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A core assumption of evolutionary biology is that adaptation is always __________: organisms adapt to their environment, never vice versa.

The guarantee of academic freedom to professors is intended to encourage intellectual independence. But so long as faculty members receive training in a specific academic discipline and are appointed to positions defined by discipline, and so long as colleges and universities are organized by departments that (i)__________ long-standing disciplinary traditions, academic freedom will also (ii)__________ unique discipline-specific expectations. Yet the right to (iii)__________ disciplinary paradigms is also fundamental to academic freedom.

Although individuals sometimes smile when they are alone, smiling behavior is most plausibly understood as a form of __________.

The firm’s startling admission of bookkeeping irregularities called into question the __________ of the oversight that government exercises over the financial health of private businesses.

Yoshiko Yamaguchi was a remarkably __________ public figure: she was not only an actress but also a journalist, a prominent politician in the Japanese parliament, and the wife of a diplomat.

The most pervasive myth about mathematics is that the logical structure of mathematics is __________, that logic captures the essence of the subject.

Biologist Catherine Graham, studying toucans in Mexico, predicted that because toucans prefer relatively large forest patches and feed on fruit, they would fly more often to (i)__________ patches and to patches with abundant fruit resources than to small patches or those that had (ii)__________ fruit resources.

A recent survey of 120 United States corporations found that a third of employees in blue-chip corporations wrote poorly in their electronic mail. Millions of these (i)__________ e-mail messages are clogging computers by setting off requests for (ii)__________, and many of the requests, in turn, are also (iii)__________ written, resulting in whole cycles of confusion.

The so-called “sensation novel”, popular in mid-nineteenth-century Britain, was dismissed by some as __________ form of fiction, partly because these spine-tingling novels often appeared as serials in cheap, disposable periodicals.

The effect of the film’s expansive, darkly mournful opening sequence was magnified by a score that was similarly __________ and unrelenting.

Human hearing is remarkably __________: an attentive listener knows if a band’s drummer is as little as one thousandths of a second late on the beat.

Some species of the genus Daphnia (commonly known as water fleas) are phenotypically __________, altering their diurnal migration behavior and developing exaggerated morphological defenses in response to predators.

Koizumi’s decision to stake his political career on postal reform was less __________ than it might sound because the postal system could pass along trillions of yen to government financial institutions, benefiting him politically.

Globalization has made ethnic entrepreneurship resilient in postindustrial economies: well represented in the small business sector in the United States, ethnic entrepreneurship has been __________ by the volatile tides of international migration.

If the premises from which the author proceeds can often seem rather abstract, the history he presents is, on the other hand, decidedly __________, touching as it does upon such subjects as bodybuilding, fashion, and diet.

The author of the study of the world’s best - selling but critically disparaged painter would no doubt say that the size of the artist’s reputation (i)__________ the book on sociological grounds, and the author would also no doubt argue that critics are wrong to (ii)__________ middlebrow tastes. But there is a large dose of reverse snobbery threaded through the book, with its repeated claim that the painter’s schmaltzy popular works are (iii)__________ the masterpieces in museums.

While the author is determined to set straight some distorted views about education and public policy, she is not __________: she presents many alternative views for readers to consider.

The student who will benefit most from this biography of Mark Twain is the one who wishes to study the phenomenon of the author as (i)__________. It clearly shows that Twain, contemptuous as he may have been of the acquisitive society in which he lived, was ever (ii)__________ money, but that his (iii)__________ was almost inversely proportionate to his avarice. Usually a man with a keen eye for fraud and imposture, he was easily lured to invest in numerous improbable schemes.

Vast, complex, and deeply entrenched, the administrative apparatus that answered to Egypt’s Queen Cleopatra was __________ instrument with which to govern.

Anyone who invokes Byzantium these days is not likely to be saying anything (i)__________: the name and its adjective “byzantine” in modern parlance suggest intrigue and corruption, and if there is an occasional intimation of glitter or gaudy decoration, this rarely connotes beauty. Unfortunately, the (ii)__________ sense of the word is so deeply rooted that none of us can do much about it.

