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Although the passage of years has softened the initially hostile reaction to his poetry, even now only a few independent observers __________ his works.

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The legislators of 1563 realised the ____________ of trying to regulate the flow of labour without securing its reasonable remuneration, and so the second part of the statue dealt with establishing wages.

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The struggle of the generations is one of the obvious constants of human affairs; therefore, it may be presumptuous to suggest that the rivalry between young and old in western society during the current decade is ________ critical.

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Politeness is not a _________ attribute of human behaviors, but rather a central virtue, one whose very existence is increasingly being ____________ by the faddish requirement to “speak one’s mind.”

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The new biological psychiatry does not deny the contributing role of psychological factors in mental illness, but posits that these factors may serve as a catalyst on existing physiological conditions and __________ such illness.

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It is to the novelist’s credit that all of the episodes in her novel are presented realistically; without any fanciful or playful __________ tricks.

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While Parker is very outspoken on issues she cares about, she is not ____; she concedes the ___ of opposing arguments when they expose weaknesses inherent in her own.

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Some customs travel well often, however, behavior that is considered the epitome of ________ at home is perceived as impossibly rude or, at the least, harmlessly bizarre abroad.

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It comes as no surprise that societies have codes of behaviour; the character of the codes, on the other hand, can often be __________.

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This final essay, its prevailing kindliness _________ by occasional flashes of savage irony, bespeaks the _______ character of the author.

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The influence of the Timaeus among early philosophical thinkers was ______, if only because it was the sole dialogue ______ in Europe for almost 1000 years.

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Nature’s energy efficiency often _________ human technology: despite the intensity of the light fire-flies produce, the amount of heat is negligible; only recently have humans developed chemical light-producing systems whose efficiency _______ the firefly’s system.

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The modern age is a permissive one in which things can be said explicitly, but the old tradition of _______________ dies hard.

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While not completely nonplussed by the unusually caustic responses from members of the audience, the speaker was nonetheless visibly _________ by their lively criticism.

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The powers and satisfactions of primeval people, though few and meager, were __________ their few and simple desires.

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Longdale and Stern discovered that mitochondria and chloroplasts __________ a long, identifiable sequence of DNA; such a coincidence could be _______ only by the transfer of DNA between the two systems.

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At several points in his discussion, Graves, in effect, _________ evidence when it does not support his argument, tailoring it to his needs.

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Number theory is rich in problems of an especially _________ sort: they are tantalisingly simple to state but ____________ difficult to solve.

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Queen Elizabeth I has quite correctly been called a ____________ of the arts because many artists received her patronage.

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Ironically, the party leaders encountered no greater _________ their efforts to build a progressive party than the __________ of the progressives already elected to the legislature.

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Although ________, almost self-effacing, in his private life, he displays in his plays and essays a strong _________ publicity and controversy.

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That many of the important laws of science were discovered during experiments designed to _________ other phenomenon suggests that experimental results are the _________ of inevitable natural forces rather than of planning.

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The action and characters in a melodrama can be so immediately _________ that all observers can hiss the villain with an air of smug, but enjoyable ___________.

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An investigation that is ____________ can occasionally yield new facts, even notable ones, but typically the appearance of such facts is the result of a search in a definite direction.