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His lackadaisical approach to this project belies his well - known reputation for __________.

Simultaneously revered and reviled, the wolf embodies society’s __________ relationship with nature.

As an architect, Santiago Calatrava owes his stardom to his facility for memorable and sometimes even breathtaking form making and his unusually (i)__________ resume. He trained as both an architect and an engineer, with a doctorate in technical science from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. This (ii)__________ enables him to interweave several disciplines, especially architecture and engineering, which one might think would logically conjoin but are often, in the United States at least, puzzlingly (iii)__________.

Encompassing more than petty disagreements over order in the author list, arguments about attribution in science speak to __________ issues—for example, where do new ideas come from, and what constitutes a new idea?

Velázquez’ paintings can be somewhat __________: one cannot get on familiar terms with them, but only admire their colorful polish from afar.

It is hard to know exactly what is causing a worldwide proliferation of jellyfish, but we can speculate. The fishing industry has (i)__________ populations of jellyfish predators, such as red tuna, swordfish, and sea turtles. And when small, plankton-eating fish, such as anchovies, are (ii)__________, jellyfish flourish, gorging on plankton and reproducing prolifically.

Her success is not __________: for she writes clearly about complicated subjects and provides lucid explanations and penetrating insights.

Bok is not a complete absolutist about the need to always tell the truth, and she provides examples where that need should be (i)__________ but unlike some recent authors, she tends to seek an unshakable principle, and she ends in a homily: Trust and integrity are (ii)__________ resources, easily squandered, hard to regain. They can thrive only on a foundation of respect for (iii)__________.

Nineteenth-century photographs of Renaissance estates can yield insights about Renaissance agricultural practices but, of course, are sometimes not __________: Virginia creeper growing up a Renaissance villa is a botanical anachronism.

Rachel Carson is rightly credited with jump-starting the modern environmental movement in the mid-twentieth century, but her (i)__________ has been (ii)__________: other ecologically minded women writers preceded and followed her.

Though the autobiography generally reflects the author’s distinctively benign attitude toward others’ foibles, some of its observations have __________ quality, revealing an underlying disdain not evident in earlier works.

The human eye can distinguish upward of ten million colors, but, as the __________ of everyday color vocabulary attests, this capacity can be demonstrated only under special conditions that rarely occur naturally.

Journal editors will tell you that peer review is not designed to detect fraud—clever misinformation will sail right through no matter how __________ the reviews.

Nowadays most readers assume that the appearance of “translated by” on a novel’s title page signals the translator’s (i)__________ the form and content of the original. Eighteenth-century readers could not make the same assumption: while many eighteenth-century translations are (ii)__________ the original texts, scores of English and French translators (iii)__________.

Proponents of xeriscaping, a method of landscaping designed to minimize irrigation, point out that grass planted in desert locations has __________ effect on the environment, sapping water that is valuable and already scarce.

Engineers are (i)__________ regarding how important they as individuals are vis-à-vis their projects. Some (ii)__________ ones see themselves just as part of a team: “No one man designed the bridge,” Othmar Ammann said of his signature masterpiece, the influential George Washington Bridge, although it certainly would not have been built when, where, and how it was had it not been for him. Others are (iii)__________ who take every opportunity to call attention to themselves.

Joan’s constant stream of __________ jokes did sometimes alienate her companions, who thought that not every occasion called for such caustic humor.

A glance at the night sky may suggest that the universe is __________: the tableau of stars seen last night appears virtually identical to the one that fascinated our ancestors thousands of years ago.

Equal parts primer, chronicle, textbook, and source guide, Henderson’s new work should be __________ both laypeople and experts.

In his autobiography, the movie producer continually __________ his own business expertise, going into wearying detail about his acumen in handling various performers and rivals that few of his readers are likely to care about.

The video game company claims that it is in the entertainment business, which implies accessibility and ease but also suggests __________, and thus does a disservice to those who play video games: you take in entertainment but you actively participate in play.

Because scientific breakthroughs tend to occur when a prevailing theory’s predictions start to fail, scientists sometimes find it (i)__________ when a theory persists—as the standard model of particle physics has done—in making (ii)__________ predictions.

(i)__________ different insect species doesn’t always require (ii)__________. For example, one aphid species, Hayhurstia atriplicis, feeds on the leaves of the Chenopodium album plant, whereas the other aphid, Pemphigus betae, feeds underground on its roots. The leaf feeder causes a severe reduction in root biomass; as a result, Pemphigus is often completely eliminated.

In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Native American nations were hardly __________ entities: they waxed and waned, with some gaining power and others losing it.

The field of urban ecology is in __________ phase: just a decade or two ago the idea of doing natural science in a city was something few researchers ever considered.

For a long time, painter V. S. Gaitonde’s reputation, which barely existed in the West, __________ in his native India, partly because his abstract style was viewed as culturally irrelevant, even un-Indian.

He was not __________ in the classroom; rather than punish misbehaving students, he tried to understand them and their feelings.

For a small group of experts, the field is a lifelong obsession, but it is so __________ that it mystifies virtually everyone else.

In contrast to macroscopic animals and plants, whose evolutionary history contributes to their present-day distribution, some species of bacteria occur at every location on Earth’s surface at which their environmental requirements are __________.

Native ecological communities are sometimes conceptualized in conservation discourse as (i)__________ units, whereas in reality, those ecosystems are open, dynamic entities whose borders are (ii)__________.

James Baldwin (1924 - 1987) recognized that American writers, who are inescapably products of American politics, do not __________ the terms of the national conversation, but he emphasized their capacity to reshape the language in which it occurs.

In his illuminating essay, Peter O’ Malley Pierson presents Philip II not as an obscurantist monarch but as a patron of natural philosophers whose __________ was always limited by a bankrupt treasury.

Although open star clusters are remarkably stable, they are not __________: the mutual gravity among member stars creates a constant, slow churning, as the orbiting stars weave in and out of one another.

Many view revenge as (i)__________ behavior. But whatever its moral standing, it may nevertheless be (ii)__________: the urge to seek retaliation, some researchers suggest, is primed in the genes.

It is perhaps an unavoidable temptation for the historian to argue that his or her chosen slice of time was somehow especially __________: loaded with events that decisively altered the flow of time from then on.

In a society otherwise (i)__________ the styles of the 1960s, the architecture of that decade is rarely (ii)__________ and frequently reviled. All over the country, buildings from the 1960s are being (iii)__________, while much older buildings survive.

The list of traits that contribute to the success of insects is __________; in fact, there are but a few traits that are not clearly advantageous.

An epic film uses characters and plot to illuminate a place, an era, an entire society; viewers are reminded, through camerawork and art direction, that they are watching something more __________ than the plot’s narrative.

One of the virtues of the essay collection is that it presents __________ views side by side, showing a wide range of thought and highlighting the contentious nature of many of the arguments within the discipline.

While the intensity of hallucinations is variable, even the most __________ hallucination can be deeply unsettling because the experience is radically private, impossible for outsiders to confirm or validate.