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Not surprisingly, the (i) ____________ of the printing press (ii)____________ mass literacy, as books were no longer (iii) ____________exclusive to the clergy and aristocracy.
Dickens’s Uriah Heep, literature’s exemplar of (i) ____________, isdoubtlessly not a unique figure either in fiction or in life. Who in real life hasnot seen (ii) ____________, cringing, sycophantic headwaiters, publicservants, and car salespeople? Surely, Dickens was our premiere caricaturist,able to capture specific and recognizable human (iii) ____________ withbroad strokes of his pen.
For some English speakers in the United States, the word “yam” is (i)____________ “sweet potato,” despite several differences between them. Theyam is a starchy, white-fleshed tuber very low in beta carotene,characteristics not shared by its sweeter, more nutritious (ii) ____________.One can trace the yam, the (iii)____________ version of the word “nyami,”back to West African origins, whereas sweet potatoes were first grown inTropical America.
To assert that the writing of a historical text draws on the same (i)____________ of techniques as the writing of a work of fiction may (ii)____________ those authors who feel that the two disciplines(iii)____________ very little.
My mother would brook no argument about the use of vulgar (i)____________. As a result, I refined and sharpened my vocabulary until itbecame too (ii) ____________ for my peers to (iii)____________.
Bradypus variegatus, also known as the brown-throated three-toed sloth, is(i) ____________ to humid, wooded-evergreen areas of Honduras tonorthern Argentina. Almost exclusively a/n (ii) ____________ creature, thesloth is experiencing habitat destruction as many of Brazil’s forests undergothe (iii)____________ process of clear-cutting.
Very few veteran critics tend to be ____________ the recent decade incinema. Nonetheless, based on movie reviews many could easily come to theconclusion that the last ten years were indeed banner ones. Once theprovince of lettered intellectuals, a few even household names (Pauline Kaelcomes to mind), the role of the movie critic has been ____________ bythose lacking any notable credentials. With this flood of veritable tyrosopining from the rafters, a movie’s overall rating—as compiled and tabulatedby popular Internet sites–often times confers a(n) ____________ on a film,an assessment that posterity will most likely deem specious.
Perhaps there is nothing more to the album than its case thatexperimentalism into uncharted sonic landscapes did not ____________ withStockhauen. Or perhaps its forays--many of which could rightly be dubbedsophomoric--into the avant-garde, also lead to the ____________: that tocreate an unprecedented sound one has to ____________ a discerniblemelody.
Monarchial reigns ____________ tended to be more ____________,dynastically speaking, than those royal courts in which palace machinationshad not become a quotidian affair. In the latter, a pall of complacency wouldfall over the kingdom so that if suddenly there were an earl with an axe togrind, so to speak, his path to usurpation would be ____________.
The subjectivity inherent in travel is aptly captured in the range of styles usedby different writers. For Hemingway, writing eighty years ago, the experienceof travel—regardless of how momentous—was rendered in ____________epiphanies, a style many of today’s writers assiduously ____________. Thenthere is travel writer Pico Iyer, for whom a simple stroll through an airportcan engender sentences bursting forth with as many semicolons asrevelations. Who thought the terminal could be so ____________? Surely notHemingway.
Perkin’s wit, surprisingly ____________ by the prudishness of his time, maynot have been nearly as ____________ had he lived in an era not so proneto ____________.
Some note that the increase in the Native American powwow--an intertribalaffair of song, dance, and storytelling, all intrinsic aspects of Native Americanculture--serves to (i) ______________ the very culture it presumably aimsto (ii) ______________. They argue an overarching cultural narrativeemerges, one that (iii)______________ the narrative of any one tribe.
Edgar Allen Poe biographers tend to fall into two camps: those who try torescue the man himself from a macabre world in which fate had decreednothing less than a(n) (i) ______________ outcome, and those who (ii)______________ that very myth, treating the subject as one for whom a lifeof tragedy was (iii) ______________ .
The Hellenistic and Judaic philosophy of the early centuries did not so much____________ ancient Greek philosophy as it did ____________ the Platonicconcepts of this time with its understanding of the way in which an idealworld, or one of perfect forms, ____________ the existence of a perfectbeing. Even the philosophy of the Middle Ages was so inextricably bound withthe ideas of ancient Greece that many philosophers could hardly imaginediscussing the existence of a perfect being without invoking the conceptualframework laid down by Plato more than a thousand years earlier.
