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Even though no other species in the Rana genus of frogs exhibits such ____________ habits, once crawfish frogs have finally been located, they are relatively easy to film.
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Some critics claim that a good deal of contemporary academic language is ____________: only those who have mastered a certain jargon-the initiated, so to speak-can join the club and decode the message.
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Though the country's press is not free, it has some (i)____________: newspaper editors can publish editorials critical of the government without (ii)____________.
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Astronomers have always suspected that planets might orbit stars other than our sun but (i)_____________ that they would find systems structured much like our own solar system. Yet a flood of recent discoveries has made it clear that extrasolar planetary systems can (ii)______________ our own solar system.
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The govenor, clearly trying to live down a reputation for (i)____________, has recently demonstrated an unexpected ability to be (ii)____________ when dealing with state legislators.
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Novelist Toni Morrison rejects the ____________ art and politics, insisting that art can be "unquestionably" political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.
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Early natural history collections in eighteenth-century Europe were ____________: a bear's tooth might sit incongruously alongside a piece of silverwork or, in the menagerie, a South American capybara might be housed next to an African baboon.
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Ironically, the recent ____________ of the reductive observational methods that have enabled science to progress for four centuries may turn out to be science's next step forward.
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He listened patiently, encouragingly, and with quiet amusement to my enthusiasm. Indeed, this turned out to be our pattern: I, more ignorant but more (i)____________, would babble on, while he would offer (ii)________________ objection or refinement.
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Animals whose behavioral traits are (i)____________ thereby have a level of (ii)____________ when environmental conditions vary. However, studies of animal personality also suggest that the behavior of individual animals can be constrained to certain behavioral types, leading to consistent differences between individuals.
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Despite their (i)____________ superior financial and organizational resources, pulp and paper firms moving into the American South in the first half of the twentieth century could not simply impose their will on the region. Nor could they assume that properly functioning markets for land, labor, and timber would (ii)____________. Instead, they had to develop strategies to (iii)____________ such markets that would be compatible with the complex regional politics of land and labor.
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