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withstand

The lightweight, cellulose-reinforced cement board _________ high winds and corrosion.; A viable decision making system must be able to _________ the rigorous critique of players.; Ramachandran initially thought that the young girl would not be able to _________ the pressure.;

vibration

The positive _________ of group prayers, he said, helps develop emotional integrity and strengthens relationships.; The atmosphere of the cottage was thick with uneasy _________, and as she ascended the staircase, they grew stronger.; I have to say I am mighty impressed by its rumbling _________, even though it was only used as part of the orchestra.;

upswing

The study also found that these _________ in hurricane strength correlate with a rise in sea-surface temperatures.; One of the main reasons for the slight _________ in the economic scale was the possibility of war.; Over the past four years, you know, my career has kind of taken on a resurgence and an _________.;

by all means

Although, if you don't mind paying a little more, _________, pick it up.; If you have any thoughts about this, _________, start a discussion thread, and let us know.; If you think you know of one who might be interested, then _________, please tell me.;

rebel

America rose up and _________, and then expanded in power until it tipped the balance during World War One and harnessed the power of the atom to win World War Two.; Forked story paths in the beginning allow you to choose between siding with the armed _________ in resistance or the Soviets in appeasement.; Stiglitz himself, who won the Nobel Prize for Economics last year, was something of a maverick, an internal _________.;

presumptuous

Being the _________ boy he was, he thought he would be coming inside my house.; She acts sweet, kind and nice on the outside, but inside she's as rude and _________ as I am.; Well, I don't to be _________, but I assume it was anticipated there would be this type of focus.;

colloquialism

But having said all of that, I would like to speak at least a few words in defense of _________.; Thus, she rather enjoyed smattering her generally formal English with a pot-pourri of _________ and jokes - her energy made her teaching a lot of fun.; There were pertinent summaries of Kiwi poetry's nationalism and _________.;

illusory

But it's an _________ prize and not worth the sacrifice of lives and principles.; Progress towards equity is both real and _________, things both have and have not progressed.; The arbitrariness of these figures is itself an indication of the _________ nature of the benefits.;

well-adjusted

But more importantly, the very nature of the position can turn sane, _________ men into malcontents.; Teachers also have expressed their ideas concerning what _________ and successful students should be like.; There are people who remove the skin before eating, and then there are sensible, _________ people, who eat it.;

tenuous

But the central idea - that of the unexciting English town staking its _________ claim to historical distinction - is an intriguing one.; W.B. Yeats connection with the house is _________ indeed and hangs by the slender thread of his infatuation with Con and Eva.; But the fact that his confirmation was put on thin ice by such _________ allegations concerns many activists.;

dictate

But the drastic measures were attacked last night as the latest attempt to _________ to parents how they should bring up their children.; The school did not _________ what themes had to be followed or depicted.; What's important is that we not try to _________ to companies how they run their labor policies in this country.;

crust

But the more evident marauder is pigeons, thanks to the sandwich _________ left by lunchers and the feed spread by misguided bird fanciers.; That cycle of events takes around four days, but new crops of vesicles come up in waves in the first three or four days, so you can have some vesicles growing bigger while earlier ones are drying up and _________ over.; Her hair was wild, blood _________ in long scratches down the side of her face, and the left sleeve of the biker jacket was torn almost completely free.;

clandestine

But the other side of the story is of course, perhaps it is possible they were on some _________ mission.; The _________ route the escaped slaves traveled became known as the Underground Railroad.; Olga's _________ meetings with Nicholai at Michael's home were becoming dangerous.;

jeopardy

But this option is in real _________ due to union opposition and especially a misguided court decision last summer.; The future of a top water-skiing club could be in _________ if plans for a new housing development are approved by Selby councillors.; He also pointed out that a further 300 spin off jobs from the Marino Point plant could be in _________ if it was closed.;

shaft

By this time the mine had three _________, many large stopes and hundreds of metres of drives.; The first things to go in were the engines, a job that required a lot of measuring and development of a gear train to match their output to the belts and _________ that drove the looms.; They would be too occupied to notice that their money was vanishing and that they were getting _________ no matter how hard they worked.;

cut out

Dilger said that he could remember little of the accident, only that his engine had _________ and that the brakes had failed.; He was almost a leg in front of the Listers when his engine _________ and he was left dead in the water.; The doodlebug's flaming engine _________ and it turned to glide in our direction.;

trombonist

He has extensive performing experience as a _________ with an orchestra.; The _________ made some very interesting sounds.; A former _________, she is now focusing her career on composing and arranging.;

boomerang

I myself slouch in my chair so badly that my spine is curved like a _________.; Well, although we associate the _________ with Australian Aborigines, many cultures used boomerang-like equipment in prehistoric times.; The striking workers should believe their collective action might _________ back at them.;

quiver

I noticed a slight _________ in the man's lips, and to my surprise, he dropped his gun, staggered away, and collapsed to his knees.; The flame _________ a little more then went out.; I packed my _________ full of arrows along with my armguard and left the palace.;

exhilaration

I remember the pure _________ of tramping the steep slopes of the hills and mountains with him in search of our elusive prey.; At other times, a sense of anticipation - not unlike at pop festivals - helped create a feeling of _________.; I laughed out loud in sheer pleasure, feeling the _________ of the contest rush through me.;

sensibly

I'm not familiar enough with that subject to really talk _________ about it.; I praised the women in the audience who _________ refused to look.; It is bright and _________ built, and for a hatchback, its seats are uncommonly interested in your comfort.;

mediate

I've learned the best way to _________ these arguments is to let them develop into what they will.; He _________ arguments between the pilgrims and interjects his comments throughout the different tales.; The Councillor has stepped in to _________ between the council and worried library-goers at a meeting due to take place on Tuesday.;

ceramics

In alumina _________, what is the function of the ceramic component?; There has never been a better time to invest in certain types of furniture, silver, clocks, _________ and glass.; They come in a variety of materials: _________, brass, bone china and cut glass.;

communal

In the past land was _________ property that could not be sold or inherited.; Underpinning the project's strong social and _________ dimension is a measure of environmentally aware design.; They were founded on the noble ideal of shared _________ living, which required active participation from all of them.;

legitimize

In truth, disclosure laws have _________ a form of official corruption - sanitizing activities by publicizing them.; With the legalisation of the paramilitaries, they hope to _________ impunity for these crimes against the Colombian people.; Stamps serve to proclaim and _________ the authority of rulers.;

inference

It is for the jury in a criminal trial to draw _________ from the evidence as the trier of fact, not the witness.; Now, if reason generates only judgements about the world and _________ therefrom, it is hard to see how it can be a motive to act.; The idea behind deductivism is to ignore the interpretation and stick to the _________.;

stigma

Pollinations were performed in June by applying the cotton stick loaded with pollen on the receptive _________.; And that has done more than anything else to reduce the _________ of this disease in many countries.; The patient did not have _________ of other autoimmune diseases, and her blood glucose level was within normal limits.;

exotic

Some of the proposals include _________ electronic states that have not yet been observed in any system.; However, anti-matter is an _________ form of matter which is extremely expensive to produce.; Twenty-five years ago, it was the equivalent of the Internet; a means of access to worldwide information resources and _________ foreign cultures.;

unifying

Syncretism is usually defined in terms of attempts to combine or _________ elements of different religious systems.; The government attempted to simplify and _________ the land tenure system.; There is nothing _________ about a nation of people; for every crowd there is a break away.;

tremor

Terrified people fled their homes unaware that it was an earth _________.; It seemed that the whole of nature was affected by a _________ of excitement, adoring the creator.; Please... please live,' she said through the violent _________ of her voice.;

prior

There will also be a temporary away seating area constructed _________ to the start of the new season.; Hamlet had no significant injury problems _________ to their midweek match at Fleet Town.; The courts have also looked to the logical implications and extensions of their _________ precedents in deciding whether a right is fundamental.;

well-thought-out

We need this common sense, _________ plan that is both affordable and doable.; This part of the bill has been very _________ and carefully drafted.; I do think it's a lovely essay - _________, passionate and well-argued.;

totemic

each country has honoured its _________ political figure; its destruction became _________ of the horrors of the Blitz; the _________ image of Bogart represents an immutably powerful mystique;

conform

And, like many other populist legal actions, it doesn't _________ with our ideal of justice - the rule of law.; It's not a typical horror movie, in that it really doesn't _________ to the genre rules.; Well, I did, but they _________ to general socially acceptable behaviour.;

empirical

I think it is too much a matter of perception, rather than there being _________ evidence.; Because natural science can offer _________ proof for its hypotheses, it can verify its claims.; The fitting of _________ curves to experimental data is one aspect of data-based modelling.;

shed

I'll _________ this house like a snake or a lizard must _________ its skin.; Though the baby soon _________ the hair on his head, the moustache only grows thicker.; A couple of stone throws away, near the machinery _________, is the old homestead with its original wood-fired stove.;

hypothetical

I'm just pointing out to you a _________ experiment.; Some philosophers have adduced _________ examples to support the conclusion that we ought to set the threshold very high.; There is no light coming from the casements in the lower part of this _________ window - supposing the design to be similar to the other windows.;

do away with

Many of the participants were on the ground, searching for other victims to _________.; If there are scratches, you can use polish cleaner and scratch remover to _________ them.; Without further ado the king hires an assassin to _________ him, solving all sorts of problems in one deathly stroke.;

permutation

Now, since we're considering order, each of these combinations has a number of _________.; We will give a proof here, independent of Wilson's theorem, that all _________ are possible.; Clearly, the possible number of _________ is gigantic.;

disenchanted

Of course not everyone is _________ with our peerless leader.; Rather than walking out determined to help save wildlife, they go away _________.; A year later it appears to many _________ voters that the change was simply cosmetic.;

intrinsic

Socrates believed in the _________ value of asking honest questions and challenging orthodoxy.; The fundamentals of quality are of course _________ to the value of a drawing.; Granitic magmatism at convergent margins is _________ to the growth of continents and is an integral part of Andean geology.;

nutrient

The high moisture content and _________ in cooked food make this growth possible.; They replenish _________, restore blood sugar levels and help rehydrate the body.; To avoid accumulation of _________ in the growth media, the sand was flushed once every week with water.;

loom

They set up their _________ and spinning wheels in a back-to-the-future type stunt to raise awareness of their crafts.; With the elections _________ large, his government is fighting to keep energy prices under control.; Weaving is a traditional art, the cloth being woven on narrow _________.;

unduly

They should be compensated with money when their interest is _________ interfered with.; I don't want to alarm them _________, but they do need to be extremely careful.; The SNP, they claim, is being punished _________ for the general disillusion with home rule.;

hamper

There will also be a raffle for _________, vouchers, bottles etc., on the day.; Perhaps you might like a nice _________ or a CD player, maybe a basket of Easter eggs?; The _________ will be dished out to families on the estate who have been recommended by health professionals like midwives, social workers or health visitors.;

in a nutshell

These famous lines of Shakespeare aptly describe the human life _________ as perhaps no other verse manages to do.; So _________ that's what I've been up to since Wednesday - drinking too much, not sleeping enough.; Yet, _________, it lacks the originality that it would take to launch a musical revolution.;

ectothermic

A lack of metabolic data has made this association more difficult to assess in most _________ vertebrates, and little is known of any possible relationship between genome size and metabolic rate in fishes and reptiles.; As a result, these animals are able to thrive in environments with cold or highly variable thermal conditions, and in some nocturnal habitats unavailable to _________ vertebrates.; The temperature at which the eggs of _________ vertebrates incubate can influence several phenotypic traits of offspring.;

vapour

Adding a few drops of essential oil to a bowl of hot water, or to a warm bath, releases the _________, which is then inhaled.; As the warm air rises the water _________ in it condenses into clouds that can produce rain, snow, sleet or freezing rain, often all four.; What results is a super-saturated _________, which cools to near ambient temperatures in a few milliseconds and condenses into the aerosol particles that make up the smoke.;

pluck

Admiring her _________ and determination Clint reluctantly takes her on and a fascinating relationship of substitute father and daughter emerges.; Rita picked up his guitar and _________ at the strings.; Wendy couldn't help but admire the _________ and ingenuity these youngsters showed.;

irrigation

All three patients recovered fully after _________ and debridement.; The differences in age, operation time, ultrasound time, and amount of _________ solution among the groups were not significant.; Until the early 20th century, various therapies, such as colonic _________, were commonly used for a variety of systemic disorders.;

rear-view mirror

And then it was a distant speck in my _________.; Right when she was going to hop into the driver's seat, she noticed a glint in her _________.; Jack watched the road ahead of him, then looked in his _________ and watched the woman.;

out of place

As she leaned her head down to drink her beverage a lock of hair fell _________ into her eyes.; He said the distance from neighbouring properties was acceptable and the design of the new building would be _________.; She felt a sudden urge to straighten his curly brown hair where it had fallen _________.;

petroleum

Benzene is a colorless and highly flammable liquid hydrocarbon derived from _________.; Eocene formations are important source or reservoir rocks for _________ or gas in several parts of the world.; Liquid paraffin is a mixture of liquid hydrocarbons obtained from _________.;

whereas

Berti wants as many of them as possible, _________ I deliberately minimised them.; The supernatant was kept in stock _________ the residue was sequentially extracted three times.; A nonalignable difference is that a bus has a schedule _________ a bicycle does not.;

stash

Billed as a true story (which it isn't), this Coen brothers masterpiece set in motion a wild-goose chase for a _________ of cash buried near a highway in North Dakota.; This is where I got most of my drug _________; they were just giving it away as if it were candy.; We _________ the new purchases in the boot of the car and walked across the footbridge to sit and watch tourists by the London eye.;

focal

But a better organizing principle - some kind of narrative or _________ story, numbered points, whatever - would help us remember more.; Meduna identified six patients with _________ seizures in whom the brain focus was surgically excised.; Cranial vasculitis may lead to _________ neurologic deficits.;

fortified

Early versions of commercially manufactured infant formula were often _________ cow's milk.; Most countries produced a version of _________ wine out of necessity.; Test results showed _________ rice significantly improved the children's vitamin A and zinc status.;

sooner or later

Environmental changes in one area of the world eventually affect the rest _________.; They all either know each other or will get to know each other, _________.; The company clearly committed wrongs, and was bound to cause a storm in the business world _________.;

awe

For all his confidence, in a strange way he was in _________ of some of the senior players and their experiences.; He was in _________ of China and pleaded that if India should progress it should learn a lesson or two from the communist regime.; He said the troops were in _________ of the students' courage.;

repertoire

For five weeks they explore the riches of the chamber music _________ and present more than 30 public concerts.; I gently woke my neighbor and listened myself with a concentration not usual for me when attending chamber concerts with late Classical or early Romantic _________.; Since much of the Vivaldi _________ is concerti, I wondered at first how this one-on-a-part ethos would affect the shaping of contrasts between soloists and ripieno.;

unleash

Have they been successful in _________ weapons of mass destruction against us?; This system of direct rule by proxy enraged the Unionist right and eventually _________ a downward spiral of loyalist reaction and republican assertiveness.; In fact, the show was responsible for _________ my own long-suppressed inner clown.;

oscillate

He also evaluated static slicing installation in which an implement with a blade inserted at least 10 in. into the ground opens the soil without vibrating or _________ and pulls the fabric into this slit.; This induced voltage drives a secondary _________ current in the conductive body, also at the same frequency as the primary, but with a phase difference that depends on the electrical properties of the conductor.; The spectral frequencies should then correspond to the various ways in which the electrons might _________ within the positively-charged pudding.;

flick

He gave the reins in his hand a light _________ and the palomino horse beneath him trotted down the road toward the community that supported the castle.; Her mind _________, her arms moved in a fluid motion, produced a hidden knife, and tossed without thinking.; I know what happened between us was all my fault and I know I'm probably getting the _________ today - but I couldn't leave without telling you just how sorry I am.';

discrepancy

He then informed members about the _________ at their annual general meeting and the matter was reported to the police.; The _________ in gender ratio is due to the fact that there are half as many events for women.; The result, as the _________ in water consumption shows, is neither equitable nor reasonable.;

lavish

He was _________ with her, but not like the movie would have you believe.; He was riding on the success of the publications of The Happy Prince, Dorian Gray and the staging of Lady Windermere's Fan in 1892, _________ gifts on his friends.; If you're not ready to spoil your pet with _________ gifts and gourmet treats just yet, start small.;

contrived

Here, however, several _________ situations are grafted into the plot to generate artificial tension.; Harris rejected such an ahistorical and artificially _________ formulation of African studies.; How could it be that in a situation as artificially _________ as a television studio, you could get this frank and free discussion between two people?;

disinclination

His _________ matters more in international arenas than in domestic politics.; In politics there was little to commend a _________ to cause offence.; As a consequence, many have shown a _________ to embrace the president's program.;

traversal

His account of the _________ of the wilderness and the creation of a politics of the frontier surrounding Bingham's practice is rich and varied.; Transportation, as _________, is the crossing, which is movement as such.; The desert can be quite cold during the winter months; the train left well before sunrise, so we witnessed that during our _________ of the desert.;

anew

I could have easily exchanged my name permanently for a Hindu one and begun life _________ in Calcutta.; The harvest and holiday season affords us all another opportunity to begin _________.; May the year 2004 provide each of you with time to recover and the courage to begin _________ in the coming year.;

synchronized swimming

Or perhaps you can develop a newfound appreciation for _________ as teams compete for the gold.; She is one of 10 postgraduate sports science students at Loughborough University to have won a training scholarship with British Swimming, the national governing body for swimming, diving and _________.; About 600 competitors will participate in swimming, diving, water polo and _________ from Thursday to Saturday.;

vault

Outside, there were a few unimpressive clouds seeming lost in the _________ of the sky.; The owner of the fossil kept it locked away in a bank _________ so no one has ever been able to verify it - until now.; After his old friend Hobhouse had arranged for the coffin to lie in state for a few days in London, it was interred in the family _________ at Hucknall Torkard, near Newstead.;

debunk

Over the past two centuries, Hamilton's reputation has waxed and waned as America has glorified or _________ businessmen.; Rothman _________ the romantic notion of a doomed genius working feverishly by candlelight to commit his revolutionary theory of equations and groups to paper.; The major portion of this book is dedicated to _________ beliefs in astrology, superstition and New Age beliefs.;

scrub

She _________ the dirt off of her body until she was satisfied.; Other joints give you long rather torturous salt and lemon exfoliating body _________ first and then apply the stuff.; And during the negotiations, about 3,700 acres of coastal sage _________ were destroyed.;

tramp

She and her colleagues spent the next 4 hours _________ around the mountain slopes trying to catch sight of a trogon actually calling.; It is worth remembering that the average size of steamers in the British _________ fleet was only 3,500 gross tons as late as 1910.; Blue armour was visible, and the _________ of armoured feet was just audible, even above the roaring storm.;

intentionally

She flipped her mobile shut, walked past us and down the corridor, _________ ignoring Alice and Tony.; That the deaths were not caused _________ doesn't change the consequences.; Thus a fire begun _________ or negligently would not be covered.;

catch up with

She tried to keep her eyes open but the sleepless day was beginning to _________ her.; They began sparring again, but Kristy soon found that her lack of proper amounts of sleep was beginning to _________ her.; Still, it was great to _________ so many old friends and workmates.;

strand

She tugged gently on the _________ of beads around her neck, tucking them cautiously under her shirt again and letting a sigh pass her lips.; I sighed with frustration as I failed to thread the _________ of white cotton through the eye of the needle for the fourth time and stifled the urge to throw the needle across the room.; When a live _________ turtle is found, it is often brought to a rehabilitation center for recovery and eventual release.;

gala

She was presented with her award at a _________ dinner and gathering in the Burlington Hotel last week.; It was a somewhat nostalgic day for the Dolphin Swimming Club when the held their _________ in the Portlaoise Swimming Pool last week.; She once famously shook hands with Dracula when she attended a _________ performance by the company at Leeds Grand Theatre.;

elucidate

So how does her biographical account _________ his artistic identity and development?; Since it is not of interest for me here to _________ the nature of promising, I shall sidestep this issue.; In attempting to _________ the significance of this paradox, I want to proceed carefully.;

rigid

So they often run the risk of becoming dogmatic and overly _________ in their thinking process.; She was also notorious for her rude comments and _________ opinions on style.; It looked to be some sort of leathery tissue, but in a strangely _________ shape.;

lurid

Somebody was getting off on dirty talk and we heard every _________ detail.; The _________ colour represents the anger of violent passion.; We've become the inquiring minds who demand to know every _________ detail, with no regard for the pain that might cause.;

dignified

In contrast to the _________ silence from the other side, even slyly whispered accusations are magnified to sound deafeningly crass.; We're also told that he will make a personal appeal to Congress to handle the nomination process in a _________ manner.; They've kept a _________ silence, which I'm sure is the best thing to do.;

adept

It is tempting to suppose it was the result of _________ management.; There was also a mounted element of crossbowmen equally _________ at reconnaissance and pursuit.; These wars were difficult affairs against enemies who were as technically _________ as the Normans themselves.;

artery

It's madness trying to close a road which is a main _________ into Bedford.; It could see major roads and _________ into the city gridlocked as hundreds of lorries are stopped from accessing the docks.; As well as clogging the region¹s _________ with cars, motorway mania is harmful in other ways.;

topical

It's very easy to find your way around, and there are _________ menus on every page, leading you to categories such as Beyond Buddies, Head and Heart, and Out of Bounds.; Or you can invent _________ categories - love letters, crank letters, letters to the editor.; A _________ steroid cream will help relieve itching and swelling.;

tsunami

Meanwhile, the company is going to face a horrible _________ of lawsuits.; Eathquakes and killer _________ have wreaked havoc in various parts of the world time and again.; Earthquakes and _________ are not the only natural disasters in need of better forecasting.;

reiterate

Ms. White was again _________ her opposition to an inter-urban motorway but stated she fully supported the upgrading of roads and the urgent need for a Carlow bypass.; improved coaching techniques' and facilities, she _________.; The children signed cards _________ that they would be around for their elders in their times of need.;

penalize

My advice for next year is to avoid leagues that _________ players for having too large a role in the offense.; If there is a reason for treating the two categories of entrant differently it must be in order to _________ the trespasser's wrongdoing.; Others simply whined that though their site contained commercial material, it also contains valuable content and was unfairly _________.;

undermine

Nation states will not be interested in enabling that power, only in _________ it.; Foreign debt _________ the country's ability to act independently.; Abusing the student programs in this way not only _________ the power of the union, but students are also being asked to do jobs for which they are not trained, raising concerns about health and safety.;

explosion

Nero had to quickly prepare himself for the _________ of anger that was to come.; But they are concerned - and rightly so - that an attempt to call off the November election could produce a social and political _________.; They are cooler areas and tend to erupt in gigantic _________ sending a tremendous amount of radiation towards the earth.;

fulfilling

New members are very welcome - become part of this association whose aim is to help older people have a _________ and happy life and which has already over 2,000 members in the West.; They are wished _________ and happy times while at school.; They're also the rewards of truly _________ work.;

rewilding

Not only did he believe in managing wilderness, he believed in _________ degraded wilderness.; The book is a must read for primitivists and those who would _________ Britain.;

forgo

Now, this is not to say that I don't have fried chicken dreams, or that I can _________ dessert.; They may _________ their lunch break or decide to work late.; I may be forced to go and purchase a second bag and _________ tea.;

glacier

Nowhere in the world would one find such a high concentration of huge mountains, peaks, _________ and passes.; They had to cross the mountains, _________ and snowfields to reach the whaling station on the other side.; The site tracks the waxing and waning of snow cover, _________, sea ice, and ice shelves.;

poaching

To _________ the eggs, fill a large skillet about two-thirds full with water, to a depth of about 2 inches.; Former buyers no longer think it ethical to buy items made of ivory because they believe it encourages elephant _________.; Baking, broiling, or _________ fish will help you avoid extra calories from breading and frying.;

grease

Traffic offenses are no longer punishable by monetary compensation but by _________ the palm of an officer.; Some retractables don't even have _________ fittings for the gear legs, but on those that do, make certain any _________ or oil is of an appropriate weight.; Unlike firearms, slathering a sword blade with quantities of heavy oil or _________ may do more harm than good.;

underhand

While none of the Barry kids took to shooting free throws _________, they resemble their father in other ways.; For instance in softball the pitcher throws _________.; I use an _________ grip and start with my hand near the opposite deltoid.;

convict

Suspended death sentences in China often are commuted to life in prison if the _________ are deemed reformed.; And some states are better at rehabilitating the prisoners and _________ behind the bars.; At his trial, a jury spent 24 days considering a verdict before _________ him of conning thousands of Britons, many of them elderly, out of their savings.;

amongst

That becomes just another datum assumed when choosing _________ alternative choices.; It was that idea, in fact, that always made me a bit of an outcast _________ my more liberal friends.; Why not divide the four fates _________ four different people, and make it fair?;

debut

That she succeeds so well is impressive given that the role represents her film _________.; This month the U.S. Postal Service _________ a new commemorative stamp set celebrating four American scientists.; Provided I can find a spare ten minutes to edit some of my poetry for a family audience, those in attendance will witness my _________ as a performance poet.;

own up

That was to his credit, as many people did the opposite and people should be encouraged to _________ for their wrong doings.; Men who learn of their affliction are sometimes embarrassed to _________ to it.; Both, understandably, want to talk about where they go from here, but they have to _________ to what went wrong.;

checking account

That way, if the funds in your _________ aren't available in time, the bank will take the money from your savings account rather than bounce your check.; But the woman pitched him a package that included two _________, two savings accounts, a credit card, a debit card, and online banking.; Few have bank _________, savings accounts or credit cards that work.;

characteristically

"Cultural cringe" denotes a _________ colonial deference towards the cultural achievements of others.; Viewed collectively, the works certainly bristle with his _________ intense emotion.; On one side of the bridge, the setting looks _________ like a Chinese landscape painting.;

forge

In the former case, the figure's head was chopped off and posted as a trophy, and the remaining metal was _________ into bullets.; Here is something more than raw material from which a successful literature was _________.; But after being 13-4 down they _________ ahead 17-13 to leave Scarborough needing a four to tie on the last end.;

premier

In the mid-1850s governors and officials were replaced by _________ and ministers responsible to parliament.; That's why Faulk and James are considered the _________ players at their position.; A glittering audience of presidents, _________ and royalty will attend the inauguration of the president, which will be completed by around midday.;

as a whole

It is less clear that a vote on the report _________ would be a no confidence motion.; A buyer's dislike of such things can easily cloud his impression of the house _________.; The booming top sector is pushing up the value of Scotland's private homes _________.;

terrace

Archaeologists have assumed that Mill Creek agricultural fields were located on easily cultivated alluvial stream _________.; The little courtyard is _________ in Roman fashion.; He runs over to the _________ and is mobbed by supporters spilling over to greet him in a spontaneous explosion of relief.;

steer clear of

By causing animals to _________ such objects, disgust helps them to avoid being poisoned or infected.; If anyone could give me any recommendations/ones to _________, then let me know.; There are areas of every American city that you _________ or hurry through because they are more akin to third than first world.;

plausible

Charming and _________ though they are, they can only ever see us as resources to be used.; There is little on the military career that made him a _________ candidate for governor.; In the present state of our knowledge delle Vida's argument is _________ but not decisive.;

divine

On the walls and ceiling, his pen and ink drawings depicted only the _________, the sacred, the holy, and the damned.; They've been _________ water, fruit, music and happiness together ever since.; She has had remarkable success in _________ those names.;

compartment

She worked to the eighth month and it tricked her into thinking she was in control, that she could open and shut the drawers of the different _________ of her life at will.; A hiss of steam emitted from the aft _________ and the mechanical whir indicated the descending of the rear ramp.; Inside our head there are various departments, _________, areas and domains that contain information.;

agile

Short-lived, transitory projects and the open exchange of ideas filters our emotions through an _________ and razor sharp intelligence.; He's very limber and _________ and would have a few good moves to pull out on Superman.; Thriving in a time when only the _________ survive requires continual reinvention.;

demise

First, where a landlord let premises by _________ to a tenant, he was regarded as parting with all control over them.; The services sector is all some regions in the UK have left after the _________ of the manufacturing industry.; She disagrees the license fee caused the network's _________.;

terrain

The _________ is shallow valleys, the route follows the contours, enough to make walking easy.; The drive to the base of the mountain, across isolated _________, is enjoyable in itself.; Between the gap and the mountain was a wild and broken _________ of scarp and gorge.;

to scale

He arranged for a model of Khe Sanh built _________ to be set up in the White House basement.; The hugely impressive peace garden involved the digging out of a large map of Ireland from a grid drawn _________.; Use graph paper, making each square equal a given dimension to get all the components _________.;

circular

The most striking design element of the atrium is the _________ stair that turns 180 degrees between floors.; The vision was made concrete in a _________ letter, addressed to EU partners.; The authorities issued a detailed _________ warning of the need to take stringent safety precautions.;

sleuth

Amateur _________ will be able to record footage of gang ringleaders and other yobs in action, which can then be used by police as evidence in court.; After his interesting encounter at the auto shop, Carl was already not looking forward to more _________.; Carson, her father, had once been a district attorney and this blonde American teenager had a natural ability for _________.;

morph

Analysis of heterochronic processes associated with sexual dimorphism requires the arbitrary choice of a reference _________ in the dimorphic pair.; _________ the platonic into the romantic can offer a very strong foundation for a partnership.; The reality is, the Celtics have _________ into the Magic - a one-star team with an awful surrounding cast.;

seep

As you drive west toward the coast, _________ and springs in the ravines form small braided waterfalls, full of their own monsoon song.; The stable isotope composition of the first and second stages of the worm tube carbonates is similar to that of carbonates from modern petroleum _________.; Blood had _________ through the makeshift bandage, soaking it through.;

entropy

Changes in _________ or information content based on new constraints are calculated with respect to the appropriate reference state which can, in principle, be related to other reference states.; Then it recovers its investment by letting the sodium back in, so increasing _________, and converting that change in _________ to free energy used to turn the rotor.; People have a natural tendency to rebel against _________ to return order to their environments.;

participatory

Choreography is brought into play only when dance's primary function becomes spectacle rather than _________ activity.; It stands as a living entity in an ecosystem dependent on a _________ reciprocity.; The solution is not for the museum to revamp its mode of display to encourage a more _________ form of engagement.;

gradient

Conditions were heinous, the largely off-trail section proving unrideable due to dense forest, boggy peat, streams, briars, bushes and steep _________.; It is a steep, cobbled climb, with a maximum _________ of 20 percent.; Differentiation is a method of working out the _________ of a curve - how quickly one variable changes with respect to another.;

detrimental

I was determined not to cave in passively, as that would have been _________ to both them and me.; The use of concrete in areas of public utility is unnecessary, and in fact, _________.; I am satisfied that publication of the report would be deeply damaging and _________ to their welfare.;

gown

I've a formal dinner on Wednesday requiring black tie and academic _________.; The teachers wore their academic _________ at all times and went swishing along the corridors between classes.; In both Oxford and Cambridge, _________ dominates the town.;

complement

It had a crew of three and could carry an infantry _________ of eight.; They were like twins, one half perfectly _________ the other.; But at least they deliver what they charge the people for: a broadcast that is full of quality and that _________ the sport.;

abruptly

Seaward of the road, the grassy slopes end _________ in rugged cliffs pounded by waves.; These terminate _________ to the northeast at a fault that offsets the thrust.; Some grooves deepen and terminate fairly _________.;

shellfish

The Shovel-Nosed Ray can reach two meters in length and is quite harmless, feeding only on small crabs and _________.; Gastroenteritis is caused mainly by viruses, such as the rotaviruses commonly found in infected _________.; Eat plenty of zinc - that means oysters or other _________, pecans, or even pumpkin seeds.;

dangling

Would she prefer simple jewelry or more elegant, _________ pieces?; Aidia thought that this seemed silly for a moment, until one of the long, _________ willow branches rose up as if to usher them in to its depths.; The classic _________ string approach to displaying Christmas cards was used.;

in place of

_________ a glass of vintage claret, the normal refreshment was green tea at around four.; _________ the Queen's crest on the front would be the 12 yellow stars of the European flag.; _________ jammed highways, the city will have an emerald necklace of parkland.;

flat rate

Now, rumours have begun to fly that he may commit himself to a reform of the federal tax system, including the possible introduction of a _________ of income tax.; Income arising to a non-resident employee is subject to Portuguese withholding tax at a _________ of 25 per cent.;

podium

He leans into his audience from the _________ and glares into the lens.; Instead of leafing through the racks of clothing, she found a catalogue of the various cuts and fashions situated on helpful _________ stationed around the store, and began flipping through its pages.; Four years ago at the Turin Games, skiers and snowboarders could be heard talking casually about their hopes to _________.;

indignation

The amount we are prepared to pay the jobbing MP has long provoked _________ from the public.; She shows great maturity in handling Susan's confusion, _________ and quiet anger.; There is little moralising strain in French culture, and less vocal _________ at corruption than in Italy.;

at one's disposal

He really didn't want to discuss the virtues and vices of having a female body _________ with his far more hormone-driven best friend.; Ah, the wonders of an endless treasury _________.; Clearly, art is a question of what one does with the resources _________.;

contend

He wants to _________ that because that was again an argument not put to the Court of Appeal or to the judge.; Surely if there were awards for wasting money this council would be _________ for honours.; The travelling public is inconvenienced enough by using public transport without _________ with strikes.;

wrinkle

He was completely bald, so when his brow _________, everything on his head _________.; I surreptitiously sniffed at my own armpits and _________ my nose a little.; Teiala _________ her face in confusion as they headed back for the library.;

motorize

He was driving in his Land Rover, the only working _________ vehicle for miles.; However, during the creation of the German Armored Force, Guderian's request to _________ heavy artillery battalions was turned down.; Most units going into Iraq now will go in as _________ infantry, mainly driving Humvees.;

preposition

There is plenty of evidence that even educated Americans often believe that there is something wrong with sentences ending in _________.; Moreover, many words have uses without meanings - personal names, _________, conjunctions, and the like are cases in point.; When challenged to come up with words of another language, most people will respond with nouns and verbs rather than auxiliaries, _________, and the like.;

resonate

The themes _________ with viewers, becoming universal in their appeal.; At his urging I strummed the guitar, closing my eyes as a gorgeous deep sound _________.; Even their smallest gestures _________ with genuine emotion.;

ripe

There are crops which are _________ now and ready to be harvested!; Since a miraculous cure to fix the ills of American health care is unlikely to happen quickly, to help you stay healthy to a _________ old age, what are your options?; At the _________ age of 39, this exuberant Brazilian choreographer has rapidly become a major player in the cultural landscape of her native country.;

innate

There is _________ hostility to organised labour on the college board.; The capacity for memory is clearly _________, but not special to any particular domain.; The more we can restore _________ natural poise the more we can enjoy physical harmony in activity, and in stillness.;

practitioner

There is a dearth of specialist _________ in the field of community care and health law.; Who trains the Reiki _________ to diagnose clients' problems?; In his publications and lectures, George showed that he was a skilled _________ of the art of metaphorical economics.;

gale

There is no definite periodicity generally associated with wind gusts or _________.; In November 2000 they set off for a five-day training run and found themselves crewing the boat into the teeth of a force eight south-westerly _________.; A little rain fell in the Perth-Bunbury area, but none fell inland, where hot dry _________ and thick duststorms were experienced.;

arena

I had seen pictures of sports _________ and Coliseums but I had never actually been inside one.; The spectators were told the flags had to be dismantled in the interests of health and safety in the events _________.; Our participation in the policy and political _________ must be consistent and reliable.;

sane

I have to watch my mouth around them and can't act crazy because they're so _________.; I tend to think trading virtual futility for spiritual futility is a step no _________ person would take.; Persuade me also that there's a _________ reason for dropping Cadenza from National Radio.;

confer

They are always _________ with each other and chuckling away in a nice little group there, but it is a group that people are going to see as part of a failed Government.; They also fear it can easily be coached and thus _________ benefits to wealthy applicants.; He began in Tibetan but quickly switched to English, often _________ with his eloquent translator to confirm his use of words.;

avenue

They chose certain areas to convert them into tree-lined _________ and Seshadri Road was one of them, he said.; Mature shrubs and trees line the _________ and the property is surrounded by impressive formal gardens and woodland.; Vertical connections and kitchens are located along the noisy _________ side.;

contaminate

It can crash through the armour of a modern tank and it poisons land and _________ water supplies for years causing cancers and genetic defects.; Chemicals in everyday products such as good packaging and cosmetics _________ our air, water and soil.; If not properly disposed of, these substances can _________ ground water.;

prime

This is a _________ example of falling standards in public services.; Hurley nodded and disappeared below deck, reappeared a good time later with eighteen muskets, all _________ and loaded, they just needed the ships to get within shooting distance.; Once an air rifle is _________, the shooter takes care to ensure that the sights are not disturbed.;

epitome

This is the man who represents the _________ of style in his immaculately pressed shirts, tirelessly shined shoes and tailored business attire.; Helen's older sister Jenny is the _________ of the perfect Mum.; I hated superficiality, and the popular people were the very _________ of it.;

altitude

If the object is below the horizon then the _________ is negative.; I had been to the Himalayas before but I'd never experienced high _________.; Most people dont sleep well at _________.;

beneficiary

Those who are most in need would not be the only _________ of our policies.; As the _________ of the first trust, you can continue to live in your home rent free.; If the settlor is to be a _________ of the trust, it would normally be a discretionary trust.;

hairdresser

Three _________ appeared at daybreak in order to ready my hair for the wedding.; Today, I spent a long time at the _________, gossiping with the staff and having my hair coloured and snipped and fiddled with.; My mum goes to the _________ when she needs her hair cutting, but she always asks me to check if they're doing it right.;

pare

When he wrote the play, his intention was that there should be no excess and so each scene is _________ down to exactly what he wants to say.; Her prose is _________ down to the bone, scarce on imagery and mostly journalistic.; Her designs are _________ down to a Ming-meets-modernism simplicity.;

indulge

When our parents' generation _________ us and blames itself, this doesn't take anybody very far.; And here I hope you'll _________ me, I'm going to break the time frame of December 1941 but for reasons I think you'll find understandable.; This was the first time he saw it outside of a magazine, and sitting on it was a simple pleasure he _________ in.;

stature

It is an amazing roll-call for a club of City's size and _________ which some clubs in the Premiership would do well to match.; India and Pakistan would gain in global _________ and expand their room for independent manoeuvre.; He was relatively short in _________ and often amusing on account of his klutzy habits.;

underlie

Political motivations most likely _________ this transformation of tradition.; The rock _________ the ruins was limestone and, as a result, the soil was thin and dry.; This is the _________ issue which campaigners agree must be tackled in years to come.;

intractable

Poverty remains _________ despite economic growth in many countries.; In part this flows from the recognition that many of the most _________ social problems are not simply economic or even political.; Economic progress has been accompanied by wide income disparities and _________ social problems.;

vulnerable

People with severe mental illness are the most _________ in a society.; There is an issue as to the extent to which he remains _________ to drug abuse and self harm.; Cash is also the most _________ to theft, and most travel policies only cover a few hundred pounds.;

remnant

However despite everyone's best efforts, all our forest and _________ vegetation was wiped out.; Scattered _________ of the hawkers' presence littered the darkened scene.; Check your fabric stash, or purchase _________ that can be cut and used for patches.;

complacent

However, residents have been warned they cannot afford to be _________.; While this lead will shrink before polling day, you might think he'd be a tad _________.; But the superintendent is not _________ and is keen to reassure people there is still work to be done.;

deforestation

In other words, simply by stopping _________ we would make a major contribution to slowing global warming.; However, due to centuries of _________, very few cedars are left.; Severe _________ linked to both tropical storms and the human impact of habitat destruction had reduced the bat population to 70 by 1975.;

hospitalization

She suffered a heart attack and a blood infection, which necessitated _________ on seven occasions.; _________ is recommended if patients show signs of significant inflammation.; Fractures of the hip and spine frequently require _________ and surgery, and can result in permanent disability.;

spur

That was an example of the kind of thing Ross would do on the _________ of the moment: just invite someone along to join the band without consulting the rest of us.; Maddock shouted, _________ his horse forward into the melee.; Barnes explains that the summer heat warms the ocean's surface and _________ evaporation.;

turret

The Americans were developing larger tanks, with cast-armour hulls and _________, better guns, and air-cooled diesel engines.; Immediately, Will rotated the _________ to face his rear and destroyed the tank using his cannon.; He went to the tallest _________ of the castle and surveyed his land.;

recursion

The choice should be a function of the background of the audience, and especially their understanding of some basic concepts like iteration and _________.; The above _________ are numerically stable and very fast.; This algorithm is based on a _________ similar to that of the peeling algorithm.;

authoritarian

The absence of a real, active campaigning democratic left has left a vacuum which the _________ have filled.; He has rightly said the political battle is no longer between ideas of the left and the right - but between the ideas of liberals and _________.; Children of _________ parents lacked social skills with their peers.;

speculative

Another _________ building is on the drawing board for Westside Industrial Park.; They are entirely guesswork, _________ and based on unsound mathematics designed to promote the private healthcare system.; However, this has not deterred rampant _________ investment, which has worsened energy shortages further.;

yeast

As beer brewers do with _________, the Wiandts drop bits of mycelia into a malt sugar solution.; Each pack contained flour, sunflower oil, sugar, haricot beans, rice, salt, noodles, _________, and canned food.; When it came time to bake bread, a cup of this live culture would be added to the dough to provide the _________ needed to leaven the bread.;

carnival

At various times he has told us that he ran away from school to join a _________, was descended from Sioux Indians, was an orphan and had been a hobo.; One of the more exciting developments in weblogging has been the proliferation of _________.; Zoos have been around for hundreds of years, the first ones being like freak shows attached to _________ and circuses.;

memento

Before leaving HMS York, Caroline was presented with a signed photograph of the ship and given other _________ to remind her of her time on board.; Coun Paul Atkinson said if mayors wished to have a _________ they should purchase it with their allowances.; Video coverage of the event will be available as a _________ of this memorable occasion.;

dementia

Early-stage _________ or Alzheimer's disease may be associated with gluten antibodies.; People with _________ sometimes find it easier to look into memories than fact.; The higher homocysteine, the higher your chances of a person contracting _________.;

assiduous

He has always been an _________ listener to radio.; His spin doctors have been so _________ in building images of him that the real man has remained invisible behind them.; I accept that Larry could have been more _________ in his search.;

presumably

Rewriting of history for bellicose use can also, _________, be a very fine art.; Persistent attempts to do so would _________ earn him the red card of expulsion from the chamber.; Motorcyclists are vulnerable at all times and _________ use the roads in full knowledge of this.;

condemn

Inevitably, he was _________ to death, but was reprieved and spent his last years a prisoner on the Île d' Yeu.; Thirty-one persons were _________ to death and five eventually executed.; The killing of innocent civilians by suicide bombers must be roundly _________.;

impeachment

The _________ of any president is highly unusual.; It is not clear what resulted from the demands for _________ of the union leadership.; Under _________ he was confined in the Tower from 1679 to 1684.;

troupe

The arts council is expected to back a proposal for a national theatre that would not have a building or a _________ of actors.; The stage gathered not only Bulgarian presenters but also members of folk _________ and dance ensembles from the Balkan region.; As early as the 1920s, the city had hosted performances by foreign ballet _________ and folk dance groups from Europe.;

nuclear family

The basic Croatian family unit is the _________ of parents and children living in one home.; The ideal family unit for most Panamanians is the _________ of a married couple and their children.; Although most households now are organized around a _________, there are some extended family households.;

get away with

Their attitude is that they will charge the public for anything they can _________.; Now your average hairdresser will use the cheapest shampoo they can _________.; There are some who might think it clever to _________ not paying council tax.;

intricately

The collage elements _________ play off the metaphoric conceits or evocative turns of phrase of the elaborately lettered texts.; Its _________ designed pattern of incessant movement unfolds with a remarkable smoothness.; Glossy black glaze covering the top portion of this piece runs down its _________ furrowed "neck.";

silt

The defendants erected ferry terminals in the Thames, and, as a result, parts of the river bed _________ up.; There are no open drains, fortunately, or they'd be _________ by now.; In fact, badlands occur in a wide range of environments, and on various materials, from marine _________ in valleys of the Canadian Arctic to mine-spoil heaps in New Guinea.;

discretion

You need never worry about announcing yourself to her, she is the absolute soul of _________ if you want to keep your ID to yourself.; There are times when _________ is the better part of valour, of course.; Refunds for late cancellations will be at the _________ of the organisers.;

