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Faced with a barrage of _______ advice about infant sleep patterns, nutritional requirements, and emotional needs, new mothers are frequently confused.

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When Australian cane toads are _______, they release a venom from glands on the back of their heads that has proven to have hallucinogenic effects on potential predators.

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Edgar's _________ writings won fame more for their eccentricity than their message.

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Although great care is ______ in the investigation of a crime scene, the rapid deterioration of some forms of evidence demands _________.

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At the turn of the eighteenth century, _______ by increased consumption of tea, coffee and sugar worldwide, sugar overtook tobacco as America's most _______ export.

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Despite his _____ of formal training, members of the industry sought out the designer because he offered solutions based on practical ______ rather than textbooks.

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Claiming that they talk _____ of trivial matters, the girls in the outdoors club accuse the school's cheerleaders of being ______.

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Though the counting method used by the federal census is a seemingly ______ issue, because of its importance in determining funding it is also a politically ______ one.

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The problem of world hunger is ____ in sub-Saharan Africa, where one-third of the population is ____ undernourished.

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Malcolm's library was both ______ and _______; he had shelf after shelf of titles on every subject.

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One of the most _______ consequences of the Industrial Revolution was that it wiped out the ______ division of society into church, aristocracy and commoners.

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The effort to meet the world's growing _____ for energy has led corporations to explore new technologies and look for alternate sources of energy in _____ places.

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Some view the French Revolution not as a single uprising but as a collection of _____ revolutions; peasants, bourgeoisie and artisans expressed their discontent in simultaneous ______.

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If the current movement favoring the use of pharmaceuticals in psychiatric medicine __, there won't be a single ___ without a drug to prescribe for its treatment.

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The explosion of the British art scene in recent years has resulted in a dispersion of galleries in London, as the older ones downtown ____ for attention with newer ones on the ______ of the city.

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The paleontologist seemed _____ the punishing heat; she could walk all day intently scanning the ground for fossils.

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In order to survive the challenges they found in ______ environments, human ancestors had to be ______ changing circumstances.

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Though in agreement with most of the _______ of rationalist philosophy, Sigmund Freud had less confidence in the power of reason than some thinkers before him and unlike them, he believed humans were not ______ rational creatures.

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Transportation problems are _______; reduced public transit service leads to increased use of automobiles, which results in greater traffic congestion.

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Because opium and morphine are _____ the poppy plant, people who have eaten poppy seed bagels or cakes occasionally receive false positives in drug tests.

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Because various methods of birth control are more prevalent in affluent nations, population growth is generally much ____ in rich nations than in poor ones.

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To test his theory that prehistoric men used frozen lakes as refrigerators for their mammoth meat, the ____ ate horse meat he had left in a local pond for several months.

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When criticized for his ________ performance, the athlete responded with an angry ____ directed at his coach and his teammates.

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Over the years, the apprentice has been ______ gaining _______ and improving his skills.

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From slapstick to satire, tragedy to farce, the theater in early modern Europe took _____ forms.

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Irregularities in the orbits of some planets have allowed astronomers to _____ the existence of other, as of yet undiscovered, planets.

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Fearful that the matter would _____ into a _____, the company chose to settle the controversy as quickly as possible.

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The frantic expansion of William Randolph Hearst's publishing empire, and the debts New York bankers carried for him, serve as a perfect metaphor for the ____ of the 1920s.

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After years of rapid ___, Atlanta has the longest commutes in the nation and air so polluted that the federal government has threatened to ____ highway funds.

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Because he enjoyed only ____ support in Congress, the president was forced to ____ the views of his detractors when making his decisions.