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Land near Bangladesh's coastal rivers is _____________: temporary islands, or chars, form in the main rivers as sediments are deposited and then disappear during floods.
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In his self-portraits Rembrandt is notably _____________ the details of his own physiognomy, with the color of his eyes, the shape of his nose never seeming to be the same from one picture to the next.
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Until the l960s, predictions ofthe effect of winds on the ocean waves were_____________, and forecasts of wave heights during stoms were consequently unreliable.
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The fierce drought that is gripping the area—and imminent rationing and steep water price increases—is _____________the area's deep economic divide, as wealthy communities guzzle water while poorer commnities nearby conserve by necessity.
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The play is undeniably cerebral - its plot turns on the interpretation of quantum mechanics.but critics have found this_____________ exhilarating, and the play does not wear its ideas too heavily.
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Like the Homeric bards, early blues musicians added or removed song parts depending on whether those elements appealed to their (i)_____________. Since such improvisatory revision directly privileged audience reaction over plot coherence in governing song (ii)_____________, the sense of narrative in the lyrics of much early blues music can seem confusing.
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It is surprising that such a handsomely produced volume does not reflect more (i)_____________ proofreading: typographical errors are copious enough to be (ii)____________. Somewhat more substantially, the book would have been greatly enhanced by the inclusion of more maps or illustrations, though against that it must be conceded that were the work as (iii)_____________ illustrated as desired, it would have been prohibitively expensive.
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Nancy Weiss Malkiel's painstakingly detailed history of coeducation at elite universities is an invaluable _____________ the amnesia that has come to envelop even such a relatively recent-but critically neglected-development.
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For centuries people used the vocabulary of medicine to think about how our bodies are structured, but the language of distinct organs and systems does not do justice to the _____________ nature of the body.
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Williams argues that philosophy has become _____________ occupation these days, and that it should rather be "part of a more general attempt to make the best sense of our life."
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The effect of the film's expansive, darkly mournful opening sequence was magnified by a score that was similarly _____________ and unrelenting.
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His contributions to the discovery of penicillin are (i)_____________ and yet, when the scientific world duly recognized the work of those principally involved in the research, his name was, astonishingly, (ii)_____________.
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The climate researchers' _____________ method of presentation caused a stir among those who felt that scientific papers should be dispassionate in their delivery of evidence.
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lranian astronomy during the Sassanian period (226-651 C.E.) was ____________, blending concepts and methods derived from lran's indigenous traditions with those of her neighbors, especially India and the Hellenistic world.
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Being amenable to so many interpretations, the new data, though _____________, did not ultimately present a serious challenge to established theory.
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Although the choreographer has been known to push the boundaries of experimentalism, she says she is not particularly interested in _____________ for its own sake.
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Automated text-matching and plagiarism-detection services must be _____________ human expertise: machines alone cannot detect plagiarism of ideas, that is, expressing someone else's idea in one's own words.
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Epidemiological studies have found that occasional tea drinkers, and those who avoid tea altogether, do not reap the benefits of lowered risk ofheart attack that those who _____________ the brew do.
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Eighteenth-century translators who (i)_____________ deviations from their source texts were not (ii)_____________, since literalism in translation had been roundly denounced in the previous century.
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