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Models of the interior evolution of Venus suggest that the planet (i)_____________ periods of relative (ii)_____________ and periods of instability and rapid surface overturn. ln other words, Venus may "freak out" occasionally, getting rid of its internal heat in great planetwide (iii)_____________ of activity, rather than in the steadier cycling of lithospheric plates that occurs on Earth.
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Observing responses to environmental threats, he contrasts planet fetishizers, who imagine a suddenly _____________ humanity restoring Earth to its pristine state, with planet managers, who believe in the effectiveness of technological control.
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By its subtitle, Pamela Lu's Pamela: A Novel assigns itself to a literary genre whose constitutive elements it _____________: if it is a novel, it is an anomalous one, with no story to unfold.
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As companies dealing in satellite imagery begin to _____________ their data products diurnally, people will soon be able to see huge swaths of the planet change daily.
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The Holy People in Navajo sacred narratives do not act as moral _____________: when they teach, it is as often by what they do wrong as by what they do right.
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Not only are RNA viruses common, they are _____________ in that they adapt quickly to new environments and new hosts.
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Elephants are known to use a wide variety of calls, many of them infrasonic (below the level of human hearing), in coordinating group behavior, The infrasonic calls usually have a component that is (i)______________, but these higher frequency aspects of the calls (ii)_____________ very quickly with distance, so that in the wild, human observers are often (iii)_____________ sudden coordinated movements of large groups of elephants when no signal was apparent to the observer.
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Critics have raved about the beauty of Peck's prose, but in his fiction, at least, the diction has only gotten more portentous with time, the writing more overwrought, and the symbolism more _____________.
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She was _____________ debater, always choosing to press an argument to its logical
conclusion even if the results would be subversive of the whole existing order of society.
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Receiving sole credit for a scientific breakthrough is tantamount to acquiring a much-coveted prize: small wonder, then, that scientists often _____________ the claim of first discovery.
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It is misleading to (i)_____________ the scientific literature by focusing on (ii)_____________ research as the newspaper's science reporters have sometimes done. Forced retractions of scientific publications are, in fact, relatively rare.
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Fedigan argues that, in actuality, ethologists who claim to _____________ anthropomorphism often end up simply substituting one set of anthropomorphic terms for another.
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