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It appears that the terrestrial biosphere has been absorbing a significant fraction of anthropogenic CO2, thereby slowing down the rate of global climate change. However, the (i)____________ of this (ii)____________ is not (iii)____________: if pushed too far, the biosphere might become a net source of CO2, thereby accelerating climate change and causing a positive feedback loop.
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Japanese law draws a distinction between currency imitation and actual counterfeiting: only the latter involved an explicit intent to _______________ the public.
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It's easy to see why the aspiring singer was ____________ the awareness of her lack of talent: her shaky voice notwithstanding, she was a kindly woman with a genuine appreciation for music.
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A decisive way to test planet formation hypotheses is to study planetesimals, but these objects are quite ___________, neither numerous nor large enough to emit significant radiation that can be captured by telescopes.
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The ____________ of native South American textiles at the time of the Spanish conquest should not be surprising: it represented the apogee of one of the world`s oldest and most sophisticated weaving and dyeing traditions.
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Since the fundamental frequency of an object`s vibration is determined by its size and shape, a sequence of sounds having _____________ pitch is perceived to have been produced by a single object.
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The field suffers from being puffed up with its own importance, and that attitude of ______________ seems to infect very professional utterance.
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The politician`s record while in office, though (i)____________, hardly accounts for her high standing three decades later--a standing all the more (ii)____________ because of continuing assaults on her reputation during those years.
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At first glance, each of the stories in the anthology seemed (i)____________; upon closer inspection of their protagonists, implied morals, and fantasy elements, however, subtle similarities among the stories emerged to (ii)____________ this initial observation.
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Often, developing new methods for scientific research demands a willingness to reach across disciplinary boundaries, something that is notoriously difficult to carry out. Therefore, even though interdisciplinarity is often proclaimed to be (i)____________, there are many structural reasons why it remains (ii)____________.
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To pay for the extra spending under this international poverty plan, each American would have to contribute less than the cost of buying a premium cup of coffee once a week. But financial aid is not (i)____________, and even if the funding recommended here were to (ii)____________, the grandest objectives may well remain unfulfilled. Nonetheless, carefully targeted aid can reward responsible governments, (iii)____________ individual initiative, and alleviate suffering. Many will think that`s worth a cup of coffee.
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If it is wrong to justify human selfishness on the basis of the alleged selfishness of nature, then it is equally mistaken to espouse ____________ merely because some animals happily assist each other.
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In many branches of science, our knowledge and technology have advanced so rapidly that new studies carried out with improved instruments and techniques may well ___________ research done just twenty years earlier.
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The campaign official argued that the large swings in the candidate`s approval ratings were a result not of the ____________ of the electorate but rather of the polls` margins of error and divergent methodologies.
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Beauford Delaney`s dynamic depictions of Harlem and Greenwich Village, dating from 1929 to 1953, _______________ the energy of the city, while the equally captivating abstract compositions from his Paris years of 1953 to 1979 demonstrate his sustained exploration of color.
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The philosophy of Zhuangzi, because it implied a spiritual elite who could transcend the bonds of the world and wander in a realm beyond life and death, appealed to a society dominated by ______________.
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The book is not comprehensive but is, instead, (i)____________ in the most positive sense of the world: it (ii)____________ rather than settles.
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On one point the book may be said to be (i)____________: while the author claims that he will not (ii)____________ populism, his discussion implicitly attributes to it certain core beliefs and principles.
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Angela Merkel was genuinely new figure in politics, someone who could potentially bridge the two halves of Germany, which had drifted apart in recent years. And yet the (i)_____ circumstances of her victory (ii)_______ the reservations Germans had about her. She was chosen not with a rousing popular mandate but after protracted backroom negotiations.
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The (i)____________ in local coverage of a rabies outbreak in colonial Hanoi may be startling today, but it cannot be attributed solely to the (ii)____________ of the era`s journalists. Rather, before the advent of modern public health systems, (iii)____________ the unpleasantness of the disease and its treatment was seen as a way to ensure that the public remained vigilant against possible sources of contagions.
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