virtual

You won't learn how to bake a cake or wallpaper the kitchen but you will have a thumping, pumping, roller-coaster ride through the _________ world of computer and video games.; Newman understood church history as the recounting of all that is known about the progress of the kingdom of Christ on earth, a definition in _________ agreement with Schaff.; The resulting electric field would create a plasma of electrons and positrons from among the _________ particles surrounding the star.;

vandal

Why do mindless _________ frequently ruin our beautiful parks and public buildings?; The school has been damaged by _________ on a number of occasions over the last few years.; Every public bench along the river had been systematically smashed by _________ last summer.;

entangle

With their hands still _________ together, they looked at their family innocently.; Otto returned to Rome in 997, reinstalled Gregory and made Rome his capital, which would displease the Germans and _________ him in fierce Roman factional politics.; You're so _________ in it, and so concerned about the details of your current situation, that you miss the big picture.;

void

Without this law, the entire purpose of campaign funding limits on parties would be null and _________.; The bed is a _________ space, a limbo where life's pause button can be pressed at will.; The building is a composition of solids and _________, making spaces at street level where students can sit and interact.;

prompt

The outcome also _________ immediate speculation in London that Britain's planned referendum on the treaty was now pointless.; Yes, and we had to keep _________ her with her lines and said most of them ourselves.; Winslow's instincts _________ her to change course three years ago to pursue her dream of becoming an author.;

trace element

The mystery was solved in 1939 when fluoride was identified as a _________ in local drinking water.; Selenium is a _________ found in meats and grains, but dietary intake can vary by geographic area because of different concentrations of the element in the soil.; Cysteine can be given orally to increase GSH or to chelate _________ in the gut, thereby decreasing absorption of both cysteine and the _________.;

deteriorate

The situation has _________ to a point where our professional status is in jeopardy.; The weather _________ again - which conspired with our general malaise to keep us from venturing outside much.; His behaviour has steadily _________ over the years.;

propulsion

There are, though, two half-hearted subplots which give some vague sense of _________.; The _________ and power systems are controlled from the Machinery Control Room.; This is obviously beneficial, given that more _________ helps us to move forwards.;

tap

They are paired with six expert young dancers who each dance in a particular style - bhangra, street, musical theatre, pop, Irish dancing and _________.; He and I danced the gypsy _________, the mambo and the samba, just as we had in my garage.; He _________ his cue stick against the table edge, thinking.;

convergence

This _________ has important implications for research and teaching in business schools.; The only real downside is that the process of _________ is likely to be messy.; This move started the process of gradual _________ of the two earlier independent jobs - air navigation and bombing.;

porous

This drainage system is made up of a lower layer of rough, nonporous material and an upper layer of _________ soil and sand.; Since drywall is a _________ material, it can absorb melted paraffin when immersed in it.; He chased down his own grubber to be the next man to take advantage of the _________ Lancashire defence.;

acumen

This elegant chief executive has the business _________ of the Americans and the undeniable style of the Italians in her origins.; Your business _________ and professional creativity are tested in difficult assignments.; He was born and brought up in Gorse Hill, and first showed his business _________ at the age of 13 when he began farming pigs in his back garden.;

dismantle

They announced the intention of _________ the state rationing system?; The scale, which can be _________, is leveled with the floor of the building.; City officials originally requested that owners of these establishments voluntarily _________ the offending structures.;

needless to say

We were in a joint family then and _________, it was good fun.; So _________, the celebrations went on long into the night!; In England, _________, the mood is one of unbridled optimism.;

have a long way to go

This is one company I am totally keen on getting a job at but I know I _________.;

infantry

When I was a kid, high walled fortifications were virtually impenetrable to _________ or cavalry.; The force now included around a battalion of _________ as well as a squadron of military engineers.; He had spent 23 years in the Marine Corps _________ and felt it was his duty to help.;

set about

But this team has shown over the year to be up to the challenge and _________ the task of closing the gap.; In the millennium year the club _________ an ambitious task of upgrading their facilities.; I am relieved to see that our government has _________ dealing with this problem.;

alleged

A court decided to fit the tagging device on one of the _________ attackers while they awaited trial.; Two of the _________ conspirators have already been set free in Germany for the same reason.; In the chase incident, he entered a shop to find the owner struggling with an _________ shoplifter.;

extortion

At the least, we can ask that American citizens not pay _________ money to enemy governments in a time of war.; It used to be that the gangs would never demand _________ money from the bars or restaurants in their own neighbourhoods.; Corruption and _________ are constant themes in the local press.;

malignant

In combination, they've been _________ so many times before.; The _________ course of the disease is over, and it is now progressing more moderately.; Chemical pleurodesis is an effective treatment for _________ pleural effusion and pneumothorax.;

outlier

In such a system, attention is focused generally on the _________ who have poor results, with (in most cases) neither integrated analysis of the root cause nor any attempt to determine the processes of care that result in worse outcomes.; These sediments, surrounded by older rocks, were originally called _________.; If we just look at his performance, 2010 was the _________ in his career, not the standard.;

commodity

Initially it was _________ like wheat or coffee which were the subject of such trading.; His wife hails from Hamburg, Germany, and he had a spell working as a _________ broker for a bank.; Governments were encouraged to specialise in the production of a narrow range of agricultural _________ for export.;

insulation

Inside the home, _________ and moisture protection are key to maximizing efficiency.; One of the dog's unique characteristics is its lack of an undercoat, which provides _________ from heat and cold.; One way a mammal reacts to heat loss is by contracting the tiny muscles at the base of each hair, thus creating a fluffy layer of _________ in which air pockets retain body heat.;

delusion

Is it all a mass _________, or is there something to it all.; I think I mentioned somewhere that _________ are visions of realities not yet activated.; In the paranoid form of this disorder, they develop _________ of persecution or personal grandeur.;

temptation

In other words, once we are in heaven with all the saints, all _________ and all desires for sin will be done away with.; I have in the past succumbed to _________, lured by attractive coloured labels.; It was hard to resist the _________ to eat the oranges as fast as we picked them.;

subconsciously

One of the reasons she may be so unpleasant is that she _________ feels your relationship is doomed anyway.; As for contagious yawning, they think it has something to do with humans _________ imitating one other.; Consciously or _________, they have found a positive conceptual framework for the aroused physical state we call nervousness.;

array

One such fair, the 21st Ideal Home Exhibition organised by the MADITSSIA at the Tamukkam grounds, displayed a vast _________ of products.; Their port was aft of the tower that held most of the station's sensors and transmitter _________.; The solutions in the patch are processed utilizing a unique nanotechnology that puts the materials into an organic _________ or matrix.;

lay hands on

Only two out of the six churches Ive served since 1981 felt the freedom and the need to _________ people and pray for healing.; He asked for prayer and the brother complied, laying hands on him and asking God to anoint him so that he might _________ his friend for healing.;

elaborate

These e-mails and comments often either correct mistakes I have made, or _________ on posts already on the site.; He wouldn't _________ on details but hinted that the look of the series will be influenced by the hot reality genre.; Or is this an _________ hoax designed to generate interest in a book deal?;

spectacle

This promises first-class singing and colourful _________.; There's no need to make a _________ of yourself in front of company.; But soon, the townsfolk began to gather outside of their homes to view the great _________ that had suddenly appeared in the sky.;

eradicate

Treatment is available that _________ the virus and eliminates or reduces liver inflammation and fibrosis in some patients.; It is extremely difficult to _________ prejudices so deeply rooted and natural.; Perennial weeds such as horsetail and bindweed need more attention because the roots should be removed to stand any chance of _________ them.;

splendour

He stared up at the magnificent _________ of a truly Roman city, its grand architecture and its air of power and determination.; Holidaymakers come back year after year and, amid the _________ of the Alps, they insist on bourgeois comforts and good Bavarian cooking.; The parade showcased the nation's cultural legacy with pomp, colour and _________.;

stilted

He will experience, together with 60 other fund raisers from across the country, the hospitality of local people in _________ houses in remote villages, as well as Ho Chi Minh city.; If by good you mean the author manages to keep you turning the pages even though his writing is _________ and the characters are like stick figures, then yes, it was good.; Moreover, his public image was balanced somewhere between the effete decadence of a dandy and the _________ manners of an upper-class gentleman.;

balk

The losers launched one last attack but who was there to _________ them, none other than Johnny Nevin, who ventured from his own left wing to cover the right wing raid.; Of course, some might _________ at the morality of keeping tabs on anyone 24 / 7, but this tricky question would at least leave one job for the ethics commissioner to handle.; The black and amber brigade again faced into the elements on Friday but on this occasion their opponents were not to be _________.;

reservoir

These _________, which supply water to the towns of Cornwall and Highlands, New York, were built before 1920.; She has a _________ of talent, which needs to be nurtured and taken to higher levels.; Herbicides and other pesticides can reach streams, lakes, and _________ in water that runs off treated fields.;

flail

This man was far better with his weapon, a _________ that was whipping dangerously close to Romon's face.; This chamber's walls were decorated with racks and racks of swords, maces, _________ and other dangerous weapons.; Matthias, caught up in the moment, _________ his arms wildly and babbled incoherently.;

imply

When he started as Labour leader the cartoonists saw him as Bambi, referring to that smiley expression as well as _________ a certain naivety.; Of course, that one doesn't protest about a thing doesn't necessarily _________ endorsement of it.; I have never said that we will win because that rather _________ you know what voters are going to do.;

brook

Later, after they had migrated to Lowell and other textile towns to work in the mills, young women like Sally would look back longingly on the days they spent roaming hillsides, walking along _________, and lying about in meadows.; To his critics, Tony Blair has been cast as a stooge to President Bush's vision for a new American global hegemony that _________ no opposition.; But confidentiality has gotten the ICRC remarkable access and - as countless prisoners over the years have testified - has improved conditions for detainees of regimes not known for _________ public criticism.;

hyper

Maybe there's been so much rejection from past peers that she acts _________ to get attention.; I hate going even without these barriers so I'm on _________ alert for anything that might lead me down that path.; I'm slowly losing the slight _________ buzz I had going on this afternoon, but that's okay.;

module

Most recently, some African higher education institutions have begun to use Internet-based course _________ developed by overseas universities.; Virtual software machine running multiple program _________ in a single address space of a target computer; Pete is trying to develop flexibility into the course _________ and making modifications as he goes.;

subordinate

Most were working in circumstances where social mores were _________ to much more compelling things like the need to survive.; These are accessory phases, commonly _________ to the simple sulphides, in many types of mineral deposits.; Historically, the tradition has viewed the first and second foci as _________ to the third.;

acquit

One of those cases saw him being _________ of suborning perjury.; The South African attorney general later _________ her on the grounds of self-defence.; She still hedges a bit on her command responsibility, but I think she actually _________ herself quite well in this online discussion.;

bold

With new paints, dyes and synthetic fabrics, bright _________ colour was avidly adopted in all aspects of design.; May I be so _________ as to suggest one to add to your list.; Google will display the search keywords in _________ in your ad if they're present.;

elicit

Prolonged question and answer sessions will eventually _________ the response the teacher is looking for.; It's time to start worrying when exhibitions _________ no reaction at all.; Other innovations are _________ such reactions.;

itinerary

Your travel _________ indicate that it is best not to schedule anything for Thursday night.; There are enough fairways here to fill even the most ambitious _________.; But the exact _________ of the tour is yet to be finalised.;

undergo

All the craft have been _________ a complete overhaul before the final race training begins.; Stella _________ a traumatic experience and must deal with the aftermath.; Four months later he _________ the life-saving surgery at Wythenshawe Hospital.;

verbatim

And in the end pretty well everything I wrote was reproduced _________.; The BBC therefore used actors to read the words _________ over film of the speakers.; I record this _________ from a journal written at the time, with just the occasional commentary.;

antique

Armor reflected the Renaissance idealization of the _________, with decorative motifs taken from classical mythology and ancient history.; Disposing of the mountain of silver as _________ creations had to be a slow and careful business.; Officers found an _________, double-barrelled Derringer hidden in a walnut grandfather clock in his bedroom.;

intensive

As a capital _________ business, the group has considered its options regarding flotation but intends to remain private for the foreseeable future.; They took part in an _________ English class for eight weeks almost immediately on arrival.; This programme is a thorough and _________ course designed to produce a safe, confident and competent pilot,' Xu said.;

vessel

Besides, the distribution of the carbon was uneven, and _________ with large quantities alternated with _________ which contained very little carbon or none.; instruments' as well as passive _________ in contemplation.; In a lake about 11 miles long and under a mile at its widest, not only is there not much scope for a sea-going _________ but under sail these _________ pose some threat to smaller boats.;

retool

Composites cost up to eight times as much as aluminum, and the newfangled plane will require suppliers to _________ the manufacturing process.; But it wasn't simply a matter of _________ existing factories.; Since the chemical could be used pre chill with an inside/outside washer, processors would not have to _________ any of their current machinery or procedures.;

ode

Dave, bless his warped soul, writes an _________ to Neil Diamond that must be read to be believed.; Gone are the lamentable characters of Marcus' tales, replaced by a straightforward _________ to maternal love.; And much the same could be said of the conclusion to the second choral _________.;

relinquish

Demands are made on parents _________ custody of their disabled child in return for funding for support services for a disability.; He has lived in the U.S.A. since 1966 but he has never _________ his Canadian citizenship.; By now we're reluctant to _________ them, so like a part of our bodies have they become.;

iteration

Don't be surprised if it takes several _________ to become comfortable with the CLD.; What are the barriers to the technology reaching its full potential in future _________?; For a game that has seen three _________, I would've expected a bit more stability than my experience with it on my computer.;

proclamation

Dorotea had come to the mountains to hide because she heard a public _________ offering a reward for her whereabouts.; It is the liturgy in its entirety (the prayer, praise, and _________ that surround the Eucharist) that calls into being this alternative community.; If the argument is that if we show these pictures we might prevent future disasters on the track, well, his death is the biggest kind of _________ that triumphs over another photo.;

ferment

Doubt, anxiety, and inward contemplation remain cornerstones of modern thinking and subjectivity, and their origins can be traced back to the religious _________ of the period 1400-1600.; Therefore the distiller must let the skins from white grapes _________ before distilling them.; Good bacteria _________ lactose by converting it to lactic acid.;

annotate

For Japanese speakers who use English as a second language, it is helpful to _________ this text in Japanese so that images may be recalled by Japanese keywords.; I read it closely and _________ it extensively, as is my habit in reading generally.; He compiled, wrote, updated and _________ the inventory and signed every page relating to Denny's charge in 1542.;

run-down

Four of Manchester's communities want the chance to transform neglected and _________ park areas into something everyone in the community can enjoy.; In 1998, it was declared a Housing Renewal Area, where _________ zones are improved through renovation and clearance.; That _________ in Commonwealth money for housing has forced the states into privatisation by stealth because it's forced them to sell off public housing stock and run down the supply right around the country.;

germinate

Fresh seeds of many arctic and alpine plant species _________ readily without any cold stratification treatment.; The basic ideas _________ for a long time.; Sprinkle with grass seed, which will quickly _________ and cover the gap.;

contentious

He is known as a bold, often _________ director.; This last piece of evidence is particularly _________ and likely to feature prominently in the appeal.; In the long run the most _________ issue is likely to be wages.;

tempt

I'm really _________ to buy it.; Even smaller companies were _________ to reward clients with treats.; I have to admit that I was nearly _________ to get involved in a couple, but I did not.;

pamper

I've been lucky enough to indulge myself in some _________ this past month, most of which involved stripping off.; While the establishment seemed to spoil the rich, she took the liberty to _________ the poor.; Developed much more recently than Vail, Beaver Creek _________ visitors with escalators between its main village plaza and the lifts.;

prestige

If you desire and are willing to work for it, you can achieve enormous success, _________, and fame.; How many more risks to our interests, to our _________, and to our people are we to take?; Most recent of the releases was the new 607, a car which surely only exists for _________ value in the French market.;

roam

It houses a remarkable collection of animals - most kept, as one might expect in such a civilized country, in large enclosures in which they can _________ about with some semblance of freedom.; Let your imagination _________ freely over the facts you have collected.; My eyes _________ restlessly around the room looking for something to look at.;

scarcity

It should not be relegated to a matter that was only given close attention in times of drought and water _________.; In a market economy it is as easy to fall as to rise, but in periods of _________ and famine, easier to survive within such a system than outside it.; This lack of _________ makes this concert even sillier, as there is nothing special about it.;

timber

On July 2 in that year, a fire swept through the village, destroying dozens of the thatched and _________ buildings.; Malaysia is also a major producer of _________ and _________ products including hardwoods.; A man gifted with his hands, he was content and at ease building walls and making _________ panels.;

archaeology

Second, the history of these islands is illuminated by _________ to a quite extraordinary extent.; The purpose of _________ is to understand the past by studying its material culture.; I am not a professional archaeologist, but a member of the public with an interest in _________ and history.;

fracture

So, at the moment you still have security forces that are essentially _________ into two camps.; So, where do cultural organizations and cultural experiences fit in this increasingly _________ world?; The scaphoid is the most commonly _________ bone of the wrist.;

pave the way for

The new framework would also _________ locally negotiated deals, something union members strongly oppose.; The partnership will _________ more performances by world-class dancers in the town.; These will _________ more domestic participants in the retail sector.;

avalanche

The quake struck close to the rumbling Mount Merapi, and soon after a large burst of hot clouds and debris _________ two miles down its western flank, spreading fears of a major eruption.; The fourth wave _________ us both off the jet ski.; Sporadic systems are those that produce _________, earthquakes, mudslides, volcanic eruptions and such like.;

prolong

When does medical care merely _________ a person's dying time?; In fact, only a delay, which occurred last fall, has _________ the continued debate.; Ice saline lavage does not serve a useful purpose and may _________ bleeding.;

blot

impact winter' would follow in which the Sun's life-giving light would be _________ out for years by the debris thrown up by the explosion.; However, the big striker _________ his copybook on his return missing a penalty in 29 minutes.; Despite numerous calls to the council's cleansing and park departments it remains a _________ on the landscape.;

turf

Academics tend to be very territorial people, anxious to defend their disciplinary _________.; April and September are the two months previously known for their generous rainfall, and therefore the best times for sowing or _________ a lawn.; Deer cropped the springy _________ beside us, so close we could hear every snuffle and chomp.;

quilt

Add red, green, or tartan wool throws or _________ to the sofa to snuggle under.; He slept on bracken, the only concession to comfort a down _________ and a patch of woollen red plaid, often seen wrapped around him as he went about his business.; Occasionally, a stenciled bedcover was pieced with traditional _________ blocks but was not _________.;

score

And we all know that musical _________ don't just appear on manuscript paper overnight.; They're a team we lost to in the first half of the season so we'd like to settle the _________,' he said.; So it's Monday morning, and perhaps you _________ some names and numbers at the bar over the weekend.;

girdle

But then again, she wore _________ and kept monogrammed hankies and Devonshire toffees in her handbag.; A yard was originally the length of a man's belt or _________, as it was called.; You can only _________ the globe 38 times with that.;

tendency

Each of the _________ aims at a different sector of the political spectrum.; I think it would be a stunningly bad idea to give in to the threats of the anarchist _________.; He attacked the _________ for rights to outweigh citizens' sense of responsibility.;

extol

Even when _________ the virtues of Linux as a server, the praise is often followed with a few discouraging warnings.; You travel the world praising the discreet charm of an ancient university and _________ the virtues of academic freedom.; Proposition 36 will not heal the hypocritical heart of a nation that _________ the empty pleasures of consumerism while excoriating the unsanctioned ecstasies of illegal drugs.;

bishop

Every chess _________ moves on a diagonal, and none of those on black squares ever move to white squares (in the same game).; The understanding of the role of the _________ in a diocese involves seeing the _________ as representing Jesus Christ among the priests and people of his diocese.; The brothers' father was also an Anglican _________ of Low Church or Evangelical faith.;

scrutinize

Farms nearer to streams are expected to be more closely _________ by regulators and, thus, under greater pressure to adopt BMPs.; With a 30-second spot during tonight's Academy Awards ceremony valued at up to $2.1 million, advertisers will closely _________ the television coverage generated by the event.; In this tight economy, the public _________ art purchases more closely than ever.;

manure

Farmyard _________ is prepared from dung, yet about 60 to 70 per cent of dung is used as fuel in rural areas.; We spread _________ on our land to help fertilize our crops without chemicals.; Organic fertilizers and _________ may also be used.;

cramp

For a number of years, quinine sulfate has been widely used for the treatment of nocturnal leg muscle _________.; In most cases, the _________ occurs as a result of repetitive exercise.; The runner suffers severe muscle pain and _________ as well as crippling abdominal discomfort.;

assembly

For all these reasons, freedom of speech, freedom of _________, the right to organize, and the right to vote matter much less than they otherwise would.; The entire student body crowded into the sports hall for morning _________.; From a programming perspective, these things are quite nostalgic - encouraging you to get stuck in and write some good old _________ code.;

utensil

He also pointed out that students were forced to wash _________ used for preparing food in various schools.; The inside kitchen had a propane-fuelled stove and most of the _________ had been kicking around for generations.; My mom had left her apartment with only rugs and a kitchen full of canned food and broken _________.;

imbue

He was a man of gentle and quiet disposition who was _________ with many noble qualities.; Always eager to reach out to others, especially the Jews, he was _________ with a deep agony over the suffering of others.; They are qualities the current squad is _________ with, given their performances under pressure.;

sibling

Her name was included on that list together with her parents and _________.; It is also to be borne in mind that the appellant's family comprise his parents and three _________.; You will need help at some point, ask parents, _________, teachers and friends for support.;

quotient

I didn't add to the rudeness _________ of the world.; The aggravation _________ is high, but it's good to know these things are going on.; Why is the _________ of a number divided by zero infinity?;

delve

Ian took his wallet from his pocket, _________ in his pay packet and removed a small handful of silver.; Once you start _________ into corruption in sport, it's difficult to know where to draw the line.; Pretty soon, I was able to close my eyes and _________ inside myself, to search for my core of power hidden within my inner being.;

living standard

Improvements in _________ have reduced the mortality from infectious diseases.; For the past 15 years Spain has seen spectacular growth, dramatically improving _________, and a housing boom that brought new wealth and hundreds of thousands of jobs.; We face major challenges in trying to put life into empty promises to reverse the ecological degradation and falling _________ that afflict much of the world.;

foyer

In fact, he spends his days driving around, loitering in the _________ of office buildings, and often sleeping in his car at night.; Facilities will include a _________ area, catering, toilets, box office, reception and first aid.; It's three o'clock in the afternoon and I've been waiting an hour for her in the _________ of a London hotel.;

demographic

It is clear we are appealing to a broader _________ and therefore will want to offer customer a choice in the future.; Their aim is for other newspapers with a different _________ to pick up the story.; Once something is published and put out, it's available for anyone to buy no matter who the intended _________ is.;

synthetic

It is rank hypocrisy and a _________ concern from the Alliance which has never shown interest in those issues before,' he says.; However, _________ like polyester and nylon are naturally hydrophobic, so they repel the water and keep it away from the skin.; Other researchers performed cell growth assays comparing natural and _________ cholesterol.;

static

It sets up a _________ variable called addr data based on the number of different types of chips that this driver supports and the addresses at which these chips typically are present.; It featured photo-realistic environments portrayed using _________ viewpoints and slideshow-style movements.; Her question was interrupted by a sudden spit of crackle and _________ from her radio.;

plunge

It then hit the side of a bridge before _________ into the eight-meter-deep ravine.; I have potted up the surviving plants and then _________ the pots back into the windowboxes.; He's been practising for five years and is finally taking the _________ and starting a course in Sheffield before beginning his circus act.;

atypical

It was in many ways, an _________ childhood, but he would just look at you blankly if you said that to him.; A liver biopsy may be necessary if the diagnosis is unclear or if there are _________ features.; Except in the most _________ and extreme cases, women are never truly proud of promiscuity.;

appall

It was things like the absence of drinks and the sheer lack of respect for elderly people, which _________ me.; He looked shocked and _________ by this and turned his attention onto Alex.; Residents living close to where it is proposed to build the facility are _________.;

compost

Making leaf mould is different to making general garden _________ in that only the leaves are used.; Alternatively, chemically-treated _________ are available, which are said to keep vine weevils at bay for 12 months, or proprietary insecticides which work for about six months.; Place in a well-lit spot and keep the _________ lightly moist.;

shabby

Maybe it's the lack of people, the lack of cars and the shuttered _________ houses.; We are running short of food, our uniforms are _________ and dull, our shoes are full of holes, and we are also short on ammunition.; She's a _________ infant among lawyers clad in immaculate coal-coloured, pleated robes.;

appeal

Meanwhile police issued an urgent _________ for anyone who saw the red getaway car or the skip lorry prior to the raid in either Sheffield or Balby to contact them.; Yet it is because these films tackle serious issues in a serious manner that their _________ is limited.; This attractive book's nostalgic _________ is entirely seasonal.;

oblivious

Meila was asleep and unconscious, _________ to the days that had already happened.; They seemed completely _________ of the thousands of cars, buses and lorries thundering past.; He was very well paid by the corporation but was apparently quite _________ of the mess into which his company was plunging.;

stroll

Men _________ on the sidewalks, clad in long billowing cloaks, with openly displayed swords.; In fact, he had to visit the pits for repairs and Willie _________ home for our first class victory of the year.; Sitting on the lawn of Burnaby Mountain Park, Jester confidently _________ up to me at our pre-arranged meeting spot.;

grandiose

Most _________ of all was his plan to convert a small fishing village called Jerudong into a playground both for the royal family and tourists.; In the process, what was a simple shrine became a _________ temple.; Don't be discouraged when your _________ plans fail on the first attempt.;

rarely

Most are _________, if ever, thoroughly cleaned and end up teaming with millions of bugs.; Its audience is given a rare view into the lives of a group of people _________ seen on film.; The model of perfect competition presented above is _________ seen in practice.;

indulgence

Most especially Luther disputed the sale of _________ whereby, as Luther perceived, believers might buy forgiveness for themselves or their departed relatives.; A big earner but a careful spender, his main _________ are fishing equipment and holidays - and even then he stuffs his four kids in economy while he flies club.; The practice of granting _________ - remission of punishment for sins through the intercession of the Church - already had a long history.;

permeate

Most visibly of all, it _________ every line and curve of their art.; The idea that education _________ every aspect of life seems to have fallen by the wayside.; He is emblematic of the good fun and sense of community that _________ this weekly event.;

portray

Much of the teachings in Buddhism are _________ through a narrative framework.; Later, Christensen takes another break from the action to cut to a close-up of a different actress _________ an elderly woman suspected of witchcraft.; Actors _________ actual historical persons usually have scant resemblance to them.;

implicitly

Much of this research, either explicitly or _________, touches on the culturally constructed nature of infancy.; Giving him a platform seems to be a way of _________ giving him the thumbs-up.; The concept of the Way was probably entertained, explicitly or _________, by all vernacular societies.;

inborn

Other items of an interest at the forum will be susceptibilities and _________ anomalies, determination of the phenotype, genealogical study and risk assessment prevention.; People do seem to differ in their _________ ability to handle life's stresses.; Playfulness is an _________ ability that is hardwired into our genetic code.;

exert

Other than her walks to various news-stands and marketplaces, which she tried to limit, Lydia did not _________ herself to physical exhaustion.; A magnet can _________ a force on a moving charged particle, but it cannot change the particle's kinetic energy.; Be more loving towards children as they will _________ a positive influence on you.;

explicit

Others make more _________ the objectives to which the government should devote itself.; A narrative is implied, but never made _________.; It's clearly an _________ miscarriage of justice, and I'm glad to see that these young guys are being free.;

efficacy

Our aim was not to assess _________ of antibiotics but the effectiveness of prescribing strategies.; The partisanship has even reduced their _________ as a binding force of our nation.; There was a lack of data on _________ and adverse effects for all the other drugs.;

banal

She loathes Hollywood, finds it distasteful and _________, hates the idea of her art being tainted by commerce.; People are always trotting out _________ statistics and clichés to placate those who appear to be in a spot of bother.; I made a long list of quite _________ and boring questions that I went through and asked this man.;

spiral

She pulled out something that looked to be a key, but it was made of crystal, and the end of it curved into a _________.; I traced the _________ pattern on one of the rugs with me toe.; Meritz also believes that the major memory producers will soon begin to cut back on production in a bid to prevent the downward _________ of DRAM prices.;

adverse

She said the development would have major _________ impacts on the beauty of the landscape.; He believed it would have _________ effect on business and trade in the community.; I hope his commitment and long hours do not have _________ effects on him or his family.;

yacht

So this is the zillionaire luxury _________ lifestyle.; I went to the El Gouna marina, not yet filled with white polished _________ because the international _________ brigade were still out in the Med.; I asked to be transported to a sailing _________, cruising just offshore of that beach.;

contemporary

So, every time the curtain lifts, there is something new - a _________ issue presented with all the witticism of the world.; Mr. Bellow was the exact _________ of Arthur Miller: Both were born in 1915 and died this year.; This proposed project will combine ideas taken from _________ climatic design and traditional Middle Eastern art and architecture.;

warfare

Some joined the guerilla _________ of the zealots nipping at the heels of mighty Rome.; His deep and abiding interest in infantry _________ was soon to pay great dividends.; These were defensive positions and conflict and _________ seems to have been common.;

luxury

Some special editions featured such _________ as mats and a CD player.; Boarding the _________ yacht was strange - walk along a gangway, but then pull yourself up on a rope that enabled you to clamber aboard.; Discover a world of comfort and _________, traveling in the company of women with Olivia.;

adjunct

Someone wrote in and asked if I would settle, as they put it, for an _________ position if I can't get a faculty position.; Professional topical fluoride application is an _________ to oral fluoride supplementation used for the prevention of dental caries.; For many men, playing the stockmarket is a profitable _________ to supplement otherwise meagre incomes from the sale of surplus rice, coffee, cloves and vegetables.;

denominator

The _________ for each rate is based on the census that takes place every 10 years, which helps us calculate how many males and females there were in each age band the UK in 1999.; For each genus examined, the nominator gives the number of studied species and the _________ includes the total number of species.; In other words, a number is rational if we can write it as a fraction where the numerator and _________ are both integers.;

mediator

The _________ had a tall order bringing together parties with fixed and opposing goals.; He'd used a _________ to negotiate over a period of several weeks to try and get better terms.; Judges who leave the bench in any state can go into practice as private _________ or arbitrators.;

incubator

The aircraft touched down at about 10 am, with paramedics standing by to transfer the baby to an _________ before taking him to Yorkhill in a special neonatal ambulance.; The men raised £655.28 for BLISS - a charity which provides _________ to hospitals with premature babies.; The _________ provide a rich environment for innovative entrepreneurs, including mentoring, networking resources, business development and financial management.;

firmness

The amount of light bounced back after interacting with fruit tissue reflects fruit _________.; We watched him on television that night speak with sadness, _________, and dignity.; Suppliers rushed in to convert the hard currency into kwacha, causing the local currency to hold _________.;

trumpet

The avenues of carved deities, courtyards and temples are seething with _________ musicians and drummers, with processions escorting deities.; On this recording, there are nine violins, three violas, three cellos, a double bass, one flute, three oboes, one bassoon, three _________, a set of timpani, and a harpsichord.; The loud _________ is resulting in the elephants fleeing in panic.;

testimonial

The award is conferred on the basis of _________ describing the nominee's service.; His 11-year tenure with the Sky Blues has been rewarded by a glittering _________ against the champions of Scotland.; She was presented with a _________ on vellum, personally signed by society president Princess Alexandra, during the ceremony, at the Austrian Ambassador's residence in west London.;

eminence

The blind must not lead the blind, Your _________.; The great railway barons, corrupt legislators, and assorted judicial _________ who made the legal history of American railroads are given only the most scant personal attention.; But the most impressive structures along what became the A40 were the three big monumental brick blocks rising on the north side on an _________ at Park Royal.;

reactant

The change in heat content of the products relative to the _________ in a chemical reaction is known as the change in enthalpy.; If some of the components of this system chemically react with each other then the inert substance dispersing the _________ is the inert solvent.; Countless industrial processes use acids and bases as _________ or catalysts to make a variety of consumer goods.;

choir

The children, who are either orphans or are from very poor families, are lucky to be chosen to join the _________ with more than 1,000 auditioning to join.; With the rest of my mind however, I stared into the pools of color cast in the _________ loft by the stained glass window and let my thoughts go where they would.; The will of the college's founder, Henry VI, specified steps and stated that the high altar should be raised three feet above the _________ floor.;

econometrics

The committee's chief concern, however, was how I was going to incorporate _________ and statistical analysis to prove direct causal effect of finance to the real economy.; As its technical complexity has increased, knowledge of _________ and mathematics has become necessary.; The discipline now draws upon a range of theories and concepts, which are broader and more sensitive to historical analysis than neo-classical economics and more inclusive than time series _________.;

segregation

The commonly held meaning of apartheid is a regime of government that enshrines racial _________ in law.; Like so many institutionalized evils, _________ ultimately depended on public accommodation.; This kind of _________ may be self-imposed - but it is also the result of decades and centuries of injustice.;

discriminate

The community centre is there for both villages and we have no plans to _________ between residents,' he said.; New legislation which will make it illegal for businesses to _________ against workers on grounds of age is due to come into force next year.; It is very difficult to read it and be able to _________ between the satirical and what actually happened,' she said.;

subpoena

The defence could have _________ him but they could not force him to talk to them.; The appellant was unable to _________ the necessary witnesses.; Criminal defendants, like civil defendants, should be able to freely conduct depositions, _________ documents and witnesses, and serve interrogatories.;

camel

The desert was hotter now than in his father's day and there was less food for the _________.; At the few remaining watering holes, wolves lie in wait for wild _________.; The staff are well attired in _________ tops and black aprons.;

misdemeanor

The energy that was once spent in a constructive fashion, rooting for teamwork and friendship, will be transformed into a tornado of terror and minor _________.; I'm from a Roman Catholic background, so in case of _________ we could always confess our wrongdoings and go on with life.; The fact that he pled guilty to a _________ and not a felony, I believe, still is going to put him in some jeopardy with immigration.;

eye-opener

The experience was an _________ for Thomas and, she says, made her appreciate her current career all the more.; It's possible to have read widely in French history and yet experience this book as something of an _________.; And that's one of the things that I think has been a real _________ in this volunteer experience.;

survivor

The few _________ had clung to the vessel for more than two hours before fishing boats rescued them.; Property held under a joint tenancy rather than separately passes to the _________ on death.; Under their wills, the house will pass to the _________ on the death of either of them.;

long-term

The firm has also taken on two _________ unemployed bricklayers to work with them.; Horne said he would like to see a more _________ approach taken across Scotland.; We are trying to change the diet of Scottish children and that is a _________ thing.;

tertiary

The fossils from the formation represent organisms that thrived during the Pliocene epoch, at the end of the _________ period.; The generation born in the 1970s are more independent than any generation in the past, with a higher level of _________ education and often working in part time jobs from teenage years onwards.; When primary methods of removal fail, move on to secondary or _________ techniques for bringing marginal oil and gas out of the ground.;

synchronized

The goal is to ensure that all movement is _________ to meet operations and logistics timelines.; What I know is that their heartbeats and breathing _________, their faces took on the exact same dazed and painful expression.; Joshua laid his head on her shoulder, listening as her heavy breathing _________ with his.;

atomic clock

The most accurate _________ available today use the cesium atom and the normal magnetic fields and detectors.; But if you were to use the world's most accurate _________, you would also need to take the latitude and altitude of the two locations into account.; In 1971 two physicists sent four _________ on commercial flights around the world and found that the clocks gained or lost time in just the amounts that special relativity predicted.;

conjugate

The most common buffers are mixtures of weak acids and their _________ bases.; Tenses are confused, verbs are _________ and there's a creek to swim in to give relief from the merciless sun.; Compounds containing this group are enols, and their _________ bases - the C = COH anion - are enolates.;

deliberate

The needs of children and youth of adoption, however, necessitate their application in a _________ and conscientious manner.; At the same time, it has left him open to charges of flip-flopping, and concerns that his _________, decision - making style may be a hindrance in the Oval Office.; It was a _________ decision to challenge myself.;

colony

The practice persisted in the United States even after the _________ declared their independence.; The migration of religious sects to America made the _________ a natural breeding ground for religious freedom, but only up to a point.; And I don't think I need to spell out to you how easy it was for the British to transport that notion to the _________.;

hellish

The public likes to bemoan a difficult and wildly diva, _________ in rehearsal, magnanimous on stage, humble in the face of her art.; War is hell, but can be made more or less _________.; It's always been done this way, it would be _________ complicated to make a change and, besides, the only people who can make the decision have a vested interest in the status quo.;

upheaval

The recent _________ have demonstrated the danger the sector faced from not being aware of the importance of facts and figures,' McDonnell said.; Her books, bearing ambitious titles such as Women, Resistance and Revolution, helped shape one of the biggest political _________ of the 20th century.; Despite subsequent _________, the French have never seriously considered restoring the monarchy since.;

captor

The result is that the detainees are exploiting this asymmetry to run rings round their _________.; The woman managed to escape when her _________ was distracted and spent more than four hours hiding in scrub as he searched for her with a torch and dog.; Some, it is understood, rose up against their _________ in a desperate attempt to prevent the threatened carnage.;

domestic

The same is true of cleaners and _________, who are essential.; If a man wipes his feet on the door mat before coming into the room, you may be sure he will make a good _________ husband.; Factory production fell 3.9 percent as _________ consumption remained stagnant and exports declined.;

distinctive

The setting is also a great way to introduce a lot of _________ characters.; Students must learn to work more spontaneously, trusting the _________ character of watercolor.; But none of them has made a record as _________ as Boy in Da Corner.;

offender

The two greatest _________ come back-to-back in the middle of the album.; The shots fired at her by the _________ were totally unprovoked, totally unnecessary.; _________ often fail to realize the severity of their crimes, and an antagonistic prison environment can exacerbate feelings of being wrongly accused and hamper treatment.;

erratic

The vehicle he was driving was stopped because of an _________ driving pattern typical of someone under the influence.; I tried for a few photographs to show my appreciation but there was a frisky breeze, too light to notice if it were not for the constant _________ movement of flowers and leaves.; About 50 minutes later, just as people outside realized there was a problem, the elevator stopped its _________ movements.;

resolution

The victory will depend on courage, _________, and a determination to defend what we value - leaders are right to remind us of this.; In addition, the reflective surfaces of the prism are coated with special films to enhance both image contrast and _________.; A crucial art of the political leader in a crisis is to mask his own fear with a calming projection to the public of certainty and _________.;

tedious

The work was slow and _________ because it yielded such a huge amount of information.; After a long and _________ journey, I reached Bled, the place where the conference was to be held.; Wages are low, hours are long and _________, and management are often brittle and abrasive.;

ethos

Their _________ was that you had to treat the whole person, not just the cancer.; Choice is the _________ of a free-market environment; at the moment we don't have that.; Innovation was quietly continuous, prompting an _________ of understated optimism.;

controversy

Then the police were subject to a storm of political conflict and _________.; Scholars come and go and its attribution is a constant source of _________.; This past week has seen more _________ arising from Sunday's live televised match.;

auxiliary

There were no allied or _________ troops to be concerned about.; The National Hospital of Sri Lanka in Colombo has already imposed limits on overtime for drivers, attendants, labourers, sanitary workers and other health _________.; People who missed the service can support the project through mailing donations to the _________.;

intimidate

These are designed to _________ you back to work before you start.; So to be honest, it _________ me, a lowly four-day-a-week contractor.; Our country is still the target of terrorists who want to kill many and _________ us all.;

homogeneous

These findings confirmed the contention that when considering competence and self-esteem, single-parent children cannot be treated as a _________ group.; It is a crime committed not against members of ethnically or racially or religiously diverse groups but only against members of ethnically or racially or religiously _________ groups.; Many Chileans almost glorify the country's physical isolation, as they consider it a key factor in allowing the creation of a _________ society.;

pomp

They all went home and prepared for the grand parade for the Governor - who did arrive to great _________ and ceremony.; We can have as much _________ and circumstance as we like, but it's not going to turn our Parliament into something it's not.; Why devote so much _________ and ceremony to someone who lived such a long and full life and died peacefully?;

lest

Those in attendance are asked not to look directly at the panelists, _________ you disturb the mood.; Portia immediately fell in love with him and feared _________ he should choose the wrong box.; As to this it is necessary to avoid misapprehension _________ the protection be too limited.;

childcare

Those using _________ the most are managers, administrators and professionals.; There are several different _________ options available to parents returning to work.; Apart from the lack of jobs, the main obstacle for lone parents who want a paid job is the lack of _________.;

inaugural

Two scholars count Garfield's _________ as his only significant speech.; He now faces a new challenge of explaining his vision to the country and to the world in his second _________ address.; Another Republican president, in his second _________, talked of binding up the nation's wounds.;

get by

We knew it would be a difficult season, and basically we did enough to _________.; I'd cleaned the house thoroughly early in the day and Dolly and I had managed to _________ with only minimal mess.; He's somehow managed to _________ without being eliminated, but his number looks likely to be up very soon.;

precedent

What a pleasing _________ any unlikely victory would set!; This would be an example of _________ activism but not separation-of-powers activism.; His first and main ground is that the Inspector had no basis for his conclusion on the _________ effect.;

extrapolate

What has become increasingly important is _________ that imbedded value so it can go on to the balance sheets.; For, those women who did develop heart disease, it was assumed that the results of male-only studies could be _________ to them.; Although trials showing the benefits of these drugs have excluded patients above this age, evidence suggests that these data may reasonably be _________ to older patients.;

invoke

What image of the Spirit might be _________ for the next stage of the human pilgrimage?; Sir Rabbie Namaliu _________ the bygones be bygones argument says hammering out the agreement was a matter of discussion.; naturalism' is imposed upon the evidence so that the authority of science is _________ for a secular view of the world.;

inevitable

What is _________ is that we will continue to grow here and invest here.; The results are averaged across the sample and so there is _________ variation between the men.; It takes courage and wisdom to make the best of an imperfect situation and accept the _________.;

privilege

What is required is legislative change to the Family Law Act to require judges to make decisions _________ the child's safety ahead of all other considerations.; And the notion that this is some sort of lawless act on her part, as if no one has ever received what the lawyers call a _________, a right not to reveal sources, it just isn't so.; The law does not _________ the interests of men above those of women.;

dependant

What is the impact on families as we set taxation rates for families with _________?; He received the reply that he would have to relinquish all rights of a salary, a pension or support for his _________.; The purpose of life cover is to provide support for your _________.;

reconcile

What they are doing is testing whether or not a particular creation story can be _________ with a scientific model.; I have another job and I am _________ to the fact that, whether the record sells or not, I'm just going to have fun.'; But, this time, he was unable to _________ internecine squabbles.;

destruct

When there is nothing left but ruins and desolation, a tragic vision of a world _________ by an undetermined abstract force defines what would eventually become a recurring theme in Resnais's work: the wrath of God.; It's called the command _________ antennae, and it gives him the ability to blow up the rocket if it becomes a danger to the public.; In the end no disputing the justice of the result, but I suspect they will be cursing their pushing of that _________ button down Rathgormack way for days and even weeks to come.;

derivative

When you are depressed and isolated anything you write is totally _________ and self-obsessed.; Foreign banks have a more sophisticated system for evaluating and pricing credit risks associated with _________ products.; Because, even as a kid, I was fascinated by the way people expressed themselves, it wasn't long before I came across a London _________ of London back-slang.;

discharge

While _________ duties, I have taken unpopular decisions in my career, but without an iota of prejudice.; The primary lesions were pustulonodular, and at times the patient expressed a bit of milky _________ from the lesions.; He sought to be _________ without conviction because it would hurt his chances of become an official.;

fractal

While classical geometry assumes that objects exist in integer dimensions, _________ geometry deals with objects that have non-integer dimensions.; More precisely, the recursive nature, which is essential for _________ models, is lacking in the procedural approach.; Chaos theory is everywhere now: landscapes and starscapes in sci-fi movies, image compression software, even your laser printer uses _________ algorithms.;

jurisdiction

While referring to the laws of other _________, US courts have given them short shrift.; This is a topic on which the law has never been the same in the common law _________.; Mutual recognition is the sole guarantor that there will be a relatively level playing field in any source _________.;

