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The (i)__________ museums worldwide makes for (ii)__________: by some estimates, 75 percent of species that are “discovered” each year during field expeditions are already part of a museum collection somewhere.

Magazines use superlatives to generate excitement and make stories seem worth reading, and not even the most punctilious fact-checkers at the most principled magazines can fight off all the __________ claims.

It’s possible that the (i)__________ of the musicians about the director’s appointment is mostly an expression of (ii)__________ the selection process. No matter how much input orchestra players are allowed in choosing a music director, they never feel they have enough. Regardless, their criticisms of Webster’s expertise and stature within the field are nothing short of (iii)__________. Would they really prefer some of the other potential candidates whose names have been released?

At the peak of the stock market’s vertiginous rise, some corporate pension plans became overfunded: their assets __________ their liabilities.

Maintaining a tolerant attitude toward pseudoscience might be considered __________, but it could be argued that such a disposition lowers our defenses against more dangerous delusions that are based on similar confusions and fallacies.

At public appearances the leader was remarkably taciturn, typically making __________ observations before turning the floor over to a colleague.

Theses defended by contemporary philosophers under the banner of metaphysics typically __________ the claims of science, that is, they cannot be borne out by experiment as the claims of science are expected to be.

Most of the bank-efficiency literature suggests that bank mergers culminating in larger, more complex organizations (i)__________ significant economies of scale or scope that are (ii)__________ to consumers. Indeed, some of this literature suggests diseconomies, which would lead to higher loan rates or lower deposit rates for consumers.

For a philosopher of the analytic tradition, Williams’ approach is somewhat (i)__________. Unlike most analytic philosophers, Williams has not kept himself (ii)__________ the rest of the humanities; in fact, he wishes to address colleagues in other fields in terms that will make sense to them. In particular, he objects to the (iii)__________ character of analytic philosophy: the amount it tries to accomplish by conceptual analysis and a priori argument alone. Williams is convinced that philosophy must use history, including historical imagination, to understand and defend values of any kind.

Adapting to its changing environment and building its own ecological niche in interactions with other disciplines, the scientific discipline of ecology can be seen as highly __________.

Like his fellow __________ covering the campaign tour, who rarely had the luxury of spending more than one night in one place, Tony had his bags packed well before the evening fund-raiser.

Nicolaus Copernicus’ On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres, published in 1543, laid out the theory that Earth and the other planets go around the Sun, __________ a long-held belief that Earth was the center of the universe.

The movie has a surfeit of inscrutable characters and tortuous subplots, so it is no surprise that viewers leaving the recent screening appeared __________.

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.

In his perceptive study of the emergence and evolution of modern urban planning in Paris, Nicholas Papayanis challenges the widespread view of Baron Georges-Eugène Haussmann as (i)__________ figure in modern conceptions of the city. Although Papayanis (ii)__________ the importance of Haussmann’s accomplishments and public work projects in the creation of modern Paris, he nevertheless argues that the forms of city planning and approaches to urban space these works display are less (iii)__________ than has hitherto been thought.

The senator’s attempt to convince the public that he was not interested in running for a second term was as __________ as his opponent’ s attempt to disguise her intention to run against him.

Though extremely secretive about her own plans, she allowed her associates no such (i)__________ and was constantly (ii)__________ information about what they intended to do next.

The city’s traffic-planning department has been working hard to (i)__________ drivers. Closely spaced stop lights have been added on roads into town, causing delays. Pedestrian underpasses designed to allow traffic to flow freely across major intersections have been (ii)__________.

Despite the long history of data collection on species diversity, there is a __________ of usable data.

It is curious that the same industrialists who are increasingly __________ about the economy’s prospects are no cheerier about their own firm’s outlook than they were a year ago.

.A favorite tactic of George Eliot’ s irresponsibly (i)__________ biographer is to hoist an alluring psychological flag concerning Eliot and then scrupulously take it down again, because the evidence will not serve to (ii)__________. But she takes it down only after it has had its entirely (iii)__________ flutter in the breeze.

