________ any thorough investigation of orangutans except in the (ii)_____________ conditions of captivity.
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Far-reaching explanations of many anomalous phenomena observed during solar eclipses have been (i)_____________ many scientists, who maintain that the correct explanations are (ii)_____________, having to do with fluctuations in temperature, atmospheric pressure, or other environmental parameters, rather than some (iii)_____________ eclipse-related factor.
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Gutiérrez is the only one who seems to be (i)_____________ the controversy sparked by his article: his appetite for scientific (ii)_____________ seems, if anything, to be increasing with age.
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Kennedy's novels have a baffling way of engaging us as readers and then (i)_____________ our involvement. It is not that she gives us wooden characters or poor writing or foolish plots. Rather, her books seem so adroitly written and carefully conceived, they strike us as so (ii)_____________ as we read them, that it comes as a surprise to reach the end and find them ultimately so (iii)_____________.
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