hindsight

With _________, we know how his moral instinct trumped the evidence for the war and its legality.; We all do stupid things which with _________ we can't believe we ever did.; Historical _________ offers a clarity that people at those times simply did not have.;

dissipate

You see, in open areas - with plenty of fresh air and breeze going about - the smoke _________ and goes off into the atmosphere.; The hydrogen _________ quickly and disperses upward, while gasoline tends to pool fuel for an explosion.; A puff of green smoke glistened upward and _________.;

procrastinating

You tend to think negatively and torture yourself endlessly by imagining the worst and _________ about major decisions and changes today.; I've learned that after _________ for three hours and finally completing an essay at 1am, kebabs are the best food anyone could ask for.; I am supposed to be doing my taxes now, but am _________.;

shift

Although (as I have already indicated) Irving was prepared at one stage of the trial to agree that in broad terms the answer to this question is in the affirmative, he later _________ his ground.; I reckon that Old Shifty won't _________ himself until there is absolutely no money left in the tea caddy where they keep the pension dosh.; Use focus to _________ yourself to states of motivation, productivity or your goals.;

clamouring

And especially not to listen to the chorus of middle class pressure groups and supplicants who _________ for their own priorities to be espoused unexamined.; Now Manchester's ruling Labour group has pledged to act after its own backbenchers joined the _________ for change.; As she neared, she heard the _________ of their excited voices rising and echoing off the rock walls around her.;

particle

And in those experiments we see _________ of matter and _________ of anti-matter emerging in perfect balance every time.; events', not _________ of matter.; Maybe, as a result of this, sentences occasionally miss main verbs or _________ get mislaid, but blogging is Hell, soldier.;

drone

As I get older and my tinnitus removes the top-end of music, I feel less inclined towards the Bass and Drums and more drawn towards _________ and defined sounds.; He _________ on and on about some friend of his sister's who he saw last Christmas and who looked exactly the same after ten years of not seeing her.; The silence outside. Living so close to Kennedy Airport, the sound of planes getting ready to land is a constant _________ throughout the day.;

devastating

As Philly moves from total dependency into the first few baby steps of autonomy, the impact on everyone is delightful and _________.; Driving his point home with a sharp tongue and a deadpan delivery, Soderbergh's is a _________ wit, and he always gives himself the last word.; The couple married in 2002 after their original wedding plans were shattered because of the _________ blow to Louise's health.;

epidemic

As a result the country's cholera _________ continues, with more than 140,000 cases since August 2000.; Well below sea level, it suffered from floods and devastating yellow fever _________.; Only some months ago, in the face of an _________ of heroin deaths, they miraculously produced mobile vans and suddenly found extra places for addicts.;

flounder

As an adolescent, I was _________ in my search for an identity, struggling to assemble some kind of personality I could wear without shame.; If the deer had _________, she'd have gone into the water herself.; They seem to have also eaten _________, whiting, plaice, cod and brown trout too.;

dire

As winter sets in, as many as 5 million face _________ food shortages.; This might be a _________ warning but I cannot do it to anyone.; Some people have been making some pretty _________ predictions about the depletion of oil reserves recently.;

aplenty

As with all of his novels, it's tightly plotted, extremely well written, with twists and turns _________.; Here there are gift shops _________, but also fantastic courtyards and balconies overflowing with flowers.; The stock markets are not the only indicators of economic health, of course, but there was bad news _________ elsewhere last week.;

implicate

At least six travel agencies had been _________ in the alleged scam.; The results _________ the area's wild foods, said one expert.; She had always felt that, by refusing to _________ him in the crime of adultery, she was saving him from the ruin that she faced every day.;

retractable

Besides proof by _________ confession, evidence can be given by two male adults who saw the accused drinking and smelled alcohol on his breath.; Oh, it was one of those _________ vows.; A simple forgivable and _________ remark cannot destroy him, especially if he'd apologize.;

synthesis

But even if some of the facts aren't I new to us, we look to thinkers and policymakers like him not only for fresh _________, but also for responsive and realistic answers to the problem.; In the current treatment, I briefly review how the _________ of multiple fields have provided insight into several problems in biology.; Though natural history does not privilege the individual moment of perception in quite the way that romanticism does, it does rely on a process of imaginative _________.;

obsolete

But even those changes are not being made for the sake of _________ anything.; Indeed, does the love for sequels indicate that the very idea of artistic newness has become old-fashioned, _________?; Ideas about storage architectures are _________ long held sacred tenets and myths about backup and archiving.;

amass

But he failed to answer questions that the Treasury had _________ four billion pounds extra in tax through the increases.; He found the most beautiful ring, and _________ a huge amount of knowledge on the subject.; I am pleased to report that the chest of drawers is indeed still white on the top and that I seem to have _________ a hefty quantity of necklaces.;

recrimination

But it is crucial that the meeting is not consumed by _________ about the past, and instead focuses on salvaging the club's future.; These were times of turmoil and tragedy, of dangerous confrontations and bitter _________.; Would there be tears and _________; bitterness and regret?;

hence

But that does not stop them being valid reasons and _________ does not make following them any the less rational.; Such a slowdown wasn't entirely expected, _________ the reason the shares have only fallen a few per cent today.; Writing is often a means of release for me, _________ the reason for this blog.;

novice

But that was before the Queen's horse, Shining Strand, won a _________ hurdle race at Wetherby.; If you are a complete _________ I wouldn't worry about spending much time here.; In ten short years, several historic monasteries and convents have been restored to the Orthodox church and have welcomed hundreds of young _________.;

canter

But they really don't see much connection between how they, say, lead their horse from the barn to the arena and how they ask that horse to _________.; At the end of a long and one-sided year - Federer won everything that mattered and did it at a _________ - the top four men had clearly set themselves above the rest of the pack.; Instead, he chose to _________ his horse around Epsom in April to familiarise him with the track.;

bequeath

"He wants to _________ control to his sons, " alleges an insider.; In a way, the medical profession _________ these techniques to practitioners of folk medicine.; So I intend to _________ my property to a charity.;

trilogy

But yes, I had geeky fun and will see the three films back-to-back at the _________ first marathon screening.; Athenians at the time may have recalled another great Greek expedition overseas, to Troy; Euripides' Trojan _________ was produced in 415.; This huge opera is nothing less than a setting in Russian of almost the entire plot of the _________ of Aeschylus.;

grazing

Crofters gained the right to buy croft lands and common _________ even if their landlord did not want to sell.; Failure to do so now can lead to very stemmy unpalatable grass in later _________.; This makes grassland management very difficult on farms where _________ is already in short supply and problems are compounded in wet conditions.;

seismic

Evaluation of the new _________ data from Bulgaria had yielded very interesting results, he said.; Seismology tells us only about physical properties such as _________ velocity, attenuation, and, more indirectly, temperature.; Through measuring _________ activity, these scientists expect to predict an approaching eruption months in advance.;

specificity

Exercise testing performed with myocardial perfusion imaging improves the sensitivity and _________ for the detection of restenosis.; The _________ of this stain for this group of tumours is much lower.; Presently, this alkaloid in urine is the biomarker of choice, given its _________ and relatively long half-life.;

precedence

It was a war in which close air support and interdiction often took _________ over strategic attack.; Each cardinal approaches the altar, according to the order of _________.; These skills took _________ over more craft-based or manufacturing work skills.;

imminent

It was hard to sit in one and not expect the _________ arrival of the drinks trolley.; The fourth scenario is similar to the third except that the danger is not as _________.; How could the mother have imagined the _________ danger that was closing in on her son?;

survival

It's an artificial-intelligence concept based on the idea of Darwinian _________ of the fittest.; After a heart attack the victim's chances of _________ decrease by ten per cent with every passing minute.; More chemotherapy improved overall _________ compared with less chemotherapy, regardless of age.;

somewhat

It's been a wonderful summer even if the hottest part did try my endurance and my optimism, too, rather more than _________.; Jenia's look of bitterness slowly melts away to be replaced by a _________ puzzled look.; You're away from the stage by some margin and in this case the music seemed _________ far off.;

managerial

It's understandable that the Government wants to salute their _________ success.; Does that speak volumes about the opposition, or is it a testimony to his own _________ skills?; Years ago there was a _________ revolution in business, much written about.;

placement

Its proper _________ is yet to be determined by a more complete taxonomic sampling.; During the four years of his degree, he did two six month work experience _________ at a company called Wild Promotions.; Are referred students placed in special education, and what are the outcomes of those _________?;

enchanting

Its seductive power - its _________ spell - is the key to understanding corporate globalism.; Explore this Georgian Mansion and enjoy a range of exhibitions that offer an _________ view of Ireland's heritage and culture.; This is both a dangerous and an entrancing, _________ position.;

avail

Last-ditch efforts to avert war in the second week of March were to no _________.; I have tried various remedies, including cutting the plant right back, but to no _________.; A number of publishers _________ themselves of the advertising opportunities and commissioned Smith to write books for them.;

artistic

Many people in this category have strong _________ and creative inclinations.; Sickert seemed to share Degas' _________ vision in a way he never did with Whistler.; For a museum man of those days Reynolds was unusually aware of current _________ trends.;

adequate

Many villagers had also felt that the proposal did not offer _________ parking.; He does not consider this to be an _________ reason for not claiming asylum on arrival at the airport.; Allocation of _________ resources for research in these fields is highly desirable.;

pungent

Mencken was a controversial satirical journalist and _________ critic of American life.; It's in what was once the spice area, known for its _________ and exotic smells.; Nothing but the stench of fear to show for his presence, a _________ lingering smell that slides down the back of your throat like tar.;

drain

Metal _________ grates on a number of roads have gone missing and are not only a danger to pedestrians but also cause damage to cars and motorcycles.; Going head-to-head against Jack Nicklaus in a major was like trying to _________ the Pacific Ocean with a teacup.; Once it flows in, the water will not _________ from New Orleans because of the very levees that protect the city and that largely held during the hurricane.;

spiffy

Ming has moved into a _________ apartment with his fiancée who is a writer, working on a novel whose leading character suffers from multiple-personality disorder.; Shawn sauntered into the kitchen from the front door, carrying his guitar case again and looking _________ in dark blue jeans and a white button down shirt.; Today my outfit was pretty _________ if I do say so myself.;

delineate

More importantly, the date marks the actual moment of transition; it _________ the boundary between life and death, between temporal and eternal.; A good student will show the examiner an overall knowledge of the area and be able to put the law in perspective when _________ the options available to the disgruntled buyer.; And over the past few decades it has become ever more difficult to _________ these boundaries.;

brawl

Most of the festivals here are just drunken _________ for children,' she laments.; For three days, two unevenly matched teams have _________, they have hurled almost everything at each other, and any time one has deigned to take the advantage, the other has clawed it back.; They still went about armed even in peacetime, unlike Roman aristocrats in times of empire, and drunken _________ or even complicated feuds might break out at any time.;

pedigree

Most of the houses would also have several dogs, who were very often pure bred, with their _________ running back for decades.; The gang is targeting _________ dogs who have tags with their name and telephone numbers.; And it is not surprising, considering the _________ of both authors.;

coastal

Most of the population live in highly urbanized areas along the _________ plains.; The _________ species are often well known, but many stay out of sight and are seldom seen by most people.; The rest is wooded savanna, river valleys, and a small _________ plain.;

adolescent

Fantasy is not the only genre that young _________ show a preference for as readers.; Healthy development for early _________ girls is defined by these tasks.; The _________ that applied to the school were hoping to mimic Trevi's rise to fame.;

anoint

Fat of lion, fat of hippo, fat of cat, fat of crocodile, fat of ibex, fat of serpent, are mixed together and the head of the bald person is _________ with them.; God told the prophet Samuel to go to Jesse's home to _________ the next king of Israel.; There will be Sacrament of the _________ of the Sick at 2.30 pm.;

irradiation

Neutron or ion _________ hardens the material but not enough to prevent use in nuclear reactors.; The quantification of these compounds was performed by chromatography before and after laser _________.; Patients receiving total body _________ for bone marrow transplant conditioning must also be considered at risk.;

confine

For some, the fast-food joint is the only option if they want to escape the _________ of a cramped house for a couple of hours.; They _________ her in a hotel room under a doctor's care, but after only two days of this, she began showing symptoms of high blood pressure, dehydration, and stress.; My birding is restricted only by my own inability to escape from the _________ of city life.;

pragmatic

Furthermore, they generate the same _________ implicatures.; They are doing the right thing for once, so I'm not going to knock them because their reasons are _________ rather than ideological.; This leaves us with the realists, who come across as sensible, _________ moderates.;

unrivaled

George Stigler once observed that Milton Friedman had a rare, almost _________, ability to command the profession's attention.; As the recognized innovator in medical technology, we have an _________ track record.; Virtually unique in comprehensiveness and quality, the Thesaurus offers _________ insight into the biological knowledge of its day.;

analogy

Germany and Japan make poor _________ with respect to the contemporary Middle East.; The _________ between outlawing gay marriage and interracial marriage won't withstand scrutiny.; But for a closer _________ to the DFD situation, we have to move overseas.;

courtesy

Good humour, mutual respect, _________, a certain gentleness with people usually does the trick.; Successful applicants will get their rural trip _________ of a new TV programme.; The reason was simple: the fathers of the leaders of the conservatives, being high cadres, were working class by _________ - although few of them were actually so in family origin.;

concession

Group rates and _________ are available and school groups are free.; More immediately, he could have demanded visible _________ from the President benefiting from his hospitality last week.; Several local governments started issuing forest _________ licenses since the implementation of regional autonomy last year as part of efforts to boost their revenues.;

martial arts

He also runs regularly and has taken up two different _________ - karate and wing chun, a form of tai chi.; We are working at the moment with a Japanese master who is showing us aspects of Budo and _________.; He spent nearly a year studying kendo, karate and other Japanese _________.;

orchestra

He also studied the violin with Felix Niolan, concert-master of the Opéra _________.; Conklin has performed as a violin soloist with numerous _________ including the Louisville, Nashville and Berlin Symphony Orchestras.; There is a give-and-take between what happens on stage and what happens in the _________ pit,' he added.;

opera

He has also designed extensively for theatre, _________, Broadway musicals, and film.; These include seven symphonies, nine _________, and chamber, organ and piano works.; In the 1770s he began composing symphonies, concertos, _________ and theater music.;

despite

He has earned my _________. I simply don't care.; The photograph effects a metamorphosis, not only of the object but of the subject, including the photographer, as well as of everyday reality, making them enter its realm, even _________ themselves.; It attempts to titillate but with a degree of sophistication that has us all watching _________ ourselves.;

underpinning

He is concerned less with theoretical _________ and more with the ethics of process-based work.; For the casino, the _________ of all their games is math.; Repairs include _________ the southeast corner of the 100 year-old, heritage listed building to stabilise the foundations and ensure the building is structurally sound.;

traction

He now focuses on designing _________ kites which can pull a board, a craft or a vehicle.; They may offer more _________ in wintry weather, but can reduce _________ of dry roads.; The hypervisor technology also puts a layer between a physical server and server operating systems and has gained _________ with the hardware makers.;

bankroll

He still unnerves conservatives by helping _________ 17 drug-reform ballot initiatives - and winning every one.; I'd slaved over it for months while my husband worked double shifts in a hotel to help _________ it.; In a tournament, bets like this deplete a limited _________.;

vigor

He stood with great strength, with great _________, with great solidarity.; A fable based on such behavior might even have some truth to it: a few biologists have suggested that giraffe necks grew longer because females saw them as a sign of male _________.; Such hope lent a spring to their step and _________ to their efforts in the face of determined opposition.;

plaster

He was covered in sweat and a few rogue locks of hair were _________ to the sides of his face.; My hair was _________ to my head, and I raised my hand from instinct to fix it.; His hair was _________ to his face, and his coat felt like it was sticking to his skin.;

triumph

Her victory was an unlikely _________ for a woman who lay backstage crying before the curtain had even gone up.; But those _________ are not his most extraordinary achievement.; The victory was a tactical _________ for the German, who started a season-low sixth on the grid.;

strain

Her voice was soft and low and we'd have to _________ to hear her.; I think everyone I know is suffering from that mental _________.; If you overdo it and _________ yourself, you may become discouraged.;

covet

His was a major contribution towards Pakistan winning the much _________ gold medal.; So I wonder... was he _________ his neighbor's wife?; Earlier this year he won yet another _________ Sony award for his breakfast show.;

trajectory

I can also move things through the dome by drawing paths through _________ - it's limitless what you can do.; Suborbital paths are the _________ of choice for ballistic missiles.; In this study, these themes describe common decision _________.;

contraception

I didn't have a clue about _________ and just believed I wouldn't get pregnant.; Only one woman reported using emergency _________ after a problem with the contraceptive pill.; Methods of _________ are promoted specifically as a means to reduce the problem of abortion.;

apathetic

I don't think people are as _________ as they seem, but it's hard to tell.; The tigers paced desperately and the gorillas and chimps seemed listless and _________.; Today's young people are said to be the most _________ generation ever.;

thermal

I have my _________ and one of the said wacky hats out ready.; This Christmas my parents gave me _________ underwear.; She is the daughter of Aramkumar, an engineer at the _________ power station in Tuticorin, and Annam, who is an engineer at the Tamil Nadu Water and Drainage Board.;

conquer

I have to say that I am quite happy relying on theirs, and the guidebooks description, and have no urge to come back to _________ the place.; To researchers who enjoy _________ the technological problems of creating a nanotech world, these social, legal and regulatory concerns may seem like dull things.; Until now, we have read this history as a hero story in which the clever human lineage triumphantly _________ the world.;

vacuum cleaner

I heave the _________ into the small cupboard on the first floor landing.; She had to suck the water out of the studio using a _________ and use fans to try and dry the sodden carpet tiles.; A _________ was jammed against the door to keep the children in.;

instructive

I hope you've found it as _________ reading the posts as I've found it writing them.; I personally found it _________ and helpful, as I think all those who have taken the course so far.; For these assertions are _________ just because they reveal some of the less obvious effects of a denial of human rights.;

catastrophe

I mean, it's a _________ for the industry that really doesn't need one more.; People with GAD tend to overestimate the likelihood of harm coming from a given situation and view minor or ambiguous events as _________.; Before this year of disasters even began, it was heralded by a natural _________ as sudden and violent as anything that followed.;

repository

I often say to students, the skip behind an art college is the _________ of the ugliest objects on earth.; The electorate's hope that his Cabinet would prove a genuine _________ of positive change was the one slim reed on which the Party's recent political legitimacy had rested.; This exhibition features 22 major works acquired by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art directly from the artist in 1999, making the museum the largest _________ of his works.;

doze

I spent the rest of the evening _________ with my head on Angel's shoulder.; After finishing the heap of homework I had, I let myself fall into bed, _________ off the moment my head hit the soft feathered pillow.; Closing her eyes, Geneva nearly _________ to sleep until a sharp knock on the door awakened her.;

gnawing

I suspect both sides have enlisted troops to satisfy _________ uncertainties.; He can't ignore the _________ feeling that she was right.; OK, it is hard to completely avoid a sense of _________ unease.;

coup

I think this _________ would look more like the failed 1963 effort than like 1968, and has the potential to roil the country and the region for decades.; Two of the greatest Second World War intelligence _________ were achieved by the Russians.; That's really the lesson of this latest intelligence _________.;

belie

I was a first year medical student when I first realized that outward appearances occasionally _________ the truth.; The administration's record on major choices about international law _________ that claim.; Its clearly German exterior _________ its delicate interior.;

fume

I was feeling really dizzy, and no, it wasn't from the loud music and the _________ of B.O. wafting off of the dancing morons.; Julia silently _________ at the lack of concern over her departure.; Residents of the David Murray John Tower _________ at being left out in the cold for an hour after a second 30-year-old lift failed and security guards said they could not allow them to use the stairs.;

intern

I was lucky enough at 19 to spend a long summer of very late nights _________ at KMOX.; He was _________ at Saughton Prison and his father and grandfather were transported to Canada on the Arandora Star.; It's the very work architecture students and _________ here have long cut their teeth on.;

drowsy

I was still _________ from whatever the drug he gave me contained.; However, these symptoms may be absent and children may simply become feverish, _________ and listless.; I find myself drawn to the moon, completing the smallest of rituals in the dead of night, only to be sleepy and _________ for the rest of the day.;

opulence

I was stunned by the _________ of Grand Central Station - I never imagined a public building could be so well-kept and clean.; Despite its _________, however, Zhang's house pales by comparison to that of his cousin, Zhang Shiming.; Out in the warm, sea-scented evening, a stroll through the town shows that the _________ of the Palais is matched by other huge houses.;

traverse

I watched the man with furtive caution as we _________ the forest, for I didn't trust him, even if he did not seem villainous.; We roped up at the base, did our cross-check, then climbed up a short wall and across easy slopes, _________ upward and left until we reached an obvious belay.; Although most skiers _________ the Inside Road from north to south, both directions demand stamina with substantial elevation gains and losses.;

or so

I will be away from my computer for the next week _________, and will be taking a break from blogging.; At our last place I had to take an inch _________ off the bottom of a door, as it was sticking on a shaggy new carpet.; You could put your feet up, close your eyes and simply enjoy doing nothing for half an hour _________.;

perpetrate

I will go back to the issue that I raised earlier that the people who _________ these acts are vicious criminals.; At some level, if a guy is pathologically committed to _________ fraud, you're not going to be able to stop him very often.; Moreover, in _________ these acts of murder and destruction they believe they are executing the divine will.;

ostracize

I would hate to see the children _________ because of their father's activities.; He lost the battle, and was _________; most Athenians did not agree with him.; By the time of Campanella's death, only five years after his arrival in France, he had become _________, intellectually isolated, and antiquated.;

agitate

I've remorselessly _________ for a full public inquiry but the powers that be have just kicked me into touch so to speak,' he said.; By Sunday I was extremely _________ and highly restless.; The decline and fall of everything is our daily dread; we are _________ in private life and tormented by public questions.;

shift work

If he works a six-day week including _________ and overtime, this brings his total salary up to £20,000.; The idea was to revamp the 330,000-person staff to reduce costs, _________ to lower-cost countries, and strip out bureaucracy.; Workers have to work 12 hours a day and do _________.;

elevated

If national sides and the World Cup can resist the forces of avarice, however, then football can come to occupy a new and even more _________ position in the global imagination.; Brisk walking for 30 to 45 minutes, swimming, jogging - all utilise blood sugar and help reduce _________ sugar levels.; People living in Wessex Gardens fear the school building proposed for an _________ position on a tall embankment will totally overwhelm them.;

necessity

If that is the case, intervention, when it is constructive, is an objective _________, so that auditing its personnel could be introduced.; He strongly objected, however, to any suggestion that _________ can also be properly attributed to the properties or relationships of the things described in such sentences.; However, the existence of representative government doesn't obviate the _________ of enquiry.;

emanate

If the book has a shortcoming, it is one that _________ from the source of its strength.; The warmth _________ from her glowing form told me that I had finally found my place in the universe.; He awoke the next morning to the delicious smell that _________ from the fireplace.;

hardship

If this guy stays there will be some kind of suffering and if he goes, that _________ will be twofold.; It cannot be confined to those who suffered financial _________ due to lack of income.; In some parts of the world, corruption and poverty condemn untold millions to a life of misery and _________.;

disgrace

If this widespread corruption had occurred in any legitimate organization around the world, its CEO would have been ousted long ago, in _________.; It's a _________ to any concept of fairness, an insult to a horrible past, encouragement to a disgraceful present and in the long run it damages everyone.; If the rumours are true, then it will be twice the size it is now, and that really would be a _________ to the countryside.;

staple

If you use paper on your compost, be aware of any plastic or _________ in the paper - worms can't eat that!; Two other important _________ crops are cassava and maize.; In northern Mauritania, small swarms have already caused damage to the _________ crops millet and sorghum, along with date palms and vegetables.;

hostel

If you're traveling solo, a _________ can be cheaper than a hotel.; We stayed at this little town called Port Campbell in a YHA _________ that provided backpackers' accommodation for 18 dollars a night.; Each of the school's two _________ has 52 students with every room colour coded and featuring beds, wardrobes, drawers, a pin board, a desk and chair as well as shelving.;

metaphor

Images are often presented through figures of speech like simile and _________.; As early as the 16th century theorists had compared musical figures to _________.; I like to think of the rats as a _________ for the city's egalitarianism.;

deploy

In addition to our normal operations, the squadron _________ for two evaluated exercises.; In light of many of the challenges that have plagued peacekeeping operations in the past, brigade-level leaders must learn to take each of these into account and make the right assessments before the first battalion _________.; He stressed the need for biosecurity and disinfection measures to continue to be effectively _________ by all farmers.;

truncate

In all, that made for a fairly _________ day today, but at least I now feel very blithe, and I had two excellent ideas for the book.; The cell is oval with a _________ apical region, from which the flagella and haptonema originate.; What happened, though, was that the debate ran eight minutes long, so all of the ensuing commentary was _________.;

complimentary

In any case, the letters he received from editors when they returned his manuscripts were invariably _________ about his prose.; The comments from the young whipper snappers were less than _________.; Seeing himself on screen afterwards was pretty scary, though colleagues had been _________.;

augmented reality

In contrast, the goal of _________ is to allow users to engage with the world more fully.; Now this display is a combination of the real physical world around you and _________ elements.; Technological advances in optics and computer graphics, as well as the rapid development of network technology and distributed systems, open new doors for building effective distributed _________ systems.;

drought

In fact, tropical storms or hurricanes have ended many _________ in Texas, and other parts of the world.; Dennis Wise's glancing header ended the team's goal _________ - spanning 588 minutes.; So England's men's championship _________ continues beyond its 68th year or whatever!;

gleam

In front of them, several giant exhibition stands in black polished color _________ in the flashing lights of green, white, yellow, and blue.; It unnerved him when she looked at him with fear _________ in her eyes.; There was a _________ of triumph in Abigail's eyes now, and she pressed on.;

trivial

In group theory one of the topics he studied was that of groups with only _________ automorphisms.; But it is sad that the media has been highlighting _________ events while ignoring important health issues.; To our contemporary minds, that might seem a relatively _________ offense.;

aura

In his hand was a long, crimson staff, and an _________ of magical strength surrounded him.; I still sense an _________ of coldness, but I guess that's something I'll have to approach practically next time.; The meditative mood and ethereal atmosphere of the painting create an _________ of intimacy that counters the epic scale of its composition.;

pessimistic

In his last years, perhaps under the strain of illness, Lenin's writings took on a dark, _________ tone.; Most are _________ that a sustainable deal will be reached and expect the dispute to escalate.; Civil War combat had hardened him to a _________ expectation of repeated failure.;

debilitate

In his late sixties, his fears of illness were fully realized, and he was increasingly _________ by liver cancer until his death at seventy in 1875.; The lack of employment spurs the mass human migrations that so _________ the district.; The demand for land has had a _________ effect and there has been a steady loss of agricultural land over the last few years.;

thyroid

In most cases the whole _________ gland will need to be removed (total thyroidectomy).; EDITOR O'Reilly suggests that the role of _________ function tests should be reassessed.; In men, serum _________ hormones were sensitive to marginal changes in energy intake and expenditure.;

testament

In one sense this is a novelty - to write a work on biblical theology which in fact treats of both _________ from a Old _________ perspective.; The sportsmanship amongst the players was absolutely marvellous and the whole event was a _________ to how popular snooker remains.; Leighton used her job at the Treasury Solicitors to search the homes of the dead for their last wills and _________ to place and recover forged documents.;

nurture

In such prayer lies spiritual _________ and wholeness.; But it seems to the Professor that _________ has made women more receptive to the idea of retributive violence.; Her current heartthrob is superstar Shah Rukh Khan and she _________ an ambition to meet up with King Khan.;

concerto

In the 1770s he began composing symphonies, _________, operas and theater music.; If I compare it to the symphonies, _________, and chamber music, it seems rather bland to me, but why deny people their fun?; What makes these works piano _________ and not piano quartets, then?;

lethal

In the United States, critically injured racehorses are humanely euthanized by _________ injection.; Antibiotics are medicines that are _________ to bacteria that cause infections.; Sirotka doesn't blow hitters away with a big fastball, but he throws a _________ sinker and gets a lot of groundouts.;

revolve

In the lower weight classes, the world still _________ around Oscar.; The 360 Degrees Restaurant, known for its rich ambience, is the only _________ restaurant in the Caribbean.; The conversation usually _________ around questions about episcopal leadership and the role of the laity.;

garish

In this increasingly _________ context, there can be no denying the reassuring twinkle of a traditional fairy light.; All of the _________ constructions below him have been built for the nouveau riche with relatives working abroad.; Only the _________ turquoise silk tie and the glint in his pale blue eyes detract from this picture of geriatric gentlemanliness.;

distinguished

Iroka could tell by his manner and dress that he was a _________ businessman.; I have the ultimate respect for the _________ actor, but his Judy Garland red plastic clogs were nothing short of ridiculous.; We will take a break and come back with more of our _________ panel.;

lever

Now the English wall had broken, and the Normans were able to _________ open the cracks.; With some difficulty, he _________ himself to his feet.; Finally, return to the original side and latch down the locking _________.;

profound

One of the most _________ ideas to emerge from World War Two was the emergence of an international human rights culture and legal system.; Doctors testified that Charlotte fell into the most extreme category of _________ neurological disability.; It may be a child with a _________ disability as well.;

barrel

Opec, the powerful consortium of the world's oil-producing countries, meets in Vienna today, and they have us over a _________ as the oil price hits $35.; This week, another runaway dump truck from a local construction site _________ out of control down one of West Vancouver's steep streets.; Erin was supposed to be watching for race cars _________ down the road, but he was busy describing his adventures at the mini-games park to Mr. Saturn.;

abrasion

Or you can mix 25 drops into 100 ml of hot water and gently apply to cuts, _________, sores and ulcers.; Mangrove forests function to protect coasts from storms, erosion and _________, as well as providing habitat for various animals especially fish and bird species.; The intraarticular implant fragments may lead to gradual chondral injury secondary to _________ of the articular surfaces.;

advocate

Others championed him as an _________ of free speech.; A member of the Party and a former commerce minister, he is considered an _________ of free-market policies.; A staunch _________ of the policy, he created it as a model institution designed to teach both academic and industrial subjects.;

auditory

Readers have taken us to task for suggesting that hearing music could be an _________ hallucination.; Sensorineural hearing loss also can result from damage to the brain's _________ center.; This part of the text finally concludes with an account of the visual and _________ systems.;

spectator

She concedes, though, that her interest in football is as much about the _________ as about the game itself.; He took her arm, leading her back to the tape, where curious _________ watched.; She was a _________, a _________ watching her life break apart before her eyes.;

props

She had done most of the kitchen organising and she deserves tidiness _________ too!; He was perfectly nice to her nonetheless, so he got a few extra _________ from moi.; Wish I could take credit for this but big _________ to the M-Dogg for finding it.;

ornamental

She held up a very pretty medium-sized _________ fan with a wood handle and wood blades.; Books, postcards, _________ and decorative pieces, curiosities and some plain junk.; They feed on the roots of a wide variety of plants including cool season grasses, weeds, woody _________ and other _________ plants.;

with a view to

She is here on an extended stay _________ maybe moving in with him.; In the workshop the children will be creating a piece of art work, _________ making a piece of music from it.; I have written this article _________ hopefully helping other people cope with Mud Fever when it strikes.;

perpetrator

She plays a super-cop whose main submission tactic is revealing her breasts, so _________ are lulled into boredom.; We see the victim gradually change through the force of his anguish into a senseless _________.; Individuals with serious mental illness are, in fact, more likely to be victims, rather than _________ of violence.;

renege

She said sponsors were _________ on an earlier agreement to hold the rally elsewhere.; Now, apparently, it's okay if a company _________ on a pension commitment.; To appease unions, he _________ on promised labor-market reforms.;

get round to

Stephen informs me that the award they won was for the 2001 edition and in due course we hope to _________ some quotes and list of titles.; They said, provided you know your place, in due course we will _________ helping you.; How often do you set out to complete a task and never quite _________ it?;

colorway

Subsequent runs of that same design and _________ may be slightly different.; The print designs and related _________ are laid out in formatted templates, which have eliminated the tedious and time-consuming job of cutting fabric swatches and gluing them to cards.; Digital images of fabrics are also gradually being added to the database at the request of the marketing department, which needed a way to reference images for samples and _________.;

astute

Such _________ use of credit cards has kept Margaret in financially good shape for 15 years.; It also marks a shift in public attitudes which the former MP has been _________ enough to recognise.; She was also an _________ businesswoman, eventually running three cafés and a catering business.;

meshed

Switch meshing is the ability to create a redundant, _________ topology between switches, using all port links in the mesh to dynamically load balance traffic.; The two most common configurations are known as a hub and spoke, or a fully _________ configuration.; We are creating more _________ services where the seemingly unitary application is really a composite of linked calls across the Internet.;

publicise

That episode and error were widely _________ at the time and have dominated some obituaries.; The trade union movement did not widely _________ the dispute, so that workers outside the immediate area knew little or nothing about the strike.; It makes sense therefore for us as a community based paper to concentrate our energies on _________ and promoting such wonderful work, which is all carried out on a voluntary basis.;

barren

The Hill Country along South Mopac is remarkably _________ of all-night food joints.; Catriona Boyle and Joanna Kerr give advice on a plague of wild garlic and _________ fruit trees.; He lives in a small fishing village on the coast of Iceland, a bleak, _________ place with one or two buildings, a few fussy townsfolk, and a lot of snow and cold.;

resumption

The _________ of amicable commercial relations was also matched by cultural and artistic transactions.; For their part, these authorities are requesting the _________ of their colonial administrative functions and links with the state, particularly in order to receive salaries and official recognition of their power.; A poll released last year by the Asahi Shimbun newspaper indicates that few Japanese in their 20s have even tasted whale; nearly 60 percent of those polled oppose any _________ of commercial whaling.;

solemn

The _________ pledge taken included an oath swearing to quit the drug habit and to avoid association with former friends and others still involved with drugs.; Organ music at the Mass set a _________ tone, but the day's ceremonies ended on a festive note, with fireworks and a ball under the stars.; The document has not been cast as a statement under oath or as a _________ affirmation or made in a similar manner as to bind the conscience of the author of the document.;

medieval

The _________ pottery and iron tools speak more of hard work and modest prosperity than of exotic trade links.; It was a long, narrow strip of land and on the rocky coast at its southern end was a _________ castle.; Many of the churches and cathedrals that survive from _________ times have also had additions to them.;

steep

The _________ rise in thefts is also damaging the Government's record on crime.; During conventional wet milling, corn is _________ for 24 to 36 hours in water and sulfur dioxide to begin the separation of the starch and protein connections.; The place was _________ in British naval history.;

percussion

The _________ sounds like the sudden buzz of dragonfly wings.; Physical examination revealed decreased breath sounds and dullness to _________ over the right lower lung.; For pebbles and larger particles, surface textures, such as weathering pits and _________ fractures, provide important clues to particle history.;

exploit

The _________, adventures and successes of the Mayo ladies over the past few years have unquestionably raised the profile of the sport.; He yesterday lashed out at his treatment by the media, implicitly accusing them of _________ him for financial gain.; Sporting activities must be organised so that they are for leisure and not _________ for profit or voyeurism.;

unprecedented

The almost _________ move would have brought a smile to your million-dollar mug right about now.; We're in a time of almost _________ prosperity and peace.; One social characteristic was the unique and _________ rise in real earnings and incomes.;

norm

The brewery was praised for supplying its Old Brewery real ale throughout the country at relatively low prices - on average nearly 30p cheaper than the _________.; Fighters kept their gravity well below Earth _________, the standard gravity found on ships and space stations.; Social _________ and traditions of behavior, which are loosely correlated with the law, also set consumer expectations.;

laborious

The colourful faces are the result of _________ work.; It has some glimmers of interest, and some diverting visuals, but really nothing makes up for the _________ pace and risibly bad writing.; We are in danger of forgetting that democracy is a slow, _________, messy matter.;

surname

The cruel neighbour, _________ Hao, did not regret his actions.; The student _________ Zhang decided to postpone employment for a few years by taking up post-graduate studies.; Most people referred to him as such because they were unable to pronounce his _________.;

resemble

The cuckoo, which _________ a sparrowhawk or a kestrel in flight, can be difficult to identify.; At the time her family was told she might not survive after suffering a massive blood clot on her brain, _________ a stroke.; The theory of dogs _________ their owners was put to the test at a fun dog show recently.;

prima facie

The failure of a public officer to have duly forthcoming any public funds or property with which he is chargeable, upon demand by any duly authorized officer, shall be _________ evidence that he has put such missing funds or property to personal uses.; The Solicitor argues that these comparative data are not of sufficient quality to overcome the _________ case of obviousness made by the prior art.;

avert

The far-fetched, last minute intervention, presumably by the hand of God, that _________ tragedy from striking the family sits uncomfortably with the raw realism of the rest of the picture.; You can chew on the irony of icon-maker MTV presenting this notion when you're _________ your eyes during the extended surgery scenes.; But American reporters are studiously _________ their eyes, lest they stumble over a story.;

courtyard

The garden, reflecting the Elizabethan fashion, has four _________ enclosed by high sandstone walls.; This entrance forms an almost discrete passageway into the inner _________.; Inside, the old town wiggles and winds in on itself, a labyrinth of narrow alleys and high walls, hiding dark _________.;

cargo

The growth in _________ hauled by trains appears more spectacular than that of passenger movement.; Many of them were dockers who carried heavy loads of _________ while rushing in a great hurry.; Have you ever noticed how boats look when they are built more for speed than for carrying _________?;

barrier

The police also raised the _________ at the Riom tollgate in anticipation of the satanic Vel Satis making a break for freedom.; Instead he panicked, jumping over the station's ticket _________ and running down to a train where he was shot.; He leapt over station _________ and jumped on the tube.;

cult

The promotion of the generative powers of earth, water, and human, animal, and fish populations is a common concern of major religions and small-scale _________ the world over.; Media-orchestrated _________ of personality and shameless historical revisionism, they already know about.; The modern _________ of the television celebrity... tends to handicap a living candidate.;

vibrant

The samples on their albums sound fresh and _________, not like the tired and clichéd samples so many rappers resort to.; When I first met her she was bubbly and _________ and full of life.; The place is always jumping and the energy is _________.;

renowned

Their grandfather was a _________ concert pianist and composer in Adelaide.; Following are the declarations of two well _________ scholars of Hindu philosophy.; She was _________ for her fine seamstress abilities down through the years.;

chronic

These bus drivers have managed to amass a well-earned reputation as being the most aggressive and reckless drivers in a country of poor roads and _________ speeders.; As a _________ crowd avoider, I was fairly inclined to that camp.; One of the translations Andrew suggests is a chronically unlucky person, or perhaps walking disaster, _________ loser or even just loser if pressed for time.;

semantic

They are self-conscious efforts to thwart the confinement of written language and its _________ limits.; At this point, the _________ extensions go in at least two different directions.; But, how can one discuss nonsemantic functions in language that is obdurately _________?;

coerce

Those detained face beatings and other forms of torture, aimed at _________ confessions or information about rebel forces.; The girls were _________ into silence by the culprit about what they had experienced.; Mischa pressed the dagger enough to _________ him to let go of her.;

transcribe

Thus, the Y-linked copy of the S. latifolia spermidine synthase gene is actively _________.; The sound, I am all too familiar with; my ability to accurately _________ it is in doubt.; The only change is that Orff _________ the orchestral parts for two pianos.;

pigment

Tilting his canvases at steep angles, Ross drips thin _________ rivulets from top to bottom.; In plants, carotenoid _________ such as anthocyanins often help tackle these aggressors.; She also added jewel powder to the _________ used in her paintings, expressing her passion for the precious stones.;

nutritious

To popularise this _________ food, it is also giving away a small recipe book.; It is her conviction that _________ food need not be rich and expensive.; Feeding your family with healthy, _________ food is not easy when money is tight.;

vaccination

Travel to some parts of the world requires specific _________.; Antibodies are produced by the sow in response to _________ or subclinical disease exposure.; Doctors at the meeting expressed concerned over a lack of available _________ should an outbreak occur.;

jeopardize

Vaccination has a potential role in disease and epidemic management, at the risk of _________ the trade status of a country.; They have to ensure contracts for services are completed in time because failure could _________ the award.; It also plunders natural resources, imperils posterity, and _________ self determination.;

brigade

We can't just do this because our battalion or our _________ or our division is out here fighting.; I was very impressed with the other battalion commanders in the _________.; He was fascinated with the Volunteer Infantry, which was _________ with his own.;

dean

When Jane Hedges, a rural _________ in Devon, arrives at Westminster in January she will break a male-only tradition stretching back 1,000 years.; Education was one of his main passions and it was due to the _________ that the cathedral was used for adult education courses.; In addition, a new policy required that all fraternity parties be registered with the _________ of student's office and the campus police, who provide on-site security.;

grant

You don't take things for _________, you accept what you have, and you're aware, well, you are only human in the end, no matter if you're rich or you're poor, everyone's the same.; All farmers, landowners and parish councils in the National Park can apply for _________ from the money which has come through Yorkshire and Humber Regional Development Agency.; Can powers _________ by an enabling Act only be enlarged or modified by express words of authorisation?;

idiosyncratic

You get the sense that you were surrounded by _________ and iconoclastic people.; And the picture is made more confused by McLean's own _________ personality.; His fans long ago came to terms with the intensely coded, _________ and bizarre thing that is Dylan.;

integrate

A better approach is to _________ the three stages into a highly compact, free-space geometry.; Their integrative motivation is to have their children speak Spanish in order to _________ socially with Spanish speakers.; And _________ China into the global economy by bringing it into the World Trade Organization is all to the good.;

overdraw

A friend _________ her checking account because she thought there was more money in it.; He said as many as 4,000 people manipulated the system to _________ their bank accounts by at least $1,000.; They also tend to snowball so that people can end up being charged more than £100 by the time they realise their account is _________ - and that's on top of the interest.;

merchant

Along with Westerners, the Chinese _________ class dominated the economy in the nineteenth century, especially with the exportation of rice.; I cannot tell you how harsh I would be if I were a judge, sentencing these drug dealers, these death _________.; Though a number of companies and _________ traded with different places, the Netherlands gradually predominated, particularly for the export of cloth.;

poise

Apparently, she figured that if I were her daughter, she'd have made sure that I was the embodiment of elegance and _________, not to mention maturity.; Hayden never recovered his _________ and four overs later was out to Jones, who beat his chest in delight.; In the printed version of the lecture he has recovered his _________.;

terrestrial

Beaches are transition ecosystems between marine and _________ environments.; Within these plots we recorded all plant species observed, including _________ lichens.; Because turbinates reduce respiratory water and heat loss, they are tightly linked to high rates of lung ventilation in these _________ endotherms.;

dispute

Cesare's claims of provocation weren't _________; nobody quarrelled with Cesare Borgia at the height of his power.; Government officials now estimate 54,000 people are dead in the _________ territory.; Relatives of people buried in the former Wesleyan cemetery in Cheetham Hill have been in _________ with Manchester city council for the past four months.;

webbed

Covering the _________ seat with inexpensive toweling renders this stool pool- or patio-worthy while the interior provides a spot to stow toys and picnic supplies.; Facial deformities are common, along with _________ feet and hands.; But in truth, how much consolation can _________ feet and waterproof hair be when the skies are continually grey and the pavements forever puddled?;

toxin

Detox diets are quite popular now, where you virtually fast for a week to get rid of all the _________ in your body.; Some types of bacteria release poisons called _________ while they are multiplying in food.; An infusion of the root, leaves and flowers encourages the elimination of _________ from the body.;

appetite

Did the film whet your _________ for another long, epic story of love, loyalty and bloody warfare?; Of course, to be patient, you have to have a long investing horizon and an _________ for some risk.; He had an immense _________ for life and loved gadgetry of all sorts, especially cars and boats.;

stereotype

Do you feel you have been unfairly _________ by the press?; "Yet I'm not a _________ of a Muslim woman," she says.; There are a lot of misconceptions and _________ surrounding feminism and feminists.;

persevere

Every team suffers a key loss - the teams that _________ in spite of injuries play in January.; The saddest part is that despite all of the hassles and law suits, they continue to _________.; It's cost them their marriage, but Jennifer _________.;

impression

FT. com claims 22 million page _________ per month and £6 million annual advertising revenues from its site.; His boot tip tapped at an _________ left in soft red clay for my inspection.; An artist's _________ of the Lismore Cultural Precinct from Keen Street, with the new combined art gallery/museum that will be a major feature of the site.;

