1. Chris Anderson, editor of Wired magazine, has always been a huge _________ of the philosophy that all information “wants to be free”; interesting, then, that his latest book retailed for $29.99, and Wired still charges for subscriptions.
2. The director of the musical admitted that while he was very good with characterization, scenery, lighting, and music, choreography was not at all his _________.
3. Though most technology used in the manufacture of bicycles is either decades old or adapted from other industries, the advent of carbon fiber frames brought with it genuine _________.
4. The long history of such _________ Western religious traditions as Kaballah and theosophy suggest that it is wrong to associate mysticism only with the East.
5. Sometimes _________ comes at a price; research suggests that among first-generation Chinese Americans, those who embrace the traditional Confucian values of their homeland are more likely to succeed academically than are those who do not.
6. Many Enlightenment philosophers viewed Machiavelli’s book as a satire meant to expose and caricature the _________ claims to power of the very figures Machiavelli pretended to endorse.
7. The defendant impressed the jurors as _________; they did not believe that a woman of her education and experience could possibly be as naïve as she acted.
8. Crucial to fostering a realistic understanding of the potential boons—and perils—of the new drug will be a concerted effort to _________ the specific contexts and symptoms that render its use appropriate.
9. Two months after the first shots of the American Revolution were fired, the British offered a pardon to any rebels willing to lay down arms, excepting only Samuel Adams and John Hancock, whose offenses the commanding British officer considered too _________ to forgive.
10. Robert Gottlieb, who otherwise found much to admire in John Steinbeck, argued that he was politically _________, offering an adolescent disaffection in place of settled judgment.