Although the meanings of words may necessarily be liable to change, it does not follow that the lexicographer is therefore unable to render spelling, in a great measure, ______.
Despite the fact that the amateur runner trained rigorously for six months before the race, he failed to (i)______ it: the course was so (ii)______ that even professional runners struggled to finish.
Because the painter Albert Pinkham Ryder was obsessed with his (i)______ perfection, he was rarely (ii)______ a painting, creating endless variations of a scene on one canvas, one on top of another.
Although they were not direct (i)_____, the new arts of the Classical period were clearly created in the spirit of older Roman models and thus (ii)______ many features of the older style.
When a person suddenly loses consciousness, a bystander is not expected to (i)______ the problem but to attempt to (ii)______ its effects by starting vital functions if they are absent.
Religious philosopher that he was, Henry More derived his conception of an infinite universe from the infinite God in whom he believed, a benevolent God of (i)______ whose nature was to create (ii)______.
One virus strain that may help gene therapists cure genetic brain diseases can enter the peripheral nervous system and travel to the brain, ______ the need to inject the therapeutic virus directly into the brain.
It is disappointing to note that the latest edition of the bibliography belies its long-standing reputation for (i)______ by (ii)______ some significant references to recent publications.
When Adolph Ochs became the publisher of The New York Times, he endowed the paper with a uniquely (i)______ tone, avoiding the (ii)______ editorials that characterized other major papers of the time.
Though (i)______ to some degree, telling a small lie sometimes enables one to avoid (ii)______ another’s feelings.
Even though the folktales Perroult collected and retold were not solely French in origin, his versions of them were so decidedly French in style that later anthologizes of French folktales have never _______ them.
Punishment for violating moral rules is much more common than reward for following them; thus, (i)______ the rules goes almost (ii)______ in society.
Despite the fact that the commission’s report treats a vitally important topic, the report will be (i)______ read because its prose is so (ii)_____ that understanding it requires an enormous effort.
Because modern scientists find the ancient Greek view of the cosmos outdated and irrelevant, they now perceive it as only of ______ interest.
He found his new acquaintance to be ________: trying to understand her personality was like peering into an unknown dimension.
In contrast to the (i)________ with which the acquisition of language by young children was once regarded, the process by which such learning occurs has now become the object of (ii)______.
Although it seems ______ that there would be a greater risk of serious automobile accidents in densely populated areas, such accidents are more likely to occur in sparsely populated regions.
Far from being (i)______, Pat was always (ii)______ to appear acquiescent.
Until quite recently research on diabetes had, as a kind of holding action, attempted to refine the (i)______ of the disease, primarily because no preventive strategy seemed at all likely to be (ii)_____.
Although the records of colonial New England are (i)______ in comparison with those available in France or England, the records of other English colonies in America are even more (ii)______.