The question as to what constitutes art is hardly a ____________ one.Today, artists exist whose main goal seems only to subvert work that nolonger warrants the trite tag, “cutting-edge.” Once the proverbial envelope ispushed even further, the public inevitably scratches its collective head – orfurrows the collective brow – thinking that this time the “artists” have____________. That very same admixture of contempt and confusion,however, was not unknown in Michelangelo’s day; only what was consideredblasphemous, art-wise, in the 16th Century, would today be considered____________.
Unlike her predecessor, Mayor Williams would not ____________ anyimpertinence from her subordinates. Even a ____________ comment shetended to construe as one full of ____________.
That we may become flaccid after our rivals have been vanquished, and weare surrounded by those friendly to our interests, is in no way a(n)____________ observation. Still, history is rife with examples where a senseof ____________ pervades once a people have achieved victory. Yet, evenwere this insight more ____________, few would take notice, as humannature is wont to ignore future threats in times of prosperity.
The professor’s ____________ demeanor not only made others reluctant toapproach her, but also ____________ the intellectual growth that comesfrom the ____________ of ideas.
The war became a ____________ affair, and the citizenry, once____________ by grisly news reports, soon became ____________even themost shocking frontline images.
The Arizona sun is quick to pull the water from plants, leaving a (i)____________ shell of all but the heartiest of cacti. It is (ii) ____________to ignore the needs of the human body in this clime as well—dehydration canprovoke (iii) ____________, bellicosity, or even shock.
The organization, whose mission is to (i) ____________ equal access toeducation, (ii) ____________ the government for scaling back spending onfederal college spending initiatives, arguing that race and place will in largepart continue to (iii) ____________ who is and who is not able to attainhigher education.
James Clerk Maxwell once remarked that the best scientists are, in a sense,the ____________ ones; not hemmed in by the ____________ of theirrespective fields, they are able to approach problems with a(n)____________ mind, so to speak.
Heinrich Feyermahn, in insisting that Galileo did not fully uphold the tenets ofscientific rationalism, does not ____________ the Italian astronomer, butrather the very edifice of Western thought. For if Galileo is the purportedexemplar of rational thinking, and yet is ____________, then the history ofscience cannot be understood as an endless succession of scientists carryingout their work free of all-too-human biases. Thus, Feyermahn admonishes, infaithfully chronicling the sweep of science in the last 300 years,historiographers would be ____________ to not include the human foiblesthat were part of even the most ostensibly Apollonian endeavors.
The number of speeding tickets one receives is by no means a reliablemeasure of ____________. Some ____________ drivers, in fact, prove thatin certain cases the inverse is true. That is those savvy enough to haveavailed themselves of the latest cellular phone applications receive up-to-the-minute information on the presence of highway patrolmen—greater excessspeed, in these instances, simply implies a greater ____________.
For charities operating in the developing world, when noble impulses (i)______________ into mere (ii) ______________, vapid slogans rear theirheads and we witness a further deterioration in the very situation such high-mindedness had initially sought to (iii) ______________.
What tradition has long known, science must labor through its usual rigorousprotocols to arrive at the very same assessment. Concerning learning ininfants, recent findings (i) ______________ this trend: the timeworn yarnthat babies are (ii)______________ —and oftentimes disregarding—stimulifrom their surroundings has been turned on its head; although (iii)______________ exhibiting a mastery of their respective worlds, infants areconstantly conducting experiments—very much like scientists themselves—testing their limits vis-a-vis an environment at once enchanting andfrustrating.
Countless generations have been divided on Mendelssohn’s ____________—should he inhabit the same pantheon as Bach and Haydn, or be____________ to the ranks of could-have-beens? After all, it can be arguedthat his ____________ came at the age of 14 with his Octet in E-flat, a work,many believe, the composer never eclipsed in his remaining twenty-six years.
Carefully couching his words in the most diplomatic language possible, soeven those (i) ______________ to his cause could hardly construe his wordsas a (ii) ______________ , the city councilman offered an ultimatum to the(iii) ______________ group of protesters camped outside the City Hall.
Recent meteorological conditions in areas of the northeastern part of thecountry have been so ____________as to leave scientists ____________.Even those models scientists developed to ____________ these extremeoutliers have been found wanting.
