1. The captain (i) ______ (ii) ______ for as long as he could, but eventually the crew became frustrated with the small portions of mead and the dearth of plunder, and decided to take matters into their own hands.
2. Of course we would all like to believe that our every success is of our own manufacture, but to believe that is to neglect the (i) ______ element present in all lives, beginning with a birth lottery that assigns to some such gifts as intelligence and to others such (ii) ______ as wealth.
3. Anne could have made a larger salary elsewhere, but such (i) ______ as ample vacation time and excellent insurance persuaded her to (ii) ______.
4. Jackson’s supporters praised his earthy speech as evidence of his common touch, while his (i) ______ condemned it as (ii) ______.
5. Economists have developed such sophisticated and (i) ______ mathematical tools for modeling human behavior that other social scientists often deploy those tools to model and help (ii) ______ even decisions that have no obvious economic consequences.
6. Patients who stop taking antibiotics when symptoms subside contribute to the evolution of drug-resistant strains, because an incomplete course of treatment spares the most ______ bacteria.
7. Children who are recognized as preternaturally intelligent often go on to fulfill their early promise, contrary to the stereotype of maladjusted ______ wasting their gifts.
8. Although the young woman was a (i) ______ chess player, she often played in a surprisingly (ii) ______ manner; this inconsistency frustrated her coaches to no end.
9. The more deeply one delves into the relevant literature, the more apparent it becomes that psychoanalysis is a practice (i) ______. Even tenets that some might deem (ii) ______ to the general philosophy, such as the notion that the human psyche is primarily governed by conflicting desires and is formed in large part by early childhood experiences, are by no means accepted as gospel, even by some of its most (iii) ______.
10. The (i) ______ of the author’s first novel is staggering: the plot is (ii) ______, the characters are entirely (iii) ______, and the prose is trite.
11. The psychic claimed to be able to divine the future by using a forked stick to locate underground water, but his methods were nothing more than ______.
12. The (i) ______ of the author’s first novel is staggering: the plot is (ii) ______, the characters are entirely (iii) ______, and the prose is trite.
13. The participants were of two minds as to whether the psychic had ______ a spirit, but everyone had felt the presence of something new in the room.
14. When he joked about his shortcomings as a husband, his humor grew too (i) ______ for our comfort, becoming so bitter and ironic that we found ourselves (ii) ______.
15. Churchill conceded that Russia, (i) ______ an ally of France and Great Britain, was in fact (ii) ______ to their security, but argued that Russian national interest would compel it to make (iii) ______ with those countries.
16. Just as ancient Greek culture in some ways provided the Romans with a model, the remnants of Roman culture ______ the development of medieval European mores.
17. (i) ______ the law had little impact, but it was (ii) ______ by subsequent legislation providing funding and enforcement.
18. Evoking both horror and joy in its audience in equal measure, the opera became an instant classic of ______ technique.
19. The famous Notre Dame cathedral in Paris took almost two hundred years to complete; this immense architectural effort included the first notable use of a flying ______, but this renowned feature was not part of the original design and only employed when the walls forming the nave began to crumble and needed additional support.
20. While no single empirical investigation can ever conclusively prove the (i) ______ of a theory, the fact that our data are (ii) ______ findings from over a dozen independent labs worldwide bodes well for our framework’s resilience.
21. A full account of the complexities of sleep, sought after by scientists, philosophers, and mystics for millennia, continues to elude us. That we are still so ignorant about a topic so (i) ______ to our daily lives is at once fascinating and (ii) ______.
22. Mozart’s brief life exemplified a discrepancy between fame and means: as his musical star (i) ______ beyond measure, his income (ii) ______.
23. The (i) ______ of the author’s first novel is staggering: the plot is (ii) ______, the characters are entirely (iii) ______, and the prose is trite.
24. The psychic claimed to be able to divine the future by using a forked stick to locate underground water, but his methods were nothing more than ______.
25. The (i) ______ of the author’s first novel is staggering: the plot is (ii) ______, the characters are entirely (iii) ______, and the prose is trite.
26. The psychic claimed to be able to divine the future by using a forked stick to locate underground water, but his methods were nothing more than ______.
27. The (i) ______ of the author’s first novel is staggering: the plot is (ii) ______, the characters are entirely (iii) ______, and the prose is trite.
28. The psychic claimed to be able to divine the future by using a forked stick to locate underground water, but his methods were nothing more than ______.
29. The (i) ______ of the author’s first novel is staggering: the plot is (ii) ______, the characters are entirely (iii) ______, and the prose is trite.
30. The participants were of two minds as to whether the psychic had ______ a spirit, but everyone had felt the presence of something new in the room.
31. When he joked about his shortcomings as a husband, his humor grew too (i) ______ for our comfort, becoming so bitter and ironic that we found ourselves (ii) ______.
32. Churchill conceded that Russia, (i) ______ an ally of France and Great Britain, was in fact (ii) ______ to their security, but argued that Russian national interest would compel it to make (iii) ______ with those countries.
33. Just as ancient Greek culture in some ways provided the Romans with a model, the remnants of Roman culture ______ the development of medieval European mores.
34. (i) ______ the law had little impact, but it was (ii) ______ by subsequent legislation providing funding and enforcement.
35. Evoking both horror and joy in its audience in equal measure, the opera became an instant classic of ______ technique.
36. The famous Notre Dame cathedral in Paris took almost two hundred years to complete; this immense architectural effort included the first notable use of a flying ______, but this renowned feature was not part of the original design and only employed when the walls forming the nave began to crumble and needed additional support.
37. The (i) ______ of the author’s first novel is staggering: the plot is (ii) ______, the characters are entirely (iii) ______, and the prose is trite.
38. The psychic claimed to be able to divine the future by using a forked stick to locate underground water, but his methods were nothing more than ______.
39. The (i) ______ of the author’s first novel is staggering: the plot is (ii) ______, the characters are entirely (iii) ______, and the prose is trite.
40. The participants were of two minds as to whether the psychic had ______ a spirit, but everyone had felt the presence of something new in the room.
41. Nora Ephron’s 1989 film, When Harry Met Sally, was more than a hit movie—for a generation, it was a cultural ______ regarding the often fraught relations between men and women.