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After months of research, the degree candidate was confident in the validity of her thesis, but certain key errors in methodology left the review committee _____.
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Because the discovery of the ancient letters _____ the historian`s claims about the inhabitants of that time, the historian must reconsider the premises of his life`s work.
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The theater critic made an appeal in his most recent review for playwrights to avoid _____ characters and situations, for he could not sit through one more trite play.
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Consider the _____ of the nature of war, the outcome of which can hardly be considered favorable even for those who emerge victorious.
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The legitimacy of a fledgling political party is highly dependent on the decorum of its members, since the _____ behavior of any one person can be used to disparage an entire movement.
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Although typically quite lucid in his explanations of his theories, James used words that were so _____ that the students asked him to review yesterday`s discussion in its entirety.
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The Renaissance, Dutch masters, Impressionists, and Cubist paintings were all installed in the same museum gallery with what seemed to be no consideration to the arrangement, but closer examination revealed that the _____ was actually arranged in alphabetic order of work title.
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The halcyon days of the new administration belied the president`s _____ journey to the White House.
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After being defeated in 2007, the Australian Liberal party needed to find a leader who could return them to power; they hope that the current leader, a _____ social conservative who leads the opposition on a number of issues, including stem cell research and carbon trading, and who wrote a book with the telling title Battlelines, may be the man for the job.
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The bill pushed through by the foreign government was touted as increasing transparency, professional integrity, and independence for the media; in reality, though, the bill was simply a way for the officials to protect their cronyism from the newspapers that had been _____ in their attempts to expose government corruption.
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The preening emperor loved to display sartorial splendor, and regularly gave great attention to the detail of his _____.
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Though Marian thought her grandmother`s hat was unquestionably _____, the young woman respected her elders enough to make no comment on her grandmother`s fashion choices.
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The other students in the dining hall quickly learned to avoid any table where Fred was sitting because he constantly interjected _____ remarks into every conversation going on nearby.
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Just as different people can have very different personalities, so too can pets-even those of the same species and breed possess varied _____.
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Frustrated by her husband`s lack of (i)_____ , Lisa tried to motivate him to (ii)_____ for greater things.
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At the edges of the universe astronomers have discovered (i)_____ objects called quasars, which have given scientists the first direct (ii)_____ of the existence of stars in distant galaxies.
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If one were asked who transmitted the first radio broadcast of the human voice, one might guess the _____ inventor Guglielmo Marconi, but in fact the feat was accomplished by the much less well-known Reginald Fessenden.
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The difference in economic terms between a bond and a note is still observed by the United States Treasury, but in other markets the (i)_____ the two terms has become unimportant and the two words are used (ii)_____ .
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Now known as Administrative Professionals` Day, Secretaries` Day was created in 1952 by Harry F. Klemfuss, a public relations professional who _____ the value and significance of administrative assistants in order to attract more women to the profession.
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When editing manuscripts, literary scholars must remain acutely aware of textual (i)_____ ; the differences among extant versions of the same work-resulting from printing errors, editing demands, or constant revisions-often make it (ii)_____ for scholars to publish truly (iii)_____ texts.
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