Not surprisingly, the (i) ____________ of the printing press (ii)____________ mass literacy, as books were no longer (iii) ____________exclusive to the clergy and aristocracy.
Dickens’s Uriah Heep, literature’s exemplar of (i) ____________, isdoubtlessly not a unique figure either in fiction or in life. Who in real life hasnot seen (ii) ____________, cringing, sycophantic headwaiters, publicservants, and car salespeople? Surely, Dickens was our premiere caricaturist,able to capture specific and recognizable human (iii) ____________ withbroad strokes of his pen.
For some English speakers in the United States, the word “yam” is (i)____________ “sweet potato,” despite several differences between them. Theyam is a starchy, white-fleshed tuber very low in beta carotene,characteristics not shared by its sweeter, more nutritious (ii) ____________.One can trace the yam, the (iii)____________ version of the word “nyami,”back to West African origins, whereas sweet potatoes were first grown inTropical America.
To assert that the writing of a historical text draws on the same (i)____________ of techniques as the writing of a work of fiction may (ii)____________ those authors who feel that the two disciplines(iii)____________ very little.
My mother would brook no argument about the use of vulgar (i)____________. As a result, I refined and sharpened my vocabulary until itbecame too (ii) ____________ for my peers to (iii)____________.
Bradypus variegatus, also known as the brown-throated three-toed sloth, is(i) ____________ to humid, wooded-evergreen areas of Honduras tonorthern Argentina. Almost exclusively a/n (ii) ____________ creature, thesloth is experiencing habitat destruction as many of Brazil’s forests undergothe (iii)____________ process of clear-cutting.
Very few veteran critics tend to be ____________ the recent decade incinema. Nonetheless, based on movie reviews many could easily come to theconclusion that the last ten years were indeed banner ones. Once theprovince of lettered intellectuals, a few even household names (Pauline Kaelcomes to mind), the role of the movie critic has been ____________ bythose lacking any notable credentials. With this flood of veritable tyrosopining from the rafters, a movie’s overall rating—as compiled and tabulatedby popular Internet sites–often times confers a(n) ____________ on a film,an assessment that posterity will most likely deem specious.
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amply filled
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aura of nostalgia
mantle of inviolability
patina of respectability
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Perhaps there is nothing more to the album than its case thatexperimentalism into uncharted sonic landscapes did not ____________ withStockhauen. Or perhaps its forays--many of which could rightly be dubbedsophomoric--into the avant-garde, also lead to the ____________: that tocreate an unprecedented sound one has to ____________ a discerniblemelody.
Monarchial reigns ____________ tended to be more ____________,dynastically speaking, than those royal courts in which palace machinationshad not become a quotidian affair. In the latter, a pall of complacency wouldfall over the kingdom so that if suddenly there were an earl with an axe togrind, so to speak, his path to usurpation would be ____________.
The subjectivity inherent in travel is aptly captured in the range of styles usedby different writers. For Hemingway, writing eighty years ago, the experienceof travel—regardless of how momentous—was rendered in ____________epiphanies, a style many of today’s writers assiduously ____________. Thenthere is travel writer Pico Iyer, for whom a simple stroll through an airportcan engender sentences bursting forth with as many semicolons asrevelations. Who thought the terminal could be so ____________? Surely notHemingway.
Perkin’s wit, surprisingly ____________ by the prudishness of his time, maynot have been nearly as ____________ had he lived in an era not so proneto ____________.
Some note that the increase in the Native American powwow--an intertribalaffair of song, dance, and storytelling, all intrinsic aspects of Native Americanculture--serves to (i) ______________ the very culture it presumably aimsto (ii) ______________. They argue an overarching cultural narrativeemerges, one that (iii)______________ the narrative of any one tribe.
Edgar Allen Poe biographers tend to fall into two camps: those who try torescue the man himself from a macabre world in which fate had decreednothing less than a(n) (i) ______________ outcome, and those who (ii)______________ that very myth, treating the subject as one for whom a lifeof tragedy was (iii) ______________ .
The Hellenistic and Judaic philosophy of the early centuries did not so much____________ ancient Greek philosophy as it did ____________ the Platonicconcepts of this time with its understanding of the way in which an idealworld, or one of perfect forms, ____________ the existence of a perfectbeing. Even the philosophy of the Middle Ages was so inextricably bound withthe ideas of ancient Greece that many philosophers could hardly imaginediscussing the existence of a perfect being without invoking the conceptualframework laid down by Plato more than a thousand years earlier.