Comparing her students’ writing online (in blogs she required them to keep) with their writing in traditional term papers, Cathy Davidson found that the former was (i)__________ the latter. In fact, even (ii)__________ bloggers often turned out to be clunky and pretentious research-paper writers.

Despite the apparently natural—if not essential—relationship between insult and (i)__________, for some people the experience of getting insulted may cause (ii)__________: instead of lashing out at the offender, they end up (iii)__________.

Fossils that reveal animal (i)__________ are (ii)__________ in the Ediacaran period: most animals of the period did not move, chew food, or produce waste, resulting in a static ecosystem.

For those attempting the art, the record of past futurologists’ prognostications can be __________: it includes many confident predictions of technological revolutions that never happened, such as domed cities and nuclear-powered cars.

In interviews, the filmmaker comes off as so __________ that it is almost impossible to believe that she has made such a provocative, sophisticated movie.

Taylor’s __________ nature enabled her to bring together and work successfully with people of very diverse, and often conflicting, views.

Hubbert’s 1956 prediction that peak oil output in the United States would occur in or around 1970 was met with little (i)__________ at the time, but daily output did peak in 1970,and since then Hubbert’s calculations have been viewed as extraordinarily (ii)__________.

The effect of the distant past on an individual’ s financial decisions __________ much more slowly than the authors of the study had expected, with the impact of events early in life persisting decades into the future.

All of these writers rely on (i)__________ and (ii)__________ to make their argument, they take a single idea and illustrate it with endless, rather overblown examples while avoiding any genuinely nuanced analysis.

According to Edelstein, republicanism was a __________ movement in eighteenth-century France, though not nearly as peripheral as has sometimes been claimed.

Monumental changes taking place in the structures of world business match some equally __________ changes taking place in the relations of international companies to the governments with which they deal.

The levels of risk associated with construction and development in growing cities are (i)__________ as a consequence of urbanization, precautionary works, and environmental change. Because most risk assessment studies are the result of specific research grants or single contracts, they are seldom updated to reflect changes. Therefore, there is a danger that existing results on hazard and risk, although (ii)__________ at the time they were produced, could become (iii)__________ as time

Scientists generally consider a wholesale melting of the Greenland or West Antarctic ice sheets in the twenty-first century unlikely, even if global warming continues, Nevertheless, because scientific knowledge of the dynamics of land ice sheets is (i)__________,there is a possibility that the risk of significant melting of land ice (ii)__________.

Menand writes that academic departments “could use some younger people who think that the grown-ups got it all wrong” He(i)__________ the absence of a challenge to the reigning ideas in the discipline and laments the culture of(ii)__________ in professors and graduate students alike. He notes with regret that the profession is not reproducing itself so much as (iii)__________ itself.

The breathless pace of the Broadway adaptation of Alice Walker’s The Color Purple was __________ given the adaptation’s determination to cram in so many of the incidents that appear in the original source.

The mating system of humpback whales appears to rely on __________: although humpbacks are found in widely varying densities throughout any winter breeding range, they frequently return in large numbers to specific locations.

One of the most appealing things about Sloterdijk’s philosophy is his willingness to be __________; he does not attempt to anticipate and to refute all possible objections.

In 1926 Coco Chanel revolutionized fashion with the introduction of the little black dress, or LBD, a garment that became so culturally(i)__________ that today many women own at least one. Although in recent years the LBD’s very(ii)__________ has seen it relegated to the high-fashion margins,(iii)__________ as too safe, it now seems to be making a comeback.

While traditional Chinese historiography ostensibly described events in a neutral manner, early historians did not always __________ tendentiousness, sometimes offering moral judgments about the historical figures they discussed.

Whatever truth the terse, witty, instructive saying known as an apothegm points toward is by definition always obscured, and anyone who regards its meaning as (i)__________ not only misreads it but also mistakes its very nature, An apothegm’s inscrutability allows a tantalizing glimpse of wisdom that lies beyond our ability to (ii)__________