1. The natural balance between prey andpredator has been increasingly______,
most frequently by human intervention.
2. There is perhaps some truth in thatwaggish old definition of a scholar—a
siren that calls attention to a fog withoutdoing anything to______it.
3. Foucault’s rejection of the concept ofcontinuity in Western thought, though
radical, was not unique; he had _____ in theUnited States who, without
knowledge of his work, developed parallelideas.
4. Calculus, though still indispensable toscience and technology, is no longer
_____; it has an equal partner calleddiscrete mathematics.
5. Fashion is partly a search for a newlanguage to discredit the old, a way inwhich each generation can _____its immediatepredecessor and distinguish
6. While nurturing parents can compensate foradversity, cold or inconsistent
7. A misconception frequently held by novicewriters is that sentence structure
mirrors thought: the more convoluted thestructure, the more _____ the ideas.
8. Although the passage of years has softenedthe initially hostile reaction to his
poetry, even now only a few independentobservers _____ his works.
9. Marshall’s confrontational style couldalienate almost anyone: he evenantagonized a board of directors thatincluded a number of his supporters and
that had a reputation for not being easily_____.
10. Aptly enough, this work so imbued withthe notion of changing times and
styles has been constantly _____ over theyears, thereby reflecting its own
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