多选题Given the failure of independent laboratories to replicate the results
of Dr. Johnson's experiment, only the most ______ supporters of her hypothesis
would be foolish enough to claim that it had been adequately ______.
A. vigilant
B. partisan
C. enlightened
D. verified
E. defined
F. undermined
多选题Critics characterized the memoir as ______ because of the author"s excessively sentimental description of her childhood.
多选题Like several other important advances in medicine, penicillin was a some-what ______ discovery resulting from ______ combination of blind chance and technical expertise.
多选题The singer displays her sensitivity to delicate shades of meaning and feeling in the recording: her performance is a model of ______.
多选题The city"s ______ atmosphere resulted from its location at the crossroads of trade routes used by merchants of many nations.
多选题The residents of the town lived ______ lives; no one indulged in wild or ______ behavior.
多选题Abida quickly realized that the director was extremely ______: she and the other cast members could never anticipate how he would respond.
多选题Cherokee women traditionally exercised ______ authority: they managed agriculture, determined clan membership, and wielded considerable economic power.
多选题The ancient Greek writer Herodotus was inordinately ______, blithely accepting wildly improbable legends as historical facts.
多选题______ as Mario"s misdeed was, his grandmother, always blind to his faults, pretended to be unaware of it.
多选题Despite his ______ rich food, the chef was able to practice ______ when his diet became threatening to his health.
多选题The reduction of noise has been approached in terms of ______ its
sources, but the alternative of canceling noise out by adding sound with the
opposite wave pattern may be more useful in practice.
A. diffusing
B. tracking
C. concealing
D. isolating
E. eliminating
多选题The simple and direct images in Dorothea Lange"s photographs provide ______ reflection of a bygone social milieu.
多选题Before becoming a stockbroker, Victoria Woodhull had a career as a ______, someone believed to have insights about events beyond ordinary human perception.
多选题Noting a ______ of robins around his home, the bird-watcher wondered whether this reflected an overall ______ in this species" population.
多选题The representative was a traditionalist, reluctant to support any legislation inconsistent with the nation"s most ______ principles.
多选题Able to survive subzero temperatures, long periods of darkness, and days without food, the Arctic wolf is clearly a very ______ animal.
多选题By virtue of her extensive experience and her ______ of practical knowledge, 87-year-old Louisa Vigil was ______ by her family in New Mexico as its chief advice-giver and matriarch.
多选题The teacher unabashedly used ______, flattering his students in an attempt to coax them to ______ research projects for extra credit.
多选题The editor removed large portions of the manuscript, ______ entire paragraphs that she considered either erroneous or ______.