The role of lightning in starting natural fires throughout tropical East Asia has possibly been underestimated, with most authors assuming that all fires today are ____________.
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Most observers successfully perceive and contemplate the factual tidbits that are placed in focus by the displays in science museums; however, they frequently (i)____________ the display frame itself. This is not surprising, since the art of museum presentation, if it is to be effective rather than distracting, should be (ii)____________.
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In considering the life of Joseph Duveen, one must reconcile Duveen the noted (i)____________ with Duveen the unscrupulous manipulator and salesman, His benefactions and activity in organizing exhibitions of historic British art were far from (ii)____________ and can be seen as buying respectability and Establishment support in order to (iii)____________ his final, most magnificent sales.
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Studies have shown that areas of the Amazon rain forest that previously were thought to be ____________ have in reality been subject to disturbance and modifications by humans for thousands of years.
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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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