Because the monkeys under study are (i)______ the presence of human beings, they typically (ii)______ human observers and go about their business.
A unique clay disk found at the Minoan site of Phaistos is often ______ as the earliest example of printing by scholars who have defended its claim to this status despite equivalent claims put forward for other printing artifacts.
In linking geographically disparate people, the Internet is arguably helping millions of spontaneous communities to bloom: communities defined by common interests rather than by the accident of ______.
Our high (i)______ vocabulary for street crime contrasts sharply with our (ii)______ vocabulary for corporate crime, a fact that corresponds to the general public’s unawareness of the extent of corporate crime.
The remark was only slightly (i)______, inviting a chuckle, perhaps, but certainly not a (ii)______.
The research committee urged the archaeologist to (i)_______ her claim that the tomb she has discovered was that of Alexander the Great, since her initial report has been based only on (ii)_______.
He had expected gratitude for his disclosure, but instead he encountered ______ bordering on hostility.
According to one political theorist, a regime that has as its goal absolute (i)______, without any (ii)_______ law or principle, has declared war on justice.
The writer has gained such popularity with his readers that even his inanities are now considered ________.
In contrast to the substantial muscular activity required for inhalation, exhalation is usually a ______ process.
Unlike many recent interpretations of Beethoven’s piano sonatas, the recitalist’s performance was a delightfully free and introspective one; nevertheless, it was also, seemingly paradoxically, quite ______.
Although any destruction of vitamins caused by food irradiation could be ______ the use of diet supplements, there may be no protection from carcinogens that some fear might be introduced into foods by the process.
There seems to be no (i)_______ the reading public’s thirst for books about the 1960’s: indeed, the normal level of interest has (ii)_______ recently because of a spate of popular television documentaries.
Although the mental process that creates a fresh and original poem or drama is doubtless ______ that which originates and elaborates scientific discoveries, there is clearly a discernible difference between the creators.
The value of Davis’ sociological research is compromised by his unscrupulous tendency to use materials (i)________ in order to substantiate his own claims, while (ii)______ information that points to other possible conclusions.
If a species of parasite is to survive, the host organisms must live long enough for the parasite to (i)______; if the host species becomes (ii)______, so do its parasites.
Because of the excellent preservation of the fossil, anatomical details of early horseshoe crabs were (i)______ for the first time, enabling experts to (ii)______ the evolution of the horseshoe crab.
Joe spoke of superfluous and (i)______ matters with exactly the same degree of intensity, as though for him serious issues mattered neither more nor less than did (ii)______.
Because the high seriousness of their narratives resulted in part from their metaphysics, Southern writers were praised for their ______ bent.
Because early United States writers thought that the mark of great literature was grandiosity and elegance not to be found in common speech, they ______ the vernacular.