organism

Green plants are the only _________ in the natural world that can make their own food.; Biologists assumed that proteins alone regulate the genes of humans and other complex _________.; The statement implies a living _________ feeding on not only the public who gives it money, but on the employees who feed energy into the beast.;

rubric

Harold Budd has fallen under the New Age _________ in more recent years; the two works presented here date from 1969-70 and show a more provocative side of this interesting composer.; The first of them grouped all then-living independent artists, whether native or foreign, under the School of Paris _________, no matter where in France they worked.; There is as much space, under this _________ of textuality, for the popular icons of the day as for Shakespeare, the greatest among the canonical authors.;

purist

How did every one react when you veered away from the _________ classical tradition.; This does defeat the idea that any component can be available to anybody but it is only the technology _________ that believe this to be practical.; The monographs include studies of the Bismarck monument in Hamburg, the Gothic Wertheim department store in Berlin of 1904, and Le Corbusier's _________ paintings, interpreted almost as religious icons.;

impasse

How was a player supposed to perform credibly under the current _________? he asked.; Referenda would also possibly provide a way out of the _________ when Commons is at loggerheads with the Lords.; I have noted his appeal to doctors to desist from industrial action in their current _________.;

solitary

Instead, they occupy _________ locations within the genome.; However, little is known about costs of parental investment in insects, particularly in _________ as well as social aculeate Hymenoptera.; Electronic musicians tend to be a _________ bunch and like to work alone in home studios.;

uphold

Laws and regulations often can support nurses in _________ the ethical principles involved.; The Swindon-based Gooden family now faces an anxious wait to find out whether the Court of Appeal _________ the challenge.; As you may be aware I am the Speaker of the House of Commons and it is incumbent upon me to honour and _________ the noble traditions of the House.;

come up with

Let's put the machine back on for one more spin cycle, and see what we _________.;

tribute

Senator Lott's remarks were intended to pay _________ to a remarkable man who led a remarkable life.; The death of Robin Cook occurred too late last Saturday for me to pay _________ to him, a situation I intend to rectify just now.; It is a _________ to Wales that, despite being ravaged by injury, they still have the better players in most of the central command positions.;

articulate

That's an idea that is seldom _________ carefully, but that, in fact, drives many people.; The humeral head _________ proximally with the scapula and is held in the socket by ligaments and muscles collectively known as the rotator cuff.; an intelligent, _________ graduate, with a lovely family'.;

monotonic

The number above each segment gives the rank of the absolute value of the _________ increase or decrease.; In contrast to an undiluted probe surface, the hybridization signals exhibited a tendency of _________ decrease with increasing ionic strength.; The S-N curve for a pure metal will be a _________ function with N increasing as stress decreases.;

smear

The tiles on the floor and the walls are _________ with blood.; Saionji _________ peanut butter on the other slice of bread, put the two pieces together and took a bite.; The man noticed, sneered, and then _________ some of the blood on his own face and arm.;

depict

The words _________ Rose as an art model from the Bronx transported to Greenwich Village.; She was in and out of hospital for the rest of her life and her paintings often _________ her suffering.; The earliest known painting to _________ a Shakespearean scene is being bought by the National Trust, it was announced today.;

culmination

To be honest, I was feeling tired from the _________ of two much hecticness so wasn't able to appreciate it as much as I ought to have done.; Matthew wants to achieve a fitting _________ to the night, but he is unable to do so.; The event itself is the _________ of five years of sustained effort by their creators.;

eminent

To find answers this programme gathered together a group of _________ people from a variety of backgrounds.; The quality is _________, but the case does have a fundamental flaw - the lack of cooling.; He sent them a work of philosophy which, in the eyes of some _________ judges, was perfectly sensible and worthy of publication.;

manifestation

To this end, a theory construes those phenomena as _________ of entities and processes that lie behind or beneath them, as it were.; The Hindu temple, in all its diverse _________, incarnates this truth.; The behavior and clinical _________ of infectious diseases also might be dictated by the same phenomenon.;

rehab

Well, Boone has been quietly _________ and hopes to be back by September.; With air quality issues in restaurants among the many legislative battles operators face in the coming decade, dropping by the site before any _________, redesigns or openings seems like a wise move.; The kitchen cabinets are _________ lockers used by factory workers.;

engender

When, in turn, we biologically _________ a child with a partner, the two parents are equally invested and morally responsible for the child.; However, what is most important now is to _________ confidence.; The qualities displayed by these members of the force in this incident _________ a feeling of safety and well being in the local community as our trust in a police force, charged with not only upholding the law but our safety, is reinforced.;

dichotomy

Yet _________ remain: urban and rural, traditional and modern, communist and capitalist.; Sheetal is a first generation Indian-American who captures perfectly the _________ of growing up Indian in America with her three dimensional portrayals of real women.; The discussion focused not on game design, but on the _________ between the technical and the artistic sides of the industry.;

heroic

ordinary' girl, not a magic man, who performs the real _________.; Kit's lunchbox is decorated with WPA-style _________ locomotives.; Yet this homage to the _________ model of Baudelairean modernity is, of course, a semiparodic one.;

discrete

Needless to say, the distinctions form a continuum, rather than _________ categories.; Mosaic warts occur as collections of small, _________ and densely packed individual warts.; This book is not about discernment as a _________ act but rather treats it as a manner of living.;

salad

An Italian grill with such house favorites as a lobster club sandwich and grilled salmon _________.; Rocket can be successively sown to provide a leafy injection of pepper to your _________ and is ideal for a partially shaded spot.; It sounds healthy, but that margin is still about half what it has been in the _________ days of rocketing real estate values.;

ovum

An _________ (plural ova) is a mature egg released at ovulation.; There are a few exceptions to this pattern, most famously in seahorses where females have an ovipositor which places unfertilized _________ into the male's pouch for insemination.; As in most other animals, the sperm mitochondria penetrate the cell membrane of the _________ at fertilization.;

placebo effect

An indication that regression to the mean is occurring is that patients with the worst clinical scores have the biggest _________.; Most health care professionals view homeopathy as relying on the _________ to produce results.; The incidence also explains the powerful _________ of some treatments.;

orchard

Apple _________ thrive in the mountains and are great fall fun for the whole family.; In the Russian play it remains untold what the new owner is planning to do with the land where the _________ used to be.; After that wake-up call, we cruise alertly through a terraced landscape of peach and apple _________.;

succumb

Despite the efforts of local people to save her life, the girl _________ to injuries.; Two more elephants are believed to have _________ to the disease on Sunday.; Sandra _________ to the disease, which had plagued her life for the past 13 years, last December.;

cruise

European lawmakers are being urged to crack down on the luxury _________ liners that threaten marine life by pumping pollutants into the open ocean.; The young couple was _________ slowly in the Raffles Hills housing estate.; Standing alone usually happens around your child's first birthday, with his first steps following soon after as he begins to _________ around the room, holding onto the furniture for support.;

symphony

For the dedication of the new capital of Brasilia in 1960 Jobim composed Brasilia, Sinfonia del Alvorada - a four movement _________.; Every note he wrote will be played, from the familiar string quartets, piano concertos, violin sonatas and _________ to more obscure compositions, such as his 100 folk songs and cantatas.; To return to the musical analogy, the _________ sounds slightly different when played by different orchestras, even though the score is the same.;

autocratic

His _________ style made him extremely unpopular, and most of his achievements turned out to be temporary.; Sources tell me that this _________ style led to managerial paralysis in the party and that the current leadership are doing their best to sort it all out.; An _________ regime had survived, but the confidence and the security it had once possessed had cracked.;

canteen

Hotsuma shook his head and reached into his pouch, pulling out 4 _________ of water.; Working spaces are supported by gyms and games rooms and a host of _________, restaurants and rest areas.; When I worked at the Savoy our morning coffee and buttered croissants always came from either the restaurant or room service rather than the staff _________.;

sunscreen

Instead of _________, use sunblocks, which are less irritating to sensitive skin.; Yet, unlike pesticides, these drugs - as well as shampoos, _________ and other personal care products rushing down the drain - aren't examined for their effect on the environment before they're placed on the market.; He, along with several other employees, collected beef jerky, gum, shaving cream, shampoo, deodorant, bug spray, _________, DVDs and CDs.;

reptile

Instead of preying on the nocturnal rat, for instance, the diurnal mongoose turned its attention to native birds and _________, many of which appeared to decline in Caribbean and Hawaiian locales.; Arena' episode, where Captain Kirk battled a fearsome guy in a _________ suit.; Stainton has helmed Irwin's cable exploits for years, and he understands the inherent drama and suspense in diddling with deadly snakes and toothy _________.;

minority

It is only in a _________ of cases that the problem is stress-related.; The group is regarded as a fundamentalist organisation representing the views of the _________ of Muslims.; These laws are aimed at the _________ of annoying customers and not at the lovely ones.;

irreplaceable

Larsson is unique, probably _________, yet how do you value a phenomenon?; Thousands of _________ treasures were stolen by looters from the Iraqi national museum during the war.; Any burglary is a traumatic experience, but while some things can be easily replaced, items of jewellery are often _________.;

outmoded

Luckily, there's still plenty of _________ and simplistic theories.; Historically both are central to the sides they represent but they should be no more than that, just _________ symbols of a past which should be left behind.; You may think of them as quaint or _________, but vanity units are incredibly useful in maintaining the look of a clutter-free bathroom.;

sovereignty

Many of the world's developing countries were formerly under the _________ of a colonial power.; There are certain things that you must not do to me without my consent and this fact gives me a kind of _________ over my life that you cannot legitimately invade or diminish.; A head of state must defend his or her country's _________.;

prospect

Not since the Civil War has this nation faced the _________ of seeing its cities and countryside turned into war zones.; Following graduation, in 1925, he earned a degree in geological engineering from the Colorado School of Mines in 1929 and then _________ for gold in northern California before returning to New York.; The argument that the Russians are successfully _________ for oil in unlikely places is dubious at best.;

refreshment

On that day or the days before, everyone is welcome for drinks and _________.; While this is going on, the Danish players make a beeline for the shade and some liquid _________.; All who finish will receive hot drinks, soup and other _________ and a commemorative mug.;

dexterity

On the one hand he had shown a great lack of manual _________, but he now showed that he had great talents for learning, especially mathematics.; We could not help hugging dear old Cowboy Bill, to whose skill and _________, in all probability, we owed our lives.; Known simply as hockey in North America, it is a fast and exciting game that requires from its players great skill, _________ and physical stamina.;

terrific

One of the major attractions of the day will be the hundreds of _________ children's books for sale at very reasonable prices.; This was a historic night and nobody at OUABC was hiding the fact that this event was a huge milestone of _________ importance.; The Yacht pub in Clontarf was buzzing at midnight last night and strong drink was being consumed at a _________ rate.;

collective

One thing that has become clear is that the success of social production _________ hinges on the intensive contributions of a very small subset of their members.; Maharaj said it was the _________ responsibility of the community to come together and work with a family to find a solution when tragedy occurred.; But there are also small _________ of people who get together in a low-key style to make music: think Orquestra Scotland Brazil or even The Reindeer Section.;

paranoid

People are _________ about what they can eat and what they can't,' Jenny points out.; I am _________ about personal hygiene, and I constantly wash clothes and burn candles in my apartment for company.; Now, if you had just heard a ghost talk, something they're not supposed to be able to do, wouldn't you be just a bit _________?;

shun

People don't know what to do with their pain and so they _________ them and they are then left alone in their pain.; He now lives a quiet, reclusive life in rural Cheshire, with wife Christine, _________ the media spotlight.; Also a divorced woman was _________ by society and treated as an outcast.;

upside

Recent number releases have tended to be _________ surprises that were positive for stocks and negative for bonds.; David smirked openly until his grandmother's back was turned, when his father hit him _________ his head.; The company firmly believes there is a lot of _________ movement to its stock and this was the best vehicle to take advantage of that.;

brutal

Right now we like to play music that is hard and _________.; Joseph loves these hard, pat, _________ chunks of wisdom.; His answer was _________, harsher than he had ever meant.;

forcibly

Rose has just given birth out of wedlock and has her son _________ taken for adoption.; Beefy security forces moved in and _________ dragged more than a dozen protesters out.; What struck me so _________ about the World Horror Convention was the sheer friendliness of the crowd.;

placebo

Sensitivity analysis excluding those patients who received the _________ tablet did not change our conclusions.; It was used to investigate the different effects of ultramolecular potencies compared with _________ rather than pragmatic homoeopathy.; The eight patients treated with _________ from all dose groups were combined for the purpose of summaries and analyses.;

invariant

Skuladottir and Charnov collaborated on a paper in 2000 predicting that indeed there are _________ rules for sex change and presenting shrimp data to bolster their claim.; Replacement substitutions are extremely variable in rate, ranging from many sites that are essentially _________ to a few that evolve fairly rapidly.; As in all mixture problems, this model is not identifiable as the likelihood is _________ under any relabeling of the populations.;

counterpart

Strange's decision to adopt the opposite tactic appears to play into his _________ hands.; They felt completely at home with their _________ in Paris and London.; Reviewing children's theatre is a whole different ball game compared to its adult _________.;

parameter

Such a voluntary approach is limited to the _________ the company sets for itself.; The first circuit is configured to monitor an electrical operating _________ associated with operation of the CAN bus.; Choosing different values for the various _________ in the equation he then tried to investigate when situations were stable and when they were unstable.;

prevalent

Such intrusions are becoming more _________ in society because of the advance of technology.; It has two corollaries that challenge conceptions _________ in some societies and ideologies.; Hip fractures are also more _________ in areas with fluoridated water.;

virtue

Suddenly those _________ of steadfastness, commitment and long service as embodied by the Queen appear to be fashionable again.; How could a man who so clearly extolled the _________ and simplicity of the continental structure in its early days seem so utterly clueless about it?; The 64 runs that took him to 103 came by _________ of 14 fours and a six and a six and two singles.;

pompous

Technical people too often seem distant, effete, imperious, and even _________.; There was rarely anything vicious about these jokes: they were leg pulling jokes which only the sensitive and _________ found annoying.; Lord Irvine has always been portrayed as a _________ and arrogant.;

chamber

Technology, psychology and common sense was always a much more viable combination and one decidedly easier to come by than consensus in the _________ of Parliament.; After the meeting, the farmers staged a placard demonstration from the park to the corporation's Ramdass Street _________, where they met with officials.; Although the water is not recycled for other uses, it travels through underground _________ to be slowly reabsorbed into the ground.;

muddle

That's another kettle of fish entirely and I despair of physicians and others who confuse and _________ invalidity and melancholy as being one and the same thing.; This tension in the bill comes from it _________ the issue of compensating prisoners for unlawful treatment by the crown with compensating their victims for pain and suffering.; I've had flu since Friday, in a _________ of tissues and lying down, drowsily watching DVDs, and no appetite.;

perk

That's one of the _________ of the job, getting music long before it hits the shops.; Just when things bog down, she arrives on cue to _________ it up.; I thought as I spotted the coffee _________, I need lethal doses of almost dangerously potent coffee.;

monarch

The British annexed Burma in 1886 during the reign of its last _________ - King Thibaw - who was taken to Calcutta, where he died in 1916.; Ministers will be put under pressure to scrap the law that bans the eldest daughter of a British _________ from becoming queen if she has a brother.; Centuries after the city famously locked out the reigning _________ King Charles I, it was a time to forgive and forget.;

runaway

The Children's Society is calling for all local councils to put into place guidance on young _________, to provide safe emergency accommodation and to provide family mediation.; The contrast between _________ and filial daughters in family composition and financial conditions indicates a likelihood that the girls' motives for entering prostitution varied according to family conditions.; The soldiers had only just dismounted and stopped the _________ horse by the time he arrived on the scene, and the animal was still shuffling nervously.;

debilitating

The Department of Health has vowed to improve care services for chronic fatigue syndrome sufferers in recognition of the condition's _________ effects.; Eight years on, Elinor is still ravaged by the _________ skin condition.; There were also calls to revive the issues that had been subject to a _________ conspiracy of silence.;

pesticide

The ECPA also said that cutting back on _________ could hit farmers' incomes.; The cost of _________ and other damage-control methods have landed farmers in deep debt.; Today billions of dollars are spent in _________, fungicides and herbicides.;

plantation

The Samuel Townsend _________ in Madison County stocked 1,875 pounds of lard one year.; Sugar and tobacco _________ were established in the 17th century, worked by imported African slaves.; I grew up on a _________ - or a banana farm, I should say.;

sphere

The _________ looked much like a dark crystal ball with swirling colors, all dark shades, mixing and moving inside.; Perhaps it is more aptly described not as a _________ but as _________.; However, this is not to be equated with genuine globalization in the economic _________, and the extent of this has been exaggerated.;

preponderance

The _________ of data came from experiments with temperate and coniferous trees.; Science proceeds on _________ of evidence, not on finality.; He raised the possibility that this might have something to do with male _________ at the very top of research science.;

cornet

The _________ became the leading instrument of British and American brass bands.; Then he crunched the last of his _________, swarmed up onto the bench and laid his head lovingly on the boy's shoulder.; She ran out to the ice cream van clutching her handful of change but was turned away in tears after the driver refused to sell her a _________ because she tried to pay with the copper.;

in full swing

The fine weather has been greatly welcomed by the people of the locality with the cutting of turf _________.; Preparations for the competition will be _________ by the end of January.; The drinking is _________ - the men oblivious to the desecration that has just occurred.;

prosecution

The four who faced criminal _________ are expected to petition the Law Lords to hear their appeals.; He later became the chief state witness for the _________ in the arms trial.; Again the driver was offered a chance to go on the course rather than face _________.;

drummer

The ladies rode on palfreys or were drawn on litters, escorted by gentlemen, squires and pages, with trumpeters, _________ and minstrels.; Both the bassist and _________ come from musical backgrounds of hardcore and punk.; Things go from bad to worse when he and Philip finally unveil their prog-rock symphony to their unimpressed _________, bass-player and singer.;

modernise

The plan is to _________ the buildings and revamp the curriculum.; Will they choose to further _________ this industrialized country by reforming laws and social norms unfair to women?; So I think we in Congress can help these less wealthy areas of the country update and _________ their technology.;

knock-on effect

The plight of the reinsurers will have a _________ on insurance markets everywhere.; The lenders' reluctance could have a _________ throughout the economy.; A devaluation of the yen seems inevitable, with _________ on all its trading partners.;

eject

There was no news, the Space Center was a black-out, the press corps waiting for the landing was _________ from the Kennedy Center.; People were physically _________ out of their chair.; She turned sharply off the road, nearly _________ herself from the back of the horse.;

badminton

Two sports halls would be built to host _________, gymnastics and table tennis.; Games like _________, table tennis, etc. are available and women have exclusive time too.; There was a time when ball _________ was a popular sport in Southern India.;

persecution

A general _________ of the democratic leaders took place.; It's the one place in all the world where they can smoke pot in public without fear of _________.; Most of the _________ in Iraq has been at local level.;

lade

A group of local residents and business owners are calling on the council to urgently reopen a disused mill _________ and culvert to its full capacity.; He could see that the mill-wheel had gone, and its supports stood up like broken teeth; the _________ was choked with rushes.; We need the mill _________ to be opened up to its full capacity.;

refectory

A new _________ and kitchen will provide a place where pensioners can get a cooked meal daily.; The band spent the day at school and had lunch at the _________ before tearing into a performance of questionable educational value.; They were then invited to lunch in the convent _________.;

protocol

A problem is that part of the lawsuit is based on the additional _________ to the Geneva Convention, which have not been ratified by the US.; You have been signing treaties, conventions and _________ for children but have never honoured them with genuine intention and political will.; So how could he make a preference known without breaching diplomatic _________?;

sabbatical

A stint as a teaching assistant for an accounting class led him to substitute for the same professor the next year when that professor went on _________.; The project started because I was on _________ from the University of California at Davis.; Stephen Stokes is currently on _________ leave.;

immersion

A total of 142 high school students who were enrolled in two-way _________ programs when they were in elementary school participated in the study.; The sound effects provide a good sense of _________, but with the graphics lagging a bit behind, I was mildly disappointed.; Perhaps this was the very place where Paulinus, the Christian priest, first preached, before leading the converts to the River Glen for baptism by total _________.;

apt

Blunt secateurs would be a more _________ description, only less useful.; He was a monk and maverick philosopher; she, the _________ and eager pupil.; It takes one of _________ intellectual capacity to be able to process that entire sentence.;

rudder

Capt Yost continued the approach, skillfully aligning the aircraft with the runway using right _________ and fanning the speed-brakes once the landing was assured.; Suddenly, the aircraft swerved to the right, so I countered with _________, making the aircraft swerve left centerline.; Yaw and pitch were to be controlled through a tail-mounted _________ and elevator connected by cables to the flier's seat and a shoulder yoke.;

supremacy

Dingle held a lead of six points and, for the first time in the game, looked to be in a position of _________.; The global ascendancy and _________ of the West is crucial for understanding IR even today.; Yet this _________, already questioned by many Americans at home, is in chronic disrepair abroad.;

nuanced

Franklin now revisits the affair and gives a more _________ assessment.; Together with the use of louvred timber screens and reflecting pools, they create a calm and richly _________ materiality that is enhanced by a muted palette of colours.; The film boasts flawless production values and unusually intense and _________ acting for a horror film.;

potent

His rolled-up-sleeves, straight talking approach and feisty willingness to speak truth to power is a very _________ television image, if handled properly.; The desire to do good, to champion the cause of love can become so _________ a power in itself that it obliterates the ends.; Or, four pallets Gules, on a bordure Azure crosslets _________ Argent'.;

modal

Holmes distinguishes two functions of tag questions: _________ vs. affective.; We are seeing quite a lot of _________ shift from the car to the tram network.'; These complements contain _________ and therefore can't be infinitives.;

precede

However, all that is _________ by a chapter by the editor setting out chronologically the events of the cases.; He contextualizes the work in a well-documented essay that _________ 128 pages of photographs.; I have now been to one concert that _________ its actual show with a movie trailer.;

keep up with

I _________ news and current events, and love interacting with people in new situations.; It is a place where pensioners meet other pensioners and _________ news.; In order to _________ current events throughout the world, I watch the news in the morning.;

resilient

I am a strong and _________ person and the fact that I can easily adapt to any situation made me a survivor.; Dog sled and snowshoe races were also held when the Arctic winter night drew to an end, enhancing the endurance of a _________ people.; Laboratory experiments show the molecule also has an effect on human cells, making them much more _________ to radiation.;

preface

I annotated it and prepared the double book for publication with a _________ explaining what I had done and why I had done it.; First published in 1994, this revised, softcover edition is, with the exception of a short _________, identical to the original, hardcover publication.; It appears in a 1964 letter published as a _________ to a text written in the 1920s.;

indignity

I bought books I did not want to save them from this _________.; The main entrance door is defaced with graffiti, which should shock the parents of youngsters guilty of this profound _________.; The _________ of youth is compounded hugely by being in the sticks.;

artefact

I can't help but to think about how the great museums of Europe amassed their collections of cultural _________.; Researchers need to question whether the phenomena observed are real or an _________ of the experimental methodology used.; Because this policy sees every object in terms of personal identity, it is blind to imaginative or well-crafted paintings, interesting or rare historical _________.;

radically

I changed my diet _________.; There are no _________ new treatments on the horizon.; In 1994, this position was _________ altered, with the ushering in of a new democratic order.;

inadvertent

I doubt very much that the good judge requested that his _________ disclosure be off the record.; The students also had a certain stylistic flair, however _________.; I made a mental note to leave more space between seedlings next time, although the effect I'd achieved by _________ crowding was lovely.;

wear off

I knew the novelty would soon _________.; They also said the effects would _________ and disappear altogether once users stopped taking oestrogen doses.; Will I be able to retain this enthusiasm for the gym or will the novelty soon _________?;

dredge

I remember when I wanted to find out what happened to a particular _________ and he could tell me.; To increase barge traffic and nitrogen transport, the Mississippi River needs to be _________ and locks need to be rebuilt.; Others have to be _________ often because the rivers that feed them carry so much silt and sediment that the deep shipping channels slowly fill in.;

predator

If only they were cleverer sexual _________, they might have easily got away with it!; Without such help, sexual _________ are doomed to repeat their crimes.; Poison pills are designed to make it prohibitively expensive for a _________ to take over a company.;

laud

If these people wished to _________ him, they were welcome to it - he would simply sit and enjoy the rather wonderful irony.; What about the gifts in cash and kind reporters on the business pages are liable to receive for _________ a particular scrip or company?; It may seem that I am justifying or _________ the attack.;

battalion

India's specialized technology institutes are turning out _________ of software wizards.; Throughout World War II, infantry _________ did not even have _________ scouts.; I'm sure that is an apt description of the reaction of the troops in those _________.;

reflection

It is no _________ on your skills or performance at all.; Given the way these were lit, the viewer could see not only the photographs, but also _________ of the installation mirrored in their framing glass.; Complicating its task is the political reality that these election results are more a _________ of the unpopularity of the NC rather than the appeal of any other party.;

make a fuss

It seems to be one of the rules of life nowadays that those who want to get something done have to _________, and keep on making a fuss.; Well if you did _________ you might find that there are more people that have the same idea about religion as you do.; Denial will tell you to relax: Hey, don't _________, don't embarrass yourself by sounding a false alarm.;

manoeuvre

It took a couple of spins around Marble Arch and a brief stop in Belgrave Square to phone my brother for directions before I finally managed to _________ onto Kensington Road.; And the Christmas launch date appeared to leave the company little room for _________ should anything go wrong.; In response, she sought to _________ his own people ahead of his supporters in the lists.;

blonde

It was a small average sized girl with long _________ plaited hair with random purple and indigo streaks in it.; However, _________ and redheads usually have more hair follicles than do people with darker hair.; Meanwhile, this is a big week for finding out that people whom you thought were brunettes are actually natural _________.;

squad

It was manned by seven St John Ambulance first-aiders working closely with a _________ of uniformed police.; These celebrity _________ have each other's backs on stage at performances and award shows, making cameos in music videos or just cooking together at home.; Mom _________ are ready to go out for a drink or, better yet, come over in their pj's to relish being able to guzzle cheap wine, chat, and stuff your faces without being interrupted to break up fights.;

fraudulent

It was the most rotten of rotten boroughs, a place where the corrupt, the _________ and the freeloaders prospered.; It's time to put a stop to these unfair and _________ practices which are crippling British farmers.; You have launched an attempt to crackdown on _________ claims, how much has this saved the industry?;

esteem

It would be hard to argue with her that female-dominated professions - with the possible exception of opera divas - suffer from low public _________ and poor pay.; Leo was in his mid-50s and was a popular and _________ member of the community.; At a time when Westminster has never been lower in public _________, parliament needs an honest broker who commands respect from all sides.;

amenity

It would not take a fortune to create a clean and tidy looking river bank and with a little imagination a very good _________ could be created in this area.; Building a larger store with more _________ is the only way we can continue to meet customers' needs.; The policies against the application relate in the main to visual _________ and highway safety.;

brisk

It's a light and breezy ground floor and mezzanine, doing _________ business on a weekday lunchtime.; A _________ wind blew, causing dead leaves to dance in the air and cause those on the ground to ruffle across.; Her slow walked quickly turned into a _________ sprint as she ran for the front entrance.;

veteran

Joining us now with some perspective, three very distinguished military _________.; Doherty is an internet _________ after working in the multimedia, design and internet field since 1994.; Gabrielle told Annie that _________ were very keen to share their experience and that they were all fantastic.;

conspicuous

Poetry and history trump vulgarity and _________ consumption.; All this was done, it may seem, with remarkably little attention to the natural orientations that are so _________ on the map.; Surely it could not have been left standing where it was, _________ from the town walls.;

installation

Power stations, airports and certain radio stations would have been blown up and key military _________ would have been taken over.; Causes suggested include industrial equipment such as pumps, fans, electrical _________ and cooling towers - and domestic appliances such as fridges or even fish tanks.; Military _________, nuclear facilities and universities are just a few examples of places that might become terrorist targets.;

sepal

Roots, stems, leaves, _________, petals, stamens, stigmas/styles, ovaries, and seeds were collected and frozen in liquid nitrogen.; The cocoa flower has five free _________, five free petals, five staminodes, five stamens and an ovary of five united carpels.; This, in turn was surrounded by several whorls of bracts that many homologize with petals and _________ in flowering plants.;

ingenuous

Ryder's familiarity with the camera contributes to his disarmingly _________ presence, by turns determined and naive.; It seemed to my _________ eyes that this fellow was literally handing out cash to patrons as they entered the theater, and it occurred to me that this might be some kind of rebate.; "Let's just keep it that way," Hallie replied, giving her an _________.;

profusion

Sadly, the _________ of animated logos seems unlikely to abate any time soon.; Caudwell throws up his hands in despair at the extravagant _________ of theories.; One of their noticeable features is the _________ of hollowed-out window decorations.;

implausible

Science fiction cinema is no stranger to _________ robots, running the full gamut from implausibly cool to implausibly terrible.; They are based on an array of budget devices and _________ assumptions that mask hundreds of billions of dollars of tax reductions and government expenditures that are virtually certain to occur but are omitted from the budget.; Of all the impossible occurrences in Fantastic Four, none seems as _________ as scientist Reed Richards's scheme to make billions of dollars by studying the human genome through the exposure of plants - yes, plants - to cosmic rays.;

coach

She was allowed to sit at the front on the _________ journey home, on her own, with the rest of the class huddled together in the back three rows.; The attorney representing the woman tried his best to _________ the woman as instructed, and in an hour, the court reconvened.; By the 5th grade, our physical education was passed to the hands of the woman who also _________ the girl's sports teams.;

ethnic

Since 1959 non-citizens within the _________ Chinese population have been denied the right to run businesses in rural Indonesia.; Last year, three women of _________ Bulgarian origin went on a hunger strike as a last resort in their desperation to seek protection from the state.; The Constitution is designed to guarantee power-sharing between the country's indigenous Fijian and _________ Indian populations.;

alleviate

So can our community leaders come up with a plan of action to help _________ this problem?; Try uninstalling to see if this _________ the problem.; If it _________ social problems later then it's a good thing, as far as I'm concerned.;

fuse

Solar neutrinos are produced when two protons _________ together to form a deuterium nucleus, a positron, and a neutrino.; He firmly supported the Solidarity trade union movement that was to liberate the Polish people and light the _________ of the Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia.; Porcelain enamel is a specially formulated, highly durable glass permanently _________ to metal under extremely high temperatures.;

off-putting

Something about movies that announce their delightfulness so aggressively is kind of _________.; They can also be sent to general psychiatric hospitals but experts say this can be _________ for the patient and result in less specialist care.; But numbers usually make a stronger case for a chief executive's dismissal than an _________ personality.;

suburb

The Glasgow market is seeing a high level of demand throughout the city and its _________.; Several other villages and _________ around the district will lose their roadside urinals.; The shock of what had happened on a quiet residential street in a _________ of Leeds on Boxing Day hung in the air yesterday.;

logarithmic

The obtained numbers do not vary much, due to the _________ dependence on the segment sizes.; Although the scatter in information loss as a function of these simple distance element transformations appears significant on a _________ scale, it is much less significant on a linear scale.; An analog calculator designed along the principle of a slide rule, it utilizes _________ and inverse _________ scales to quickly provide you with the correct firing solution.;

intrigue

The play of politics, with its betrayal and _________ and calculation and conspiracy, holds the common persons in thrall...; This of course was mildly interesting but what _________ me was what if you used the values of Pi to create not letters but musical notes.; And it was one commingle of secrets, codes and _________ that I came across, as I flipped pages upon pages of this wonderfully-written work.;

atrium

The right _________ receives oxygen-poor blood from the body.; Around the central _________ on the main level are five major spaces: a reception room, library, dining room, billiard room, and ballroom.; flaps' of the mitral valve swing open to let blood flow from the _________ to the ventricle.;

displacement

There will just be a standing wave created between one place and another, as all points on the wave would have zero net _________.; Labor groups resisted the introduction of the steam presses fearing job _________.; The bugle was essential to all military communication until its _________ by electronics.;

perplexing

To many in the industry, including enthusiasts, this was a _________ statement.; The only _________ thing is the lighting.; These _________ documents simply refuse to give up their secrets.;

backlash

Today rogue animosity fuels a _________ against the development of the global economy and the spread of democracy.; It led to a _________ against France and French visitors.; Trust in the Prime Minister has collapsed, and that is prompting a _________ against all mainstream politicians.;

weigh

UNDP officials have argued that it isn't their role to _________ in on the merits of geopolitical claims.; Considering that the car _________ in at some 1,600 kg, these are impressive numbers.; Just place a clean, heavy skillet on top of your sandwiches to press and _________ them down as they grill.;

soar

Unveiled girls in bright pink tunics gathered water from a turquoise river and balanced bundles on their heads while eagles _________ above.; For _________ high above the earth, a man is finally set free, breaking all bonds.; And in that instant a rare golden eagle _________ across the sky, an arrow rammed through its mighty wing.;

intrusive

Variably serpentinized Devonian mafic and ultramafic _________ rocks occur in the western and northern parts of the map area.; The telephone is a relatively _________ technology, interrupting you from what you are doing and demanding attention.; With each _________ question, I became more stoic and stiff.;

memorabilia

Visitors from around the world travel to see its unique collection of _________ from international aircrews.; She leads me through a collection of _________ which starkly bring to life the awesome task these early settlers faced just to stay alive.; This is an interesting collection of _________ about Bedford from the 1940s onward.;

civilian

Was he a _________ or a celebrity?; Most soldiers mix the uniform with _________ clothes because items are out of stock.; Such actions will yield large _________ casualties, displaced populations, and refugee flows.;

pivot

Washington-based realists tend to see the U.S. as the _________ of the future.; Now we all realise exactly how much she meant to us all, a solid _________ of family and cheer.; No strategist in either party can predict with authority whether the election will _________ on the economy, foreign policy or a yet unknown factor.;

parody

When the Carry On team decided to _________ the horror genre, it was perhaps inevitable that they would do it in the commercially successful mould of the Hammer films.; Most of the other songs on this album are _________ of other artists.; Because each of them exists as a _________ of a different genre, each episode should take on the trappings of that genre.;

calibrate

When this happens, the clock is said to be properly _________ or accurate or synchronized with the standard clock.; These results are permanently _________ with international standards.; Once in awhile, you'll also catch the cook sampling the wok's contents to _________ your order.;

introspected

With his contemporary style of presentation, the participants found a brand new life waiting for them as they _________ and discovered their potential as human beings.;

initiative

Within the fields of Community competence, its right of legislative _________ resembles that of a government, and even exceeds it in so far as the Commission's is a sole right.; He added that he was a hopeful a new peace _________ to improve relations with Pakistan and India would succeed.; Residents in one tenement in Edinburgh's Polwarth area which is managed by the scheme said the _________ had helped resolve anxieties about major structural work.;

plethora

You can expect a _________ of them over the festive fortnight, and those with a taste for this kind of television must have been cheering last week.; This was hardly a thriller, but there was plentiful excitement due to a _________ of mistakes from both defences in the second half.; More recently, a _________ of books questioning the foundations of Western faith have appeared.;

high-performance

You dominate the _________ business by getting more customers to want _________ computing.; Research shows that money flows into _________ mutual funds more rapidly than money flows out from funds that are underperforming.; Their method takes just 15 minutes to separate the compounds in crude extracts using _________ liquid chromatography.;

underscore

it-girl' persona _________ what is valued in the public sphere for women, namely wealth, beauty, and social status.; What this _________ is that the strategic significance of a region depends ultimately on the extent to which it gets caught up in the interactions of great powers.; For example, maybe you really hate typing _________ characters, so you don't use them when naming database tables or named constants.;

degradation

A Director, on the other hand, is designed to minimize performance _________ at all times.; Most of us are familiar with the Holocaust's unspeakable brutalities and _________.; During the backup process the LAN experiences significant performance _________.;

oval

A car's setup is more important for road courses than for _________.; This small extension was shaped in an _________ that fit perfectly around the right eye.; The soup tureens in that service are of conventional _________ shape.;

vicar

A looming financial crisis could leave a parish without a full-time _________ this year.; And certain _________ choral did succumb to the temptation of female company.; Boulliau was ordained in 1630, becoming a _________ in a parish including Loudun.;

cynicism

A recurrent thread in the debate over public _________ is the apparent establishment of "two sets of rules."; He added to the widespread _________ felt about Australian politicians.; Considering the level of _________ of the citizens with our politicians today, do you really believe talented people would want to join any party now?;

craft

A wide variety of activities and _________ are planned.; But editing isn't about revenge; it's about honing a _________.; Most traditional _________ use local natural materials.;

echelon

After independence, Creoles quickly replaced Spaniards in the upper _________ of the new society.; And protracted booms promote the most aggressive and most bullish to the top _________ of power.; After independence, Creoles quickly replaced Spaniards in the upper _________ of the new society.;

derision

Anything less than a win will be greeted with howls of _________ by a public who have grown sick of the culture of rugby mediocrity.; It was confined to the elite on the grounds of their alleged virtue - and it often drew scorn and _________.; Jason snorted in _________ and crossed his arms over his chest, looking at her scathingly.;

attrition

As long as the war was kept in that context, they could sustain the years of _________.; After these meetings, our employee _________ rate dropped from 13 percent to 11 percent.; This, combined with early retirement and natural _________, could see relatively few staff being forced to exit compulsorily.;

receptacle

Be sure to plug the pump into a _________ protected with a ground fault circuit interrupter.; Placing food scraps in sealed trash _________ also will help discourage scavenging activities.; He is no Richard Dawkins, gleefully machine-gunning religion while crying that we are merely _________ for our genes.;

sunshade

Because Dallas's street grid is angled 45 degrees from north, so too are the openings in the _________ which reveal differing amounts of sky and create differing patterns as you move around.; Broad rimmed hats, avoiding work in the mid day sun, _________ and tinted car windscreen and windows, are measures that reduce the ill effects of sunlight.; We're also putting up solar _________ over city parking lots throughout town.;

algebraic

Betti extended and gave proofs relating to the _________ concepts of Galois theory.; In 1874 he submitted this doctoral dissertation on _________ integers and was awarded the degree.; He also published results on algebras which were fundamental in the study of _________ number fields.;

dispatcher

Buck, along with other dogs, was purchased by Francois and Perrault, _________ for the Canadian government, and transported by ship to Alaska.; The jobs will be created by May 1 and offer opportunities for supervisors, customer service agents and _________.; The police communications log records his radio contact with the _________ at 16:01.;

out of proportion

But this will have little to do with the principle of partnership or other such ideas which have often been blown completely _________ in the literature.; The steel and glass facade faces a historic brick building, rendering it completely _________.; That's the problem with assigning numbers or stars: their relative importance gets blown _________.;

get away

By the time they followed him into the next road he had accelerated and disappeared trying to _________.; He struggled to stop the man getting at the money, but the robber was too strong, and managed to _________.; He was challenged by a neighbour as he fled and there was a brief struggle, but the robber managed to _________.;

puckish

Clark's _________ grin and chiselled cheekbones finally creep into view.; I thought she displayed a grace and charm in that speech as well as a _________ sense of humor that would make her a very appealing witness before the Judiciary Committee.; It has a _________ acidic slap as it rushes across the palate.;

palette

Every one also has easels standing tall, accompanied by a weathered table speckled with paint and sporting a paintbox and _________.; A makeup _________ is used to hold makeup that is scraped or removed.; shape copy' layer in the layer _________.;

trigonometry

Geometry, and its branch _________, was the mathematics Indian astronomers used most frequently.; This work is really the first in history on _________ as an independent branch of pure mathematics and the first in which all six cases for a right-angled spherical triangle are set forth.; Cavalieri also wrote on conic sections, _________, optics, astronomy, and astrology.;

terribly

He was not one of those people one should take lightly for he could become _________ serious in the blink of an eye.; Mr Brooks said his family missed Robyn _________ and thought of her every day.; Some bright spark decided it would be _________ amusing to spill the contents of six litter bins across the cathedral green during the night.;

get around

Her hope was that by convincing her mother to allow her to go, she would thus _________ her father.; As long as individual member states act alone, organized crime will find a way to _________ each member's regulations.; This might help _________ the count of names limit.;

indiscriminate

His country and his people have been attacked in a savage and _________ way.; Campaigners yesterday accused the Government of widespread and _________ cuts to vital services.; They were devastatingly effective because they can cover wide areas with intense and _________ firepower.;

valley

His direction took him up a hill beside a steep, narrow, wooded _________.; The cool breeze that wafts across the lush green _________ is as smooth as silk.; Have you ever admired those pictures of trampers walking through beautiful forest, or standing on a mountain top gazing over _________ or glaciers, and wished it were you?;

anonymous

If I had an old cooker I can take it in my _________ car to the tip for recycling.; Windowless, featureless, _________, it could only be a power station.; Scott McLean, an _________ figure for most of the match, met Andy Roddie's low cross and prodded the ball home from close range.;

absolute advantage

If _________ rules, capitalism itself will redistribute income and wealth from rich countries to poor ones.; Ricardo demonstrated that although a country does not have an _________ in the production of any goods vis-à-vis another country, gains can still be made from international trade.; Many developing countries have an _________ in the price of unskilled labor.;

ritual

In Gypsy custom, _________ purification is the road to health.; The couple begins their wedding day with a religious _________ in the early morning and by receiving blessings from monks.; So instead John started performing the baptismal _________.;

brood

In honeybees, worker policing via egg eating enforces functional worker sterility in colonies with a queen and _________.; You have to consider from whence come your _________ stock, the animals you're actually working with.; But the star had been _________ on his own mortality since the assassination of President John F Kennedy three years earlier.;

collaboration

It enables students to use e-mail to conduct research, share information and work in _________ with others.; quisling' has since come to denote _________ with the enemy.; Trials for war crimes, _________, and genocide continued in several countries for many years after the war.;

extensive

Kumaratunga is increasingly relying on her _________ executive powers as president.; The REPS scheme should be ideally suited to the more _________ type of farming in island areas.; If at first you don't succeed then institute an _________ and wideranging review of your systems and processes.;

flog

Last year retailer Argos hit the headlines when it tried to _________ Sony TVs for just £3.; He was _________ until his back was bloody, forcing him to sleep on his stomach in the tiny cell in prison in which he was jailed.; Fantastically beautiful place, once you plough through the hawkers outside desperately trying to _________ you the little red book (which is, obviously, both red and little).;

curvaceous

Mexico exports Damiana Liquor, which is quite scrumptious and packaged in a bottle shaped like a _________ Goddess.; She gritted her teeth fighting away those warm emotions, the relentlessly amorous thoughts of her _________ goddess.; It has superbly figured timber, majestic _________ profile and spectacular mounts that echo in gilt-bronze the carved detail on the jewel cabinet.;

embody

Models can also be called upon to _________ moods or ideas.; This idea _________ low expectations about economic development.; This ambition was _________ in a number of institutions that were set up, or profoundly reformed, at the Liberation.;

remedy

Morally speaking, then, the American government has an urgent obligation to _________ these injustices.; There are many safe and effective herbal _________ for mothers to take before they turn to pharmaceutical drugs.; We can hope the publisher will soon _________ this with a paperback edition.;

steward

More than 150 are trained house managers and _________.; The club _________ ushered those left in the club down into the cellar.; Siva's devotees who are scientists are protectors of humanity and _________ of the Earth.;

co-morbid

Most patients had serious _________ illnesses such as diabetes, chronic respiratory and heart disease.; Her chest x-ray was reported to be stable, however her _________ conditions were causing continued weight loss, e.g. lack of control of her diabetes.; Among women, depression disorders are much more likely to be accompanied by _________ anxiety disorders.;

conducive

Neither rule is likely to be _________ to the efficient running of the company.; The sort of life I lead is not _________ to the kind of love other people have or want.; I didn't really find the atmosphere at school _________ to learning and wanted to carry on studying once I left.;

viability

Next year the team will begin measuring the effectiveness of the four-year breeding program and the _________ of reintroduced mussels.; I have grave misgivings about the _________ of this type of funding while copyright and patent laws remain in force.; No one set about intentionally to destroy the ecological integrity, social responsibility, or economic _________ of American agriculture.;

chatter

Not a cosy coterie of the _________ classes, but people who represent a broad spectrum of opinion.; I slow my pace as we walk on deeper into the woods where the ghost song is lost by the constant _________ of the squirrels and the chirping of the birds.; During this time, _________ had begun to erupt around the table.;

