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A single (i)_____remark can easily ruin the career of a politician, so most are quickly trained to avoid such offhand remarks and instead stick to prepared talking points. This training can result in a lack of (ii)_____, however, and elicit in merely (iii)_____, lukewarm responses from crowds.
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Oscar Wilde`s The Importance of Being Earnest satirizes the _____nature of upper crust British society; its characters take trivial concerns seriously while glibly dismissing important ones.
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George was a mercurial character; one moment he was optimistic about his prospects, and the next he was _____.
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Growing up in a wealthy suburb, she felt quite the _____as she began her first job as a llama caretaker on a rural farm.
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William Shakespeare`s Macbeth was based upon a highly _____version of events that the playwright wrought from Raphael Holinshed`s Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland; King Duncan`s death at the hand of Macbeth comprises the play`s only historical truth.
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While comic book artists such as Neal Adams demonstrated a more thorough mastery of human anatomy than did the generation that preceded them, some readers wondered whether the superheroes they drew were really supposed to be so _____ that every detail of their musculatures would be visible through their clothing.
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Despite what _____philosophies of child-rearing suggest, there is no imperative that the day-to-day action of raising a child be simple, unambiguous and unchanging-no requirement, in other words, ensures that life follow philosophy.
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Several cultures throughout the world and many informal subcultures within the United States (i)_____the Winter Solstice, the (ii)_____day of the year, as a time to welcome back the lengthening of each day.
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The novel emphasizes the innate (i)_____ of all humans, showing how each and every character within the narrative is, ultimately, (ii)_____. This motif becomes tiresome due to its (iii)_____, however, as character after character is bribed, either explicitly or implicitly, into giving up his or her supposedly cherished beliefs.
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Although pirating software, such as borrowing a friend`s copy of an installation CD or downloading software from unapproved sources is (i)_____, many people continue to do so (ii)_____, almost as if they were unaware of the potential consequences if they were caught.
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Having squandered his life`s savings on unprofitable business ventures, the _____entrepreneur was forced to live in squalor.
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Teachers of composition urge their students to (i)_____in their writing and instead use clear, simple language. Why use (ii)_____ vocabulary when a (iii)_____phrasing conveys one`s meaning so much more effectively?
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