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The humanitarian aid organization avoids the political sphere almost entirely, rarely making statements that might seem __________.
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Though often beneficial, the confidence and certainty instilled in doctors by their training can also __________ their awareness of their own weaknesses.
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Animals could certainly be said to exhibit __________: there are species-specific rules about who eats first and about proper methods of grooming or making introductions.
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Even by the poet`s own high standard of what it means to be (i)_____, her early years were extremely (ii)_____: she published five volumes of poems in a short six-year period.
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A main reason that primates are so (i)_____is that they are, for the most part, very (ii)_____. Walk through a tropical forest, and it is highly likely that if you encounter any mammals, it will be a primate that you see or hear.
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As an aspiring politician, Gurstein aims to avoid __________ tone in her public addresses, one that might insult potential voters.
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Though the treatise on geography was once thought to represent a definitive shift away from a medieval conception of the cosmos, revisionist historians of cartography have come to __________ the continuity of Renaissance geography with medieval precedents.
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The community remains deeply divided over funding for the new school: the __________ that many residents had hoped for has not occurred.
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The ability of the Grand Banks cod fishery to sustain intensive cod harvesting for many years gave it a reputation for __________ that deceived even scientifically sophisticated observers.
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The limits of the show, however, are less consequential than the limits of its host. Her approach to the family crises described by the guests is stunningly (i)_____; it`s the narrowness of her repertoire that leads her to (ii)_____ the important questions, not the constraints of the medium.
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Because it is a subject discussed by humanities scholars from diverse disciplinary backgrounds, "affect" has been (i)_____ defined; nonetheless, there has been (ii)_____ the terms "emotion" and "affect" across academic writing in the humanities.
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The (i)_____ of community ecology and population ecology is (ii)_____ insofar as the two subdisciplines partly address issues at different hierarchical levels and different spatial and temporal scales. But it is harmful insofar as it (iii)_____ the fields` mutual enrichment.
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The reconstructed poem is beautiful and also probably __________: it is the only known work of medieval Hebrew verse written by a woman.
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Earth`s relatively stable climate over the last 8,000 years may have been __________, reflecting a coincidental near balance between a natural cooling that should have begun and an offsetting warming effect caused by humans.
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All attempts at a serious discussion of the matter at hand were thwarted by Hoyt`s unrelenting __________.
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Although unilateral disarmament was no less __________ a proposal than anarchy or anti-industrial communalism, Martin Luther King, Jr., saw it as much more realizable than the abolition of government or the elimination of industrial capitalism.
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The novel, for all its prickly, vagrant humor, conceals far more than it communicates, leaving the frustrated reader with the impression that its author was temperamentally similar to the book`s __________ central character.
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Slow to act, the politician was derided as __________ by his detractors but praised as prudent by his supporters.
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Philosophical claims will usually fall short of certainty, but to be (i)_____ the less-than-certain is (ii)_____, a hangover from the dubious idea that philosophy should deal only with propositions that are necessarily and universally true.
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The possibility that nonindigenous species can frequently be (i)_____ native ones with little change in many ecosystem characteristics is a hotly debated and as yet unresolved topic among ecologists and conservation biologists. The fact that one can adduce myriad examples of ecosystem (ii)_____ by nonindigenous species does not really demonstrate that all such newcomers are destined to have such impacts. Indeed, most of the introduced species that survive appear to have (iii)_____ effects on the ecosystems they have invaded.
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