pretence

Or else a fall from the _________, or realization of the true circumstances, may be a greater jarring of the spirits than the status quo.; Describing the film as a reflection of life in present India, the film-maker points out that the roles the characters play within the film become their masks and _________ to higher moral ground.; One of the nice things about this world is that, when the screwers talk to the screwed, they've abandoned the current _________ of pretending it's for the screwed's own good.;

optimal

Plant two or more rows of the same variety side by side to ensure _________ pollination.; I just need to fiddle around with it to get it in the _________ listening order.; What are the _________ temperature and light conditions for the germination of these seeds?;

petition

Public representatives hope thousands of people will sign a _________ aimed at saving the station from closing at night.; When convicted prisoners brought _________ for writs of habeas corpus before the U.S. Supreme Court, the prisoners were released immediately.; The procedure is that of epistolary jurisdiction, where letters written by ordinary citizens to courts get converted into writ _________.;

perceive

Scientists still do not know exactly how we hear and _________ sounds.; People _________ me as a different character to what I actually am.; Patients initially _________ a benefit while being treated, but this benefit disappears by one year.;

formulation

Since the lotion _________ provided nearly total protection, the test participants preferred it.; Planting herbicide-resistant hybrids may allow growers to use herbicide _________ normally used on soybeans or other crops.; The first aspect of Field's case is to rebut this charge, by providing nominalistic _________ of scientific theories.;

abbreviation

So from now on I'll refer to the Texas Air National Guard by it's correct _________, TXANG.; Such _________ have cropped up in different contexts time and again.; A list of _________, acronyms, and symbols that should not be used also should be available.;

captivity

Some Australian bird species or parrot species will breed quite happily here in _________.; The next three days of _________ are described over three chapters.; If Amber does make a full recovery she will spend the rest of her life in _________ for her own protection.;

tempting

Staff can now offer a _________ range of products from well-known names.; He had such a _________, forbidden appeal to him!; The restaurant offered a variety of _________ dishes, including a number of vegetarian options.;

recoil

Suddenly Fenton's face _________ and his hand flew up to his nose.; The _________ jarred his shoulder painfully, but he ignored it as best as he could.; It was beautiful, really, and could, with a strong enough arm, be fired one-handed without threat of _________ breaking one's bones.;

circumference

Taking a circle of diameter 10,000,000 chang, he found the _________ of this circle to be less than 31,415,927 chang and greater than 31,415,926 chang.; The perimeter of the inner polygon is shorter than the _________ of the circle.; The winner of the under ten category was Scarlet, whose pumpkin had a _________ of 57 inches.;

unanimously

The Board of Governors voted _________ to allow the administrators to unionize.; The residents very pleased that the council voted _________ in favour of the variation.; We may have some problems but they must be tackled _________ as one nation.;

lining

The acceleration strips the _________ of the artery away faster than it can be replenished.; The denims were cut so short that the pocket _________ were hanging out in the open and gently wafting on the breeze.; Meningitis is an inflammation of the covering or _________ around the spinal cord and brain.;

heady

The atmosphere at home was a _________ mix of bookish culture, genteel poverty and violence.; It's a culinary phenomenon to rival the _________ sun-dried tomato days of the early 90s!; This _________ union, which begat gay liberation, has been all but ignored by the culture.;

break the bank

The cost of fitted shelves and units can _________.; One might argue that some of the existing members just wouldn't be able to afford it but would £1 per week really _________?; However, a week in the fjords in summer or cross-country skiing in winter doesn't have to _________, and many tour operators offer affordable packages.;

emission

The effect of implementing the Kyoto Protocol, he says, would be to transfer vast sums of money from some countries to others without reducing the _________ of greenhouse gases.; Road transport is a major source of _________ of primary pollutants, especially in cities.; The energy master-plan emphasises investment in technology to reduce the _________ of pollutants such as sulphur dioxide and nitrogen oxide through improvements in coal combustion.;

aside from

The exhibit spans multiple rooms and displays many works _________ the pop art he is most famous for.; I have been through emotional agony in almost every relationship with men, _________ my father and Robert.; The good thing is, _________ some privacy, you don't have to hear a roommate's snore.;

rational

The ideals of liberty, equality, and fraternity proved inadequate as bases for a fully _________ society.; Sarah had always been so sensible and _________ and now she actually sounded as if she believed what she was saying.; To be honest, I once thought about having another woman, but I did not do it because I was able to be _________, I did not want to take any risks.;

palm

The inspiration for the poem came initially from seeing a sailmaker's _________ in the maritime museum in Greenock when I was over there visiting a writer's workshop.; The lopsided star was a little bigger than my _________ and silver-ish in color.; Though the film is long, it never bogs down and he has you in the _________ of his hand when the final events begin to shake you up.;

auditorium

The lights of the _________ dim, the audience shuffles on their seats making sure they have a good view of the stage.; That evening, some York residents make their way to the concert in the new _________ while others attend classes in everything from medieval art to kick-boxing.; A leisure centre complete with ice rink and an _________ for rock concerts: not really the best place for a dignified ceremony.;

wither

The objectionable institution of an advisory board is an appendage to a funding bill necessary to keep the underfunded Middle Eastern Studies programs from _________ on the vine.; While bodies may _________, or fall ill, with age, the mind can remain good.; The Marxists states have mostly _________ away - it's the capitalist states that are thriving.;

extant

The oldest _________ example of a local Egyptian map is the Turin papyrus which dates from around 1300 BC.; High Street and Old Market Street are among the oldest streets _________ in the town.; It contains some 60 percent of Hyde's _________ poems, dozens of which have not been seen before.;

metropolitan

The options for this include picking specific cities, _________ areas, or even a distance radius from a specific point.; The new prosperity of the cities made the _________ bishops significant figures in art patronage in the 13th and 14th centuries.; Two hundred surveys also were sent to people randomly selected from the Internet, from small rural areas to large _________ cities.;

ingenious

The outlaw's intelligence is often displayed in his _________ escapes.; So to the extent that you can personify methodology I see him as _________ but erratic.; An _________ person should multiply the kinds of congress after the fashion of the different kinds of beasts and of birds.;

combat

The relationship between sport and unarmed _________ is not easily seen at first.; In having sought to _________ evil, we ended up being consumed by it.; The younger warrior with him jumped off his horse to bravely _________ the enemy, but the enemy was better then him.;

obscure

The sun was _________ by high, grey cloud, its disc appearing at once flat and lifeless.; Individualistic and even idiosyncratic as Badri's style can be, no viewer can complain that his paintings are _________ or difficult to understand.; Foster's performance is excellent, the _________ and mysterious scene setting is just frightening and the special effects are refreshing.;

brass

The tabernacle, sanctuary lamp and all _________ have been cleaned, polished and lacquered in both Mulranny and Tiernaur churches.; And while women may long for the _________ ring that men have been grasping at for years, many of them are discovering that this is indeed a hollow and shallow pursuit that is not nearly as rewarding as motherhood.; We got off to a brilliant start but then the honeymoon period was over and we got down to _________ tacks.;

trough

The trade winds from both hemispheres converge towards the doldrums and a zone of low pressure, the equatorial _________, that girdles the earth.; The procession of temperate cyclonic vortices continues unabated and their northerly _________, the cold fronts, progress in tandem.; The statue, with outspread wings and hands raised benevolently, was on a _________ where horses drank before pulling their heavy loads up the hill.;

expunge

The usual pattern was the one-off benefit to private capital of a state asset on the cheap - with debts being _________ and subsidies being provided.; He's not just trying to remove the Treaty from law, but _________ it from public consciousness altogether.; All references to his drug use have been _________, and he's now a dashing old adventurer grieving over his inability to save his son's life.;

in spite of

Their rationality is what keeps them alive _________ not knowing what to do or what not to do.; I'm still tired _________ my rest day and early night, although my sleep was disturbed.; It was totally sold out, packed to the gills _________ the cold and rainy weather.;

ledge

There are also several green moray eels along the reef _________.; And while she empties the black water out of the bucket to refill it for the next room, she can see a crow come to rest on the _________ of the window.; The other is that developers have found that there is a great public demand for traditional devices such as planters, bay windows and shading _________.;

authoritative

These sources are, according to the figures represented, reliable, _________ and well-meaning.; What marks it out from all other broadcasting organisations is that people trust implicitly that its journalism is impartial, _________ and true.; These provide the most _________ sources of information about the management and activities of the New Australia and Cosme colonies.;

telegram

They busy themselves buying stamps, receiving drafting paper for _________ and in sending joyful, affectionate or sorrowful contents of messages home or to their beloved friends.; Most of the party's members have called, passed by or sent _________ asking me to reconsider my decision, and I am grateful to them.; They had been writing so regularly - and often sending _________ - that she knew almost to the day where the herd would be.;

volt

They created electricity running at 10 _________ with a milliamp current, enough to power a small lightbulb.; If only amperage is listed, the formula to determine watts is: amps times _________ equal watts.; Because powerlines are typically 400,000 _________, and Earth is at an electrical potential of zero _________, pylons create electric fields between the cables they carry and the ground.;

thus

They have _________ far failed to realise that the process will take a long time and extended effort.; For me it is easier to not lose a game than to win it, _________ I produce better results in stronger tournaments.; These operations cut or break the residue into smaller pieces, mix soil and residue, and speed winter weathering, _________ making the residue more susceptible to decomposition.;

purity

They represent _________ and genuineness and a wish for health.; She currently sat, perched on the step, wearing a pretty pale blue gown looking the picture of innocence and _________.; Aleya turned to me and for a moment I saw once again those sweet eyes of Lucia, that sweet innocence and _________.;

limousine

They were met on the airport apron by a fleet of coaches and _________ which carried them across the border to Castle Leslie.; Some were driven in black _________ with mirrored windows and no registration plates.; The best part is the economics of not having to pay for a $25-50.00 airport _________ between the airport and hotel at each end of my trip.;

discipline

Thirdly, we have to _________ ourselves to begin to train.; About a decade ago, seeking to give managers more power, the department instituted binding arbitration for _________ officers.; Little by little, _________ yourself to meditate at the same time each day.;

insofar

This area is of huge importance _________ that within the area is the Gaelscoil and the council's playground.; In my view, however, the committee should only take them into account _________ they come into that category.; The present study was limited in this regard _________ that behaviour change was not assessed.;

hold sway

This argument seemed to _________ during the first trial.; Some of us would say it was always an aberration, but it did _________ for a while under the Chief Justice's influence.;

mind-blowing

This one is for those hungry for adventure and thirsty for thrills; those who are game for spine-chilling off-the-edge excitement and _________ heights.; There was - is - no question: Peter Jackson has roared back into theatres with the _________ Part Two of the greatest fantasy epic in movie history.; The cornerstone of the most popular dishes are Scottish standards such as haggis, salmon, venison and a _________ choice of fish, dressed with horseradish mash, and lime and avocado mousse.;

intact

This provision should be allowed to remain _________ and not be damaged by any new proposal.; It was my first time on the wreck and I was surprised to find it lying _________ and in pristine condition.; Our most important task is always to keep our sense of being a person _________.;

reticence

This really very scary Japanese ghost story from director Hideo Nakata exerts a chilling grip with its icy calm and eerie _________.; The _________ of our style, chosen, we thought, as appropriate to the forum, requires each reader to substantiate our claims on their own.; That said, the compression and _________ of Italian high modernist poetry are still prominent stylistic features in Italian verse.;

token

This sort of system operates in several other cities which have park and ride services, where the bus rider purchases a _________ before boarding the bus and inserts this _________ in a machine to exit.; Refugee mothers don't even get the milk _________ that mothers on benefit are entitled to.; Prize-winners received book _________ and were treated to an interesting talk on how the murals were painted.;

excursion

Though he makes some brief _________ into consciously literary forms, the overall tone of his writing is terse, colloquial, practical, laconic.; Bored with the monotony of her life, she takes her motor-less moped on short _________.; Most major extinction events are associated with pronounced isotopic _________.;

artifact

Though present, the DNR _________ are not significant enough to detract much from the viewing.; The National Museum in Nairobi has collections of historical and cultural _________ and the museum at Fort Jesus in Mombasa is dedicated to archeology and history.; We have no control over our cultural _________ once we send them out into the world - people do with them what they will, including construct dreams around them.;

tenure

Thus _________ Professor Arnold would have increased the number of _________ faculty, not changed the student-faculty ratio.; Unfortunately, these evictions of tenants violated the custom of Irish tenant-right, according to which the tenant had security of _________ and could buy and sell an occupancy as though it were his own property.; And we question the justness of _________ him, certainly of the size of his salary and administrative reach.;

round trip

Tour managers will make two-hour _________ to retrieve mislaid mobile phones, and they'll field calls from partners.; The publicity secretary said people wishing to travel would only pay a nominal fee of K50,000 for a _________ including meals.; Trucks, buses, and horse-pulled wagons paid seventy-five cents for a _________.;

textile

Types of workers thus ranged from peasants who supplemented their income with domestic industry, usually in _________, to highly skilled craftsmen in towns and cities who concentrated on luxury items.; The government wanted to boost the growth of Indonesia's _________ industry by developing rayon fibre production in order to reduce dependence on imported cotton.; Apart from tourism, the town's main industry is _________, with 20 factories employing about 4,000.;

insulin

Typically, it strikes kids and occurs when the pancreatic islets that produce _________, die off.; This happens because the pancreas releases _________ to get the blood sugar levels back to normal.; It produces hormones called _________ and glucagons that enable the body to use sugars and store fats.;

abundance

You'll find it in _________ back in Aarhus, which has hosted a festival every year since 1965 to celebrate love and human relationships.; Conditions were favourable and the number of choice spots in southern Canada stretching from Manitoba to central Quebec allowed wild rice to grow naturally in _________ every year.; A good concept, with loads of teenage energy in _________, this is a band you should keep at least one eye on... just in case they get famous.;

cosmopolitan

carnival' as much as a confluence of cultural conflicts played against an artistic practice of exiles and _________.; The hundred million years and more of Pangean history saw a succession of _________ animal dynasties spread over the entire supercontinent.; One group, the _________ or ecologically generalist species, includes 10-12 species.;

replicate

cookbook labs,' in which students _________ experiments where the results are already known.; This method _________ how problems occur in life,' he says.; Because the tests were conducted on corn grown in _________ experiments, they could determine if the diagnostic test level accurately matched the plant response.;

salient

enhance' real evidence, if the _________ facts are true?; Their didactic import encompasses _________ aspects of Buddhist doctrine, especially the traditional notion of human transience.; The crisp presentation outlined all the _________ features of broadband technology, notably cheaper downloads and smoother surfing.;

dopant

Due to the original content of the iron _________ and the size of the resist pattern, the diameter of the particle can be effectively controlled well below the lithography limit.; Often the conducting properties of a semiconductor can be varied by adding an impurity known as a _________ so that a semiconductor can be made to act like either an insulator or a conductor.; Conventional ion sources use a tungsten filament to inject the gas containing the _________ with electrons.;

affection

Family members played some traditional airs at the Mass in appreciation of Maureen's great love and _________ for the music.; massage' are useless for the treatment of local _________.; This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to _________ for a few persons nearest us.;

absurdity

It also tells us about his wonderful talent for reducing all the most serious moments of life to a kind of cheerful _________.; Whether he is fit for the job is, of course, irrelevant to the continuing _________ of the job itself.; And the traces of this _________ are visible in the mien of our politicians.;

laissez-faire

Others have come to take their place, presumably attracted by the free mooring facilities and the council's _________ policy.; What the lefties are referring to is economic liberalism, with its _________, free market principles.; I do favor increased levels of immigration, but not _________.;

adaptation

Psychologists talk about a process called _________; it turns out that we quickly adjust to whatever our environment is like.; I have a theory about film _________ of literary works whose titles include the author's name.; The critical response to my _________ of Midnight Cowboy has made me break my chaste vow of silence.;

analogous

The proposed system is _________ to the one used for music on the radio, where music stations can play what they like provided they pay the agreed fee.; This pattern seems _________ to the struggle for a viable business model for the Internet.; An _________ operational definition holds for the heritability of derepressed cells.;

boasting

Not in the mood for her _________, Nick started to make an excuse to get away.; Tired of his _________, his boss called his bluff.; I told you that I would probably regret my _________.;

adjudication

" There cannot be two channels for _________.; Rule 17 of the Procedure gave Mr. Lester a discretion as to how to conduct the _________ in this case.; A current example, still under internal _________, relates to a Canadian medical student who was failed in his obstetrics rotation for his statement that he would not do abortions.;

deceptive

A blogger has caught out the The New York Times in a bit of _________ reporting.; Others may use _________ sales tactics and false positives to scare up sales from confused users.; We looked the part, but appearances came be _________, as I was soon to discover.;

snip

A few _________ of the old tailor's scissors and I will reduce them to a series of hanging strips barely connected to the elastic.; The procedure involves _________ a bit of skin from the patient to get the DNA.; Two corners are _________ off, one is rounded, and the fourth is squared.;

state of affairs

A sorry _________ to say the least and a disaster for the promotion of the game.; I don't want to travel by public transport as I don't feel safe, and that is a sorry _________.; Sunderland's solicitor Clive Flynn described the case as a sad and sorry _________.;

refine

Arabs were probably the first to cultivate and _________ sugar around the Mediterranean.; Freud's theories were incidental - useful in _________ traditional methods of popular control perhaps, but a sideshow.; The frying method was _________ by the Japanese into the light, crispy, yummy treat we know today.;

hatred

As far as my other critics are concerned, the envy seems to have corroded down to _________.; I would like to express my pure _________ for those who light up a fag in front of children and even babies!; Oh, she knew _________ was not a ladylike emotion, but she simply could not help it.;

obliterate

Arriving at the outskirts of Brussels the merry band of travellers were aghast to discover that the entire city had been _________ by a weapon of mass destruction.; The drifting snow _________ lesser landmarks and covered the boundaries of roads and ditches with a covering several feet thick, making normal travel nigh on impossible.; In this series, vases float atop color fields, but here the vase is partly _________, as it is enveloped in smokelike, quivering strokes of black.;

trawl

As part of their investigation, the police even _________ through the Evening Advertiser's CCTV footage to see if the thieves had been caught in the act.; A _________ is a large fishing net that is towed along the bottom of the river.; Northeast Utilities Environmental Laboratory staff list it among fishes they have _________ in Long Island Sound.;

laxative

By stimulating both kidneys and bowels, burdock has diuretic and _________ actions, and hastens the elimination of toxins from the body.; There is strong evidence that psyllium has _________ properties and promotes colonic function.; Thinking it was merely constipation, he tried _________ product after _________ product, but nothing seemed to help.;

foremost

By the seventeenth century, Austria was the _________ German state and a major European power.; Despite being one of the UK's _________ poets, fame really isn't her bag.; The preacher walked on, pleased to see that the little girl had Jesus _________ in her heart.;

literate

Computer _________ will also be helped to learn more in information technology, so as to leverage it more in their careers.; And like all learning, becoming _________ is a lifelong process.; Within a few years, most Cherokees had become _________ in their own language.;

pharmacist

Drug stocks in the warehouse are recorded regularly by the _________ using web based stock cards.; Ask your _________ for an over-the-counter insecticide lotion or crème rinse.; Your _________ can advise you on simple medicines and/or gripe water that will help prevent colic.;

rectangular

Each block of ice was entirely _________, its sides perfectly smooth and flawless.; All guys sat together on one side of the long _________ table.; They were then ordered to march into a _________ hangar, with the sides all angled inwards to the flat roof, roughly trapezoidal in shape.;

reckon

Finally, what do our codebreakers _________ to Eric Lambert's thinking?; But the German state of Saxony alone puts the damage caused by the floods there at 16 billion euros; Austria _________ on a cleanup bill of 2 billion euros; the Czech Republic 3 billion and Hungary and Slovakia over 100 million.; We will be a force to be _________ with.;

pastime

He single-handedly took sailing from a gentle _________ into an athletic sport.; You are likely to indulge in happy _________ and pleasurable activity.; Gone is the person who would engage in a sport or activity as a _________ rather than a profession.;

sanction

If it does not, then it is for Parliament, if it thinks fit, to provide the necessary _________ by providing a public law remedy linked directly to the protection of public rights.; It was during the first stage that the regime discovered that it could not officially _________ any one style or movement.; The question arises whether the problem can be addressed indirectly through trade _________ or restrictions to punish countries that refuse to improve environmental standards.;

refute

It is clearly intended to _________ those who denied what is now known as the doctrine of the resurrection.; He was scheduled to hold a press conference in Bangkok later Saturday to _________ accusations by the Cambodian government that he incited the riots.; That's America, a place where Cindy Sheehan can say whatever the hell she wants and where you are free to _________ her.;

concrete

It was, perhaps, his familiarity with Surrealism that caused Wroblewski to endow his art with a combination of _________ and dreamy qualities.; There is no fast solution, and that's why proposing _________ solutions to specific problems isn't as easy as it sounds.; For some inexplicable reason the natural paths over Po Toi's beautiful and rugged landscape have been _________ over.;

rink

Jessica and I went ice skating at an indoor ice _________.; That's because Olympic contests are played on a wider ice _________ that opens up the game and gives the elite players space to be creative.; The recently opened Colorado Springs World Arena and Ice Hall, with an Olympic-size ice _________, is where some of America's top figure skaters now train.;

exterior

Just beneath his gruff _________ lies a gentle soul seeking to fill a spiritual void with companionship.; Because so much of the movie is set on one _________ location, the texture of the color is a key character in the film.; The design of its _________ is leaner and is found to be more agile looking comprising of large wheels that enhances the vehicle's powerful and capable stance.;

haste

My last train home was at 00: 20 so I decided I'd better make _________.; And so it seems blundering in _________ and repenting at leisure is no one's monopoly.; Unfortunately, in _________, mom used the diesel pump instead of unleaded.;

hierarchy

Not an end in itself, domestic violence is a means of enforcing gender roles in society and maintaining a _________ in which men remain in control.; The action followed a public outcry over revelations that the church _________ covered up claims of abuse.; Five days later, the _________ issued an episcopal letter that reiterated the imperative for Catholics to embrace democracy and reject electoral fraud.;

narcotic

Opium and other _________ addictions were rampant among the upper classes.; Then she could relish in the fact that she's the world greatest undercover _________ officer.; He bought prescription _________ from them cheaply, which allowed him to avoid street heroin for years.;

proposition

Our leading article in the same edition condemned the supermarket proposal and suggested that such a _________ would be better suited to a redeveloped Myrtle Walk.; The _________ garnered majority support in every county in the state with the exception of San Francisco and four counties in rural Northern California.; As a publisher, it _________ me all the time to buy names.;

depletion

Some crops such as corn are very heavy feeders so moving it from place to place prevents rapid _________ of the soil.; The ship's refrigeration and air conditioning plants are designed to achieve no ozone _________.; To get back to what I said earlier about the _________ of the national sheep flock, I have one or two more instances to highlight.;

gallant

The life of this wrecked if _________ woman has become, not the cautionary tale it was in 1970, but an achievement to applaud.; Championed by one of China's leading directors, it ran for a month and was enthusiastically received by all but the traditionalists who believed a play is not a play without a _________ hero completing some epic task.; They have shot, fished, golfed and _________ together.;

dismal

The play is a history of his romantic failures, with amorous adventures ranging from the comic to the pitiful but always _________ failures.; By that measure, too, Australia's recent performance looks _________.; Remember the light that shone from me long ago if I am too _________ now, but remember me.;

fringe

The white backdrop resembles a _________ altar cloth, with small fir trees stitched in the bottom portion.; Pounding surf, galloping horses and a rugged coastline _________ with subtropical forests are standard ingredients of many a romantic creation.; The ears are short and rounded, and in some species, their openings are protected by a _________ of hairs around the inner margin of the ear.;

censure

There are lawyers who admitted to taking their clients money, and yet they receive no _________, nor have their licence lifted to practice law.; If your father allows you to swear at your mother without _________, it's horrible and reprehensible, but a private matter.; Meanwhile he had been recalled to Adelaide and summoned before a Royal Commission where he was _________ and criticized.;

spasm

Things slowly got worse, despite treatment, until my back began to _________.; Most intriguing on these two brief noise _________ is lead singer Beverly's grating howl.; As he twisted around to glance at the television news, his back went into _________.;

cadet

We follow a young naval _________ (they weren't called Midshipmen yet) who joined the Navy football team following its first loss to West Point.; I actually entered journalism myself as a _________ at the age of 17, then I went and got a university degree, then I returned to journalism.; These factors have to a considerable extent led to large numbers of young officers quitting and _________ dropping out of military training establishments.;

estate

We have lost so many of our old buildings to new _________.; Detectives working on the case are particularly interested in locating a dark-coloured _________ or station wagon car they believe to have been involved in the incident.; It was agreed in the event of either death the _________ of the deceased would pass to the survivor.;

dispensary

A _________ room featured all the tablets and medicines which were once doled out to sheep, horses, dogs and cats.; "The thing most at jeopardy is the _________ and big growers."; Vaccinations undertaken either by a nurse in the _________ or by mobile teams, did not comply with the vaccination schedules.;

masculine

A _________ voice soon interrupted them, the kitchen door opening.; garden' is a noun of _________ gender.; This 16th century bastioned city is unique in the feminine quality among the _________ citadels of Rajasthan.;

exclamation

A combination of moans, _________ and curses were what the man earned with that statement.; Nick made to close the door, but was stopped by a sudden _________.; An _________ of pain issued from the man as Kurt steadily applied more pressure to the wound.;

attorney

A judge was elected, _________ were appointed, and witnesses were interviewed.; This all plays to the core competence of business _________.; An _________ can be appointed by signing a deed which is in place immediately.;

aquifer

A less pleasant possibility was that we had intercepted an _________.; If dry-based ice covered the area, the _________ would have become inactive.; Therefore, the results of a wet base or a dry base are the same if the upper part of the _________ is frozen: it is not possible to transmit water from the glacier into the rock mass.;

parenthesis

A list is a sequence of syntactic tokens enclosed in a pair of _________.; In the typically anonymous world of cyberspace - where _________ and colons represent emotions and facial expressions - I'd met my namesake.; Well, as is the case for just about everything that does well on home video, the makers of Friday have concocted yet another adventure with weed in _________.;

schizophrenia

Abrupt changes in mood, the destruction of comfort, and _________ are all elements at work here.; Let's turn to childhood onset _________.; She claimed he prescribed a second drug, Risperidone, which is used to treat _________.;

sprain

Acute injuries, such as a sudden _________ or muscle pull, seem to happen out of the blue.; Has she said what gave her the bruises or _________?; I had no idea that pretending to _________ your ankle would hurt so badly.;

asphalt

After all, the track follows in the hoofprints of horses, which for hundreds of years pulled barges upstream along these same, now _________, riverside towpaths.; The road in front of Sundari Memorial School was _________ last year.; It's no surprise then that we love _________ everything.;

arithmetic

Again it is a theorem of intuitionistic _________ that every natural number is either prime or composite.; However, that _________ counts only the cost of the franchise, implicitly assuming a zero cost of developing the transport, etc. necessary to serve that tourist market.; He wrote several books on _________, algebra, geometry and astronomy.;

prosperity

Ageing populations and rising _________ across the world can only reinforce demand trends.; They have had formative years of almost uninterrupted _________, growth and success.; Everyone knows it has brought _________, although that _________ is not equally shared.;

thermometer

Air temperature was recorded every hour using a mercury _________.; In some locations, the sale of mercury _________ is banned completely.; Show your child how to use a simple _________ to take the temperature of the water.;

prose

All infused new life and elegance into Urdu _________.; Strive for lively _________, leaning on strong verbs and sharp nouns.; I chose _________ narrative fiction as the crucial focus of comparison and confrontation among cultures of the world.;

telegraph

All of this will lead to some explosive moments later in the play, but for now the easily anticipated and _________ surprise at the end of this scene is that Laurel is back in town, having collected Matthew on her short jaunt Outside.; Then a _________ operator tapped out this one-word message: DONE.; He _________ a curious expression across the curious pseudo - restaurant that serves as the canteen in the bowels of Television Centre.;

frenetic

All over Europe, citizens say that they are fed up with the _________ pace of modern life and are opting for the slow lane.; He gives the film a peculiar pace, by starting with an intense and _________ backstory.; As a respite from the _________ pace of most of the album, the Robinson tracks are welcome.;

scenery

All this is presented against Baroque _________, with the musicians dressed in rich period costumes.; Tourists flock there most of the year to savour its picturesque position among magnificent _________.; She combines sexiness and creepiness with skill, but tends to chew the _________ a little too much as her screen time goes on.;

skeptic

Already _________ are questioning whether the initial budget for the space plan is sufficient.; He was different from the other _________ that had questioned her before.; Some _________ also tend to lump all forms of religion in with irrationalism and superstition.;

damp

Although I wasn't on duty for the fire, I was there in the evening _________ it down.; He said it took the two crews ten minutes to fight the fire with foam and ten minutes to _________ the car down with water.; The rising number of free services may have prompted a report circulating last week that AOL has put the _________ on content partners, requiring them to limit links and joint ad campaigns with free ISPs.;

famine

An estimated 10 million are facing starvation throughout the southern region of Africa due to _________ and drought.; In Italy and Greece serious food shortages almost produced _________ in 1943-4.; So when you think about the wars, the _________, the strife, the terrors that we face on a daily basis doesn't it make sense to explore the benefits of cloning?;

temerity

And then she had the _________ to sit there in a press conference and argue between herself and yourself.; Above all, she has a breathtaking fearlessness, and the talent to back up her _________.; It takes time and _________ to get beneath the surface of them all.;

antenna

And while he has the political _________ to know what was being said about him, he has long given the impression that he doesn't give a damn.; Dish _________ now receive more than fifty television channels via satellite signals.; Abu Mustafa, whose _________ were particularly sensitive, said he didn't think it was a wonderful idea.;

heed

And, by and large, as we have driven around today, people seem to be _________ that warning.; He had been unrelenting with his plan and given no _________ to the young lieutenant he had talked to.; If the warning is not _________ sudden excruciating pain and eye-watering blindness may follow.;

finite

Anderson now spreads the word on the unsustainability of infinite growth in a _________ world.; With Frank in the chair, the deans met every fortnight ensuring that _________ resources were used effectively.; These challenges include a _________ budget, and limited personnel and resources.;

ameliorate

Another bit of good news is that the campaign has prompted many members of the public to not only join the struggle but also contribute in different ways towards _________ the situation of survivors.; There's also evidence that they _________ depression and improve various mental functions.; It makes constructive suggestions as to how the laws may be amended to _________ some of the adverse impacts on young people.;

digress

Another brave step, though it might seem very trivial is that he has avoided _________ from the singular plot by not invoking songs and other kitsch trappings.; Still, this is _________ from our main point of concern.; And then it _________ into unprintable scenarios.;

occupant

Another factor of cardinal importance in protecting building _________ is debris mitigation.; But it says a petition signed by the _________ of 11 properties near one of the proposed refuges, near Elliot Court, has been received.; The lone male _________ fled the home through a second-floor window.;

apathy

Another reason for voter _________ is a lack of confidence in politicians.; Indeed there does appear to be a great deal of _________ up until this weekend when a number of people attended a march in London.; In this day and age of political _________, there's at least one group I respect.;

wee

Another time I was watching a doctor examine a baby which started _________.; And, if I'm being honest, I just hope that I can perform that _________ bit better than everybody else.; I've got my _________ in a little bottle, in a little bag, in a larger bag, in my handbag.;

indigestion

Antacids are used to relieve the symptoms of acid reflux, caused by heartburn or _________.; Peptic ulcers can cause symptoms of _________, including pain, which may be severe.; Eating a low fat diet can help to avoid _________ which is also possible.;

specimen

Are there any medical reasons why a _________ of blood cannot or should not be taken by a doctor?; You embody the perfect friend, the perfect companion, the perfect physical _________.; Ray then spent thirteen years travelling around Britain and Europe collecting _________ and studying animals.;

smuggle

Aren't almost all handguns used in crimes stolen or _________ into the country illegally already?; His father paid people traffickers to _________ his son out of the country to try to start a new life in Britain.; Virtually, with every passing week, we discover people trying to _________ explosives into Saudi Arabia.;

crate

As a treat, I was allowed to choose a bottle of soft drink from the _________ stored in the back room.; At the end of the Second World War, flowers were purchased from Covent Garden Market and delivered by rail in returnable wooden _________.; But shortly after, they _________ weapons far greater than they could control and the great war that caused our evolutions began.;

bland

As far as I'm concerned organic food is a lot like the Progressive Party - soft, _________ and somewhat dense.; His family now lived in a typically _________ modern suburb but his heart lay with the little island where he grew up.; He stars as a sound engineer in a happy but _________ marriage to an emotionally fragile woman with psychic abilities.;

judo

Ask some people why they do _________ or kendo and you will get some who will answer that they train to be able to win a fight.; The third method calls for your practicing with someone not as good at _________ as you are.; At the time Lisa had no idea what _________ was, but thought Aaron sounded cute and decided to give it a try.;

intricacy

Ask the simplest of questions and he takes you on a rollercoaster ride through the detail and _________ of his troubled mind.; The artistry and craftsmanship displayed, particularly in the later pieces, was stunning in its beauty and _________.; The _________, the precision, the creativity, the hand-skills required, are what I love.;

pernicious

At its most extreme whole economies are destroyed by its _________ influence.; It also stands for the complete victory of the Buddhist Doctrine over all harmful and _________ forces.; Over the past few months and years, some _________ myths have started to become a little too popular.;

exacting

At least, I think the media should not lead the public astray by confusing one's career and individual life, and meanwhile putting a heavy burden on people through _________ models.; The Governess sings throughout her _________ part with skill and understanding.; A consummate professional and master decorator, he has never presented work that does not meet his own _________ standards of design, even if it means outshining everybody else's masquerade.;

dub

At that time, video rental was a pretty new thing and unscrupulous retailers saw nothing wrong with purchasing a copy of The Muppets Take Manhattan and _________ a dozen to rent to customers.; But, for a tape that was _________ probably many times, it was pretty clear.; Higher-quality versions _________ from actual DVDs entrusted to movie-industry insiders and reviewers can be on the market within days.;

pot

At the end of a hand, the dealer retains anything that is left in the _________, and the deal passes to the next player.; As exotic and exciting as the double handshake was the sorghum beer handed around in mud _________.; I couldn't _________ a long ball and I had no run all day.;

thrust

At the time, Dr. Ink praised this move as gutsy, a daring _________ into enemy territory.; I've got a huge family and suddenly she has been _________ into the middle of this completely different way of life.; A solar-powered ion engine could therefore not compete with the large _________ of a chemical rocket.;

emulate

At this stage, though, Murray is motivated not by money, just a desire to _________ Tim Henman's notable achievements.; These simulators allow standard computers to _________ actual battlefield operating systems.; If he can _________ this achievement, the fans will soon forget their qualms over his aggressive takeover.;

eat into

Bankers have previously warned that raising the reserve requirement would _________ bank profit margins and raise the cost of funds and hence increase the interest rate charged to borrowers.; Oil has jumped nearly 60 percent so far this year, stoking concerns that higher energy costs will _________ corporate profits and curb consumer spending.; But to suspend the wires above the ceiling would cost £10,000 per bed, a cost which would _________ already stretched resources.;

perceptible

Barely _________ to the casual observer, the creases in his eyes had fallen just a little more than before.; Counterpoint is likely to be most immediately _________ when the distinct voices use the same material in close proximity.; It would be like counting up the least visible bits of a _________ object.;

twofold

Based on our broader definition of asthma, the prevalence of non-atopic asthma did not change between 1972-6 and 1996, but the prevalence of atopic asthma increased more than _________.; There was a more than _________ increase in survival among recipients of combination antibiotic therapy as compared with that for recipients of monotherapy regimens.; Experiencing sad or hopeless feelings and having a history of attempted suicide were associated with roughly a _________ increase in the likelihood of being the recipient of physical dating violence.;

literacy

Basic computer _________ and an interest in making things are the only requirements.; Work will also be carried out to promote family _________ and numeracy projects, such as staging adult learning classes.; Thus, the parents have not had many opportunities to use and improve their English _________.;

rehabilitation

Beware: there is at least one last attempt at Southern _________ amongst the extra material.; An emergency _________ team is working to revegetate some of the 1.6 million western acres that burned last summer.; There begins his slow and agonising _________, after being paralysed in a car accident.;

prolific

Both are frequently images of creativity: rabbits are _________ and snakes shed their skins and grow new ones as an act of renewal.; Because of Costa Rica's small size, its _________ animals and plants are easily accessible - and quite easy to see.; Although he was _________, producing some 200 canvases in just one year at Arles, hardly anything sold.;

doctrine

Both groups continue to perpetuate the old and outworn _________ of party politics.; Recent legal regulation of democratic practices has focused on developing constitutional _________ that permit courts to reshape political practices.; Some other missionaries may have just been concerned to teach the _________ of the church.;

spontaneous

Both improvisation and the musical hold the contradictory idea that _________ performance is available to all and that some people are more _________ or open than others.; On a day's journey off the beaten track one might meet very few people, but their hospitality was _________ and generous.; Let me expound upon a few _________ thoughts.;

opposing

Buchanon's speed, instinct and confidence make him a dangerous player for _________ teams to contend with.; On each _________ page are all the objects that the new animal claims it can eat, so the child can look for them.; The two _________ armies watched each other for a moment, a silent peace before the storm.;

disrepair

But after years of neglect the chimney had fallen into _________ and was threatened with demolition.; For several decades the building fell into _________, but it was reopened in 2002.; Meanwhile, the only two city shelters sank further into squalor and _________.;

interplay

But although there's plenty of _________ here, none of it really raises the hairs on your arms.; This _________ of repartee and rhythm kept the audience totally entertained.; Its simple and lucid narrative is aglow with moments and charged yet contained _________ of emotions.;

plight

But as the first help trickled in on Sunday, it was the _________ of the living that seemed the most desperate.; They will be judged on their individual _________ and circumstances as every refugee is.; She laughs aloud turning finally once more to her _________ cousin.;

gear

But both the backers and the foes are now _________ up for a battle over an even stricter proposed amendment.; Many of these workers are working in hazardous environmental conditions without face masks, without proper _________.; The system allows the driver to manually shift _________ or drive in an automatic mode.;

paradigm

But derivatives of ferre come from three different words and the _________ is highly irregular: fero, ferre, tuli, latum.; It has been argued that the traditional view of the Earth as a nurturing mother was replaced, after the Renaissance, by the scientific, atomistic and reductionist _________.; Such research may benefit from application of theory and experimental _________ that have been developed within the areas of mate choice and sexual selection.;

notwithstanding

But politics _________, Hollywood, in particular, is often portrayed as the last great liberal holdout in California.; As I have said before, Christopher has elected not to play any part of these proceedings, _________ his closeness to Sarah, who herself gave evidence.; Congressional interest _________, the dissident groups, both external and internal, are still largely on their own.;

indispensable

But protection from those whose direct intention is to kill the innocent is also _________.; For this reason, she did not have high status although she was _________.; In short, as a guide to the new enemies of the left the book is absolutely _________.;

adverbial

But sometimes his _________ excess and convoluted structures result in awkward prose.; The word's warm informality also makes it usable as what might be called an _________ noun, modified by an adjective.; But this form of the question implies an _________ construction.;

nasty

But the man who led the revolt is a thoroughly _________ piece of work.; The bathroom is a common place to find bacteria and other _________ lurking.; The board uses through-hole construction rather than surface-mount, and is housed in a stainless-steel chassis, providing maximum shielding from external _________.;

loathing

But the response to those attacks has done much to intensify the culture of fear and _________, and the consequent drive to turn precaution into the first principle of politics.; Sure, both teams and fans go through the dreary ritual, psyching themselves up into a lather of _________ but to what end?; His _________ of imperialism was visceral, because he knew, firsthand, what it meant.;

uniformity

But there is no _________ of policy and enforcement is not guaranteed.; The grimness and _________ of daily life in Pyongyang and in provincial areas is clear from the photographs.; It proposes to realise human unity in diversity and not in _________.;

tame

But this time around caring for each individual needs was not that easy, and his once _________ land started to grow unmanageable and wild.; He said that it must be remembered that elephants are not naturally _________.; The newsroom became the home of the _________ dissident and the compliant office holder.;

successor

But why has no one tackled the works of his equally interesting _________?; These men and their immediate English _________ were not searching for freedom, but only for profit.; Senior colleagues, including potential _________ if he is overthrown, endorsed that verdict.;

emphatically

But why is conscious experience _________ positive?; However, when contacted by The Sunday Business Post last Friday, the witness _________ denied the statement attributed to him.; He is a man who speaks forcefully, _________ and, yes, sometimes controversially from the pulpit at First Baptist Church.;

intake

But with their large new _________ and the expected change of leadership, maybe we'll see that change sometime in the next Parliamentary term.; I was rewarded by a shiver and a sharp _________ of breath from Dave.; The storm got sand in the engine _________ and eroded the fuel relays.;

invader

By the age of 16, this son of peasant farmers was in charge of a country under attack from Communist _________.; His cross is the same as the cross of Wotan which Norse _________ of Scotland carried.; The programme will examine archaeological and genetic evidence to trace the impact the _________ had on Britain.;

dissertation

By the early 1980s, open classrooms had already become a footnote in doctoral _________.; In many ways Nash was simply doing, admittedly at a very high level, what we were supposed to be doing when we wrote our _________.; She has to write a _________ on patients' rights for her course in medical law and ethics, at King's College London.;

epicenter

By the late 1980s and 1990s, however, there had been a shift in the _________ of concern about ecology.; The geographic point directly above the focus is called the earthquake _________.; This was the area that was orientated directly towards the _________ of the earthquake, and therefore to the tsunami.;

orbit

By timing it, the astronomers were able to work out how quickly it was _________, its distance from the Sun and how much further away Earth must be.; Sedna, the mysterious minor planet _________ the Sun beyond the far edge of the Kuiper Belt, is gradually yielding its secrets to planetary scientists.; Two space probes are already in _________ around Mars: Global Surveyor and Odyssey.;

cardinality

Cantor conjectured that there are no infinite _________ between the size of the natural numbers and the size of the real numbers (and so there are no sets S as described above).; Hausdorff proved further results on the _________ of Borel sets in 1916.; The Skolem-Lowenheim theorem asserts that any first-order theory having an infinite model has other models of all smaller infinite _________.;

conceal

Carrying a gun in a vehicle also is illegal because it is considered to be _________.; She could not say what clues revealed her body had been _________ there.; Items such as guns, explosives or other harmful materials could be _________ in these.;

susceptible

Children most _________ to bone plate disturbances are those with poor muscle development.; Why do you seem particularly _________ to that injury?; He was a cheerful, gregarious man, as endlessly curious as a cat, highly emotional and _________.;

malady

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is a new name for an old _________.; It is this same _________ that underlies the diverse problems facing us today.; Regular physical _________ we diagnose the ailment and develop a course of treatment.;

variant

Computer crimes are frequently online _________ of established crimes, like fraud and blackmail.; It is disconcerting, however, that two-thirds of the menus here offer _________ on pork dishes.; In each country the Rococo took on a national character, and in addition many local _________ may be distinguished.;

reaches

Crime in the area has fallen dramatically as the number of police officers _________ record levels, new figures show today.; Although it counts as a sea fish, the lamprey goes up rivers to spawn and is indeed most often met in estuaries or the lower _________ of rivers.; He _________ for the phone and dials Caroline, hoping she'll give him a lift but she's had a hard day with the kids.;

rally

Deming's vision of leadership centres upon coaching and personal development, not holding mass _________ in town squares.; Her group sends gifts to the troops and holds _________ at Columbia University supporting the war effort.; Contributing to the two-month _________ in gold prices was a decline in sales of borrowed gold by producers, analysts said.;

poll

Despite losing the election, Sinn Fein's Colm Burns was in buoyant mood, pointing to the fact he topped the _________ at the first count.; A management system identifies conditions on the network by periodically _________ the network devices or in response to a message from a network device.; With serialized devices it should be possible to _________ every compromised device on the Net just like using a traffic camera to catch drivers who run red lights.;

accustomed

Despite the foul weather, the hosts managed to keep the ball flowing in their _________ style, and had a number of candidates for man of the match.; Ian stood, his head down and eyes lowered, in his _________ stance of subservience.; Thus, in many ways qualitative research cuts across the grain of _________ research practice.;

