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The professor repelled many students with his _____ asides, often droning on about some trivial academic point.
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Thomas Chippendale, the 17th Century English designer, was renowned for his _____ style: even typically prosaic furniture pieces were ornately embellished.
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The gallery hinted at the curator`s affinity for _____ works: despite an overarching theme to the exhibit, the pieces ranged from Incan pottery to African tribal masks.
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The Barcelona based outfit, Ojos de Brujos, combines elements of East Indian tabla music, American hip-hop, and classical Flamenco, producing an unique _____ of sound.
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With characteristic _____ , H.L. Mencken skewered the sacred cows of his time, criticizing social trends and government institutions with equal asperity.
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Small talk abounds with _____ , which are nothing more than canned phrases lacking any real substance.
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That the nightmarish depictions common to most early 20th century dystopian novels are exaggerated should by no means diminish the _____ power of these works, for many of the visions they conjure up are reflected, albeit in less vivid form, in many totalitarian governments today.
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Hoping for a fresh _____ of cash, the nascent public works program had to shut down when funds were not forthcoming.
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For a writer with a reputation for both prolixity and inscrutability, Thompson, in this slim collection of short stories, may finally be intent on making his ideas more _____ to a readership looking for quick edification.
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The stage of daytime talk shows has become our Roman coliseum – the audience, hissing and booing, _____ the "culprit," who is forced to justify some unseemly behavior.
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Parson Weems, George Washington`s preeminent biographer during the president`s life, is responsible for spreading many of the _____ we today accept as the unvarnished truth.
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Many claim that the 19th Century institution of snake`s oil-the peddling of items that seldom live up to their vaunted claims-is anything but moribund; one need only look so far as the Internet to see that the tradition is _____ .
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The days of the consummate _____ are over: there are simply too many fields of knowledge for one person to master completely.
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For the time being, at least, the director`s intent is _____ : he has remained reticent during interviews, and even viewers have had wildly divergent interpretations over the film.
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Unlike the performances of her youth, in which she seamlessly inhabited a role, the performances of her later years were _____ as though she were calling out to audiences, "look how convincingly I can portray my character."
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Whether the writer`s most recent work will _____ his status as a great novelist is debatable; that, with this work, he continues to create probing narratives that capture a country in the midst of turmoil is unassailable.
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Without food and water, Mike continued back to camp in a _____ fashion, moving slowly and with great difficulty.
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Rather than _____ the objectives of the recent reform, the government opted to forgo making any official announcement to the public.
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The conception of time as parcelled out in _____ intervals did not begin with the advent of the clock; as such we must have a biological predisposition to not conceive of time as simply an amorphous succession of moments.
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Modern psychoanalysis is _____ Freud, for while he bequeathed us an effective heuristic for understanding the human psyche, he is also guilty of perpetuating many untruths.
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