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Unlike mainstream publications, which centered on images of women as mothers and housewives, Sepia, from its inception in the 1940s, depicted women in ____________ roles and often featured stories of African American career women and entertainers.
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To most ethicists, self-interested action connotes the opposite of moral conduct, and its ____________ is for them a virtual prerequisite for serious ethical discourse.
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The effect of the distant past on an individual' s financial decisions ____________ much more slowly than the authors of the study had expected, with the impact of events early in life persisting decades into the future.
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All of these writers rely on (i)____________ and (ii)____________ to make their argument, they take a single idea and illustrate it with endless, rather overblown examples while avoiding any genuinely nuanced analysis.
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Whereas unimaginative novelists were once routinely accused of simply changing the personal names in works that would otherwise have been (i)____________, today it is more common to learn, conversely, that a genuine piece of (ii)____________ has been (iii)____________ a writer's true confessions.
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The early universe was ____________ but no longer: galaxies, galaxy clusters, and stars punctuate the expanse of empty space, staking their uneven distribution throughout the firmament.
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Even the most skeptical readers could hardly deny that the novelist's best books are remarkably ____________: they thrum with energy, imagination, and something resembling white-hot inspiration.
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The ____________ effectiveness of lithium as a mood-altering drug for both manic and depressive states cannot be completely explained; most mood-altering drugs can only be used to modify one state or the other.
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Movie critic Pauline Kael was indifferent to clothes, casual about worldly goods. She loved to wield her power over people in the movie business but (i)____________ the usual outward signs of status and power, so that one of the thrills of spending time with her was to see film industry bigwigs (ii)____________ a person who made so little effort to appear important.
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According to Edelstein, republicanism was a ____________ movement in eighteenth-century France, though not nearly as peripheral as has sometimes been claimed.
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The film' s pat and occasionally preposterous story is really just a ____________, a serviceable scaffolding for a handful of expert, satisfying individual performances.
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During the early modern period, most playwrights depicting historical events did not shrink from ____________: they freely mingled elements from the past with those of the present in ways that evoked parallels between historical periods.
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Monumental changes taking place in the structures of world business match some equally ____________ changes taking place in the relations of international companies to the governments with which they deal.
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The flow of polluted material is probably (i)____________ enough to give rise to significantly damaging health effects, but estimates of the rates of infection are still too (ii)____________ to say much more than that.
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The levels of risk associated with construction and development in growing cities are (i)____________ as a consequence of urbanization, precautionary works, and environmental change. Because most risk assessment studies are the result of specific research grants or single contracts, they are seldom updated to reflect changes. Therefore, there is a danger that existing results on hazard and risk, although (ii)____________ at the time they were produced, could become (iii)____________ as time
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Toni Morrison' s 1998 novel was originally called War, but her publisher was concerned about the title's effects on efforts to market the book; in order to_____________those apprehensions, Morrison changed the title to Paradise.
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Unsurprisingly, the novelist's new work has not been without its critics, drawing particular attention from those who have_____________the vapidity of other novels of the same genre in a number of acerbic reviews.
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The greatest_____________ true international free trade is public opinion: radical opposition to economic globalization at a grassroots level continues to grab headlines.
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Scientists generally consider a wholesale melting of the Greenland or West Antarctic ice sheets in the twenty-first century unlikely, even if global warming continues, Nevertheless, because scientific knowledge of the dynamics of land ice sheets is(i)_____________,there is a possibility that the risk of
significant melting of land ice(ii)_____________
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Menand writes that academic departments "could use some younger people who think that the grown-ups got it all wrong" He(i)_____________ the absence of a challenge to the reigning ideas in the discipline and laments the culture of(ii)_____________in professors and graduate students alike. He notes with regret that the profession is not reproducing itself so much as (iii)_____________itself.
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