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The shop`s (i) _____ prices ensured that its clientele came from only the most (ii) _____ households.
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Neutron stars are believed to be the highly compressed remnants of exploding stars (supernovas) and thus (i) _____ of one of the most (ii) _____ processes in nature.
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Exasperated by the boys` (i) _____ behavior, the teacher reprimanded them with considerable (ii) _____.
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In Europe, where wine has been part of daily life for thousands of years, American wine-lovers are sometimes viewed as _____—zealous and somewhat narrow-minded converts to a generous and pantheistic faith.
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Because the vast majority of Cambodia`s population is made up of members of a single ethnic group, the Khmer, the country possesses a (i) _____ unique in Southeast Asia that has (ii) _____ a strong sense of national identity.
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With the introduction of gunpowder and the use of cannons in siege warfare, castles that in earlier years had seemed _____ were easily breached by the new weapons.
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Miss Post recommends that, in writing a note of apology, one should sound properly _____.
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After the devastating eruption, fear of Mount Etna was great: people did not return to cultivate its rich hillside lands until the volcano had been _____ for two years.
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Perry`s critics in the scientific world _____ that many of the observations he has made during more than a decade of research in Costa Rica have been reported as anecdotes in popular magazines rather than as carefully documented case studies in technical journals.
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A _____ of errors led to a major malfunction in the operating system.
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Her (i)_____ at office meetings was in surprising contrast to her (ii)_____ during off hours.
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Although he did not consider himself (i)_____, he felt that the inconsistencies in her story (ii)_____ a certain degree of incredulity on his part.
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The auctioneer prided himself on his imperturbability under the most hectic of circumstances; no matter how (i)_____ the bidding became or how immensely precious the items he auctioned, he allowed nothing to (ii)_____ his composure.
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The shortcomings of Mr. Brooke`s analysis are (i)_____ by his (ii)_____ in explaining financial complexity and the sheer importance of his text.
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Eager for precision in a field (i)_____ ambiguity and frustration and determined at all costs to find answers to (ii)_____ questions of provenance, curators of major museums have long used the methods of nuclear science—neutron activation analysis, accelerator mass spectrometry, proton-induced X-ray emissions—to analyze ancient artworks.
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Appalled by the confused jumble of laws he had inherited from his predecessors, King Joseph II attempted to codify the existing (i)_____ of medieval law into a modern and (ii)_____ code.
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It seems ironic that Elizabeth`s rejection, intended to discourage her importunate suitor, served only to _____ his ardor.
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Written in epistolary form, and therefore strikingly unlike her earlier novels, Jane Austen`s incomplete novel Lady Susan nonetheless _____ several dramatic themes evident in those youthful works.
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Although she had to _____ that her nephew was rather slow to draw an inference, she did so with reluctance, and pointed out that, to his credit, he did not often jump to conclusions.
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In a sense, Constable`s art and politics were shaped by one dominant emotion: an abiding, even obsessive _____ the world of his rural childhood, the only world in which he probably felt at ease.
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