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Because modern scientists find the ancient Greek view of the cosmos outdated and irrelevant, they now perceive it as only of ______ interest.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)______.
Powerful as they are, the ________ songs the artist is best known for might sting more and have even greater emotional complexity if one felt that his criticisms were aimed at himself as well as at his unnamed foes.
The senator’s attempt to convince the public that she is not interested in running for a second term is as _______ as her opponent’s attempt to disguise his intention to run against her.
The rate at which soil can absorb water (i)_______ with continuous wetting, so the longer a (ii)_______ lasts, or the greater the rate of precipitation, the higher the percentage of water that will flow across the ground as runoff and enter stream channels.
Chavez’ account of her supervisors’ (i)________ decision making belies the agency’s image as little more than (ii)________ bureaucracy.
Today water is more (i)________ in landscape architecture than ever before, because technological advances have made it easy, in some instances even (ii)________ to install water features in public places.
Originally, most intellectual criticism of mass culture was (i)____ in character, being based on the assumption that the wider the appeal, the more (ii)____ the product.
Although Tom was aware that it would be (i)______ to display annoyance publicly at the sales conference, he could not (ii)______ his irritation with the client’s unreasonable demands.
In her love the sea is ________ symbol: to the narrator it clearly represents everything that is destructive in nature, but at other times it seems to stand for everything in nature that is serenely beautiful.
The failure of many psychotherapists to (i)______ the results of pioneering research could be due in part to the specialized nature of such findings: even (ii)______ findings may not be useful.