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deferential/respectful
French’s tone was reasonable, _____ almost, but the gaze she fixed on Backhouse over her reading spectacles had something of defiance in it.
countenancing/ sanctioning
There is a risk in _____ vagueness in speech: all kinds of distortions and lies can go unrecognized in the general haziness and so come off as facts.
a chastened
In the wake of recent scandals involving misconduct by the chief executives of large corporations, some company leaders have adopted ____ attitude, becoming more responsive to their shareholders.
inform = permeate
Debates over technologies often ______ their development: we can reflect on many of the social and ethical issues that the possibility of geoengineering the climate raises right as these technologies are coming into existence.
perfunctory/ brief
At public appearances the leader was remarkably taciturn, typically making ____ observations before turning the floor over to a colleague.
nugatory/ worthless
The workers' rights group was concerned that a new regulation allowing employees to request flexible working conditions was ____ because employers in turn were allowed to deny such requests at will.
propitious
The message the author conveys is that the bluefin tuna fishery worldwide is being mismanaged and that despite a few ____ signs, such as the partial recovery of stocks in some areas, the immediate future looks bleak.
dispatch/ celerity
The prosecutor was extremely slow in filing charges against the accused; however, once that first step had been taken, the court could and did move with relative ____.
dispatch
Historically, it has been unusual for scientific terms, once coined, to enter common usage with much ____: "scientist" and "dinosaur" (coined in 1833 and 1842, respectively), for instance, were rarely used before the late nineteenth century.
recalcitrant/intractable
Tycho Brahe had assigned Kepler the task of deriving parameters for the model of Mars, a particularly ____ problem, which had stymied others because the large eccentricity of Mars exposed the inadequacies of the model itself.
dyspeptic
During Roosevelt's first meeting with President, Harrison. Harrison seemed less ____ than usual: having just returned from a salubrious cruise down the Potomac, his characteristic sour silence was replaced by a ruddy, clear-eyed demeanor.
an exhortation
Baron's book implores scientists to present their work in ways that are accessible to the general public in order to save the world at large from scientific illiteracy, ____ that is echoed in other recent publications.
contumely
The ____ directed toward the editor struck many observers as excessive, since the quality of the special sections she oversaw, while far from perfect, was unmatched by any other contemporary newspaper.
dissimulation
This family placed great importance on taking one another at face value, and, consequently, they had little tolerance for ____.
rapacity/exaction
Jamie offered to loan her classmate a pencil, on the condition that in three days he repay her with two boxes of brand-new pencils: who would have believed that such ____ would exist among the young?
complaisant/deferential
Despite his secure position as a writer, Samuel Richardson adopted a strangely ____ posture, soliciting advice on early drafts of his second novel from readers familiar with his earlier work.
airtight/unassailable
The author first accused the official of espionage in a 1981 book, and-though the case was far from ____, full of suppositions rather than compelling evidence-the accusation has been repeated relentlessly ever since.
paragon/exemplar
The Holy People in Navajo sacred narratives do not act as moral ____: when they teach, it is as often by what they do wrong as by what they do right.
stilted/wooden
Even though Our Lady of the Forest achieves clinical evenhandedness in depicting the most depressing members of a small logging town, the novel lacks a single likable character and too often runs aground on ____ writing.
absolved/exculpated
The Chancellor castigated one regime for its mistreatment of political opponents, whereas he inexplicably ____ another that had committed similar acts.
adjunct
Some experts now feel that exercise should not be regarded as ____ other treatments for depression: they believe that exercise can itself serve as an appropriate remedy for some forms of the mood disorder.
indolence/sloth
Despite a reputation, once richly deserved, for ____ in adopting new technologies, most big carmakers are pouring resources both into battery power and other alternative forms of propulsion, and into automated driving.
fluid/fuzzy
Jelly Roll Morton asserted that the celebrated jazz pianists of the 1930s were simply "ragtime pianists in very fine form,” revealing how ____ the line between ragtime and jazz could seem to some listeners.
tampering with/doctoring
In an age when several publicity-hungry scientists have been found _____ their data, popularizers of scientific research could benefit from more skepticism about the findings they are reporting.
resented / begrudged
Although Duke Ellington's musicians owed their fame to him, they also recognized his debt to them; as such, many _______the fact that their improvisations became subsumed into the Ellingtonian canon unacknowledged.
onerous / arduous
Although torrential rains can sometimes be highly destructive, human survival generally proves much more __________ without rain than during periods of its overabundance.
ineluctable/inescapable
An______ property of any lens is that it cannot focus all wavelengths of light shed by a distant object; what is viewed is always a washed-out, inferior version of the original.
sybaritic/ hedonistic
Augustus, the first emperor of Rome, was celebrated for his moderation and temperate living, qualities that would distinguish him from so many of his _____ successors.
convey/impart
Beauford Delaney's dynamic depictions of Harlem and Greenwich Village, dating from 1929 to 1953, ______ the energy of the city, while the equally captivating abstract compositions from his Paris years of 1953 to 1979 demonstrate his sustained exploration of color.
novel/unprecedented
Recent advances in the study of desert varnish have been a boon to geologists, allowing them to date surface features and establish regional climate histories in _____ detail.
barbarity/ cruelty
That she was unaffected by the ____of the feudal past was evident in the style in which she wrote of it, a style completely devoid of nostalgia.
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