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The life of a secret agent is dangerous enough, but the life of a double agent is infinitely more _____: a single slip can send an agent crashing to destruction.
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In a field of egotists, Bloomfield is _____, often praising her competitors and punctuating her correspondence with self-deprecating remarks.
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Without seeming unworldly, William James appeared wholly removed from the _____ of society, the conventionality of academy.
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Architects may be more extroverted and therefore the more _____ members of a bridge design team, but they are not always the most essential.
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One baffling aspect of the novel is its capacity to generate emotional power from a plot that lacks the most elementary _____: readers must accept not an occasional coincidence, but a continuous stream of them.
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Individuals, governments, and companies show ample ability to _____ themselves by setting goals based on current conditions and then blindly following them even when those conditions change drastically.
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Which of the following best describes the function of the highlighted sentence?
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The passage is primarily concerned with discussing the
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The phrase “These kinds of experiences” in the passage refers to experiences in Lynch's view are
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Which of the following is an assumption on which the argument relies?
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Which of the following, if true about Stanton, most seriously weakens the argument?
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The primary purpose of the passage is to
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Some academic criticism of popular novels has been (i)_____ in character, being based on the assumption that the wider the appeal, the more (ii)_____ the novel.
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Recent research runs counter to the long-cherished notion that a small drop in body temperature during and after surgery is either _____ or actually protects the patient by slowing metabolism and reducing the body`s demand for blood and oxygen.
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In Schaller`s contradictory introduction to the book, she alternately applauds and _____
humankind`s role in animal conservation.
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Despite its best efforts to stimulate sales, the bookselling business remains far from _____, for it has high fixed costs in wages and rent, and falling prices make these ever harder to spur.
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For wily political press officers, the art of spin is not quite supplanting truth with lies, but instead it aspires to replace awkward complexity with catchy ______; successful spin creates the impression of unavoidable common sense.
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