She is (i)__________ on the Senate floor, just as she is elsewhere: her speech is (ii)__________ with the verbal pomposity of much senatorial oratory.

In the final scene of the movie, the character exhibits an almost unbelievable __________, remaining imperturbable in the face of intense and immediate physical danger.

The author’ s comparisons of Sontag’ s work to that of Walter Benjamin are __________: while the former is admittedly an influential figure, the latter is undoubtedly one of the most important critics of his era.

A long-running philosophical debate in the field of stratigraphy—the study of sequences of sedimentary rocks—is whether the sedimentary record represents mainly (i)__________ happenings (e.g., waves and tides) or their opposite, (ii)__________ events (e.g., hurricanes and flash floods).

Critics have universally recognized Toni Morrison for __________ the limited perspectives of mainstream United States history by reclaiming the narratives of African American history, particularly from a female point of view.

That there were a dozen complex debates on the lawyer’ s mind at any given moment did not (i)__________ his ability to perform physical work; on the contrary, he labored more vigorously when simultaneously engaged in such (ii)__________ forensic exercises.

In writing about environmental issues, the author takes on some special artistic challenges. It is hard to write a good novel that takes a strong stand on a social issue, although there are a few novelists, Zola and Norris for example, who do manage to (i)__________ the often circumscribing effects of (ii)__________.

The best argument in favor of one space after a period over two is __________ one: one space is simpler, cleaner, and more visually pleasing.

Wald’ s decision to tell Rosetta Tharpe’ s story to a wider audience in Shout, Sister, Shout! (i)__________ the rigor of the book’ s scholarship or the acuity of its theory. The scholarly quality of the work is (ii)__________ on every page, and yet it is not a dry, specialist academic tome.

In ancient China, tin-rich ores were not as (i)__________ as copper-rich ores, and bronze—an alloy of copper and tin—was (ii)__________ material, as tin frequently had to be transported over large distances. As a result, unalloyed copper was probably used whenever (iii)__________, since the metals used for farming and domestic purposes did not need to be as strong as the metals used for hunting and fighting.

In clinical research into new treatments or the causal factors of diseases, randomized, double-blind controlled clinical trials are seen as (i)__________ but, given their (ii)__________ often are not feasible.

Seigel has written an important and invaluable book on the history of Western ideas of the self, showing a genuine (i)__________ in analyzing philosophical views of often daunting intricacy. Though a historian by profession, he keeps to a minimum his excursions into the (ii)__________ of ideas, recognizing that great minds often (iii)__________ the preconceptions of their age.

Although celluloid film does record traces of real light reflected by real objects, this does not (i)__________ its representational truth: the image is still prone to technical manipulation. Conversely, digital video’s lack of a physical, photochemical trace does not (ii)__________: digital video can just as well (iii)__________ the presence of real objects at a given moment in time.

Science is so good at what it does that many people feel a (i)__________ to apply it to social and political issues, yet experience shows that science may add little to or even (ii)__________ social and political questions.

While offering important insights into supernova remnants, Finch’s paper is often rather (i)__________: it is (ii)__________ unexplained concepts and details.

The law student found traditional legal reference works unhelpful, since such works assume from the reader a considerable familiarity with the intricacies of contract law, an assumption that was, in his case at least, __________.

Pre-Columbian peoples had a significant impact on Amazonian forest diversity; at least 8,000 years ago, they must have begun domesticating plants recently found to be __________ around sites once occupied by humans.

Climbing mountains in search of an awe-inspiring view can be (i)__________ experience. Too often, the peak seems forever out of reach, always disappearing over the next crest. It’s a feeling that (ii)__________ physicists, who have spent much of the last century trudging up a seemingly endless slope in search of truly cosmic vistas. It is proving (iii)__________ climb.

The growth of kelp in the kelp bed communities of the North Pacific Ocean is __________ sea otters: the otters prey on kelp-eating sea urchins, keeping the urchin population in check.