The question as to what constitutes art is hardly a ____________ one.Today, artists exist whose main goal seems only to subvert work that nolonger warrants the trite tag, “cutting-edge.” Once the proverbial envelope ispushed even further, the public inevitably scratches its collective head – orfurrows the collective brow – thinking that this time the “artists” have____________. That very same admixture of contempt and confusion,however, was not unknown in Michelangelo’s day; only what was consideredblasphemous, art-wise, in the 16th Century, would today be considered____________.
Unlike her predecessor, Mayor Williams would not ____________ anyimpertinence from her subordinates. Even a ____________ comment shetended to construe as one full of ____________.
That we may become flaccid after our rivals have been vanquished, and weare surrounded by those friendly to our interests, is in no way a(n)____________ observation. Still, history is rife with examples where a senseof ____________ pervades once a people have achieved victory. Yet, evenwere this insight more ____________, few would take notice, as humannature is wont to ignore future threats in times of prosperity.
The professor’s ____________ demeanor not only made others reluctant toapproach her, but also ____________ the intellectual growth that comesfrom the ____________ of ideas.
The war became a ____________ affair, and the citizenry, once____________ by grisly news reports, soon became ____________even themost shocking frontline images.
The Arizona sun is quick to pull the water from plants, leaving a (i)____________ shell of all but the heartiest of cacti. It is (ii) ____________to ignore the needs of the human body in this clime as well—dehydration canprovoke (iii) ____________, bellicosity, or even shock.
The organization, whose mission is to (i) ____________ equal access toeducation, (ii) ____________ the government for scaling back spending onfederal college spending initiatives, arguing that race and place will in largepart continue to (iii) ____________ who is and who is not able to attainhigher education.
James Clerk Maxwell once remarked that the best scientists are, in a sense,the ____________ ones; not hemmed in by the ____________ of theirrespective fields, they are able to approach problems with a(n)____________ mind, so to speak.
Heinrich Feyermahn, in insisting that Galileo did not fully uphold the tenets ofscientific rationalism, does not ____________ the Italian astronomer, butrather the very edifice of Western thought. For if Galileo is the purportedexemplar of rational thinking, and yet is ____________, then the history ofscience cannot be understood as an endless succession of scientists carryingout their work free of all-too-human biases. Thus, Feyermahn admonishes, infaithfully chronicling the sweep of science in the last 300 years,historiographers would be ____________ to not include the human foiblesthat were part of even the most ostensibly Apollonian endeavors.
The number of speeding tickets one receives is by no means a reliablemeasure of ____________. Some ____________ drivers, in fact, prove thatin certain cases the inverse is true. That is those savvy enough to haveavailed themselves of the latest cellular phone applications receive up-to-the-minute information on the presence of highway patrolmen—greater excessspeed, in these instances, simply implies a greater ____________.
For charities operating in the developing world, when noble impulses (i)______________ into mere (ii) ______________, vapid slogans rear theirheads and we witness a further deterioration in the very situation such high-mindedness had initially sought to (iii) ______________.
What tradition has long known, science must labor through its usual rigorousprotocols to arrive at the very same assessment. Concerning learning ininfants, recent findings (i) ______________ this trend: the timeworn yarnthat babies are (ii)______________ —and oftentimes disregarding—stimulifrom their surroundings has been turned on its head; although (iii)______________ exhibiting a mastery of their respective worlds, infants areconstantly conducting experiments—very much like scientists themselves—testing their limits vis-a-vis an environment at once enchanting andfrustrating.
Countless generations have been divided on Mendelssohn’s ____________—should he inhabit the same pantheon as Bach and Haydn, or be____________ to the ranks of could-have-beens? After all, it can be arguedthat his ____________ came at the age of 14 with his Octet in E-flat, a work,many believe, the composer never eclipsed in his remaining twenty-six years.
Carefully couching his words in the most diplomatic language possible, soeven those (i) ______________ to his cause could hardly construe his wordsas a (ii) ______________ , the city councilman offered an ultimatum to the(iii) ______________ group of protesters camped outside the City Hall.
Recent meteorological conditions in areas of the northeastern part of thecountry have been so ____________as to leave scientists ____________.Even those models scientists developed to ____________ these extremeoutliers have been found wanting.