1. There are no solitary, free-living creatures; every formof life is______other
2. Heavily perfumed white flowers, such asgardenias, were favorites with
collectors in the eighteenth century,when______was valued much more highly
3. The spellings of many old English wordshave been______in the living
language, although their pronunciations havechanged.
4. The sheer bulk of data from the mass mediaseems to overpower us and drive
us to______accounts for an easily and readilydigestible portion of news.
5. Ecology, like economics, concerns itselfwith the movement ofvaluable______through a complex network ofproducers and consumers.
6. During the opera’s most famous aria thetempo chosen by the orchestra’s
conductor seemed ______, without necessaryrelation to what had gone before.
7.* Noting the murder victim’s flaccidmusculature and pearlike figure, she
deduced that the unfortunate fellow had earned his living in some______occupation.
8. While not completely nonplussed by theunusually caustic responses from
members of the audience, the speaker wasnonetheless visibly______by their
9. Some scientists argue that carboncompounds play such a central role in lifeon Earth because of the possibilityof______resulting from the carbon atom’s
ability to form an unending series ofdifferent molecules.
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