多选题As sea urchins are becoming scarcer, divers are ______ to more dangerous depths to retrieve them, ______ the potential for diving injuries.
多选题According to his supervisor, Kenji was an inveterate ______: he habitually put off doing his work until the last minute.
多选题Some skeptics consider the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) to be ______, even foolish; others go so far as to accuse SETI scientists of outright ______ in applying skewed data.
多选题The shrewd dictator publicized the prosperity of one small village in order to ______ the ______ of the economic hardships that plagued most of his country.
多选题New data measuring the ______ of land beneath the oceans permit accurate generalizations about the topography of the seafloor.
多选题When evidence is ______, reasonable people may demur, but when firm scientific proof has been supplied, they should ______ their opposition.
多选题"Hawaii" refers both to the group of islands known as the Hawaiian islands and to the largest island in that ______.
多选题Less confident employees tend to be ______ about asking for a pay increase, preferring to wait for their supervisors to raise the issue.
多选题Because these speeding particles" compositions were quite different from those of other low-energy cosmic rays, scientists dubbed them ______ cosmic rays.
多选题Because the congresswoman has been so openhanded with many of her constituents, it is difficult to reconcile this ______ with her private ______.
多选题Most pioneers ______ this valley on their journey to the West because its rugged terrain and frequent landslides made it a ______ place for travelers.
多选题Because an older horse is more ______ than a younger one, it is safer for a novice rider.
多选题Freedom of expression is not necessarily a ______ force: communities that encourage it often feel less threatened by social unrest than do those in which dissent is ______.
多选题A researcher who described a peaceful reunion between normally adversarial chimpanzees as a ______ was criticized for inferring human motives.
多选题Her first concert appearance was disappointingly perfunctory and
derivative, rather than the ______ performance in the ______ style we had
anticipated.
A. inspired
B. prosaic
C. literal
D. tenuous
E. innovative
F. mechanical
多选题As an architect who rehabilitates older buildings, Roberta Washington objected to a city policy that resulted in the mass ______ of clearly ______ structures.
多选题Despite its patent ______, this belief has become so ______ that no amount of rational argument will suffice to eradicate it.
多选题The man"s colleagues characterized him as ______, because he has an irritable, quarrelsome disposition.
多选题That Carl Stokes, former mayor of Cleveland, was truly ______ is evident from the significant impact he had in many different arenas.
多选题Fermat"s last theorem has been called the most ______ problem in all mathematics: for over 350 years, the conjecture ______ mathematicians, until it was finally proven in 1995.