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The so-called "sensation novel", popular in mid-nineteenth-century Britain, was dismissed by some as _______ form of fiction, partly because these spine-tingling novels often appeared as serials in cheap, disposable periodicals.
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Bridges are often offered as _______ examples of engineering, given that a bridge's structure is out in the open for all to see.
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The legislators didn't merely sell out to business; they retreated to _______ style of governing whereby the interest group that is currently lobbying the hardest on an issue determines the party's position.
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Because organisms can't _______ sodium, as they can do with nitrogen, carbon, and phosphorus, they need external sources to replenish this vital element constantly.
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The effect of the film's expansive, darkly mournful opening sequence was magnified by a score that was similarly ________ and unrelenting.
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Dr. Nicolelis believes that scientists are going to (i)_______ all the brain's information-processing mechanisms—or at least enough of them to yield improvements in neural medicine. Yet he also believes that certain aspects of our minds may remain (ii)_______ because our most meaningful thoughts are written in a code that is unique to each of us.
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When we forgive a person, we (i)_______ our (i)_______ his or her transgression but (iii)_______ certain punitive responses that we would ordinarily be justified in taking on the basis of that person's objectionable conduct.
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Despite the rather _______ conditions required for its preservation, the evidence for glaciation during the late Proterozoic is found on every continent, suggesting that ice sheets were present throughout the globe.
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The rate of sediment deposition may be _______ desertification in Central Asia: data from a Tajik site show the rate to have increased during Pleistocene glacial periods as aridity increased.
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It is true that with too much exposure, one can weary of visionary poems; their rhetoric can become (i)_______. And yet, there are few among us who are completely (ii)_______ visionary rhetoric for the obvious reason that we do, on rare occasions, have an experience that (iii)_______ and leaves us baffled, deeply moved, and ready to believe things we hadn't dreamed of.
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Statistics is the branch of applied mathematics that studies ways of drawing inferences from limited and imperfect data. Of course, if all data sources were totally (i)_______, statisticians could do little but (ii)_______ every conclusion with “but we could be wrong about this.” A mathematical science of statistics is possible because, although repeating an experiment numerous times may not yield uniform results, some results are more (iii)_______ than others.
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The second group of volunteer excavators was far more _______ than the first, and consequently the obstructing material was removed much more rapidly during the second shift.
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Many perplexed observers find present-day museum design a choice between outlandishly sculptural structures that (i)_______ the proper display of art and neutral containers so (ii)_______to art that all architectural presence is lost. But the New Museum persuasively demonstrates that honoring art and honoring architecture need not be (iii)_______ propositions.
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So effective are inhaled steroids at staving off asthma attacks that doctors now regard them as _______ therapy.
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Researchers comparing test subjects' abilities to interpret others' facial expressions found that while some expressions were easy to interpret, others were difficult because they were so _______ the person making the expression.
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What united the ostensibly opposing parties was the fraternal belief that politicians such as themselves weathered crises best by (i)_______ each other's interests—by conducting their private dealings in a way that (ii)_______ public issues that lay between them and allowed them to take care of each other.
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The sum of money needed to pay for the additional vaccines may not sound _______, but for developing countries even a small increase in the health care budget may prove a very big drain on resources.
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