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Increasing (i)_____________to use land for purposes other than food production (ii)_____________expanding agriculture into currently uncultivated lands. Therefore, in order to meet growing global demand for food, more efficient means of crop production must be found.
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Eventually, the framed painting looked as Easton had hoped it would, the frame offering a subtle rebuke to some of the more ostentatious baroque confections on display, Easton believed that it was more (i)_____________ than any other frame in the exhibition, despite its (ii)_____________quality. That apparent simplicity, however, was so much more difficult to realize than something more obviously(iii)_____________.
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The indigenous uprising in Bolivia in 2008 was not_____________: in 1781 indigenous people took over the area near present-day La Paz in what constituted the biggest challenge to the Spanish who then controlled Bolivia.
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The simplicity of Ann Hamilton's sculpture, a single drop of water snaking its way down a vast white wall, _____________ the elaborate technical apparatus hidden beneath its surface.
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According to one prominent sociologist, the insider doctrine - the claim that only a member of a particular group should study that group - is inherently_____________in that the doctrine assumes that, to put it colloquially, "you have to be one to understand one."
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The First World War (i)_____________the achievements of two decades of disease eradication efforts and, terrifyingly, led to the (ii)_____________of malaria throughout ltaly.
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She had a feeling that was not yet fully articulated, _____________ sense that something extraordinary and wonderful awaited her.
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The team of physicists regarded the data as too_____________not to study with fresh eyes and first questions.
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The research institute publishes new material on its Web site well in advance of its appearance in print; inevitably, there is a lot of dross, but fortunately, much of the material is both ______________ and free.
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The rural Renaissance villas were working buildings. The agricultural world they served is now gone. To see it you therefore have to (i)_____________it, but that can be aided by the nineteenth-century photographs taken just before the agricultural revolution destroyed the old order, Not that those photographs themselves are always completely(ii)_____________: Virginia creeper growing up a Renaissance villa is a botanical anachronism and also (iii)_____________ piece of planting (rats climb up the creepers and get at the grain stored in the attic).
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Personal computers have become so _____________that the use of digital evidence collected from them is now a common part of many criminal and civil investigations.
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Kelly Cherry's fiction speaks to various postmodern debates regarding history and perception, but does not become so abstract that the reader feels the narrative has been_____________an intellectual agenda.
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Instead of flooding reporters with updates, the governor's press office dispenses information with the_____________ of an eyedropper.
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it' s hard to miss a musk ox: the animal looks like a buffalo decked out in a hairy fur coat. And yet,(i)_____________ as it is, this giant, which lives on tundras from Siberia to Greenland, is still surprisingly(ii)_____________.
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curry suggests that what we learn from literature is (i)_____________and might even be(ii)_____________: literature allows us to gain skills and sensitivities that can be difficult to put into words.
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Failure to investigate (i)_____________a proposed new feature is desired by potential consumers of a product can lead to expensive mistakes: money is invested to incorporate the feature, whose value in the marketplace then turns out to be (ii)_____________. Yet equally, relying on what consumers say can lead to potentially profitable innovations being (iii)_____________. Consumers do not necessarily at once recognize how a new feature will expand the potential of an apparently familiar product.
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Millville has its share of suburban eyesores-cement-block strip malls, rows of fast-food restaurants，and_____________ split-level homes marching up hillsides denuded of trees.
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Since it is an incredible challenge to detect dark matter directly, scientists have_____________ its existence from its gravitational effects on shaping galaxies and other large-scale structures.
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The mechanism for anticlockwise rotation of Borneo remains_____________，and many geologists continue to be skeptical because it is difficult to satisfactorily incorporate into regional tectonics.
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Many of her followers remain (i)_____________to her, and even those who have rejected her leadership are unconvinced of the(ii)_____________of replacing her during the current turmoil.
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