outlaw

Despite what romantic notions your kind has invented we are criminals, bandits and _________.; I do not think that it could be said that a person in breach of some statutory duty or other prohibition thereupon becomes an _________, unable to enforce any of his rights against anyone.; Not until then did most states _________ common law marriage.;

scarce

Difficult choices must be made in the allocation of _________ resources between current and capital expenditure.; They saw their families and communities through difficult times, when money was _________ and the demands of rural life were very demanding.; Bears are solitary creatures, and with the encroaching populations of humans descending upon their habitat, they will most likely make themselves _________ once they hear all those weird noises.;

paradox

Disjunctions or conditionals featured as premises in many of the logical _________ and sophisms which members of the Dialectical school discussed.; Brunel is a fascinating _________: an artist and engineer who was rooted in the old world but imagined and helped to create the new.; It sounds like a _________ - Paris has almost three times as much rain as London but London is much rainier than Paris.;

fractional

Distillation can be used to separate volatile liquids by a process known as _________ distillation.; There the author describes how mathematicians moved from studying first derivatives, second derivatives, etc., to study _________ derivatives.; Astronomers often express the amount of redshift, the _________ change of wavelength, as a dimensionless number, z.;

likewise

Divilly tacked on another point and Hughes did _________, as Confey edged four points clear after 37 minutes.; I politely did _________ before returning to my newspaper.; When he slowed down, the other car did _________ and the same when he speeded up.;

magnitude

Do we know how - what the extent of the _________ of this disaster is yet, or are we still finding things out?; He carried out a large survey of stellar _________ while at the Göttingen Observatory, publishing Aktinometrie (the first part in 1910, the second in 1912).; He proposed the use of a graph for plotting a variable _________ whose value depends on another variable.;

procrastination

Don't let your voice fall silent this November because of _________.; Indecision and inaction can lead to bigger problems in business so avoid _________ and delay.; Maybe it'll help a few aspiring writers realize they're not alone in their _________.;

aerial

Dublin commanded proceedings by keeping the ball in the air and winning the _________ battle.; Swifts are the most rapid fliers known among living creatures and the most _________ of birds...; What sets our game apart from the others is the enormous _________ battles that were prevalent at the time.;

extinction

During these ice ages, the decrease in global temperature led to mass _________.; We're facing critical mass _________ across a whole variety of ecosystems once the two degree level has been crossed, from coral reefs to rainforests.; Global mass _________ are usually explained by one or more physico-chemical causes.;

peripheral

Each _________ then responds, which results in a two-way communication between the host PC and its associated _________ devices.; One or more floor tom-toms followed and by 1940 the drum kit had reached its present form, though any number of _________ instruments may be added by the player.; The routers are also used to connect computers with printers and other _________ devices.;

porcelain

Each is well appointed, with freestanding roll-top cast-iron baths, step-in shower cubicles and Staffordshire _________ ceramic ware.; The earthenware works are hand-built of pads of clay and the _________ of neater rectangular slabs; all show the pressure marks of fingers.; On Saturday, Sept.17, a crew of four spent the day cleaning, wrapping and packing a collection of Japanese Imari and Chinese blue-and-white _________ stored there on tiered metal shelving.;

fauna

Each of the study teams has come back with a wealth of photographs documenting the flora and _________ in these regions.; The En Gedi Nature Reserve is home to the region's most splendid flora and _________.; The sheer variety of marine flora and _________ is enough to floor visitors.;

benign

Each year scores of different respiratory viruses cause a mostly _________ illness, which cannot be distinguished clinically by causal agent.; The owner is front of house and seems permanently genial and _________ as we all might be if we lived, as he, his wife and children do, in such a mood-improving environment.; The region's _________ climate, chalky terrain and spectacular summer light is a wine-maker's dream.;

glide

Entering the match with a first-class average of 28, he bettered the mark by one and started his Test tally with a _________ through the cordon for a boundary.; Those of us who weren't heavy breathing had gone one stage further and were _________ a loving hand over the smooth, rounded bonnet.; I saw about eight soaring hawks, four _________ herons, and roughly 2,000 dazzling picture-postcard views.;

ancestry

Estimates of hybrid frequency are conservative because of the limited number of genetic markers available to characterize genetic _________.; Our closest relatives, the chimpanzee, the bonobo or pygmy chimpanzee, and the gorilla share with us a common _________ of genes and genome organization.; Presumably because of their Jewish _________, the family fled to England in 1939.;

palatable

Every Sunday, a _________ Champagne brunch is offered at the hotel's Garden Cafe.; All these remedies have delightful aromas making them pleasurably _________.; He put the cup to his lips and swallowed a mouthful of surprisingly _________ coffee.;

aisle

Everything takes much longer, as too many people are boarding at any one time and blocking the _________ near the prime seats.; But I can still remember back to when I could dangle my legs out of the shopping cart seat and watch the _________ go by.; She had a stroke last year and moves slowly as the _________ of the train are not wide enough for her walker.;

diabetes

Exercise does not just lower our chances of heart disease, cancer and _________.; The prevalence of _________ in India is likely to go on increasing and to constitute a major health burden.; Members suffer from illnesses such as cancer, heart disease, _________ and asthma.;

unrelenting

Faced with a cruel and _________ system of numbers that mocked him, he invented a new one!; She made you the _________, hard and cold businessman that they called iceman, today.; This is the world Elphie encounters as she moves from a life at Shiz University to one of unforgiving and _________ segregation.;

fanatic

Faced with these _________ acts of terror coming from the midst of society, the idea of multiculturalism has been on the wane in Germany - across the party spectrum.; Something which has started in Chechnya during the first war was already pointing in the direction of _________ fundamentalist, global Islamist resistance.; Edward Johns Urwick was a religious _________ who approached social service as a philosopher.;

discretionary income

Fear of unemployment, falling tourism numbers, the impact on disposable, _________ of stealth taxes have all taken their toll, as has a squeeze on pay in the private sector.; As they enter their retirement years healthier and wealthier than previous generations, Boomers will have more _________ for travel and entertainment.; The more the state spends and taxes the less _________ citizens have in take-home pay (or what remains after deductions for tax and national insurance).;

reparation

Financial _________, she assumes, will be sufficient apology.; We can illustrate this with a country with a trade account that is in balance but an external debt inherited from the past (prior trade deficits, war _________, etc.).; Now Harken is demanding that the Costa Rican government pay upwards of $12 million in _________ for its aborted exploits.;

pharmacy

First aid kits are readily available from Boots and other _________ in a range of sizes.; Green and herbal tea can be found in _________ and other types are prevalent at the local supermarket.; Herbal cigarettes, sold in _________ and health stores, have a very limited market.;

detention

Firstly, if a person is not currently in _________, they can be detained at any time.; Surely measures short of _________ should be tried first and _________ should be regarded as the last resort.; In some areas officials have warned teachers against _________, while in others headteachers have been told to seek parental permission first.;

monotonically

For a lethal recessive allele, mean frequency _________ decreases as population size decreases.; No such phenomena have been reported in larger organisms, and the traditional theories for bacterial motion predict that the swimming speed _________ decreases with viscosity.; Although there was a trend that the time period until reoccupation differs between territory types, the average values did not tend to change _________ with territory quality.;

sensation

For example, moving slowly and steadily while lifting weights helps you pay attention to body _________ and spot pain before you're injured.; Instead, it presents the listener with the _________ that this work is being created anew.; The contrast of salty cheese, sweet honey and nutty toasted bread is a taste _________.;

fiddle

For fitness buffs, summer is the best time to keep fit as a _________.; I'm a freak,' he said, still _________ with something in his hands.; Wearing earplugs, safety glasses, and an improbably spotless white polo shirt, Lee steps between rolls of wire, _________ with machines, then heads to his office to handle a client call.;

celestial

For it is the duty of an astronomer to record _________ motions through careful observation.; things _________ and heavenly'.; There was a second lighter dark patch up there that rivaled the first one and I almost laughed at my odd desperation to see nature's _________ beauty.;

solicit

For months, people who had been _________ via email and word of mouth met in her apartment to decorate individual lotahs and record their stories.; I have put an amendment to call this bill by a title that truly reflects its aim to decriminalise such activities as _________, living off the earnings of prostitution, pimping, and coercion.; Your personal information is eventually sold to marketing companies that then _________ you by phone or mail based on your profile.;

invigilate

For my professional exams, they used to have retired members of the institute _________.; They won't be _________ at the examinations.; The primary method of assessment must be _________ exams and not take-home assignments.;

stringent

For others the answer will be found in _________ regulations covering every aspect of modern society.; Incidentally, you also meet the _________ requirements to be an editorial intern at eye Weekly.; The new guidelines are less _________, requiring less office space to be included in the designs than before.;

elude

For some strange reason, which _________ Adam's understanding, he was enjoying this.; Why did these ideas _________ our great genius Muslim scholars of earlier times?; For the next ten days, sometimes literally slipping through the fingers of the army that pursued him, Cortez _________ his captors.;

city dweller

For the _________, the appeal of roots and folk music sometimes lies in its evocation of "the pastoral", a simpler life, far from the mad-for-it crowd.; It took this _________ a couple of days to adapt and to banish ludicrous notions of sun lotion thieves roaming the beaches.; It's easy for _________ to see the benefits of car sharing.;

sparse

For the earliest inhabitants of Southern France, practising a hunter-gatherer way of life, the natural resources were abundant and more than adequate for a _________ population.; William Shakespeare's life is somewhat of a mystery to scholars due to the fact that most information that is known is very scattered and _________.; A majority of the film is set in a _________ bedroom, where two unidentified strangers exchange abstract dialogue and act out a series of shocking images over a period of four nights.;

suppress

For three years, she had tried to subdue and _________ the aching questions and pleas of her heart and soul.; The authors conclude that adrenal function is commonly _________ immediately following conventional short-term therapy with glucocorticoids.; People who suffer emotional distress can turn to food to _________ their feelings, only exacerbating the problem.;

take advantage of

Foreign investors want to _________ all the benefits above.; It is widely recognised as Britain's finest residential library and Jessica said she is keen to _________ what is on offer.; They want to _________ all benefits that both Korea and US offer their citizens.;

elitist

Forget what the guilty rich _________ are selling you to keep you voting in their corner, and make up your own mind.; Indeed, there are schools in other regions which are openly _________.; The organization has again managed to avoid allowing transparency and accountability into its secret and _________ decision-making.;

eligible

Four or five cardinals who are _________ for the candidacy of pope could openly campaign.; Hugh Grant is currently linked to Jemima Khan, who tops the list of the most _________ females.; It is a facility where they keep the detainees who've been designated as _________ for trial.;

wreck

Geranium, a French warship sent from Cherbourg, was alerting other ships to the _________ while a single buoy marked the spot.; They are giving me the chance to do what no other marine archaeologist has done - investigate a 17th-century warship _________ at great depth.; Michigan's no-fault insurance law provides unlimited lifetime coverage for medical expenses tied to auto _________.;

essentially

Going with friends is pointless because _________ casino gambling is not a team sport.; To say that God is timeless is _________ to say that God is located outside time.; I took the view that the second and third questions were _________ questions of law.;

amid

Golf at its most challenging will be at the forefront of a new course growing tall _________ wooded splendour.; The cabins stand in their own picket-fenced patch of grass _________ beautiful countryside.; Snow usually falls _________ high winds, meaning that skiing is impossible while it is actually snowing.;

parasite

Good places for reliable encounters are where small fish act as barbers to their hosts, cleaning away _________ from their skin.; Some water molds are _________ on other organisms; they may grow on the scales or eggs of fish, or on amphibians.; An implicit requirement is that _________ and their hosts match up to some degree.;

punctual

Good, you are very _________.'; He used be _________ for the rehearsals and I had to think a hundred times before telling him anything,' said Farah.; Hungarians have learnt to be more _________ and correct in our relations, being more influenced by the west,' she said.;

reproach

Gordon Willis's cinematography is beyond _________, captured in shades of burnt sienna and golden, autumnal hues, complemented by Dean Tavoularis's achingly beautiful production design.; He _________ his wife with her inattention, her habitual neglect of the children.; Whenever someone _________ me with not having used an ordinary court for their sentencing, I can only say: In this hour I am responsible for the fate of the German nation and hence the supreme law lord of the German people.;

eraser

Greene provides a clear, lengthy preface describing how to prepare ten strings of the grand piano with rubber _________ and wood screws.; Pencils, _________, small plastic figurines, and other nonedible items make good trick-or-treat prizes.; Remove the paper from the _________; the ink will have transferred to the rubber _________.;

settlement

Have you ever suffered from flooding, subsidence, _________ or landslip?; Invoice discounting or offering discounts for early _________ could ensure that book debts are quickly collected.; These _________ are _________ of property made in the course of marriage, and they deal with the interests of the children of the marriage.;

overhaul

He _________ team-mate Andy Burt, but always had too much to do to catch Hilton.; With our young players we would have a great base to build on and could _________ our rivals.; During this time, Navy infrastructure was _________, two-ocean basing was commenced and service conditions were improved.;

intervene

He had been going to make the trip, but circumstances _________.; Sadly, tragedy _________ in the form of the bitterly jealous Richard, whose fateful confrontation with Frank triggers a devastating string of events that forever changes the lives of all involved.; This is the point where the programme _________.;

stance

He is credited with inventing the southpaw _________ in boxing.; She took a solid _________, right hand hovering over the hilt as if ready to draw.; A single pitch route is one which is climbed without intermediate _________.;

sturdy

He looked about in boredom, gaze falling up to the helm, where he found the _________ figure of his father's first mate stood.; The boat had to be _________ enough to withstand 40 days and nights of rain.; She has a glossy blonde bob, a dazzling-white smile, a well-honed but _________ figure, and so much energy that you could probably plug her into the National Grid if there was a power cut.;

portrait

He made his reputation as a painter of small-scale _________ and genre scenes of contemporary city life.; It is possible that this _________ of a fascinating metropolis deserves all the showered praise.; However, you can also twist the screen, close the clamshell and use it in _________ orientation like a PDA.;

enduring

He must be permitted to grow up in an atmosphere that facilitates a positive, _________ bond with each parent.; The _________ legacy of Einstein will continue to inspire generations of great thinkers.; The cornerstone of all successful and _________ relationships is two people with similar values and compatible goals.;

lucrative

He now uses his luck to run a casino, a venture that has proven very _________.; In their short period of operation, the Detroit casinos have proved extremely _________.; The company claims it has received a _________ offer from the South Australian government.;

rear

He recalled how York had picked off the soldiers to the _________, so that the lead soldiers didn't recognise the severity of the threat their enemy posed.; Beyond the yawning valley _________ a jagged skyline dominated by the massive peaks of Tirich Mir and Buni Zom.; What made you decide to move from the front part of the building to the _________?;

valour

He then fought in World War I and earned many awards for his _________ and bravery.; You displayed uncommon courage and _________.; We are at the time of year when we commemorate the great _________ shown in the Battle of Britain.;

prohibitive

He wished to provide golf and other sporting facilities which families could use and enjoy without the cost being _________.; For the many this is justifiable: gross violations of human rights make ethical demands upon us which cannot be overridden by _________ law.; I try to do some exercises for my back before the temperature becomes too _________.;

logistical

He would appear to have produced a perfect arsenal of _________ matter.; It will be a big _________ problem for the army, but they've planned for it.; The city faces all sorts of _________ issues and no doubt commuter carnage while the mayor attempts to fix the transport system.;

submerge

Her claim for damages was still under consideration by City Hall when yesterday morning's flood waters _________ her home.; In the multipolar world that has ensued from the end of the Cold War, _________ tensions between the US and Europe have come out into the open.; Crews in Central Texas pulled this woman to safety after fast-moving waters swept and _________ her car.;

discern

Her eyes barely _________ the shape of the hollow log across the river.; I could barely _________ the huddled shape of my parents standing in their doorway.; Such an analysis entails establishing whether a judgemental stance can be _________ in the items being coded and what the nature of the judgements is.;

ventilation

Here two men are shown recuperating in the stoke hold under the _________ shaft.; More often, however, it is inadequate attic _________.; If anything, modern methods and improved _________ should reduce the risk to asthmatics.;

forage

Here, officials of the government-run Forest Department reportedly did not allow them to _________ for food in the forests.; White-headed Woodpeckers _________ for insects on trunks and limbs as well as in clusters of needles.; So, he came to live in that place, and none knew how he lived or gained his sustenance, other than from his _________ the countryside for bottles and other redeemable scrap.;

caste

Hindus of many _________ and sects and from many parts of India have migrated, taking with them traditions that were familiar to them back home.; Everybody attaches themselves to a group, a tribe, a _________.; This _________ system consists of three major parts within a colony.;

lucid

His account contains a very _________ explanation of the issues, and continues with his eyewitness account of the proceedings.; Thanks for the most rational and _________ exposition on the subject of contemporary feminism I have read.; We have heard from several people that close relatives with Alzheimer's disease became amazingly _________ for short periods of time after receiving narcotic pain relievers.;

dysfunctional

His distaste for computers runs deeper than the everyday annoyance of _________ parts.; These modulate the neuronal circuits that are thought to be _________ in such disorders.; I know what's right and wrong and if I did something wrong I would not say that it's because I had a _________ family.;

pillar

His first miracle involves covering Manchester City's Maine Rd stadium with a _________ of light.; After the move from the company, he was a _________ of support following the death of Wyclef's father two years ago, and a strong influence on the vocal aspect of his music.; We know how frustrating it can be for business people to be passed from _________ to post when seeking information or support.;

relentless

His muscular approach to the game and his _________ running made a constant threat to Mayo.; I continued my _________ walk through the streets, knife barred into my deep clutches.; He was _________, some said ruthless, and it made him one of the toughest prosecutors in the state.;

mediocre

His system turns _________ players into good ones and good players into great ones.; So I guess the conclusion is that this is a _________, eminently forgettable album.; In spite of the huge efforts of the committee prior to the meeting attendance was _________.;

mandate

His task in the next two hours, as _________ by the US State Department, is to summarise baseball for the foreign press.; In carrying out its _________, the Commission receives, analyses, and investigates individual petitions alleging violations of human rights.; The commission will be obliged to refer to any other agencies where a case or a situation is presented to it that is not the direct _________ of the commission.;

crude

However, any financial forecasts may be based on very _________ assumptions about the likely volume of sales, the selling price, distribution costs, and the cost of producing the item.; With most artists of his stature, this would more than likely involve a clumsy catharsis resulting in a _________ ego trip.; This financial analysis is basic, almost _________.;

ternary

However, phase diagrams of binary or _________ mixtures are much simpler and often provide information that permits their use as simple models for understanding the behavior of much more complex mixtures.; According to the invention, each address is expressed as a multiplace number in a _________ (base 3) system instead of the usual binary (base 2) numbering system.; These _________ plots suggest that the three suspect samples (plotted red, yellow and green) are in fact from the same source, and unique, when compared with many samples from other sources (plotted blue);

complex

However, the wider international situation is increasingly _________.; The plant's shoots receive nourishment from a _________ network of connections to the roots.; In Streedagh's sandhills, there lies a vast and _________ network of rabbit burrows.;

comprehensive

However, this was a very _________ victory, a complete team performance.; Their collaborative research is quite _________ in its scope.; Sir Gawaine's British West Indies collection is part of a wider _________ collection of stamps from Great Britain and the British Empire.;

pictorial

However, to pursue such an essentially _________ question, illustrations and text need to be integrated.; The painting is one of the few _________ representations of one of the greatest figures in Scots history.; Twelve illustrations, taken from _________ representations in the Tracts, help establish the flavour of the period.;

counterfeit

Huge machines process hundreds of thousands of bills and coins, counting up the take and looking for _________.; First, McConnell openly criticised the Chancellor's decision to force whisky producers to introduce security seals as protection against _________ and smuggling.; And, short of reproducing the process, but with a new name on the credits page, it would be very hard to _________ this.;

practicality

I am talking more in terms of the _________ of this and similar situations.; These pluralistic relations must be based on _________ rather than sentiments.; And if _________ is your wont rather than sentimentality, you should still go.;

ignorant

I attended university as a mature student and was shocked at how _________ and uneducated our student population actually is.; The chapter reads as if Dembski were completely unaware or _________ of Popper's statements in this regard.; I am not _________ and uneducated however, and I stood by my opinions.;

despise

I could tell them why they could hate and _________ others, but that is not leadership.; conventional' way, and _________ consumerism and materialism, I often feel very much on the outside of everything.; It is possible to fault the ruling class without _________ the entire people.;

hedge

I prefer to own these bonds in equal parts to _________ against a loss in the value of the U.S. dollar.; Some clan chiefs _________ their bets and sent sons off to fight on opposing sides.; But hiring has been so slow and most economists have been so wrong on this issue that some are now _________ their bets.;

erroneous

I read line after line of _________ reporting, with the sole intention of discrediting a political candidate.; Our standards of accuracy are so low that often _________ forecasts are applauded as if they were precise.; We say that that contention is in fact _________ because it asks the wrong question.;

ubiquitous

I take supplements to try and offset or negate the effects of the _________ poisons in our food and environment.; It almost seems superfluous to name-check the _________ brands in the Kellogg's stable.; All the soldiers are heavily armed, most with the _________ Kalashnikov.;

surpass

I thought last week's performance by Cris was the worst I'd ever seen by a professional footballer, but he's _________ himself tonight.; In his secular life, which included working in sales and store management, he _________ himself, but always found that the work lacked spiritual fulfillment.; The great religions, by inviting human beings constantly to _________ themselves, are part of what makes the human project possible.;

indifference

I tried so hard to keep a straight face but I just couldn't I went from anger to frustration to fear to _________.; She yawned broadly, then, mustering up an utter lack of _________, pointed straight ahead.; The difference between the sexes is no accident or matter of _________.;

scramble

I used to take the double-decker bus into town to shop for my mother, and Porrock used to go with me, _________ up the steep stairs to the top deck.; Most hospitals are _________ like crazy to try to fill vacant positions.; Speedway racing is not the only interest of the new club - members will go to _________ and TT races.;

bask

I was _________ in the warm glow of appreciation when I realised my thumb was starting to throb.; Finally, butterflies like some flat stones for _________ or sunbathing to gather warmth for powering their wings.; Lions and panthers sauntered in their enclosures in search of a cool shade while elephants _________ for most part of the day in little ponds.;

rehabilitate

I would vote against any reinstatement of the death penalty without a second's hesitation and support plans to _________ criminals.; A large projecting vitrine frames a view back over the winery and the three existing buildings, now _________.; Correct diagnosis is paramount to ensure that proper treatment is started so that athletes may be optimally _________ and returned to sport in a timely fashion.;

quadratic

If f = 0, then the quartic in y is actually a _________ equation in the variable y 2.; Find the 2 roots and a continued fraction for a root of these _________ equations.; He was able to use his methods to prove many results in the theory of _________ forms and number theory.;

vacuous

If only the museum had been given a fraction of the budget wasted on silly stunts and _________ indulgences of the Capital of Culture bid, its future would be assured.; I have been repelled by attempts to portray him as a _________ man with an artificial smile and no convictions.; So is there any genuinely interesting news in all this _________ Hollywood house-hunting nonsense?;

precarious

If that is where you are this morning, your position is very _________.; But now they have gone out on such _________ limbs their positions are clearly untenable.; Are you ready to catch yourself, to tumble safely out of a _________ position?;

hub

If we do, there is the danger that the _________ nuts will come off and then the wheels drop off.; Today, the area around the vast pond is the _________ of commercial activity in the city.; Circular Quay is the transportation _________ of Sydney Harbour.;

innovate

If you want to compete, you have to _________ and adapt.; Though books never really went out of circulation, the stores in the past couple of years have _________ a new marketing strategy to invite and sustain the readers.; And it means the governor must _________ at every turn.;

frantically

In a _________ paced production, The Fair Maid of the West makes a madcap dash through Heywood's plays.; The ending, which seems to go on forever, as you _________ turn page after page, is totally dramatic with secret agents popping out of every closet.; He runs through the jungle trying _________ to lose the savage hunters as they sing their terrifying pig-hunting song.;

cylinder

In a diesel engine a fuel air mixture is injected into a _________ where it is compressed by a piston.; The shinai is approximately four feet in length and is made of four carefully formed bamboo slats bound together to form hollow _________.; There was also a compressor and Angus was shown how to pressurise the air _________ while Hopkirk and friends were out on the loch with the launch.;

monogamous

In a legal sense, most 20th-century marriages involved _________, heterosexual relationships.; Although historically polygamy was practiced, the marriage system is now _________.; The tribal family lives as a nuclear unit and is usually _________ (only one husband and one wife).;

ecosystem

In an economy, government laws and government programs are part of the _________.; And Apple would have to compete more on features and price than the exclusive access its devices have to its online retail _________.; Perhaps the most important thing for any smartphone is the _________ that grows up around it.;

asymptote

In book two Apollonius investigates how hyperbolas are related to their _________, and he also studies how to draw tangents to given conics.; She was up in her attic one afternoon, trying to concentrate on where to place her _________ on her hyperbola, but her mind traveled elsewhere.; Like the _________, you are always approaching your goal, but you never achieve it.;

corridor

In school _________ and front rooms up and down the country tears of joy and despair were shed this morning.; The building itself, however, was a solid concrete structure of staircases, landings and _________ with many rooms leading off them.; The old building's narrow _________, stairs and lifts were intended to be similar to those of ships.;

scholar

In short, this book will be required reading for _________ of eastern railroads and few others, but may be read for pleasure and no little gain by other transport historians.; This is a beautifully written book by a _________ of exceptional sensitivity.; The shifts and changes in sciences were initiated primarily by the women scientists and by the feminist _________ writing about science, like Keller.;

craze

In this case chemical agents penetrate the plastic, causing swelling, softening, charring, _________, delamination, blistering, embrittlement, discoloration, dissolving, and ultimate failure.; Instead, huge stages were erected in public places to cater to the local _________ for music, particularly dangdut, a local musical genre mixing Arabic and Indian influences.; Towards Christmas, expect to see knits which have taken the fashion _________ for extravagance the whole way - and why not?;

plasticity

In this case, phenotypic _________ and not genetic uniqueness confer disparate leaf morphology.; The degree of F-actin _________ has remained one of the main unknowns of cell migration mechanics.; Morphological _________ is common in clonal plants, particularly in spacers, those parts of clonal plants that interconnect ramets.;

catalyze

In this section he illustrates the complex ways in which these very different kinds of riots combined to _________ the growth of anti-slavery sentiment in the North.; The centerpiece of this presentation is a particular instance of the interaction of tradition and innovation _________ by culture, drawn from my life and research among Anglicans and other Christians in Zimbabwe.; Once each clump grew to about 500 metal atoms, the platinum _________ its own growth and formed large, branching sheets that spread over the surface of the liposomes.;

impurity

In vv 24 and 26a Paul asserts a surfeit of desire and passion by the people he is denouncing, which he characterizes as _________ and dishonor.; This was a potent and often deadly drink that contained numerous _________ and poisons - sometimes quite literally sending people mad.; Recent research has discovered that a semiconductor can be made magnetic by doping it with an _________ such as Mn.;

spectrum

Indeed the IR _________ of the polymer before extrusion and after balloon manufacturing is the same.; But differences in _________ led some to suspect that single bubble sonoluminescence was a distinct process from the multibubble variety.; I think it is bad for Chardonnay and it is bad for the wine industry to use that term to describe a part of the political _________.;

statute

Indeed, it seems certain that the major Catholic institutions are not going to change their by-laws or _________ to accommodate the requirements for the mandate.; There may be the rare exception, such as a working sheep dog, which could fall within the _________, but the exception only proves the rule.; Alexander, disliking harsh measures, in 1863 approved a new set of university _________.;

bypass

Indeed, they may be the developer themselves when it comes to Waste management, sewage treatment and other infrastructural projects such as outer city ring roads and _________.; Facing determined resistance there, the attackers _________ the town and advanced on Arracourt.; The new road will leave the end of the M67 at Hattersley and _________ the four villages to the north before joining the A628 three and a half miles away above Valehouse reservoir.;

requisite

Inevitably, he's been given the less interesting of the two roles and does his best with it, hitting the _________ notes of sarcasm, brutality and integrity.; Most techno performers find the _________ of rock band culture inappropriate to their needs.; The appraisal shows sufficient equity to bring payments current, escrow several months into the future and handle taxes and insurance as well as all the substantial _________ fees for the lender.;

distinct

Influenced by scare stories about an imminent invasion, over-reaction is a _________ possibility.; Is this not part of what makes them culturally _________?; But that is not what makes his work _________ from that of his peers.;

flute

Inside, waiters were seen serving guests with _________ of champagne, while deliveries of sushi and presents were taken through the main entrance.; Amid the hairspray bottles and eye-shadow palettes littering the tables lay overturned plastic champagne _________.; Some merchants have cassettes and CDs for sale, and more than a few offer handcrafted instruments, usually _________ made from wood or clay, but also more elaborate stringed instruments.;

nevertheless

Investors already exposed should _________ hold on to see what transpires.; Inexperienced as an actor, she _________ took on the challenge, making the role her own.; I'll be there, _________, but it would be informative to know what to expect coming in.;

pedestrian

Ironic that a comic with such revolutionary ideas should have such _________ objectives.; This reduces visibility for motorists and _________ and is very dangerous.; It's often imaginative, but the choppy and _________ delivery strongly stunts the acidic flavour.;

armour

Israeli infantry and _________ rolled away from the town of Beit Hanoun and the nearby Jabaliya refugee camp shortly after daybreak, witnesses said.; Most dinoflagellates are encased in plates of _________.; The shell is considered the most highly developed protective _________ of any vertebrate species.;

supplement

It also banned the use of dead or disabled cows to make dietary _________, cosmetics, soups or other foods that contain traces of meat.; They also want the clock stopped for welfare recipients who are in job-training programs or are working but still receiving income _________.; One of the main problems people face when travelling on their own is that they usually get charged a single _________ or sole occupancy rate.;

inhibit

It does _________ the rusting process, at least for six months or so.; The federal government stepped in with safety requirements that essentially eliminated the daredevil antics, but didn't _________ the growth of passenger airlines.; It merely _________ him and irritates his dangerous psychological condition.;

redress

It does not agree with the Government that pecuniary compensation would not provide _________.; On the face of it, giving any person the right to appeal a planning decision is merely _________ the balance.; It also provided civil remedies to petitioners seeking _________ which was unavailable at common law.;

reportedly

It has _________ agreed to the merger of the two plans, and increased the size of its Phnom Penh office, so the process can be overseen in Cambodia.; The hedge was _________ longer than the Great Wall of China!; The reason for transferring centrifuge designs to Iran _________ between 1987 and 1991 was probably money.;

alienate

It includes changing the climate of an institution from one that is hostile and _________ for members of particular groups to one that is sensitive and welcoming.; Dr. Chapin never attempted in any way to _________ my affections from father.; Ariyarathne attempts to demonstrate that the missionary education _________ children from their parents and other family members.;

testimony

It is _________ to how persistent efforts of residents could lead to visible and desirable changes in the neighbourhood.; Those who eventually become baptized are required to give a public _________.; Reference to Hebrew terms could have been used to illustrate the beauty and poetic style of the original spoken _________.;

oboe

It is a charming piece, and performers and concert-planners should note that it is helpfully and economically scored for an orchestra consisting of just two _________, two bassoons and strings.; A 1900 train journey inspired Train Music, and Grainger envisioned it for a huge orchestra of 150 players, including 8 _________ and 6 bassoons.; Our instruments - _________ d' amore and harpsichord, were made for each other.;

harness

It is designed to _________ the energy contained in ocean waves to produce electricity.; And once again it was Reape who came good, this time bowling in _________ with Mark Beckett.; They were boosted by the return from injury of Nigerian international Jay Jay Okocha, who was back in _________ after a four-match lay-off with a hamstring problem.;

tablet

It is important to ask about over the counter medicines such as cold _________ and sleep aids, which patients and families may forget to mention.; If you are taking the extended-release _________ form of this medicine, swallow the _________ whole.; Our signs carved in stone, inscribed on clay _________, painted on walls, papyrus or on pieces of leather, could be transported to different places and people.;

threefold

It is in relation to the _________ parental authorities that we can best understand Min's metamorphosis from a child-adult to a confused adolescent and then, unfortunately, to an unthinking adult-child.; Over the course of the twentieth century human population has increased more than _________ and gross world product perhaps twentyfold.; The value of shares traded between investors, the so-called secondary market, rose _________ last year, to $2.5 billion.;

customary

It isn't _________ to clap in between movements.; He was a conscientious and considerate member of the staff of Eircom, who could always be relied upon to meet the public with his _________ good humour as he went about his daily duties.; The reality is that there is a huge bevy of precedent and law based on _________ rights.;

swoon

It makes me seem like some weak maiden who _________ at the sight of every attractive guy she sees.; Never without his denim jacket, loose white shirt, and dark, black Levis, all the girls _________ at the sight of his puppy-dog-brown eyes and combed back brown hair.; I had hoped that my roommate would not have been one of those girls who _________ at the sight of those two ignoramuses.;

gadget

It seems that robots are being received as _________, rather than as machines that could transform the way we live our lives.; Now people have matching furniture, and kitchen _________, and pictures on the walls.; The mechanical _________ is operated by a spring which has to be cranked using a key.;

albeit

It seems to have washed its face and opened its doors to the outside world - _________ with caution.; It's a concept album in that it tells a story - _________ with a rather lame twist at the end.; It was a clean-cut, agreeable dish _________ a touch bland for more adventurous palates.;

predestine

It steers her vessel down the river, as if on a _________ course.; Events take on a _________ feel after they have happened; we only remember the hunches that turned out right.; He _________ us to be adopted as His sons through Jesus Christ, in accordance with His pleasure and will.';

demonize

It's very easy, of course, to _________ the other side.; In every war, both sides _________ their enemy to depersonalise them and make it easier for their soldiers to pull the trigger.; Wartime propaganda commonly has the same effect, _________ the other side, even when both sides expect the war to end with a negotiated peace.;

paparazzi

It's well-known among the _________ that celebrities do not like to be photographed eating.; Some of the _________ were screaming for Jack and some were screaming for Cher, and all the flashbulbs were going off.; Meanwhile, Brad has reportedly hired four body doubles to try and shake off the _________ in the US..;

duct

Its air conditioning system - window walls with glazed ventilation _________ rising from the floor - was noted as particularly progressive by contemporary architectural magazines.; At times there was fuzzy growth on grates of air-conditioning _________ and exhaust tubes from cooktops and laundry dryers.; Allergies to foods can trigger spasms of the gall bladder _________, so you should visit a practitioner who can diagnose any allergies you may have and adjust your diet accordingly.;

gauge

Its new electric utility vehicle features a fuel _________ that displays the current level of battery power.; The colonies built their lines with different _________.; Not in recent memory has it been so difficult to _________ the prospects for going public, but a veteran entrepreneur helps clear things up.;

enumerate

Its offences are so grievous, so numerous, they require nothing less than this list to _________ them.; For their part, the miners _________ the number of jobs the industry provides.; Far more revealing are lists that _________ every expedition, give the names of their commanders and the ships involved, and sometimes provide additional useful information.;

vintage

Just to give you some idea of the expense he didn't spare, he cleared out all his belongings when he left, but overlooked a couple of bottles of wine. One was Dom Perignon 1996, one of the best recent champagne _________.; Lynn Wyatt reached into her attic closet, rich with magnificent gowns, and selected a _________ haute couture Nina Ricci.; But the inherent richness of the question is somewhat like _________ wine, and is appreciated only by a few.;

laminate

Large amounts of materials can be _________ together in a short amount of time.; Thirty inches from the polycarbonate assembly runs a parallel layer of white _________ double glazing.; Next, the backing paper of the ink-laden _________ is removed, leaving only a thin layer of adhesive and the inks.;

coastline

Large ponds are dug along _________, and any mangrove forests or wetlands in the way are destroyed.; Its thick, gummy oil has blackened hundreds of miles of _________ in Spain.; Yorkshire pride is at stake in a new competition to find the nation's favourite stretch of _________.;

venture

Last Wednesday, wearing several layers of Factor 60 and a large hat, I _________ out, keeping to the shade whenever I could.; Your bold nature will make you undertake risky _________.; She walked through the door on the opening night of his first solo _________ back in 1978.;

deterrent

Last year this figure rose to 374 as the _________ effect of penalty points wore off.; He insisted on the development of a force de frappe, a nuclear _________, which at the time was considered a quintessential underpinning of superpower status.; Carver often spoke out in the House of Lords - as a critic of NATO's nuclear policy, and calling for the retention of British nuclear _________ as superfluous.;

decay

Layers of moss and _________ give a funereal quality to this weighty hall.; The fluorescence in this pattern _________ much slower and is still present 1800 ms after bolus delivery.; One result of increased durability is that obsolescence rather than _________ will be the major reason old structures and old products are torn down and thrown away.;

spectacular

Level 4 is for special exhibitions, and for the launch it holds an anthology of contemporary art _________.; A climb to the summit of Mount Sinai or Moses Mountain will provide _________ scenes of the sunrise over Sinai.; The camera will also give us _________ pictures of both the race and huge crowds.;

condense

Major League Baseball has joined with an internet service to record, digitize and _________ a typical three hour game to 30 minutes.; This creates enough pressure to force the ammonia vapour into another vessel, where it _________ into a liquid.; As the air rises it cools and the moisture contained within it _________ into clouds and eventually it rains.;

rescind

Many a time a State refuses to honour a tribunal award or it _________ its agreement.; Under no circumstances was the order to be _________ or countermanded.; The seven have also filed a suit with the district court calling on immigration authorities to _________ the deportation order.;

accrue

Many applaud the new phosphorus standards as a best management practice that will _________ environmental benefits.; This article exempts dividends received or _________ to any taxpayer from income tax liability.; Based on an erroneous suggestion that ADF members are somehow _________ an unfair benefit, the department has opted to actively discourage them from seeking civilian jobs in Defence altogether.;

curriculum

Many children continue to study their own _________ by attending evening classes.; Statements taken from standard biology _________ appear to have been mixed in.; The education sector will provide _________ materials linked to library artifacts and museum exhibits.;

prevailing

Many of the major advances in the pulmonary circulation were led by mavericks, such as Forssman, Moser, and Petty, who pursued their passion against _________ opinion.; An order to sell your shares at the _________ market price.; Mr McCarthy also attributed the increased demand to current economic situation _________ in Zimbabwe.;

distill

Mark Trail' beautifully _________ Silent Springs main ideas into a powerful graphic format.; Deionized, _________, and filtered water was used in the clean room.; He also invented a home-brewed replacement for that sooty kerosene - ethanol alcohol _________ from sweet sorghum using solar energy.;

scheme

Mary, a 21-year-old mother of four living in one of Glasgow's most deprived housing _________, is one of Starting Well's early success stories.; characters' on the show were so entertaining - especially those that plotted and _________ against the others.; Initially she was tempted to drift off into fantasies, or use the time to plot or _________ but she knew this was wrong.;

stem

Mature specimens develop a thick trunk and _________ with leaves and flowers at the top of the plant, often too high for the gardener to enjoy.; It also suggests that they would be willing to put their money where their mouths are when it comes to _________ the flow of pollution from the 150 million plastic carrier bags used in the United Kingdom each week.; Using acrylic paint and glass medium, paint a pattern along the _________ and base of the glass and let it dry well before using.;

barometer

Measures that served as _________ of how voters view gay rights and gay relationships were on the ballots in four states, and the results were a decidedly mixed bag.; Their weather station houses _________, thermometers, a wind vane, and a rain gauge.; Black argues that worms should be used, along with predators such as the northern spotted owl, as _________ of forest health.;

surmount

Moreover, a syndicate bank will find it difficult to _________ the usual exclusion clauses and disclaimers inserted in the documentation.; The whole composition is _________ by the crown of the Holy Roman Empire.; In the centre is the shield of Piedmont Savoy _________ by the closed crown of the King.;

repetitious

Moreover, he had to worry about all manner of dull work: petitions were read, proclamations heard, and patents and all manner of wordy, _________ and wearisome papers had to be attended to.; They're a bit of recognition for excelling at jobs that, Wasserstein admits, are often boring and _________.; As a result of his determination to include just about everyone and everything that was connected with the Great Fire, Tinniswood's narrative sometimes comes across as slightly disheveled and _________.;

cosmetic

Most of the damage is _________ rather than structural, but many hotels may not reopen until the end of the year when the busy Christmas season starts.; Are there people with underlying medical conditions that should not have this type of _________ surgery?; Clinical evaluations were performed by two investigators scoring properties with regard to response rate, _________ outcome and adverse effects.;

bankrolled

Mr Smith said the department's own funds, which have _________ major improvements in the naval service, had been well tapped and it was now time to explore new ways of funding.; The party's national organisation, which _________ the campaign, could also face financial crisis.; For years they have enjoyed lives of luxury _________ by the illicit gains of their wealthy criminal husbands.;

trumpeter

My dad had been a _________, too, but became a pianist because it was easier to make a living that way.; The Trooper, only the second man to be given the VC, risked his life to save a _________ and the second-in-command of his regiment, the Queen's Royal Hussars.; The _________ normal centre of abundance is about and south of Cook Strait, although winter stragglers may reach Doubtless Bay.;

bearing

My machine would need new _________, a new controller board and several other components if it was to be brought back to life.; He swam, trying to maintain his position and get his _________ inside the hold, until something pressed against him and he felt himself sinking deeper.; Money shouldn't be top of your list of qualities but it can have a _________.;

olfactory

My walk to work was no longer an all-out assault on my _________ senses.; She'd honed her _________ senses to the point where she could visualize an event based on nothing more than what was in the air.; He knew all the ingredients that contributed to the strangling of his _________ senses.;

regardless

NHS services will be provided, _________ of age, on the basis of clinical need alone.; Or do you just keep going _________ when it's just a general cold virus no matter how severe?; When you are a parent you have a responsibility to your child, _________ of their age.;

vitamin

Not so long ago, most people would not have had an ideal regular intake of _________ C, a _________ the human body cannot synthesize.; This is due to a lack of thiamine, a _________ that is essential for the mechanisms by which energy is released from foodstuffs.; The decline is not consistent with all nutrients and _________, but it is clear that our food is not what it once was.;

econometric

Not surprisingly, most _________ models disregard financial sector borrowings.; Its aim is to provide an overview of _________ topics and to give an intuitive interpretation of _________ concepts and methods without the usual clutter of technical detail.; Take, for example, the residuals on a typical _________ model of fixed investment.;

collate

Now Edna, with the help of local councillor Bernard Selby, plans to _________ records, press cuttings and artefacts detailing his wartime actions.; Police will then _________ the information and identify trouble areas or individuals and target them accordingly.; So these problems are local, and they are really difficult to _________, to compare what is going on in each area, because there is 100 different units throughout the Met.;

mitigate

Now it hardly needs adding that _________ circumstances exist for the dearth of success on the ski slopes.; We should welcome an opportunity to _________ the misery of a lingering death of a person who longs to die.; It follows that vulnerability to occasional, but severe, financial crises could be _________ if countries were to abolish their own currencies.;

peculiar

Now, I'm not sure if all people do this, or whether it's something _________ to my family.; Feeling a little _________ from the encounter, Carly shuddered and led the way back inside, Chelsea and Ivy bringing up the rear.; This is true, but these values are not _________ to Britain, and it is hard to see why we have to become patriots in order to invoke them.;

in due course

Numerous other events are being planned and these will be published _________.; The engineers said they would consider this and will come back with a response _________.; I shall hear counsel on the appropriate form of order to be made _________.;

bolster

Numerous products claim to _________ strength or endurance in sports.; The décor features Thai motifs and fabrics, and there's a nook with colourful _________ and a sea view.; Colorful handles and titanium _________ are also present on the best - selling lines.;

proponent

Of course slavery and its _________ represent utter evil in the novel.; Firstly, the foundations on which it rests are not as secure as some of its _________ would have us believe.; Its _________ claim it's a difficult but liberating discipline, which can take years to learn.;

conjecture

Of course, if that had been the case I would _________ the set would grow from two discs to about 48.; Maybe there just is no mathematical proof whatsoever which decides the _________.; From this, we _________ global stability in certain cases.;

padding

On the other hand, Miller's concise strategy is preferable to the approach of _________ out the running length.; This full-length version, which is more than twice the initially conceived length, includes too much obvious _________.; Before sitting on the thin saddle, he tucked the coat in beneath his bum, partly for extra _________ and partly to prevent the dangling fabric from catching in the spokes or chain.;

