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Although streams of solar particles cause beautiful auroras-the northern and southern lights—sometimes their consequences are less _____________: their electromagnetic effects, for instance, can overload power grids and damage orbiting satellites.
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Although many parents tend to be extremely critical of the public school educational system as a whole, they are reluctant to treat their children`s teachers with equal _____________.
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What differentiates this book from more traditional works on grammar is that it reserves its _____________ not for students of writing, but for teachers who harbor unduly restrictive views.
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_____________ is an important ingredient in the success of the jazz collective "The West Coast Get Down": to explain the confluence of circumstances leading to their stardom, one almost has to resort to mysticism.
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Science is a seemingly inexhaustible source of _____________, yet paradoxically scientists have been portrayed in recent decades as rather conservative—resisting innovation in their discipline sometimes to the point of dogmatism.
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The politician was famously restrained, with a tendency to focus his fury inward: while he would defend himself publicly against detractor's attacks, he would never stoop to _____________.
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By using (i) _____________ prose throughout, the contributors to this anthology have been able to make their subject seem (ii) _____________ in the extreme—of concern only to one another.
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For decades scientists believed in the (i) _____________ of long-term memories; they were unstable for a few hours but then became etched into the brain for good. Current research, however, suggests that recalling a memory causes it to revert temporarily to an insecure state in which the recollection can be (ii) _____________. Thus, memory is much more (iii) _____________ than scientists had previously thought it to be.
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Lasting inflation trains consumers to expect that goods will be more expensive tomorrow, so the (i) _____________ thing to do is buy today. When inflation is (ii) _____________, in other words, people believe the value of their money is (iii) _____________ and act accordingly.
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The series of documentaries certainly does seem to promote the country's recent diplomatic initiatives; in fact, some of the films appear to be _____________ those initiatives.
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The book captures the _____________of several politicians who spoke publicly of old-time virtues in order to mask private vices.
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The rebellion was _____________ one, driven less by ardor than by reason and calculation.
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_____________ neuroscience's explanatory power, Patricia Churchland maintains that questions that have been discussed to no effect by philosophers over many centuries are solvable once rephrased as questions of neuroscience.
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Children will often present their egocentric frustrations with appeals to objective standards of fairness; doing so does not indicate duplicity but rather the fact that, for many children, private sufferings and social imbalances are _____________.
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The membership of the two clubs being _____________, no one had a member's perspective on both.
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The overall message of this book on neuroscience is (i) _____________: the brain is quite (ii) _____________, and therefore damaged brains can be healed, aging brains can be rejuvenated, and even ordinarily healthy brains can be made faster and better.
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When in 1980 the father and son pair of Louis and Walter Alvarez and their colleagues linked the end Cretaceoure extinction to a catastrophic extraterrestrial impact, they were met with skepticism by most paleontologists, which was (i) _____________ given that geological training since the mid-1800s had emphasized the primacy of (ii) _____________.
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The novel`s heroine shows a remarkable (i) _____________ to worship at the altar of youth; in her world, youth is (ii) _____________ , while age, by contrast, confers competence and wisdom.
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The potential (i) _____________ exploiting mineral resources in the area combined with (ii) participation among local people in conservation efforts may lead to a (iii) _____________ human appreciation for the landscape and eventually contribute to disadvantageous effects for conservation.
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Those who initially recorded American Indian oral stories often _____________ them when they wrote them down; the subsequent publishers of American Indian stories, therefore, are not the first to affect the meaning of the text.
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