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The world we inhabit is extremely rich in detail and may be very complex. (i)__________ when solving a problem or executing a task, (ii)__________

The author’s description of the __________ contamination of ocean water with plastic materials -and the resulting threat to marine life-constitutes a valuable lesson in the urgency of managing trash more responsibly than we currently do.

One object of examining past medical practices is to identify useful knowledge amid its now outmoded trappings; the alternative is to let such knowledge __________ along with the discredited theories with which it was associated.

The late nineteenth century saw a shift in the production of African American history writing as works by __________ authors came to be outnumbered by the publications of professional African American academics.

In her book, Schmidt (i)__________ confidence in her opinions. She is excessively (ii)__________ authorities, even when gently rejecting their views. lt is always a pleasure to encounter the lucid, astute prose of academics from the past, but this book is (iii)__________ a surplus of pedestrian quotations from the less notable.

Although the book, with its many and varied approaches to its subject, might strike some readers as too loosely structured, this refreshingly nonreductive method is __________ the complexity of the issues the author explores.

African painters Ghada Amer and Julie Mehretu are not swayed by art-world insiders’ __________ of aesthetic elements that can be characterized as decorative; rather, they recognize all beauty as a source of power in painting.

Nothing in the book is (i)__________, but happily there is no sense that the author is merely rummaging among minutiae, pursuing (ii)__________ lines of inquiry neglected by other biographers.

Natasha Kholgade Banerjee notes that photo-editing applications have allowed everyday users to (i)__________ the (ii)__________ of a camera by providing the means to change image colors, move pixels around, and combine natural photographs with artificial elements.

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.

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.

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 __________.

Far-reaching explanations of many anomalous phenomena observed during solar eclipses have been (i)__________ many scientists, who maintain that the correct explanations are (ii)__________, having to do with fluctuations in temperature, atmospheric pressure, or other environmental parameters, rather than some (iii)__________ eclipse-related factor.

The apparent simplicity of a savanna or a prairie landscape is illusory, but the illusion takes real effort to __________ because much of what actually occurs in these places takes place underground.

The theater’s stately production certainly does keep (i)__________, and the high praise it has received for its (ii)__________ could thus be called justified. But perhaps the performance goes too far in that direction. The (iii)__________ story line that makes this one of Shakespeare’ s most wayward (and least performed) plays has been smoothed into a well-drilled parade of avowals and betrayals, plots and counterplots, deaths and resurrections.

For all the flexibility of mind and spirit yoga is supposed to bestow upon those who embrace it, some yoga students can be surprisingly __________ in their approaches to the practice.

Pauline Kael’ s first movie review tore into Charlie Chaplin for taking up the mantle of comic artist rather than claiming his roots as slapstick clown. lt might seem strange that a reviewer with such highbrow reading tastes as Kael had would attack upward-reaching film entertainers for their pretensions and champion films that were mainstream entertainments. Yet such a stance could itself be seen as (i)__________, as it (ii)__________ a certain idea of true art from (iii)__________, as if only literature should aspire to seriousness.

Some people might object to pairing art and physics, since art is considered to be relatively __________ and physics, until recently, scrupulously avoided any mention of the inner thoughts that related to the outer world.

All of his previous efforts at ingratiating himself with the official were __________ when he responded antagonistically to the official’s goading.

Yang Hong’s studies of ancient Chinese tombs transcribe the tombs’ epitaphs and inscriptions, noting whether these texts corroborate available information about the deceased’s life or ancestry or __________ it by presenting biographical material not found elsewhere.

Recent work suggests that the interest among the rural population in the anticolonial political activism of the 1950s has to a large extent been (i)__________: the small percentage of rural residents who engaged in documented acts of overt political activism during that period (ii)__________ a much larger number who were strongly sympathetic but more cautiously engaged.

Historians of medicine are resigned to doctors’ __________ medical history: physicians offer hagiographic biographies of obscure nineteenth-century medical figures, triumphalist narratives of medical progress, and retrospective diagnoses of ailments afflicting historical characters.

In medieval China, the Confucian emphasis on rites as an outward manifestation of virtue explains Chinese bureaucrats’ __________ the accurate performance of tributary rituals by foreigners at the imperial court.

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 communities nearby conserve by necessity.

Letters present an awkward stumbling block to those who take a high line about literature as a custodian of moral values. The letters of accomplished poets and novelists are-as often as not-about drinking and infidelity, about sponging and wasting time. Consequently, one’s (i)__________ the writer as (ii)__________ can often come in for a rude shock on contemplation of the writer’s correspondence: the soul that composed the poems and the self that wrote the letters can seem (iii)__________.

When reviewing a book that advertises lying as its subject, the critic has a duty to screen the title for possible (i)__________, and it is therefore necessary to report that The Concise Book of Lying is not concise. lf the book were making a case for deception, the mismatch might not matter: a (ii)__________ title might suit a book designed to disabuse us of our respect for (iii)__________. But the book is not an apology for lying; it is on the side of truth.

The composition of waste from discarded electronics is quite __________: electronic waste contains more than 1,000 different substances, including heavy metals and flame retardants.

Although most economists believe European growth will pick up this year, the numbers do not point that way __________: in Germany, for instance, manufacturing orders are rising but industrial production is slowing.

Unsurprisingly, the novelist’s new work has not been without its critics, drawing particular attention from those who have __________ the vapidity of other novels of the same genre in a number of acerbic reviews.

In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, science had come to be seen by the upper classes as a (i)__________, but the serious pursuit of science was generally believed to be (ii)__________ women. This created a situation in which science was (iii)__________ but at the same time beyond the reach of girls and women at anything except a superficial level.

Astute and incisive, the essayist’s work was nevertheless civil and polite: the essayist either had no gift of __________ or else never felt any.

Satellite data show that earthquakes are sometimes __________ by local anomalous changes in the ionosphere over their epicenters, suggesting a way of improving earthquake forecasts.

Since readily available computer programs now allow photographers to manipulate their images with the same (i)__________ as painters, photography’s claim to any inherent truth has just about evaporated. But the (ii)__________ possibilities of photography have been present from the medium’s birth. Distortions of truth not only occur mechanically (through shutter speed, for example) and in printing (as through choice of chemicals and paper) but are (iii)__________ to the very idea of photographers being stylistically different from one another.

One virtue of cornmeal as a component of the diets of laborers in early Puerto Rico was the mildness of its taste, a trait that enabled it to __________ the strong flavors of other foods.

The methods for composting organic waste aim to (i)__________ nature’s tendency toward decay- a process unfortunately often (ii)__________ in landfills, where organic materials are packed so tightly that they have little access to the oxygen necessary for decomposition.

The high seriousness of St. Aubyn’s novel is not at all superficial; in fact, it is __________ the novel’s ferociously comic vision.

When an organism is functioning normally, excessive fat is stored in adipose tissue. Thus, the (i)__________ of such tissue may be (ii)__________ the fat is diverted to other organs, such as the liver and the heart, causing serious health problems.

In our solar system, Earth is the most __________ of the rocky, or terrestrial, planets, so when first searching beyond the solar system, scientists were not accustomed to planets of similar composition but many times the mass.

Despite the critic’ s assertion that Willa Cather’ s place in the literary canon is now so entrenched that it scarcely matters if she were really a modernist, her reputation arguably remains __________.

It can be extremely difficult to uncover direct evidence of conspiracies, given that such activities are by their very nature __________.