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Shark teeth are among the most (i)__________ of all vertebrate fossils. While such (ii)__________ may befit creatures renowned for their appetites, it contrasts with the rarity of shark skeletons.

At their most __________, memoirs are about more than the story of someone’ s life: they are about the function of memory itself, its narrative power to create and destroy, sweeten and obliterate the past in the service of the present.

The deep water realm was once assumed to be __________, but we now know that submerged currents of cold water flowing from high latitudes toward the equator may generate high-energy eddies that reshape the seafloor.

The company’s chief executive is (i)__________ the desire to postpone action until a consensus has been reached. Instead she makes a brief for instinctive decision making, treating extensive deliberation as something to (ii)__________.

He opens in a style that is notably contentious for a scientific paper, __________ previous works that, in his dim view, have too quickly drawn analogies between human thought and animal thought.

The flood of new candidates, including newcomers, party veterans, and the first female candidate, is a startling (i)__________ Japan’s (ii)__________ political successions. The crowded field means that the selection of the new prime minister, instead of being the customary (iii)__________, backroom affair, has become a source of intense public excitement.

Her argument, though stimulating, is far from being proof against all reproach: several of its most crucial hypotheses are rather more (i)__________ than (ii)__________.

Bridges are often offered as __________ examples of engineering, given that a bridge’s structure is out in the open for all to see.

Because organisms can’t __________ sodium, as they can do with nitrogen, carbon, and phosphorus, they need external sources to replenish this vital element constantly.

Dr. Nicolelis believes that scientists are going to (i)__________ all the brain’s information-processing mechanisms—or at least enough of them to yield improvements in neural medicine. Yet he also believes that certain aspects of our minds may remain (ii)__________ because our most meaningful thoughts are written in a code that is unique to each of us.

The rate of sediment deposition may be __________ desertification in Central Asia: data from a Tajik site show the rate to have increased during Pleistocene glacial periods as aridity increased.

The second group of volunteer excavators was far more __________ than the first, and consequently the obstructing material was removed much more rapidly during the second shift.

The sum of money needed to pay for the additional vaccines may not sound __________, but for developing countries even a small increase in the health care budget may prove a very big drain on resources.

Methane that is oxidized to diamond is thought to originate from reduced fluids in Earth’s upper mantle; the ultimate origin of carbon in diamonds, however, is __________.

In contrast to today, when many readers consider the moral sentiments expressed in the ancient writer’s work to be quite sophomoric, in the writer’s own time, these sentiments were regarded as remarkably __________.

One disadvantage of reading (i)__________ accounts of historical events is that the textual (ii)__________ often lead to abrupt transitions and (iii)__________ references.

While the band’s music is loud and aggressive, it is never __________.

Although genetic mutation had been fingered as the cause of the disease, recent experimental results have muddied the picture, making the link between mutation and disease seem more __________ than it once did.

The moral sentiments expressed in Aesop’s fables are not considered to be imaginative today, and in the seventeenth century they were similarly regarded as __________.

The regulatory agency’s attempts to impose new and harsher restrictions on the business community were met with such __________ that the agency finally opted to maintain its existing rules.

The only way to definitively test a large civil engineering structure such as a bridge is to build it in anticipation of possible challenges from nature and then let nature take its course. That is not to say that every new large structure is a (i)__________. Engineers understand a great deal about the behavior and limitations of their structures’ components. Furthermore, it is the (ii)__________ structure that is built more than 10 or 20 percent larger than its predecessors, thus allowing engineers to move (iii)__________ into unknown territory.

Scholars and journalists interested in the ideology of rock music have rightly noted that Romanticism and Modernism provided rock with an aesthetic morality (i)__________ commercialism. However, while openly expressing (ii)__________ mass culture, rock has exhibited a remarkable capacity to (iii)__________ it, calling the genre’s subversive image into question.

Terms like “mystery fiction” and “crime fiction” have connotations that may not be __________ but are hardly laudatory, at least not in the way that those of terms like “literary fiction” and “metaphysical poetry” are laudatory.

Though the progress of the reform legislation was __________, it was surprisingly steady, and there never seemed any reasonable doubt that it would eventually be enacted into law.

Because video game users control their character’s actions, the distinction between media user and character is not as __________ in video games as it is in traditional media, where audience members simply witness characters’ actions.

Although it is premature to say whether nanomotors would __________ conventional methods, Wang believes that the most promising applications for nanomotors lie in fast drug delivery or low-cost cleanup of environmental pollutants.

On Earth, almost all organisms derive the energy needed for growth directly or indirectly from sunlight. Certain microorganisms that live in aquifers deep underground where light cannot penetrate were thought to derive their energy from inorganic minerals. However, scientists have recently discovered that they derive their energy from the remains of other organisms. Therefore, these microorganisms __________.

Attempts to restore carnivores to ecosystems from which they were eliminated have become __________: indeed, many species are even being introduced into areas where they did not previously roam.

Like its protagonists, who are caught up in a historical moment that __________ the possibility of self - fulfillment, the novel Ready to Burst by Haitian writer Frankétienne moves in disorienting circles, never progressing or achieving closure.

Carter is a difficult figure to see in true proportion—his reputation has been stretched to the point of __________ as he is put forward as the prime example of a tyrannical CEO.

The author seemingly cannot resist detours into side obsessions, but even when his writing is not entirely __________, it is almost always entertaining.

In stark contrast to her earlier plays, which are noisily crammed with monologues and overlapping dialogue, Caryl Churchill’s later theatrical works are notably __________.

A prospective reader may well wonder whether the book would not be better classified as a somewhat unorthodox biography, but the author stands firm on its status as a work of fiction. She has drawn inspiration from the facts, the author tells us, but has (i)__________ them, editing and rearranging events. Also, she has felt free to (ii)__________ what her characters were feeling and what was going on in their minds—to invent, within the limits of plausibility, what could not be (iii)__________.

When an ideologue of one persuasion reverses course and embraces the views of erstwhile opponents, those whose views the convert adopts may feel vindicated. Still, one wants a person making a political about - face to (i)__________ of his or her previous allegiances: a reversal without a (ii)__________ is less than satisfying.

Two seemingly (i)__________ complaints have been lodged against English poets of W. H. Auden’s generation. The first was that they were (ii)__________ to political causes. The second was that, enamored of their own feline ambivalence, they lacked any (iii)__________ whatsoever. The confusion is not unfounded.

Though she is well versed in culinary conventions, the chef wisely avoids being (i)__________ tradition. As a result, her inventive dishes (ii)__________ the palate.

Though renowned among physicists today, Bell’s paper garnered no great __________ when it first appeared.

He felt crushed but did recognize the objective nature of the process: his rejection had come about through the __________ application of established criteria.

Archaeological study can reveal information about (i)__________ activities in ancient societies, thereby supplying details that were normally (ii)__________ formal historical records because they were considered too mundane.

Astronomers have known for centuries that some characteristics of Earth’s orbit are not __________; they fluctuate in a cyclic manner.