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Researchers’ use of charcoal particles in soil as a marker for human arrival in prehistoric North America is __________: fire was a part of the continent’ s natural ecology long before humans appeared.

Researchers’ use of charcoal particles in soil as a marker for human arrival in prehistoric North America is __________: fire was a part of the continent’ s natural ecology long before humans appeared.

In the realm of science and mathematics, ambiguity is generally seen as something that arises from erroneous understanding and must be overcome, yet ambiguity has often __________ developments in science and mathematics.

During the Second World War, the substantial energy that industrial employers spent convincing workers to wear mandated safe attire suggests that compliance could not be __________

Azarenka’ s descriptions are not __________: they grow organically from the themes that animate her writing.

The article has been abridged for presentation to a nonspecialist audience, and the __________ by which this has been accomplished can be frustrating for any reader trying to reconstruct the argument in detail.

Although automated agricultural technology boosts yields and profits, its high degree of prescriptiveness diminishes the role of individual farmers by making their __________ almost irrelevant.

In her early years as a theater critic, Willa Cather was __________, veering between ecstatic raves and brutal takedowns.

Software makers typically write licensing agreements disclaiming responsibility for any negative consequences of using their products, but as computers become integrated into everything from cars to medical devices, that stance will become __________.

Thomsen may have tried to explain his recent egregious actions as those of an obedient civil servant, but to his fellow citizens the former security chief (i)__________ the threatening tactics employed by the security forces that have maintained authoritarian rule in the country for 300 years and have (ii)__________ everything from elections to eligibility for free medical prescriptions.

This is a __________ book: it takes up and defends a position to which the current intellectual climate is generally hostile.

Until recently superhero comics were seen as irredeemably (i)__________; they were widely disparaged for being so (ii)__________ in conception and execution, and anyone who was a fan was given plenty of reasons to be (iii)__________.

Hugh Trevor-Roper’ s series of essays on the Puritan Revolution are considered to be the __________ of the genre: though these essays have exerted a welcome influence on the work of many subsequent historians, their quality has never been equaled.

Lions are idiosyncratic animals that exhibit a remarkably wide range of behaviors, resisting our attempts to __________ them.

Selling a product with no known or even __________ substitute and with an ever-growing demand for it seems as if it would be quite lucrative, but in fact the three biggest private-sector water companies in the world are eager to get out of the business.

High self-esteem has recently assumed a somewhat (i)__________ status in social psychology. On the one hand, high self-esteem is believed to confer a wide variety of adaptive and affective benefits; on the other, positive self-views have been linked to a number of intrapersonal and interpersonal strategies than can reasonably be described as (ii)__________.

Ironically, contemporary critics who celebrate the Victorian novel for its intellectual depth describe the (i)__________ effects of newer media—film, television, digital technology—in precisely the same terms that earlier critics had used to (ii)__________ the novel itself: as piecemeal entertainments that (iii)__________ mental effort on the part of the consumer.

The notion of popular science or of the public understanding of science is very much a concern in today’ s world, where we can see (i)__________ between science and nonscience. But in the nineteenth century, there was still an enviable mixing and cross-fertilization between seemingly (ii)__________ subjects, and there was no (iii)__________ what counted as science, let alone how a public understanding might differ from any other sort of understanding.

The author’ s new novel is everything that her first was not: obvious and (i)__________ rather than understated and subtly shaded. Instead of quietly revealing themselves through tiny, unexpected gestures, the characters are forced to make (ii)__________ statements that announce exactly what they are thinking and serve primarily to underscore the author’ s sociological points. There are occasional glimpses of the (iii)__________ and emotional wisdom so lavishly demonstrated in the author’ s previous novel-gifts, the reader hopes, that will be more fruitfully employed in her next.

In theory, when water freezes, ice crystals grow only from pure water, while any impurities are __________ the ice structure and are eventually swept away.

Maddox presents a more (i)__________ view of Franklin than the stereotyped rendering of her as the martyr whose data were stolen. By focusing substantial attention on Franklin’ s achievements working on the molecular structure of coal and on virus research, Maddox (ii)__________ reducing Franklin’ s legacy to her involvement in the (admittedly central) scientific story of DNA.

As tough as it looks, the Chihuahuan Desert is a __________ place: although few humans have been here, their footsteps have fallen heavily in the desert.

Especially when poorly organized, alliances among nations can send messages that (i)__________ either credible threats or credible assurances, thus making stable coercive diplomacy with enemies (short of war) (ii)__________.

The use of temperature records for the period from 1880 to 1899 as the favored baseline for measuring global warming is __________ because the 1880s were particularly cold after the eruption of the Krakatoa volcano.

Though it may not seem (i)__________, the fate of the grizzly bears, which have been both feared and revered throughout history, may hinge on something as (ii)__________ as a lowly moth.

Contrary to the proclamations of many scientists, the problems visible in small, uncontrolled medical studies are not necessarily __________ larger, randomized controlled studies, which can be faulty as well.

The figure of the female orator, though indubitably __________, was far from unknown in fifteenth-century Italy.

Because the chemical and physical properties of a material are a function of its structure, the enhanced three-dimensional results derived from a crystallographic study have become __________ the overall characterization of any new material.

The __________ of the folktales in this collection does not inhibit the conveyance of important lessons; indeed, the didactic effect would be lost if the stories were more protracted.

Although researchers have studied cartilage’ s behavior on the macroscopic scale, the several forces that scientists believe to be active on the molecular level have never been __________.

The novel contains long, boring expository tangents designed to __________ readers, encouraging them to think they are reading a serious and important book, not just a thriller.

In managing the economy, there is always tension between (i)__________ and (ii)__________. People want less government regulation, but not when it means firms can hire cheap child labor. People want open markets, but not so bankers can deceive investors.

Although extreme and singular events occur in a black hole, its event horizon boundary is __________: space travelers crossing it would be subject to the same physical laws that apply anywhere else.

Gilbert Blane confirmed in 1780 that citrus could cure scurvy, yet the British navy did not systematically treat afflicted sailors with citrus for another fifteen years, largely due to the __________ of the naval bureaucracy.

Some historians of science argue that chemistry had __________ scientific revolution in that seventeenth-century chemists failed to produce radical innovations parallel to those in other sciences at the time, and chemistry consequently matured later.

Books by business school professors can usually be counted on to give (i)__________ view of technological innovation; this book (ii)__________ that stereotype, arguing that the digital revolution will be comparable to the industrial revolution in its positive effects on long-run economic growth.

Although the nonscientist is amazed by the orderliness of elements in the periodic table, chemists consider this orderliness __________ because of the common origin and similarity of the units of matter that compose the elements.

It is Alice Hoffman’ s achievement as a novelist that we do not wonder at the fabulous in her work but accept what seems __________ as an idiom of the affective extremes and nuances that are simply facts of life.

Scientists sometimes want us to believe that the evidence speaks for itself, but evidence is rarely __________; people often disagree both about which facts count as evidence and what those facts prove.

Extant manuscripts of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century plays were produced through the combined efforts of an author, one or more scribes, and various compositors. The blending of labors is so complete that some scholars (i)__________ that the author’ s contribution (ii)__________, a position that (iii)__________ the consideration of questions about authorial intention.