oppress

On the way, London's ancient, massive buildings, black statues and dirt surround me, _________ and burden me.; So we're going to fight for you against the people who are _________ you.; I've gotten over being _________ by it though and will carry on.;

notorious

Once considered painfully shy, he is now _________ for being surly and unwilling to suffer fools.; Bills of rights are _________ for being the last ground of the desperate in litigation.; Bethell has become _________ for his high-profile campaign to normalise nudity.;

catalyzed

Once each clump grew to about 500 metal atoms, the platinum _________ its own growth and formed large, branching sheets that spread over the surface of the liposomes.; The incident, which occurred about nine years ago, _________ me to begin teaching a series in 1997.; The development of new techniques and procedures have _________ the growth of this field by expanding the abilities of researchers to study life at the molecular level.;

crucial

Once he understands that _________ difference, he should get off to a good start.; I make no apologies for this because it is absolutely _________ to the future economic success of the nation.; Improved road links are _________ to developments in Pembroke Dock and the Angle peninsula.;

cede

One challenge is that the courts are being asked to _________ some power.; Whether power is _________ formally or not, an elected body will quite properly carry the moral authority to insist on its opinions being listened to.; American mainstream politics and press coverage has _________ the terrain of conviction to the right wing.;

odor

One concern that many people have is what to use to eliminate _________ on furniture.; Well, the only real explanation is that Britain is in very bad _________ with the Greeks because of the Elgin Marbles.; They have a characteristic musty _________ that is detectable when large numbers are present or when the bugs are crushed.;

entail

One form of old settlement was regarded by the Law Commission as inappropriate in modern law and cannot now be created in any form: that settlement is the _________.; Yet a rejection of the present does not necessarily _________ a desired return to a more stable - that is, colonial - moment in Ireland's past.; The evolution of swordfighting martial arts hero into gun-toting gangster must necessarily _________ a new concept in production design.;

apocalyptic

Our analysis of the larger culture was characterized by the kind of _________ imagery made popular by the nineteenth-century evangelist Dwight L. Moody.; Nor is he given to _________ prophecies.; I love the way that, in the _________ destruction of Genesis, Nimoy sidesteps the action for the briefest second to show us the beauty of the last sunset on the dying world.;

holistic

Our local strategy is based on a _________ view of health care that integrates primary, intermediate, and secondary care.; Moreover, _________ method has proved useful in the hard sciences, for example in the geological theory of plate tectonics.; They offer a _________ approach to cancer care, which helps the whole family, not just the sufferer.;

acreage

Our mentor in organic farming has a large small grain _________, with some of the fields having small rocks.; Tennessee had the largest total _________ of farm land and crop land, and North Carolina had the least.; The cooperative has grown and thrives despite diminishing farm _________ across the country.;

dispensable

Our very success has made us seem _________.; There is always something happening in the European style village... festivals, wine-tasting, shops that sell more than _________ souvenirs, and entertainment.; In short, he has become politically _________.;

lofty

Over the years he admits he has at times strayed from that _________ ideal.; Barely anyone valued the river, preferring instead to live at _________ heights that kissed the clouds, so I had been able to rent a small apartment overlooking the Effenlie.; The great hall at Union Station is _________ and magnificent - simply walking through it lifts the spirits.;

suite

Over the years, IBM Lotus has developed a broad _________ of collaborative applications designed to run as part of its core groupware platform.; There are satellite dishes, _________ of furniture for sale on the pavements, brightly lit shops selling everything.; And a _________ of modern dances was performed by Santa Clara University students.;

convene

Over the years, the group has exerted influence on Bulgarian authorities by _________ regular meetings with key government figures, and by providing state institutions with its analyses and proposals.; It's also the venue for computer classes as well as meetings _________ by local sports clubs and political parties.; An informal board meeting was _________ in the aftermath and when no resolution could be reached, a formal meeting was held yesterday morning.;

concuss

Overall, the findings of this study suggest a delay of cognitive recovery beyond the 1st day following injury in mildly _________ high school athletes.; Doctors have said that you are much more likely to be _________ if you have had a concussion or neck trauma in the past.; He was severely _________ and drifting in and out of consciousness.;

fluctuate

Oxygen levels have _________ since the air became oxygen rich, but not by much.; The amount of soap required by MCC _________ with the demand.; Moods and emotions are varied and _________ as you deal with adversaries and rally around friends.;

youngster

Parents are now faced with a tough decision on the school to which their _________ will move.; He believes it will increase the number of _________ who choose to stay on at school or go to college.; The football strips have been very well received by the _________ at the school.;

cuisine

People flowed to their seats with decorum eagerly anticipating the thrill of gourmet _________.; We came here just to taste the Thai _________.; Johnny was in the kitchen, cooking an array of delectable _________.;

impend

People's concerns over the summer were dominated less by _________ elections than by electricity bills.; As it happens my birthday _________ so on the day I shall raise a (non-alcoholic) glass to both of you peoples of those religions and wish you well.; Headlines in the press constantly warn of _________ asteroid collisions.;

evade

Percy, determined to _________ capture once more, somehow escaped to Marseilles.; His Grandmaster norm came in 2001, but a clear first prize was _________ him.; Sleep _________ me, for all I could think about was her.;

pupil

Perhaps I did not observe closely enough the reaction of his _________ to light and accommodation.; He told delegates the primary school _________ had attacked four teachers.; He says he has been prescribed pills which reduce the blurring by reducing the size of his _________ but he says he cannot drive at night now.;

particulate

Perhaps these findings suggest a causative link between the rising levels of _________ air pollution from motor vehicles and the increase in the prevalence of atopy.; When the solar power fades, a diesel generator would kick in, but a more efficient engine would be installed that produced one-third of the carbon _________ that direct-drive diesel engines emitted.; An ioniser works by circulating air and trapping airborne _________ such as diesel exhaust fumes, tobacco smoke and dust on an electrostatically charged ring.;

rectify

Physicists have built a novel device that relies on electron spin to _________ current.; The government resolved to _________ the situation.; Mr Diamond has been in contact with numerous council representatives in an effort to _________ the situation, to no avail.;

give rise to

Political maneuvers are not resorted to as they are believed to _________ more problems.; Many things can happen in a single study that can spuriously _________ a positive result.; The sharp-witted reader will have seen the subtle problems this can _________.;

constituency

Politicians at those senior levels - even if they have been elected in city _________ - have barely responded to these complaints.; In fact, to read through most rap lyrics is to wonder which adults or political _________ wouldn't take offense.; The president, elected from the national _________, reflected a different set of popular wishes.;

diagnosis

Preparing a _________ on the basis of such uncertain data is clearly nonsense.; Specimens collected during invasive speculum examination have long been necessary for the conventional laboratory _________ of vaginal discharge diseases.; Each patient also demonstrated significant bronchodilator responsiveness, and two patients received an initial _________ of asthma.;

linear

Quantitative research can be characterized as a _________ series of steps moving from theory to conclusions.; The baroque _________ swirls and variably sized round icons on the wall were cut from adhesive vinyl in glimmering teal, mauve and purple.; Its palette of greens, purples and yellows and its spontaneous, _________ drawing recall Joan Mitchell and late Monet.;

lactation

Reduced DMI impacts the amount and duration of negative energy balance in early _________, subsequent milk production and reproduction, and economic value.; Whether we measure bushels of grain per acre for row crops, pounds of gain per day for livestock, or liters of milk per _________ for dairy cows, innovation in agriculture has been dramatic.; Because it contains noninfectious hepatitis B surface antigen particles and should cause no risk to the fetus, neither pregnancy nor _________ is a contraindication to vaccination.;

inexperienced

Relatively _________ amateurs can now be guided, and in some cases almost hauled, to the summit.; He said the defendant was not an immature youth, nor a wholly _________ parent.; _________ pilots of those gyroplanes should not fly in winds above 15 knots.;

dispense

Relaxation of rules governing the opening of pharmacies could see supermarkets become a major force in _________ medicines.; Banks estimate that only 85% of ATM machines will be _________ cash by the end of January 1.; These all depended on hand cutting and rolling of the pills, usually done by the druggist who _________ the medicine.;

bulb

Release the _________, holding it in place while it suctions the mucus from your baby's nose.; When light reaches your hair follicles, it temporarily generates enough heat to destroy the follicles and _________.; Treating lily _________ with cytokinin hormones can mean early flowers and more of them.;

append

Relevant extracts are _________ to this article for easy reference.; To that I will, not being member of the Archdiocese of Chicago, have to _________ the following letter.; In _________ the formal education with cultural education, it may be possible to create a space that really is inclusive, not to mention that it might just liven things up around here.;

soundscape

Relying on their well-established formula of eerie melodies, pastoral _________, babbling children and rhythmic clamour, their sophomore effort rings true.; Lush, ambient _________ were one of several elements that combined to make this a captivating film.; Comprised of eight minimal, ambient _________, digitally processed and sourced from snapshots of classical music, the result is nothing short of breathtaking.;

operand

Retrieval time from the memorized table increases as the _________ get larger.; The latter is simply an array of BPF instructions that is a sequence of numeric opcodes and _________.; One possibility is that arithmetic activation is based on the conceptual identity of numerical _________, regardless of _________ order or position.;

airy

Sea-urchin roe also accompanies refreshing slices of hamachi, their _________ delicacy highlighted by a spry sprinkling of sour-plum vinaigrette.; As steak sandwiches go, it's a doozy, made with a soft, _________ Portuguese bun.; The apartment is big: tall, white walls; big, spacious windows; huge, _________ rooms.;

setback

Serious _________ have not deterred Dawn Phillips from following her dream to run local cafés.; Each succeeded one way or another, but not overnight, and certainly not without serious _________.; It was a serious _________ for the Mayo men and four minutes later this was compounded when Hayes set up Mark Ronan for the opening goal of the match.;

dynamite

Seven years before US Surgeon General Luther Terry would announce a link between smoking and cancer, this information was political and business _________.; How did Republicans defuse an issue that looked like political _________?; Trains lines were _________, and civilians were attacking police stations and disarming police officers and taking them prisoner.;

sleek

She can do washed-up and tuned-out, sleazy and half-dressed, _________ and oozing with wealth.; On the other side were three _________ horses, tall, with shining coats, chestnut, black, and a pinto, golden-blonde and black.; The bright sunlight nearly blinded her, causing her to stumble over Marmalade and Rosie, her two _________ cats.;

epitomise

She cites one example which, she says, _________ the spirit of the club's members.; There is something about them that seems to _________ local journalism.; His elegant, idealized compositions and use of Antique sources _________ Renaissance manuscript illustration and were an essential element of the finest Florentine production in the decades around 1500.;

grand

She decided to put herself into the mindset of a _________ lady.; And do you want an intimate room, modest in size, or a _________ space with a lofty ceiling and broad expanse of floor?; Big man Nik Woods will be an important player in the _________ final as will Gordan Chadd.;

regime

She has a chart for a typical patient's eight-week therapy on various _________.; Has the United States supported oppressive _________ in the region?; Clearly, better evidence relevant to primary care is needed before we firmly advocate treatment _________ for obesity.;

pointer

She pointed her _________ on the map and moved it over to Japan.; The old scale was analog, with a dial and a _________ that waggled a bit unless you stood perfectly still.; Similarly if the box becomes lighter then the spring will lift the box up and the _________ will move up the scale.;

emigrate

She studied with Preobrajenska as a child in Paris, where her parents settled after _________ from Russia.; In the late 1800s east European Jews _________ to the USA brought the bagel with them.; Many citizens with higher education were trained abroad and they often _________ permanently.;

impregnate

She was thoroughly _________, inside and outside, upside and down, and in every direction, with that perfume.; Out of work, and desperate for cash, Armstrong receives an offer from his ex-girlfriend, Fatima, that if he _________ her, she will pay him handsomely.; Toronto Zoo gave their chameleon to Sofia Zoo as a sign of gratitude for the female hippopotamus sent to _________ a Toronto Zoo hippopotamus last year.;

legitimate

Since Charles II, James's brother, was unlikely to have further _________ children, James's remarriage was imperative and a hunt for suitable partners began.; Having exhausted all his resources, Pope Innocent finally yielded and recognized Roger as a _________ king.; Besides, my marriage to Angel means my son is a _________ child, not a bastard.;

heterogeneous

Since the variances in shell growth rate were _________, the data were square-root transformed before analysis to make variances homogeneous.; Apparently, Canada succeeded where the U.S. had failed in assembling multiculturally diverse, _________ groups of people.; Clayton's proposed methodology for cultural studies serves as a wide umbrella for a _________ collection of individual essays.;

evasive

Singletons living the good life may one day be forced to move back home with mum and dad unless they take _________ action now, a report warns.; He held the gun with his arms outstretched in front of his chest, causing drivers to take _________ action.; The defendant tried to take _________ action, but lost control.;

irritation

So anger is a potential range of feelings, from _________ and determination to outrage and fury.; Chronic trigger points can lead to chronic nerve _________ and headache.; But if it is not explained and proclaimed, the extra legal rights and duties could become a source of _________ and resentment.;

diametrically

So people who were completely _________ opposed in their views and their perceptions about a situation were brought together.; The agendas of science and the animal rights lobby are _________ opposed.; This is a key point, since there is the potential for _________ opposed viewpoints on park usage between these two groups.;

pedantic

Some companies don't like dealing with this inspector because they say he's draconian and _________.; The past few articles I have written for this site have been _________ responses to articles written by others.; Sorry to be _________ but it really irked me for some reason.;

thorough

Some members of the team may have been particularly _________ with hand washing and used more than one actuation per hand wash.; The experiences may lead to closer contact and more _________ understanding.; Success in this environment requires a _________ understanding of systems theory.;

oversight

Some overpayments result from _________ by claimants who may be in desperate circumstances and the council stresses there is a very lengthy process involving letters and telephone calls before the final demand.; Telephony is an issue that brings a whole new arena of regulation and _________.; Moreover, any developments would be exempt from normal regulatory _________.;

medical

Some people will require admission on _________ grounds or because of psychiatric risk.; Mr Page said his health was good and he had passed all the required _________ to fly.; Others choose the private sector and avoid the _________ wards, as so little can be done.;

declassify

Some relevant documents have now been _________, however.; The U.S. State Department has just _________ government documents from the mid 1960s.; Sometimes there are national security documents that won't be _________ for years.;

precision

Some shots require extra _________ or else they exact a severe penalty.; Now even more airshow fans will be able to see the _________ aerobatics.; A delicate touch with such _________ in these conditions was merely another insight into the fine player Riordan promises to be.;

narcissistic

Somehow I think unsung social workers can reach out to the poor and downtrodden better than _________ guys who have gotten too much attention in the first place.; "I'm not as _________ or self-referential as people think," he says with a smile.; But I have to take issue about the supposed diagnosis of _________ personality disorder.;

dense

Sometimes I really believed that the guy was _________ instead of the genius he was.; The sky is _________ with numbered stars, seen through the cavernous central chamber of an observatory.; The fields, however, are _________ with cows and sheep, every one of which will be slaughtered if the disease spreads this far.;

unwary

Somewhere down-slope there is sure to be an _________ toddler, a brittle pensioner, or at the very least an expensive automobile.; But with the increased acceptance of such activity, great danger lies for the _________.; Haphazardly installed electrical wiring is common in many small private schools and can create fires or electrocute an _________ child or teacher.;

indigenous

Soybeans are _________ to China and have long been a part of that country's diet.; The tree is _________ to the Mediterranean region, but will grow much further north.; The plant extract is found in cloves and also in several Cape _________ plant species.;

assessment

Staff training has begun and it will be followed by _________ and training for patients.; He said a major risk _________ had been made beforehand to ensure people's safety.; Our _________ of his life's worth shouldn't be informed by that of the thugs who shot him.;

trove

Sure, many of the heavyweights featured in the series are no longer around, but the BBC managed to unearth a _________ of old footage, much of which had not been seen previously by a British audience.; The legendary Faberge created a _________ of treasures for the Tsars that endure as priceless examples of the craftsman's art.; The find revealed a _________ of fabulous treasures in gold and precious stones that showed the wealth and craftsmanship of the Pharaonic court;

grid

Suspended ceilings are hung from the ceiling joists with a metal _________.; Oscillating electric fields applied by _________ above and below the plasma can resonantly excite its electrons.; The carbon-platinum replicas were transferred from a finishing water bath onto copper electron microscope _________.;

bank on

Talk about such novel ventures and you sure can _________ the support of Revathy Menon, film actress.; This means taking measures that do not _________ doctoring figures and introducing cosmetic measures, as was done in the case of poverty reduction figures.;

brink

That doesn't mean the region is on the _________ of another financial crisis.; It didn't feel like she was on the _________ of a cliff about to fall off.; Helen was right on the _________, as close as one could possibly get to succeeding.;

prerogative

That is entirely within Dr Smith's _________, and no one else's.; Query whether it is under the _________ powers of the Crown.; Foreign policy is the _________ of the federal government,' says the German constitution, and such has been the standard practice up to now.;

malevolent

That whatever _________ forces had been unleashed could not harm me personally for this very reason.; He has the fierce, _________ eyes of a demon, deep, red, and sharklike.; Can simple coincidence explain these developments, or are more _________ forces at work?;

authenticity

The American papers, predictably, doubt neither the _________ nor the import of the tape.; From the point of view of the much vaunted historical _________, it should be interesting.; Whether this anecdote has any formal _________ or not is a different question.;

delegate

The Deputy Attorney General may not _________ such authority.; He explained that the aid agency announced through loudspeakers that refugees from each village should _________ someone to receive rice.; The 300 _________ at the conference withdrew a more conciliatory motion on the smoking ban and voted instead for outright opposition to it.;

contain

The Minister for Agriculture has again warned of the dangers of complacency creeping into the efforts to _________ and prevent further outbreaks of foot and mouth disease.; She was unable to _________ her happiness.; My sister and I could barely _________ ourselves, we thought it was so funny and ingenious.;

overseeing

The Parish Council is the board of the local church that _________ its work and finances.; The project was _________ by the ambassador's own staff, it added.; New staff brought into the chief executive's office will _________ the project.;

provocative

The Passionate Eye airs _________ documentaries on leading social and political issues of the day.; Leading on from this, the article turns _________ when it addresses English and the vexed matter of case.; I feel fairly sure that your article was deliberately _________.;

stimulus

The Tullio phenomenon represents vestibular symptoms and/or eye movements evoked by a sound _________.; Clearly it fuels an enormous boost in prestige for the country, gives a further _________ to its strongly growing economy and plants the seal on its policies of reform and opening up.; A cascade of events must occur for the neurotransmitter _________ to lead to cellular response.;

leverage

The US also had enormous economic _________ within the organisation.; Households in this country are so _________ that they cannot afford higher per capita taxation of any type.; Application aware systems that _________ technologies such as fabric virtualization will change all that.;

robust

The _________ economy has resulted in more than seven million people worldwide now classed as high-net-worth individuals, with assets of $1 million or more.; A _________ grandfather, once the bane of Hollywood screenwriting, regales his frail, fidgety grandson with horrible tales of the macabre and the supernatural.; There will be even less _________ debate and argument, as everybody runs scared of being accused of bullying.;

cardiac

The _________ exam revealed distant heart sounds without murmurs or gallops.; Sea stars feed by extruding their _________ stomach over their prey, thus predation begins at the pinacocytic layer.; The mouth leads to the _________ stomach, which is what the sea star everts to digest its prey.;

lament

The _________ expressed by Lomax is one being made quite frequently by higher education officials around the nation.; Political historians have _________ the death of political history since the 1960s and 1970s onslaught of social and cultural historians.; The _________ of a mother for her child lost to the mighty blow of life brought a lump in the throat and tears to the eyes of the kindred spirits.;

converse

The _________ held true for two additional teaching methods, designing/revising a course and preparing effective lesson plans.; But, then, the _________ is also true: the Irish were good to America.; The _________ case, in which we encounter humanlike brains and retinas but find no verbal behavior, is the situation we encounter in the question of animal consciousness.;

unification

The achievement of horizontal integration depends on essential _________ of primary function areas.; Mike was the right person at the right time to deal with the problems of _________ in a merger.; Can the people of Taiwan have higher earnings after _________ or integration?;

eradication

The aim of the research has been to optimise vaccine schedules for control, elimination, or _________ of disease.; Mullin understands the urgent need for education to lead to the _________ of these misconceptions.; Spreading pecans encircled the house back in the Little Town, trees which received yearly pruning, faithful webworm _________, and regular fertilizing.;

fragrant

The air was pungent with the rich smell of the earth, and the _________ scent of flowers.; Other _________ scents to human senses are most often those produced by flowers visited by pollinators.; It's the perfect day for it - brilliantly sunny and _________ with the forest smells of pine and damp earth.;

thereby

The amount of work that can be is _________ increased.; He kept the man alive until the ambulance arrived, _________ saving his life.; Unions often rely on volunteers to administrate, _________ keeping costs at a minimum.;

cymbal

The angels are depicted as playing a collection of musical instruments, including the harp, tambourine, _________, lyre and psaltery.; You could practically hear the ridges of the _________ as the stick was slowly scraped along it to produce a shimmer of sound.; The rolling _________ near the beginning of the composition seem more anachronistic than anything else.;

inclusive

The announcement would not be affected by any management buy-out, because the recent jobs announcement was _________ of the decision.; Although the cost of such an exclusive safari might seem prohibitive, it is worth pointing out that everything - from wine, beer and spirits to the daily laundry service - is _________.; The _________ nature of our society is vital for healthy and sustainable communities.;

pilgrimage

The annual _________ to Medjugorje will take place the second week in June.; A week's _________ to Medugorje will take place from Knock on May 17.; A very large number of pilgrims will travel to Lourdes Shrine with the annual _________ on May 17.;

compelling

The arguments are constructive with _________ evidence to support the claims.; Even were we to judge an author's arguments as _________ or obvious, only time and the future decides whether or not they are true.; The _________ visuality of the work of art resists appropriation by either the cleverness of historical explanations or the eloquence of descriptive language.;

divergent

The arguments set forth by the two sides during the secession crisis reflected their _________ outlooks.; Stories like Neon Genesis Evangelion push the creative envelope, and I appreciate them for their weirdness and _________ thought.; At the present time there are a number of _________ opinions concerning the paleoecology of radiolarians.;

raging

The arrival of a U.S. colonel and his aides in Hercules C130 military transport planes, however, proved to be a _________ success.; The sweet flowing stream turned into a _________ torrent.; A firestorm is violent, has _________ winds, and has extremely high temperatures; but fortunately it does not spread very rapidly.;

deter

The arrival of a police car would have forestalled or _________ such an attack by itself.; Whether by taking offenders out of circulation, or by _________ people from committing crimes in the first place, the evidence does seem to support the view that prison works.; British police and security services are focused on how to _________, to prevent and to combat terrorist attacks here.;

diverge

The article he wrote _________ from the official line; it was never printed.; As in the case of Hsp 70 genes, these two groups of genes _________ long before the separation of animals and fungi.; Where we _________ most sharply with Mr. Dean is on his emerging world view.;

terracotta

The artists use materials such as fibreglass, _________, oil, acrylic and other mixed media.; The L-shaped entrance hallway is decorated in _________ tones and fitted with ceiling coving and a centre rose.; Make an herb wreath for the kitchen by wiring on fresh herbs to a grapevine wreath and adding chilies, bouquet garni, tiny _________ pots and a big gingham bow.;

virtually

The building was _________ destroyed in the blaze, which broke out late on Saturday night.; Outside, everything was as damp and dreary as _________ every day of this sopping wet month has been.; Now when a conversation like this starts in the post office it tend to be taken up by _________ everyone in the Dale.;

canvas

The cast members will be subsisting on 1897 type supplies: _________ tents, no mosquito repellent, canned and dry goods.; Coming prepared with several _________ already smudged with charcoal outlines she readied her supplies.; The first parcel arrived, but it contained paintings on thin _________, and the range of colours was limited to those that Eli Jah had been able to obtain.;

disperse

The ceilings are configured to _________ reflected light evenly throughout the rooms.; A handful of local people get off the bus, _________ in different directions.; But on reaching Ireland, the livestock was _________ among farms, with most going to two slaughterhouses in Navan and Roscommon.;

endorse

The cheque was _________ by Conroy and then given to him.; Anyone caught speeding will have their licence _________ with 2 penalty points as well as a fine of 80 euros.; The court might require the administrator to enter into a bond to administer the estate faithfully, in which case a copy of the Act will be _________ on the bond document before it is filed.";

omnipresent

The clouds were _________, threatening to pour down some terrible precipitation at the slightest provocation.; King's recommendations to women are in line with the sense of _________ threat and moral panic that he projects.; Without our help the children might grow up in a world without the tender loving care of an _________ advertising-media complex.;

aftermath

The club now hopes to attract new members after many left in the _________ of the fire.; The ultimate concern, however, is to get a country back on to its feet in the _________ of conflict.; In the _________ of many storms, the hardest hit areas can have their water mains shut down.;

fungi

The combination of air and wet silage and heat make an ideal environment for yeasts and _________ to multiply.; Now I've got to tell you I'm no expert in mushrooms toadstools and _________ in general.; The ring is caused by one of several _________ that grow on organic matter in the soil.;

punctuation

The comma thing does make me aware how much I use _________ in general and commas specifically for intonation in my writing.; Of course the rules of grammar and _________ add to an understanding of the text, that can't be denied.; Sadly these days, the problem is not really just one of bad _________ but of bad writing in general.;

pro forma

The commission and city should review all feasibility studies and _________ (such as balance sheets and income statements) to ensure the viability of the project requesting city funds.; The SEC is examining whether new rules are needed to clarify financial reports and perhaps restrict use of _________.; We shall complete the _________ in the course of the day and they will be available to the parties before the end of the week.;

impede

The committee says delays in acquiring a combat identification system were even _________ the effectiveness of weapons systems.; But entry regulations are _________ new sources of supply to the public.; This suggests that regulation _________ the adoption of new management practices.;

enrapture

The crowd, of course, are _________ all the way through.; It is reverently displayed and _________ the museum's Russian visitors.; The young audience was totally _________ by this brilliant program.;

in miniature

The cultural diversity of Europe is there _________.; Initially needing to know the shape of the quickest hull, he modelled them _________, undoubtedly the first to experiment on a small scale.; No: the individual is, in effect, a State _________.;

dignitary

The day dawned bright and sunny and the event was well attended by family, friends, local _________ and sponsors.; As usual the government is keeping local _________ in the dark.; The association asked local _________ to discover what life was like for a blind person by spending some time blindfolded.;

airing

The debate was interesting though and it was good to hear the subject getting an _________.; Shouldn't there be some evenhandedness, with bad buildings by good architects also receiving a public _________?; The two went out for an _________ Monday evening.;

freelance

The division employs just seven people, relying on _________ editors, designers and publicists.; It will be available to companies and _________ who already use computers but want to develop their skills.; He resolves to become a _________ and solo operator.;

thwart

The drop-off reflects deep disappointment that clerical establishment rulers have been able to largely _________ Khatami's efforts.; The placement of the primary _________ is important to balance.; Assume, for a moment, that the French and the Germans aren't _________ us out of pique, but by design, long-term design.;

perpetuate

The effigies of antiquity were created to _________ the memory of the deceased as he or she looked while alive.; It was on this sleepy island that the Dutch settled in 1609 and built a fort to _________ their memory.; My question for Rosanne is what should we be doing to remember him, to _________ his memory?;

contradict

The entry in question, therefore, is not evidence which _________ his assertion, and the Crown does not suggest otherwise.; No one fell over themselves to _________ him either.; Shortly thereafter, completely _________ this advice, the ship's captain indicated that he would enter Australian territorial waters and approach Christmas Island.;

proverb

The epic by Waris is interspersed with _________, sayings, folktales, history and poetry par excellence.; The shrewdness and sharpness of his _________ and his forceful epigrams serve, in an exceptional degree, to make ethical ideas a popular possession.; It is better to light one candle than curse the darkness, as a rough translation of a Chinese _________ goes.;

activist

The exhibit focuses on recent _________ art by Chicago-based artists.; _________ are warning our farmers a similar disaster could happen to them.; Despite the work's dynamic and _________ nature, one could not help wondering about an apparent contradiction.;

pandemic

The factors involved in the genesis of each _________ virus are probably different.; The effectiveness of antivirals in the treatment of _________ influenza is unclear.; So why have British health authorities decided to launch a _________ flu panic in Britain?;

debris

The father-of-two came home to find that a rocket had come through the plastic roof spreading _________ around the garden.; The future of many, badly scarred by falling _________ and fires, remains uncertain.; Turbulent tides have churned up the sea bed, disturbing rocks and natural _________ such as drift wood.;

commemorate

The fight for independence during the past century is _________ throughout the land by war memorials and museums displaying what are now known as the remnants of war.; I was born In The Summer Of '69, and a song was written to _________ the occasion.; The Yasukuni is controversial because it _________ Japan's military dead, including some who were convicted war criminals.;

convention

The first national party _________, in fact, were held in Baltimore in preparation for the 1832 election.; Transit passes are available to visitors attending meetings, conferences, and _________.; The job may have felt dirty, but it taught him that if he wanted to be a successful artist, he'd have to learn how to navigate comic-book _________ as a businessman.;

airstrip

The first privately funded spacecraft lifts off from an _________ in the Mojave Desert.; They built runways for airports, including the _________ at Mt Cook.; The _________ really is a strip, a very long narrow grass runway lined on both sides by 50 foot trees.;

vane

The first uses multiple airfoil-shaped _________ arrayed around the inner circumference of the exhaust side of the turbo housing.; The wind or air rising through the turbine turns the _________ in the turbine and gets the air moving near the top of the house, drawing moisture out.; Does this not suggest that early feathers must have had pennaceous _________ at least distally, if the downy bases, or down feathers, were to be effective for insulation?;

iris

The fluid made by the ciliary body (a thickening of the blood vessel tunic) inside the eye nourishes the lens and, cornea and the colored _________.; Peonies, _________, daylilies, and delphiniums peak as phlox come into bud and astilbes begin to light up shady garden spots.; The thin sheet of circular muscle of the _________ which constricts the pupil of the eye is also known as a sphincter.;

provenance

The following items include a complete description of each relic, it's historical significance, exhibition history, and _________.; I wish them better luck than I had in determining the absolute _________ of its information and wording.; Therefore, the precise _________ and functions of the two Doric capitals found in this building (parts of colonnades, supports for benches, or material for the lime kiln?) must remain indeterminate.;

sediment

The generally immature nature of the palaeosols indicates that most vegetation colonized newly deposited fluvial _________.; Serious restaurants will use crystal stemware of sufficient size to allow swirling and sniffing, and decanters should also be available for young wines in need of oxidation or old wines with _________.; First stand the wine upright for a day or two, so all the _________ sinks to the bottom of the bottle.;

demolition

The government says the _________ are necessary to remove eyesores and to crack down on illegal trading and black market currency exchanges based in the slums.; Officials said the _________, on either side of one house, were necessary because criminals had been using the houses.; I also know that many people have their theories about why the _________ are happening, why they are good for the city, who these people who lose their homes are, why they are illegal.;

subsidiary

The group is the UK _________ of McInerney Holdings plc which was established in Ireland in 1909.; Hilton's management agreement is with Walls Leisure Limited, a _________ of PJ Walls Holdings.; In this exhibition the parts are _________ to the whole - you aren't expected so much to stop and reflect on each work; each work is instead an example of a broader theme.;

clog

The heels of her _________ clanking on the wooden desk floor, Matim Henoscil headed to a group of young ladies gathered near the railings.; The float valve in the brine tank (inside plastic pipe) also can get _________ up with salt residue.; We had so much equipment over there, at one point, it just _________ the roads and filled up a nearby church parking lot.;

airborne

The helicopter was _________ for only a minute when it started plunging toward the river.; If, you got the nose too high too soon, you could get into a position where it would not get _________.; The rain was so heavy at times that the helicopters had trouble getting _________.;

panorama

The highest-selling lot was a composition pastel study for A Closer Grand Canyon, one of the Bradford-born artist's vast _________ of the landscape, which he has visited regularly.; The book offers us the same _________ and, because we can reread the material and catch the ones we couldn't attend, it gives us almost as intimate exposure as being there in vivo.; A broad _________ of nineteenth-century art can enhance our understanding of a nation in flux, which the builders of the museum's collection embraced from the outset.;

renovated

The house was built about 100 years ago and has been totally _________.; The owners _________ the fireplace using reclaimed bricks, keeping the old look and feel of the cottage.; The architects _________ the entire exterior and tried to restore the building's initial appearance.;

demolish

The huge public clock on the old Naburn Hospital water tower was a major local landmark before the building was _________ in 1989.; They _________ vast mountains of food, and it's only when that's gone that the party begins to wind down.; The snappers soon _________ the tuna and the current blasted us up from 30m into a shallow, sandy area, carpeted with garden eels.;

ideology

The imposition of any one version of knowledge would be expected to reflect the _________ of the controlling political group.; Finally, a political party is the convergence of a group of people based on their political ideals and _________.; He is guided neither by the maxims of a political _________ nor by conspicuous moral principle, but rather by a simple need to retain power.;

implicit

The impression is that we are witnesses after the fact and once again we naturally construct a hypothetical narrative, its tragedy _________ in the necessarily tawdry ingredients.; As Mom faced her illness, she did so in a spirit of fortitude based on an _________ faith and a godly life.; There are other assumptions _________ in the language used to describe community capacity and social capital.;

invaluable

The information could be _________ if a giant comet ever threatened the Earth.; Watch schemes are an _________ source of grass root information and intelligence.; They were devoting much of their time to it and had received _________ support from family and friends.;

reed

The initial housing is usually made out of light _________ matting.; To portray the harsher reality produced by the war, Beckmann switched from the soft pencil he had previously used to a _________ pen, giving him a harder, more precise line.; She hoped no one noticed her bright cheeks as she attached the _________ to her mouth piece.;

clarinet

The instruments all stopped except a _________, which gave a loud squeak.; He wrote several violin concertos and a smaller number for wind including probably the first solo _________ concerto.; Darius wanted to bring in a bass _________ for this.;

paraphrase

The interviews were taped, transcribed, and translated: the texts should be considered as _________.; The words were repeated and the speech was _________.; Here the indefinite a fun and fruity wine can be _________ as a fun and fruity kind of wine.;

expressive

The invitation to become members of a surrogate family not based on blood ties yet _________ of the inter-personal values of sibling kinship.; The free training class aims to help more people get to know the ancient music - which is an embodiment of traditional Chinese culture and most _________ of the essence of Chinese music.; The pose is natural and _________ of the sitter's obvious intellectual impoverishment.;

tantalize

The jagged rock he'd sought was three feet up the incline, inviting, _________ him with its nearness.; In other words, it's the sort of movie that's bound to frustrate some viewers and _________ others.; To _________ readers, Popular Science raises difficult questions about the theory of evolution - the evolution of man, feathers on dinosaurs and the classification of animals.;

excrete

The kidneys filter and process the blood and _________ the waste products as urine.; Although most athletes who drink more fluid than they lose as sweat simply _________ the excess fluid as urine, in some people it is retained.; After a medication is metabolized, many medication metabolites are _________ in the urine.;

adjoin

The kitchen, which _________ the dining room, is fitted with a good range of built-in floor and wall presses as well as a breakfast bar, illuminated worktops, a tiled splashback and double sink.; We spent at least three hours putting everything where instructed in the living room, dining room and kitchen, which _________ the dining room, separated by a breakfast bar.; The family bathroom _________ this room and includes a bath with shower attachment, part-tiled walls and two large mirrors.;

bar

The lawyers sit at the _________ table facing the magistrate and the defendant sits with his or her lawyer.; It did not say that, and we will not have a _________ of the notion of people rumoured to have criminal backgrounds being treated as criminals.; He studied law at Oxford and was called to the _________ at Lincoln's Inn in 1965.;

minimalist

The lean, _________ design is refreshingly at odds with the usual run of touristy alpine decoration and furnishings featured at other ski resort hotels.; In recent times, even _________ composer Philip Glass tried his hand at the genre.; Liberal thought depends on the strength of this protective function to justify its advocacy of the _________ state.;

wilt

The leaves turn a yellow-bronze, and within a day or two, the upper leaves _________, then the lower leaves _________.; It was time then for more wandering; there was a couple of dance stages and some precictable stalls but by now I was _________ and craving a cool drink.; One major advantage of growing in containers is that you can keep plants free of common soilborne fungal diseases: verticillium and fusarium _________.;

flank

The lifting of import restrictions on pork _________ and offal will affect pig farmers.; The fireplace is _________ by fitted floor-to-ceiling bookshelves.; Small enveloping detachments and air assault forces were used to strike into the enemy _________ and rear.;

blare

The music, that I was trying to ignore, _________ out of a sound system under guidance of a DJ.; The girl yelled over the _________ of rifle fire from all around.; The news _________ out on the television set that occupied and lit up the downstage area.;

parallel

The new system will be used to handle clustered _________ visualization software, display high-resolution images and perform real-time rendering.; An array of qubits operates as a _________ computer capable of performing a large calculation in one step, and the power grows rapidly with the number of qubits.; Your feet should be firmly planted on the wall with your toes pointed upward at a line nearly _________ to the surface of the water.;

glitch

The old combat system _________ frequently and simply wasn't capable of handling multiple contacts, limiting its usefulness in a hostile situation.; From the perspective of senior combat officers, these problems are not simply minor _________ in an otherwise adequate plan, but rather symptoms of a deeply flawed blueprint.; I'm curious how that notoriously unreliable piece of engineering, the human body, will cause _________ in this system.;

chronological

The organization of the volume is accordingly not thematic but, as far as possible, _________, by the dates of the philosopher discussed.; The _________ studies showed that the phyllochron is correlated with growth events.; Clarke writes briskly, his narrative strictly _________, starting with Judy's parents and ending with her funeral.;

agrarian

The party's internal social programs include improved enforcement of environmental protection laws, addressing the problems faced by indigenous communities, and _________ reform.; The monarchy remained in place, while big business and _________ retained much influence.; A Presidential Land Review Committee, appointed in 2003, has made specific recommendations on the gender dimensions of the _________ change and reform.;

poignant

The play follows the story of one man's fight to save his land, combining _________ drama with a sense of humour.; It is true that I have, like many who choose to write for a living, exaggerated senses of the absurd and the _________.; It is a philosophical tearjerker, a _________ romance for the intellectual set, and a touching character study.;

whistle-blower

The point of protecting _________ is to protect them from recrimination.; They appear to be _________ calling attention to governmental wrongdoing, and, though speaking anonymously, have little in common with the officials who fill the sails of the press corps with their wind.; He indicated his information came from FDA _________.;

radical

The political _________ who ran the French Revolution from 1793 abolished the concept of weeks altogether.; Urinary incontinence is very common, but most people do not desire or require _________ treatment.; Wales has always had strong left wing and _________ political parties and leaders.;

magenta

The positions of _________, sepia, lanceolate, and short were also adjusted to reflect this change in the map.; Full of silky, pillows, a futon sat against one of the pale, pastel purple walls while her low-lying bed covered with sheets tie dyed in green, gray, purple, _________.; On the screen, tall thin models with dark tans paraded back and forth in shimmering orange and _________ gowns.;

generalization

The predilection to moral _________ is more troublesome.; I find that people have difficulty understanding that broad statistical _________ don't justify leaping to conclusions about individuals.; Or, as this film attempts to prove, is that a gross _________?;

lenient

The punishment for a woman is more _________ - she must stay in prison until she reverts, however long it takes.; It is no wonder labor unions holding illegal protests expect the government to be _________.; To make matters worse, the Criminal Code orders judges to give _________ sentences to Indian criminals.;

respondent

The questionnaire invited _________ to comment on each of the 31 indicators.; With the information thereby obtained, a main _________ was designated, who then completed a household questionnaire.; Completion of the questionnaire constituted informed consent from the _________.;

sprint

The race began with a 200 metre _________ down the street - and no practice run.; Lenton also remained undefeated in _________ freestyle, winning her 4th gold medal of the tour.; As soon as he went down, she took off, _________ down the street.;

coincide

The rallies in British Columbia will also _________ with similar events throughout the country on February 4.; Several other events are planned to _________ with Edmonton's 100th birthday later this year.; The reason is that it _________ with several other major shifts in American national security policy, such as a proposed shift in our European base footprint and South Korean base footprint.;

descent

The result has been an unintended _________ into confusion.; We arrive at a steep _________ and he suggests I engage Hill _________ Control, an electronic system that automatically controls the speed of the vehicle as it descends.; The showers before and during the race made the very steep _________ a real challenge.;

multilateral

The role and relative importance of _________ institutions have already changed too.; The _________ negotiations offer us the best opportunities as a trading nation.; Some of the _________ agencies are not just focusing on GDP figures at this point.;

water-repellent

The rough winters of Norway nurtured the forest cat's vitality, resourcefulness and sensible, semi-long, _________ coat.; This _________ jacket features an interior stash pocket, hand-warmer pockets and no-snag zipper.; They're very tough and soaked in paraffin, like English Barbour coats, so they're very _________ and won't snag on thorns.;

mere

The sangria was way too sugary and sweet with _________ hint of wine and no trace of liquor.; He testified that the Hells Angels organization has a reputation for violence and intimidation, such that the _________ fact of being a member is enough to intimidate others.; The _________ fact that they were his enemies was reason enough.;

celebrated

The scene of his conversion is vividly described in his Confessions, which contains a _________ account of his early life.; The allegation against the _________ cricketer of yesteryear is no doubt one of committing a blatant criminal offence.; The old woman is delighted by the safeguard of the inheritance of her uncle, the _________ painter Paul Berthier.;

tribal

The screening is aimed at creating a public awareness about the nationwide fight of the _________.; The senior man in a family has the same kind of authority that _________ chiefs have.; This is a very important part of _________ culture and preserves a tribe's identity and beliefs.;

zest

The silly, high-pitched voice samples add a little extra _________ to the already heated battles.; The superb instrumental soloists added _________ to the musical proceedings.; We all have fond memories of Sharon and her _________ for life and we hope that such memories will in some way console those who mourn her.;

wiggle room

The statement appears to leave a bit of _________.; Now, of course I'm naturally suspicious, but point two could be read as a qualification of point one, in which case it allows _________ for the legal torture of inmates.; The party recently gave the First Minister enough _________ to negotiate on it in coalition talks next May.;

witty

The story of three feuding women is described as touching, funny, wise and gloriously _________.; They knew there was a lot more to this warm, _________, sparkly and sprightly show than just the title song.; Radcliffe is _________ and entertaining, but talks in diffident stops and starts.;

instrumental

The strategy, which was _________ in Microsoft's victory in the so-called browser wars, is being replayed in the digital media market.; His style was mainstream with little evidence of experimentation, and yet there is variety and a particular use of _________ colour throughout.; He prefers garage-style vocals, electronic _________ and the all-essential horns.;

divisive

The success of the EU has been its ability to find cohesion on even the most _________ of issues.; Race is a very _________ issue and if they managed to get a seat it would be very bad news for everyone in the area.; It was an important declaration of principle on one of the most _________ political issues of the day.;

buttress

The tower was built of massive columns, great white pillars, supported by beams and _________.; Up here, suspended dizzyingly more than 100 feet above the ground, it is easy to see how the great stone _________ that support the magnificent cathedral have been eroded by time.; The frame acquired the architectural elements of its churchlike structure: columns, cornices, arches and traceries, _________, ornate roundels like rose windows.;

velocity

The trouble is that all these measures of money cannot be relied on because the _________ of money changes.; Roller coasters are also good demonstrators of speed, _________, and acceleration.; The bolt left the crossbow with amazing _________, striking the target with near-perfect accuracy.;

diagonal

The truncated shapes often incorporate _________, and these shapes, in turn, recur in the artist's paintings.; Cut into squares and then cut the squares along the _________.; We can find the length of the other side of the triangle, the _________ AT, by using Pythagoras' Theorem.;

astray

The two rulings are a triumph for hardliners at the interior ministry who lobbied for tighter controls on nightclubs that they blame for leading Thai youth _________.; Artificial lights are leading some migratory birds to go _________.; British Airways said today that as many as 20,000 bags had gone _________ at Heathrow airport in recent days amid the chaos following the security crackdown.;

upbringing

The unconscious choices, rooted in our _________; in compassion and understanding, the core beliefs that guide us through the obstacle course of life.; After pondering the philosophical elements of our individual _________, we discovered that both of us had been brought up in the United Church.; Which brings us to your _________ in the bombed London which seems to reappear in a lot of your work.;

