Species with relatively ______ metabolic rates, including hibernators, generally live longer than those whose metabolic rates are more rapid.
Although frequent air travelers remain unconvinced, researchers have found that, paradoxically, the (i)______ disorientation inherent in jet lag also may yield some mental health (ii)______.
The challenge of interpreting fictional works written under politically repressive regimes lies in distinguishing what is (i)______ to an author’s beliefs, as opposed to what is (ii)______ by political coercion.
Despite the (i)______ of time, space, and history, human societies, the world over have confronted the same existential problems and have come to remarkably (ii)______ solutions, differing only in superficial details.
No work illustrated his disdain for a systematic approach to research better than his dissertation, which was rejected primarily because his bibliography constituted, at best, ________ survey of the major texts in his field.
In spite of (i)______ reviews in the press, the production of her play was (ii)______ almost certain oblivion by enthusiastic audiences whose acumen was greater than that of the critics.
One of the first _______ of reduced burning in Amazon rain forests was the chestnut industry: smoke tends to drive out the insect that by pollinating chestnut tree, allow chestnuts to develop.
The National Archives contain information so ______ that researchers have been known never to publish because they cannot bear to bring their studies to an end.
Despite the fact that the book’s title suggests (i)______, the author is not a charlatan claiming to offer a (ii)______; rather, her book assessed all possible treatments of certain diseases without identifying any cures.
Roman historians who study the period 30 B.C. to A.D. 180 can ______ the “Augustan peace” only by failing to recognize that this peace in many respects resembled that of death.
Belying his earlier reputation for (i)______ as a negotiator, Morgan had recently assumed a more (ii)______ stance for which many of his erstwhile critics praised him.
The author did not see the ________ inherent in her scathing criticism of a writing style so similar to her own.
What these people were waiting for would not have been apparent to others and was perhaps not very ______ their own minds.
Bebop’s legacy is (i)______ one: bebop may have won jazz the right to be taken seriously as an art form, but it (ii)______ jazz’s mass audience, which turned to other forms of music such as rock and pop.
Conceptually, it is hard to reconcile a defense attorney’s (i)____ to ensure that false testimony is not knowingly put forward with the attorney’s mandate to mount the most (ii)____ defense conceivable for the client.
Although Georgia O’Keeffe is best known for her affinity with the desert landscape, her paintings of urban subjects ______ her longtime residency in New York City.
One theory about intelligence sees (i)______ as the logical structure underlying thinking and insists that since animals are mute, they must be (ii)______ as well.
Some activists believe that because the health-care system has become increasingly (i)______ to those it serves, individuals must (ii)______ bureaucratic impediments in order to develop and promote new therapies.
The prevailing union of passionate interest in detailed facts with equal devotion to abstract (i)______ is a hallmark of our present society; in the past this union appeared, at best, (ii)______ and as if by chance.
Since one of Professor Roche’s oft-repeated adages was that familiarity leads to (i)________, his students were quite surprised to find him so (ii)_______ Return of the Native, a novel he had taught for over 30 years.