genetically modified

The use of _________ organisms is prohibited, but not all farms are organic.; It is not impossible for organic and _________ agriculture to coexist.; Leaf disks are made of the target species the plant species that will be altered, _________, or transformed.;

impel

The very fact that the 2000 election revealed that public sentiment is moving against their policies will, if anything, _________ them to act with greater haste and determination.; Her hair flopped around as she _________ her end of the see-saw to move up once again.; If so, in either case, you are a better citizen than I have been until the past few days (when a looming deadline, more than a love of freedom, _________ me to become better-informed).;

collision

The vote again sets the Lords on _________ course with the Commons in the long-fought battle over hunting.; Both drivers realised they were on _________ course and applied their emergency brakes, halting the vehicles around two tram lengths apart.; The _________ between China and the US is a quarrel about ideas and concepts, not about things.;

plummet

The water plunges through a gap in the rock more than 100 feet up, _________ into a round pool surrounded by a sand beach.; The _________ in interest in religion was brought home last week when only one Catholic Priest was ordained in Northern Ireland for the year coming.; A window cleaner _________ to his death after falling from a block of flats.;

strenuous

The waters around Pitcairn are fierce and turbulent, with diving made _________ by the strong currents.; The efforts were equally _________ behind the scenes as officials tried to impress foreign investors.; Warming up before beginning _________ exercise is a must for every athlete.;

monument

The winner of a design for a _________ to commemorate the signing of the Freedom Charter in Kliptown is to be announced today in the township.; He said the memorial would be a _________ to Corrie's courage and sacrifice for peace and justice in Palestine.; Perhaps one of the things war _________ and graves do is to make you reflect on whether you would have the mettle to give your life for what you felt was right.;

bisect

The woolly-minded sheep - not known for their intellectual prowess took a while to get the hang of the orange wire now _________ the fell but its presence is paying off.; The freeway _________ the state from Cincinnati to Cleveland and carries an average of 34,000 vehicles a day in the area, according to the Ohio Department of Transportation.; The traffic-free Corso Umberto I _________ the town and runs from the massive gates of Porta Messina to the equally impressive Porta Catania.;

obtrusive

The works would be less _________ from rooms further up.; Yet I was overwhelmed by the kindness of Laotian people, who were warm without being _________, direct without being rude.; Brash fashion, garish visuals and acceptably _________ sounds make for an attention grabbing set this evening at the Music Box.;

intriguing

The writing style is also very logical, sometimes humorous, and occasionally _________.; The marketplace is set out like a small Victorian street housing lots of tiny and _________ little shops.; And, indeed, these predictions seem to be largely upheld, although there are _________ exceptions.;

condiment

Their idea of dip is that it's a _________ like ketchup or mustard or salt or pepper,' he says.; He liked cayenne pepper, chutney, pickles, mustard and other _________.; All great barbecue chefs agree that barbecue sauce is a _________ to be used to dress the meat before serving, or to be served on the side.;

arousal

Their level of _________ goes up much more quickly, peaks at a higher level, and takes more time to return to baseline.; It not only can teach your partner what gets you going but it also can contribute to their own _________.; Rather, the stimulus itself appeared to elicit a small, brief _________ in the sleeping participant.;

minute

Their only goal chance came in the 14th _________ of the second period.; An hour and twenty _________ after setting off for a forty _________ drive I arrived.; Let's listen to what she had to say and talk about this for a _________.;

grip

Then I thought, this guy is a heavyweight cultural icon, better get a _________ and make an effort to take it seriously.; Once the proper _________ is achieved then it becomes essential to develop the right stance.; The little guy managed to sidestep the front of the bike but got winged in the gut by one of the handlebar _________.;

depressurize

Then he _________ the pod and opened the hatch, leading the others onto the rocky surface of Eros.; However, several colleagues had learned of the plot and came just in the nick of time to prevent the man from _________ the chamber.; When the timed process is completed, turn off the heat, remove the canner from heat if possible, and let the canner _________.;

ligament

Then, if necessary, the lateral ankle _________ were repaired.; In the second trimester, the muscles and _________ that support your uterus stretch.; Halfway down the larynx the paired vocal folds (commonly known as the vocal cords), formed by _________ covered with mucous membrane, project inwards from its wall.;

proffer

Theories were suggested, opinions were _________, heads of channels pontificated.; Such repentance takes place when the external _________ of grace concurs with inward assistance of grace.; Adding to the action will be wedding vendors - planners, limo reps, hair stylists, photographers, jewelers, etc. - _________ their wares.;

cogent

There are a number of _________ arguments against fur that do not require descending into this kind of bigoted sophism.; His writing is lively, his arguments are _________, and the scholarship is wide ranging.; He said local officers have not been able to obtain _________ evidence to pin suspects to the four offences.;

detract

There are not many places where you can get into conversation about how to _________ from the value of the local housing.; The fact Colin never won Olympic gold does not _________ one bit from his achievements.; And doing the rounds in one day certainly did not _________ from the quality of the gifts.;

ailment

There are some alternatives for _________ such as diabetes and arthritis as well.; However, the harsh reality is that cures are still lacking for many common _________, such as cancer and obesity.; Along the way, minor _________ were treated and hypochondria dispelled, with adept matter of factness.;

ruthlessly

There doesn't seem to be any malice in him, even when he is _________ manipulating everyone around him.; He suppressed or _________ excised many early efforts, including a piano concerto.; The paratroopers deal _________ with anyone who gets in their way.;

compilation

There has been no _________ of even the most basic demographics about who is receiving points.; But just watch out for misleadingly packaged comedy _________.; No, it's record companies approaching and paying to put their songs on the _________.;

retrieve

There is one canister placed in the center of the map and each team must _________ the canister and bring it back to their team's base.; Magellan said he'd take whatever she had in the kitchen, so Ava went in and prepared him a sandwich, poured a beer and _________ one of their rare oranges.; Do you have a computer available to _________ e-mail and implement your online marketing strategy?;

indefinitely

There was a similar operation last year which ran for a short period of time. This crackdown is expected to go on _________.; We mean by integration that faculty in the human mind whereby it is able to combine an _________ large number of impressions.; If the case went against him, Mr Messenger could be fined, suspended _________ or for a fixed period or struck off.;

signify

There were a few fallen trees in the roads and puddles; nothing else _________ the terrible storm from the night.; The fact that it was not deliberately publicised does not, I believe, _________ an intention to cover it up.; Nevertheless, it was a smile that held no weight, for it _________ a thought contradictory to its purpose.;

tropical

There's a summery good time _________ feel to reggae in the Pacific.; He actually adopted a tree in the _________ rainforest and a manatee down in Florida.; Blame for the crash has been placed on hot summer weather followed by _________ downpours that left the road too slippery.;

tug of war

There's long been a _________ over the control of computing assets in big companies.; Maybe complete sincerity in presenting our common problems would end the _________ between local political, ethnic, social and other opposing groups.; We can expect a protracted _________, which may drag on until the review deadline draws near.;

stuntman

These amazing sequences appear to be a seamless combination of miniature sets, superimposed floodwaters, and cutaways to _________ floundering on the backlot under a rushing wall of water at least nine feet high.; They have eight different categories that you can win, like best fight, best firework, best overall stunt by a stuntwoman or a _________.; No matter how sophisticated the technology becomes, it's unlikely that CGI actors will ever be able to take the abuse the _________ do in some movies.;

tangential

These are all important matters but they are _________ to the most central objectives of school education, namely teaching and learning.; So, if planes A and D are _________, how can planes C and B be _________?; He makes the case for the artist as the most influential post-war musical artist, certainly more so than Elvis, who was influential for reasons _________ to the actual music.;

attain

These awesome monsters need to _________ wind speeds of 75 mph before they become a full hurricane.; Common mistakes made by novices include underestimating the size that trees will _________.; Achievements _________ by a person were also considered to honour the whole family.;

set the stage for

These early beginnings _________ more recent innovations in the field.; Every day he calls his girlfriend from the same phone booth at the same time and in doing so, has _________, in action movie terms, the worst day of his life.; Diplomats say they expect no breakthrough but hope to _________ later talks.;

vacancy

These experiences are merely episodes of mental _________.; One in every ten Cumbrian businesses said skill shortages made it hard to fill job _________, the study revealed.; Her departure leaves a _________ on the town council.;

dissuade

These fears may no longer be _________ students from going abroad, as more juniors than usual will be studying abroad spring semester.; The orator persuades or _________ someone, to argue for or against adopting a proposed opinion or course of action; the auditors play the role of critics.; When she had made up her mind on something it was quite hard to _________ her from the course she had chosen.;

extract

These systems do not work because genuine cooperation cannot be _________ from people by force.; To do this they _________ the mathematical ideas in each problem and communicated their reasoning about those ideas by mutually supporting their verbal and nonverbal behaviors.; Some of the plant _________ preparations favoured by alternative practitioners act as irritants or allergens and a query about the use of these should always be part of the history taking.;

assert

These types of beliefs, he _________, are closely connected to languages and texts.; The first wave of feminism demanded that women seek equal rights by _________ themselves in the workforce.; What can be _________ reasonably from the facts as we know them, is that they were a devoted couple.;

trim

These very _________ and neat little craft will be a big addition to the club for their one class racing events.; Davies presides over the _________ schoolhouse on Sanday, with the island's three children - a fourth is at secondary school in Mallaig - in her care.; That said there's little otherwise that is excessive in this _________ and spare piece of emotionally and visually restrained film-making.;

canal

These waves are channeled through the ear _________ to hit the eardrum, causing vibrations.; Between the vestibular and tympanic _________ lies the cochlear duct.; Currently, more than 85 per cent of water from _________, tanks and wells and tube-wells is used for irrigation.;

acquisition

These weaknesses more times than not are simply additional knowledge and skill _________.; Investors would welcome any news about _________ to bolster the company's medical and aerospace divisions.; Material prosperity and _________ of wealth add a new dimension to your social standing.;

marine

They have an important role in maintaining a balance of _________ life on the reef but they do not build structures.; Sirenians are vegetarians, feeding on a variety of _________ algae and higher plants.; The role of seapower in the revolt and after generated the _________ painting of van de Velde the Younger and others.;

collegial

They have shaken up a strict hierarchy, creating more _________ teams so that one person needn't shoulder round-the-clock responsibilities to make sure that things get done right.; Ongoing communication helps retain a _________ atmosphere for current staff members and provides a way to integrate temporary staff members into the team.; The City Fathers have ripped out the plastic awnings put up in the mid 70s, and removed the huge dense trees - it now looks more like a real town instead of some _________ little city that went feral.;

proximity

They highlighted traffic, poor accessibility and _________ to power lines as concerns.; That picture was so obviously taken from a nearby few feet, judging from the close _________ of the close up.; Estate agents are increasingly using railway station _________ in house sale literature.;

apprenticeship

They look at changes in costs of _________ and trainees.; Both students have signed up for _________ and are looking forward to getting their hands dirty in their new careers.; Training providers have low levels of recruitment, retention and pass rates and few trainees finish _________.;

secretion

They may affect the cycling endometrium by controlling vascular function through _________ of angiogenic growth factors.; In this latter group, eradication of the infection has been reported to increase gastric acid _________ toward normal.; Caffeine stimulates insulin _________ of pancreatic beta cells.;

conviction

They might as well just read the charge and the previous _________ and send the jury out to convict.; This remarkable gathering, I believe, is a proof that this _________ is correct.; The breathalyzer readings resulted in the appellant's _________ before the trial court.;

intuitive

They owe their content not to experience but to the _________ capacities of reason.; I like the keyboard, which has a great feel, and the layout is smart and _________.; All functions are _________ and within easy reach, no matter what you want to do.;

quarry

They raised the concern that the quantity and quality of groundwater may be affected by _________ activities,' he said.; The Chalk is, in its lower part, extensively _________ for cement.; Gravel pits, marl pits and stone _________ were also an early source of freight tonnage as was cement.;

subsidy

They therefore supported new industries by granting _________, tax exemptions, tariff protection and emergency relief.; The centre also manages support programmes for people with disabilities as well as providing direct financial support and childcare _________.; But it is clear that encouraging commodity production with price _________ has not kept people in rural areas.;

supplant

They' were robots, automated manufacturing equipment that was going to _________ human employment.; I have also seen patternmaking techniques designed to fit the human body _________ by techniques that maximize fabric usage and ease of production, giving us garments that fit no one properly.; All in all, this is one case where the supplements _________ the film they are supposed to enhance.;

caribbean

Thirteen Bradford head teachers are jetting off to the _________ isle of Barbados next week.; This year's music includes sounds of the _________, New Orleans calypso and funk.; Dermot, by immense skill and persistence, has made this the supreme _________ hotel.;

newfound

This _________ urgency appears only in fits and starts.; With _________ determination, he haunted the sets of big studio productions, filling up notebook after notebook on the nuances of moviemaking.;

excerpt

This article is _________ from Poetry as Survival, to be published by the University of Georgia Press this year in its Life of Poetry series.; A newscaster later told viewers some of the _________ had previously been broadcast.; When we _________ full chapters, we often put the book's color jacket online to help increase readers' interest.;

stratify

This field experiment was conducted in a deep, _________ lake that typically displays coexistence of multiple Daphnia species.; Since plant communities could influence soil processes, the plots were _________ into two broad vegetation classes: conifer and hardwood.; Within each plot, monitoring sites were _________ by topography (into slopes and drainage lines) and proximity to the remnant edge (into inner and outer zones).;

modulus

This is known as using arithmetic modulo 26, and 26 is known as the _________.; Thus, they are characterized by two elastic constants, Young _________ E and Poisson ratio v.; Such a material can be characterized by simple _________ (ratios of stress to strain): Young's _________, E, and Poisson's ratio,.;

disposition

This is not war where the _________ of forces, aircraft on airfields and headquarters of the aggressor are not subjected to enemy pressure.; Tolerance is a willingness to allow others to exist; humility is a willingness to be open to others, with a _________ to learn and change.; True, the terms of entry were not clearly canvassed, but we may assume a clear _________ to favour New Zealand entry.;

stunt

This is not what we wanted to happen, this is not the outcome we expected,' said Maher, who is well known for his publicity _________.; Many of the children also have _________ growth.; Lesley, a frail girl born with a heart defect which _________ her growth and left her in poor health, was found 10 miles from her home.;

exemplify

This is particularly true of a group of quilts made in northern New York State as _________ by the Pieties quilt illustrated on page 18.; Robert _________ the finest spirit of Louisiana citizens.; The following lyric _________ the spirit of the song.;

parliament

This was not helped by the fact that the new _________ was patently not ready for the occasion.; As a professed radical, he was to prove a singularly jaded observer of _________, parliamentary processes, and parliamentarians.; If this does not occur, the next step is for the _________ to have its second reading of the budget.;

congestion

This will, it is hoped, take traffic off the roads and help to ease _________.; Traffic will take to minor narrower roads causing even worse _________ and gridlock.; Many group members are car owners and know only too well the difficulties caused by road _________.;

devious

Thomas Jefferson was a tough, _________ politician who viewed the states as supreme.; The Scire made her way by a _________ route to Port Lago on the Italian-occupied island of Leros in the Aegean to rendezvous with the frogmen crews.; It always seems to me a kind of spiteful and _________ and underhanded sort of job.;

recreation

Those who spend a great amount of time outdoors due to _________ or work activities, must take the greatest protective measures.; Ambitious plans to transform a disused piece of land in York into a fully-equipped community sports and _________ facility have moved a step closer to reality.; She devoted a lot of time to _________, hobbies, and charity work.;

come into play

Throughout my course of investigation, I have seen this tenet _________ many times.; Proximity doesn't _________ in the case of Japan, which produces 5 million of our visitors.; Most notably, at least two helicopters that have rescue hoists, you know, which obviously could _________.;

fittest

Throughout the meal we were treated to a varied array of music which _________ in with the friendly atmosphere of the pub.; Lisa suffers from _________ of sudden rage and unbearable fatigue.; Inspectors will look at whether the correct equipment is being used, work platforms are properly installed and scaffolding is securely _________.;

mural

Throughout the twenties, his fame grew with a number of large _________ depicting scenes from Mexican history.; The small intestine had a 1.7-cm, firm _________ nodule with intact mucosa but showed infiltrative growth into the mesenteric fat.; A _________ stairs leads to a series of small gardens also.;

fatal

Thus the Inspector's failure to consider this aspect is not _________ to his decision.; It's a _________ flaw in what otherwise has the makings of an entertainingly quirky show.; However, a couple of _________ flaws in an otherwise solid defence proved costly.;

daunting

To follow in her footsteps must be a _________ prospect for any other actor or singer.; Starting your own business at the tender age of 23 would seem a _________ task for most people.; She's packed enough clothes for everyone so that she won't be faced with the _________ task of doing the laundry.;

creek

To reach the village the soldiers had to cross a small tidal _________ running gently into the ocean.; And there is the tale of Jimmy Crowe, a _________ Indian from Okfuskee County, Okla., who, as a teenager, works for the Mennonites as a carpenter and subsequently becomes a preacher.; And I'm up the _________ without a paddle if I leave my daily medications, vitamins, eyeglasses, toothbrush or umbrella behind.;

defuse

To some, it seemed like both men's actions were crucial in _________ a potentially explosive situation.; Earlier Tuesday, rebels manning the blockade ambushed an army truck, killing at least four soldiers and wounding two others shortly after troops _________ a roadside bomb, officials said.; One died this morning, trying to _________ an improvised explosive device.;

summit

Today the _________ meetings and the politicians have become more important than many of the competitions.; These are the priorities raised by residents at community meetings and citizens' _________ sponsored by the mayor.; The road meanders high above the waters of lakes and rivers, embraced by the meringue _________ of the mountains.;

revitalize

Trying to restore sky power, Nigeria Airways officials have begun the process of _________ the failing airline.; He said the government is divided, with one part working against another on a host of issues including the budget, _________ the stock market and liberalizing taxes.; It says it is nonsense to talk of _________ the construction industry, because that would fuel real estate speculation.;

omit

Two surveys were _________ from the sample, as they contained unanswered questions.; Many of my favorite parts of the book were _________ from the movie.; In the above, semi-comic account, Dickens _________ to mention his own heroic conduct in aiding the injured and dying.;

vehicle

Under current conditions, the need has been for small robotic _________ rather than a _________ to transport humans.; Political reform should be sweeping and thorough, not a quick fix as a _________ for maximizing votes in general elections slated for April, 2004.; But if there are no identities, why, in that case, is the struggle for power always a _________ for instrumentalisation?;

noteworthy

Unfortunately these are nestled in an album _________ mostly for its blandness.; A second _________ feature concerns the role of the European Parliament.; These are, after all, just the latest details to be added to a CV packed with _________ statistics.;

quid pro quo

Until last year, I would have insisted public radio stations were immune from _________.; Our duty is to make Hong Kong a better place for us all, without hidden agendas or _________.; Behind the scenes, the tacitly understood tradeoffs amount to _________.;

dwelling

Up the road from that particular house there are even more spectacular _________.; She would like to see a block or two of typical residential _________ from each era of the city preserved somewhere in the city.; When the shot rang out, residents in the area stormed from their _________ to see what was going on.;

pioneer

Very broadly speaking, in most armies the low-status _________, sometimes not even regarded as soldiers, did the work and the engineers got the credit.; Ford, the father of modern manufacturing, also _________ modern business techniques such as lean manufacturing and just-in-time fulfillment.; Their aim was to _________ a new approach to business and technology consulting.;

thrive

Vigilance by all who want to see these wonderful creatures _________ into the future is still in order.; Society should recognise that a child may _________ in any number of different family structures.; Bees _________ in London: they have a far better choice of flowers than their country cousins.;

perplex

We are _________, but we don't give up and quit.; I was _________ when my results were quite different from those reported in the article.; It _________ me that smart people so often say things like this.;

mutual

We are happy to compete with other banks, _________ and building societies and indeed we do just that.'; Therefore, we don't need access to the capital market, a motivation that has driven some other _________ to become stock companies.; Where _________ are concerned members have a great deal of power to play with.;

outstrip

We are healthier and living longer but the rest of Europe has _________ us.; At some point, internal productivity gains _________ market growth, creating excess capacity.; Since demand _________ supply, the problem has become chronic.;

blend

We are invited to learn God's lyrics, to master God's tune, and to enter into God's harmony in ways that _________ with our lives and our world.; Like wine, chocolate is often _________ from various beans, which of course can vary.; A cashmere _________ definitely deserves to be more expensive.;

probation

We are on _________, which is right and proper, and we have a year to prepare, which is excellent.; I was a first year teacher, on _________, and I didn't get particularly good classes.; In the past many new teachers had to work for months or even years in supply work to complete their _________.;

conspiracy

We are part of the same sordid _________ against public understanding.; In a room where people unanimously maintain a _________ of silence, one word of truth sounds like a pistol shot.; Perhaps for obvious reasons, there seems to have been a _________ of silence among most European politicians during the past fifty years on the subject of Confederation.;

saturate

We believe it's unlikely that water will _________ the slab, seeping through to the wooden framing, it is quite possible, and even likely, that small cracks have developed over the years.; You _________ the market, and you have to move to another location and open another store.; The film is shot on grainy stock: some scenes are _________ in white; a few have a cold blue tint; others a homely yellow or brown.;

prescription

We believe that the economic policy _________ of the current government are fundamentally correct.; The evidence required to establish title by _________ will vary with the nature of the user.; I wrote a bunch of _________ and sent seven patients home from the hospital.;

viewpoint

We end up with a nasty battle of limited _________ each struggling to dominate the other.; The graphics are cartoony with two _________, an aerial view and a ground-level view.; Fjeldså's sketches allow us to see postures from _________ rarely seen in the field.;

put paid to

We had an idyllic weekend planned with friends, but a sudden illness in their family _________ that.; It was originally a wooden structure, but a large wave back in the 19th century _________ that in one easy pounding.; Well, I was going to provide a report from the remainder of my match tonight, but the rain _________ that.;

ample

We have _________ sunshine in Australia and 10 minutes outdoors is enough to sustain vitamin D levels.; Her _________ body became a sign of financial abundance afforded by the upper class.; Funnily enough, these always seem to be available in _________ quantities.;

gawp

We have so many tourist attractions that we had to put some underground to keep them secret, but still they flock to _________ at Gaping Gill.; The house was knocked down years ago, but ghoulish coach tours still pull up in the street to _________ at the spot.; We ship him over to Norway and watch as they decorate him with lights and _________ at him for a month or so, then in early January they can chuck him on a fire.;

outpace

We see second quarter growth _________ the first quarter because private consumption and investment should catch up; Imagine two galaxies fleeing from each at a faster and faster rate, finally reaching a relative speed that _________ light.; The rise in the November surplus came despite a 19.4% rise in imports, a rate _________ the 16.6% growth in exports.;

numerator

We stop when the fraction has a _________ or a denominator of 1.; From this we observe that the rows of _________ and denominators of the terms in the Stern-Brocot tree are computed independently of each other.; In other words, a number is rational if we can write it as a fraction where the _________ and denominator are both integers.;

gulf

We talk about _________ between divisions but I think there's a massive one between youth and reserve team football.; Given the wide _________ between the comparison of per capita income figure and the reality of living people, how meaningful is such a comparison?; To the east of the country, the Sinai Peninsula protrudes into the Red Sea between the _________ of Suez and Aqaba.;

ethical

We want to be known as an _________ firm on Wall Street, and we want to be trusted.; The MBA programs on my campus start with a retreat where students get an in-depth immersion in ethics and _________ decision-making.; Increasingly, more insurers are partaking in agreements and codes of conduct which bind us to the correct _________ position for the long-term future.;

vigilant

We were warned to be _________ and alert to what the road users around us were doing.; We must keep alert and _________ to the future plans of the developers.; We are also urged to be _________ for suspicious behaviour, vehicles and packages.;

ascent

We'll see if, like his brother, Stephen can feast on Indy League pitching before making a rapid _________ to the bigs.; In another sixty or seventy yards the tunnel would begin a final _________ to its exit on the western side of the arroyo where Axler's men would be waiting with their transport.; There has, however, been an unexpected twist to the tale that may serve as a warning for other successful entrepreneurs dreaming of a swift _________ to celebrity land through the magic door of television.;

get going

We've got unemployment high, consumer confidence low, stock market can't _________.; John looked at his watch and said that we'd better _________.; Some days, you never really _________ at all.;

mammal

West Nile Virus is found mainly in birds, though it is also found in horses and other _________.; The sloths and armadillos are rather odd _________ characteristic of South America.; The teeth and their pattern of wear are unlike that seen in any modern _________ so what this animal ate is something of a mystery.;

back in the day

Western culture was marrying off girls at 13 to older men _________ (being the long ago past).; But she had worked on some serious productions _________, so it was cool that some one like that would do such a tiny little film like this.; Now, _________, it was really cheap to take a bus and 50 cents could probably get you most places you needed to go.;

democratic

What people see as _________ principles may sometimes have to be compromised.; He stated that a _________ federal pluralistic and parliamentary state should also be set up.; In theory, the fund supports _________ institutions in the nations it assists.;

defunct

When I do it the first five or so results are always the same _________ personal websites for which I have long forgotten the passwords.; Though the treaty is all but _________, its goals remain laudable.; The waste from a _________ reactor is full of plutonium, a highly toxic metal used as the explosive in atomic bombs.;

devise

When I was in my teens, my dad was working on _________ his own system for blackjack.; We have found the Report useful in _________ the guidelines.; At the turn of the century, France produced most of the quality wine in the world, so it is no surprise that they were first to _________ a system of protection.;

faculty

When Ireland reviewed his credentials and saw he was a priest of the Byzantine church and a widower, Ireland refused to grant him _________ or permission to officiate.; The typical university had four _________, of which the largest was Law and the smallest History / Philology; the other two were Medicine and Physics / Mathematics.; The working students who come for the evening/part-time courses interact more freely and share ideas and insights with the _________.;

induce

When a conducting metal is introduced into this field, an eddy current is _________ in the metal.; Suddenly, the apartment is filled by a foreign noise that at first _________ me to believe that my crazy neighbour has set the building on fire.; Nothing on earth could _________ me to strip off at -10 degrees.;

affine

When a dying person breathes his/her last breath, close relatives, normally _________, wash and put new clothes on the body.; In addition to kins and _________, almost all the villagers are invited to join in.; deceased wife's sister' law was belatedly reformed in 1906, although marriage between such _________ as adoptive parents and children, and adoptive siblings, remained within the prohibited degrees.;

paralyze

When it arrives I am so _________ with fear, I can't get on.; Much to my horror, I once again felt the life blood draining out of me, _________ me with fear.; Dripping with potential but too young to realize the extent of possibilities that lie before us, life can easily seem overwhelming, _________ us with fear.;

bombard

When we examine protons closely by _________ them with electrons, we find that they contain plenty of gluons and light quark-antiquark pairs.; Two years ago, the major part of the war was all about _________ us with smart bombs and high-tech missiles.; Denial of service attacks operate by _________ a Web site with a huge amount of requests.;

debatable

Whether Scotland is keeping pace with these rapid changes is _________.; It's still _________ whether the correct modern spelling is Lea or Lee, although the historic spelling is in fact Ley.; Industry revenue from music sales is certainly down, but whether the internet is entirely to blame is _________.;

wrest

While he was disoriented, I _________ the gun from his grasp and threw it far away.; But she had difficulty _________ control from the old triumvirate and before long she too was involved in a turf war with other senior managers.; By 1915, Fallon farmers seriously considered forming a militia to _________ control of the dams and canals along the Truckee and Carson Rivers from the federal government.;

rigorous

While no one doubts the need for more _________ border controls now, there are critics who say the federal government is doing a poor job of distinguishing between potential terrorists and legitimate travelers.; The training is extremely _________ and the performers are expected to grow and form a unit within the studio.; A more _________ analysis could lead one to conclude that labor costs played a role.;

bang on

While some fans were distracted as police and stewards quickly dealt with it, City showed their concentration level was _________.; We did read the URL that you supplied, and intuitively we knew that it was true and _________ when we read it.; When both coaches get their schemes _________, then you look to an individual to come up with a piece of magic that nobody can plan against.;

persist

Why do they _________ in risking their lives in cramped conditions aboard unseaworthy vessels?; If the symptoms _________, the child may become increasingly tired because of the breathing difficulties.; The duration of symptoms is typically seven to 14 days, with symptoms occasionally _________ for months to years.;

as opposed to

Why should they be here, together, _________ anywhere else on the mussel bed?; Wenger thinks deeply about how to give his players what they need, _________ what they want.; The style now is more urban, more freestyle _________ obviously choreographed.;

patriotism

Why would they ask us to prove our _________ and support for the United States?; I suppose I have seen so many people behave stupidly because of some notion of nationalism or _________ that it just annoys me.; Some let religions guide them, others seek worth for their lives in _________ and nationalism.;

sanitation

With little access to clean drinking water and _________, the inhabitants face a constant threat of disease.; Apart from ensuring health, hygiene and _________, the army is focussing on the psychological rehabilitation of the survivors.; The Infection Control department reviewed interim plans to ensure cleaning and _________ standards could be maintained.;

baptism

With the Fianna Fáil organisation in Kerry North riddled with dissent, young McEllistrim's introduction to national politics is something of a _________ of fire.; Many of the rites of passage that young people undergo in Hungary are Christian rituals such as _________, first communion, confirmation, and marriage.; If yesterday's attack was a parent's nightmare, the incident also proved a _________ of fire for new head teacher Richard Kelly who, at 38, is one of the youngest school bosses in the country.;

repercussion

With the software, users can evaluate alternative management plans and study potential _________ on business financial performance and position before investments or changes are made.; These are huge differences that would inevitably have dramatic _________ on the overall cost of credit.; However, attacks don't need to be specifically targeted at enterprises - or even carry a malicious payload - to have serious _________ on the enterprise's operations.;

optimism

With this level of projected coverage, both the McDermotts and Tullow can look to the future with _________.; I think in the '60s there was a certain amount of _________ about the future in technology.; I have genuine _________ for the future of Scotland as a must-visit destination.;

flourish

Within the fortress of the conference halls, gold-plated pens sign off with a _________ on secret agreements that will change the shape of the world.; But _________ a file of letters of complaint sent to the authority since early spring, the local farmer said the council was in the wrong.; Folk care of sick animals antedated the arrival of Europeans and continued to _________ even after the veterinary profession began to develop.;

conceive

Without exception, a woman can _________ at no other time than this approximately two-hour period, easily determined if her birth data are known.; At its best, his show celebrates the capacity of our imagination to _________ of, then rationalise, the ridiculous.; The show has been _________ as including the three aspects of his life, as Einstein - the Man, the Scientist as well as the Humanist-Philosopher.;

underpin

Work began on rectifying the structural problems of the library and extra piles were inserted and the building was _________.; The exercise exposed a fundamental element of the Finnish psyche that _________ the Finnish workplace.; Much of the collection is unique unpublished material which _________ music performance and research in Australia.;

electrify

Work is due to start next year on a 340 million euro project to upgrade and _________ the main railway line from Plovdiv to Svilengrad near the Turkish border.; This means that when you _________ wires in camp while the feed lines into camp are dead, you're also _________ the power lines out of camp.; The rails aren't _________; wires are run through the channels so that electrical devices can be powered at predetermined positions along the rails.;

morale

Workers will be more productive, cooperative, flexible and their _________ higher without unions.; Patients were losing confidence in our services, and staff _________ was threatened.; They clearly are a team in a need of a win just to boost _________ for the second half of the season.;

colonise

Writer Peter Pierce believes that the fear of being lost in hostile desert or bushland has been deeply etched into the Australian psyche ever since Europeans _________ the southern continent.; The classic age of imperialism effectively ended in 1918 ', she writes, though the greater part of the world was still _________.; In more recent times, it was artists who _________ the village, followed later by the yachting crowd.;

verdict

Yesterday the jury returned unanimous guilty _________ after nearly seven hours of deliberation over two days.; In our view, the use of handcuffs does not render the _________ unsafe.; The final _________ in these cases will be delivered by the bureau very soon.;

additive

You can hardly complain about people who want to produce food uncontaminated by artificial chemicals and _________.; Many problems in evolutionary biology involve evolution of traits controlled by multiple genes of approximately _________ effect.; Zero is called the _________ identity, because adding zero to a number will not change it: the number stays the same.;

therapy

You know it was bad enough in _________ having to relive my childhood but this is so much worse.; The subject of alternative _________ for cancer stirs quite a debate within the field of oncology.; The evidence concerns a kind of psychological _________ known as debriefing.;

antibiotic

You will almost certainly be given _________ to take after the operation.; Help fight _________ resistance by taking simple steps to prevent the spread of infections.; Whether patients at lower risk for infection benefit from _________ therapy is less clear.;

entrepreneur

You, too, can be an Internet _________.; Today's new minority _________ are not just more numerous but also more sophisticated than their predecessors.; The 37-year-old millionaire _________ returned to his native Athens for the opening weekend of the 2004 Olympic Games.;

seasoned

_________ with leeks, the mashed potatoes were chunky rather than pulverized.; Even the _________ investor is unable to do this.; Next come bowls of _________ rice, sautéed mushrooms and a baked sweet potato.;

in tandem

_________ with the tougher gun controls announced by the government this week, the amnesty will help get many guns off our streets which may otherwise be used in crime,' said the man.; They also ensured that the shows were full during the first week, often working _________ with the promoters of the film for its success.; This is _________ with my earlier post about the New York Times article.;

logging

fighting for the forests' and seeking to end _________ of old growth trees.; As a result, Cambodia formed a military task force to investigate illegal _________ within its borders.; Second, linking _________ of mature trees to clearing of underbrush is a policy non sequitur.;

meteorology

prove' that _________ or astronomy is not a science.; His interests went outside mathematics and he sometimes lectured on astronomy, _________ and biology where he had a special interest in birds.; For more than 60 years, weather balloons have been the foundation of global _________ as they provide atmospheric data to weather stations.;

authentic

the most _________ depiction of modern soldiering ever put on film'.; It is totally unpretentious, service is good, the meals are very _________, the standard of food is consistent, and we've had many memorable evenings there.; Her enthusiasm is completely genuine, completely _________.;

intervening

to occupy the _________ months she took a job in a hospital; in the _________ years there were several unsuccessful attempts to renovate and reopen the building;

diversion

water war' has also erupted over Castile-La Mancha's _________ of the River Tajo at Murcia's expense.; The road is the emergency _________ route for Ewell Road traffic.; Of course, the biggest _________ - the fall foliage - is free, and it is well worth the trip.;

fleet

A _________ of 87 buses operated there when it closed in January, 1986.; the new cavalry', which means a _________ of helicopter gun ships.; In 1210, he invaded Ireland with a _________ of 700 ships carrying his feudal host and a force of Flemish mercenaries.;

anatomy

A detailed _________ of misordered situations shows that deviations from the true order in such cases are due mainly to interchanges of adjacent markers.; The meat-happy book's unintentional humor peaks with diagrams of different animals' _________.; While this book effectively illustrates the history of terrorism, it is less successful in its claim to offer an _________ of the phenomenon, although it does try hard.;

vigorously

A few audience members _________ nodded their heads in a "Hear, Hear" manner.; Not only the existence of corruption is denied but corrupt politicians and bureaucrats are _________ defended.; It was quite refreshing to see people who train wholeheartedly, and _________ with mutual respect, there were no inflated egos here.;

snippet

I had indirectly picked up _________ of news during the two weeks.; I do however like shouting _________ of rap songs at people if I'm in the mood.; The majority are brief _________ and additions to scenes that made the final cut.;

imposing

A high domed roof and Ionic-Corinthian pillars give the General Post Office in Kolkata an _________ appearance.; These materials gave the desired appearance of an _________ stone building.; The second man was smaller in stature, but held a much more _________ presence.;

untangle

A liner note by the executive producer _________ some of this all-too-typical Balkan tale, but this recording is more a testament to resilience and joy than anger and resentment.; When you have watched men of the cloth ministering to the Drumcree marchers, and watched the Orange battalions at prayer, it is less easy to _________ religion from the emotions involved.; He valiantly discards this safety net, daring readers to _________ the clues ahead of the police.;

presume

A lot of people probably _________ that I couldn't have kids.; Also, two Germans are missing; they are _________ dead.; I _________ on the issue of cooperation, the same charge could be made against America.;

kiosk

A refreshment _________ is already on the site which is leased out as an annual franchise by the council.; He is in the process of rolling out _________, which the company has tested at trade shows.; The popularisation of orange juice, sold at a _________ at Flinders Street Station, was one of his novelties.;

succinct

A senior business analyst at a multinational has the most _________ summary of possible remedies.; Stating a problem in a _________ and crisp manner tends to invite a simple elegant solution.; The prayer is unusually _________: it summarizes several of the distinctive themes of the teaching of Jesus.;

tender

A slight splinter can chafe the skin until it is _________ and sore.; There is a range of juicy, _________ steaks and chicken dishes.; I had ordered four friends into the _________, an 18-foot Boston Whaler, while Dan and I stayed aboard.;

propel

A stroke consists of four components that have to be completed perfectly to _________ the boat forward as fast as possible.; Their leathery wings beat against the blackness in steady flaps, _________ them forward.; Solar sails will use the sun's energy to _________ spacecraft across the cosmos.;

peasant

A tan face signifies the status of a lowly _________ who has worked in the fields all her life.; Noble, bourgeois, and _________ alike associated status with exemption from public demands.; They were short of land, monopolized as it was by capitalist farmers and aged _________.;

stain

And remember, treat oily or waxy _________ first, then treat protein, tannin and dye _________.; It was a ruthless bid for mainstream success, yet he emerged without a _________ on his avant-garde credentials.; That does not remove the _________ from the District Court record.;

consecrate

About 300 clergymen are said to be considering leaving the Church if the decision is taken to _________ women bishops.; He was _________ Bishop of Chester on 14 November 1668.; The Church of Ireland congregation too had good reason to celebrate during 2004 with the Rededication of the Colliery Church after 175 years since it was first _________.;

meteor

He thought he had seen a _________ but before the light disappeared it changed direction.; Light from a passing _________ is recorded on several security cameras.; There are _________ and comets and supernovas and yes, black holes.;

solvent

All _________ strippers are regarded as health hazards.; The main responsibility facing directors of _________ companies is to keep proper books and records and to file annual returns and accounts on time to the Companies Office every year.; However distasteful the theory may be, we have to admit that vicarious liability owes its explanation, if not its justification, to the search for a _________ defendant.;

unfavorable

Although he sounds completely satisfied with the band, Andrew is also disappointed with the content of a few _________ record reviews.; The Department head took away some of her responsibilities, she said, and then wrote _________ reports about her performance.; This is because the early-arriving males often suffer from _________ weather conditions and lack of suitable food.;

enormous

An _________ main course, a bottle of local beer and a cappuccino will only set you back a few pounds.; This is thought to have created a huge fireball and an _________, damaging shock wave.; Any one of these ideas will take an _________ amount of effort and investment to implement.;

concatenate

An iterative characteristic is one that can be _________ with itself.; The 60,000 samples obtained from the four chains were then _________ to produce the consensus results shown here.; The program stores image streams in a single file, _________ each successive image onto the end of the file.;

oust

And fifth, they can seek to _________ legislators who oppose them.; He is apparently viewed as a troublemaker and an intruder who should be _________ as soon as possible.; Once more, the nephew and the business partner join forces to _________ him and, after a bitter and bloody battle, they again triumph.;

interim

And in the _________, enjoy this lovely picture of Tony Abbott.; Whoever they get I suggest that they should get someone as soon as possible in order to ensure that players don't leave in the _________.; Now we must urgently appeal to parents to keep their children away from the site in the _________ period.;

diseased

Are they the product of a _________ mind, a sick imagination, a temporary lapse of sanity?; The only thing I can figure is that they want the _________ bison to infect cattle and thereby harm the beef industry.; Eventually she gets a job as a beef trimmer, generally a man's job, trimming the meat of _________ cattle.;

conceived

As a boy in the 1920s he _________ an undying love for the ancient Roman poet Horace, and since then has learned nothing more about him or Rome.; The son of a country policeman, Archibald grew up in Warrnambool, Victoria, where he was apprenticed in the printery of the local paper and _________ an ambition to be a journalist.; It may act as such, by suppressing ovulation, but it also works by making the lining of the womb hostile to the newly _________ embryo.;

illuminate

At the moment, in the third window down, a light shone brightly, _________ a small patch of the garden below.; Overheard the sun shone brightly, _________ the garden with a brilliant ray of light.; Then a storm begins, and the flashes of lightning briefly and beautifully _________ a tree waving in the wind outside the window.;

lengthy

At university I often went on _________ pub crawls with a blind guy, amongst others.; I'm not sure I'd manage quite so well if we had a similarly _________ hot spell today.; Those who attack health care workers deserve nothing less than _________ jail sentences.;

temperate

Because of the relatively high elevation, the region has a _________ climate.; The seasons aren't that distinct here, especially in East London with its mild and _________ climate.; The _________ climate, mild and moist, has ensured the development of an abundance of plant and animal life.;

cattle

Because of the war the national _________ stock is low and animals have to be imported.; Brazil is the world's second biggest soya producer and has the second biggest herd of _________.; Apparently the animals may also infect _________ with diseases and damage hay.;

ingenuity

By the very nature of them it is clear you are a man of some intelligence and some _________.; He resolves to build a monument to nineteenth century _________ and invention that will blend fantasy and reality.; However, these are remarkable examples of _________ as well as artistry.;

iconic

Chapman's life has been threatened many times for killing one of pop music's most _________ figures.; The credit titles are a work of art, emphasising the _________ nature of this black hero.; To many fans of Canadian music, the name Michael Burgess evokes an appreciation bordering the _________.;

cohort

Clearly Firmus is a key individual, as he has the authority to allocate grain to a detachment of legionaries in the fort; yet does this mean that he is a senior centurion of one of the _________, or is he just a middle-man?; A legion varied in strength from four-thousand to six-thousand men, and was subdivided onto ten _________.; For the easily confused, a cast directory helps you to identify all the various roles for the Pythons and their supporting _________.;

nudge

Conlon rose highest at the far post to knock the ball back across the face of the Boro goal to give Duffield a simple _________ home with his head.; Eva _________ me with her elbow and I glanced over to see what she wanted.; Close your hands over the newly formed hair roll and gently _________ the hair to the right in a rolling motion.;

exhortation

Consumers have repeatedly ignored _________ to buy British and the like in favour of global products.; What he needed more than anything, though, was an early goal, to persuade the crowd that their _________ were worth it.; Distant _________ will have least effect where action is most needed.;

secede

Conversely, a claim of a right to _________ from a repressive dictatorship may be regarded as legitimate.; The North might have chosen the path of virtuous isolationism, letting the South _________ and becoming an egalitarian social democracy.; When the state of Mississippi _________, he withdrew from the Senate.;

illiterate

Couple a scientifically _________ public with activist groups well-versed in scare tactics and what do you get?; In 1990 the World Bank estimated that half the population was _________ (could not read or write).; India has the majority of the world's _________ - nearly 500 million.;

whirlwind

During certain weather conditions, the constant stream of air over hilly areas would produce small, electrically charged _________.; Theirs had been a real _________ romance - six weeks from their first meeting to their marriage.; Those people should be made accountable for their actions, and I look forward to them reaping the _________ from the New Zealand people.;

bulge

During the 1960s, 70s and 80s there were high birth rates in the Muslim world, and this has given rise to a huge youth _________.; The foam, filled with tiny oxygen bubbles, can be injected into veins to smooth _________ and stop blood-flow problems behind the condition.; A long torso may mean roomier accommodations for a baby, making it less likely for a woman's belly to _________ outward.;

acoustic

During the war, he joined the British Admiralty Research Laboratories where he designed _________ and magnetic mines.; Just Recently researchers were able to determine the damage to the ship by imaging the sunken liner with an _________ device known as a sub-bottom profiler.; It's been a while since an album has taken such great lengths to show that there is some tangible relation between the worlds of electronic and _________ music.;

rural

Each Special is allocated a beat or a shift either in the town centre or the _________ areas.; She liked it away from the noises of the city and could see herself moving out into a _________ town one day.; Many of your readers must live in _________ areas where the sight of a policeman is something of a rarity.;

interdisciplinary

For me, for a long time, _________ research was my favorite conception.; Smith believes this will be detrimental to the _________ nature of the program.; Dietitians should be introduced to _________ research in undergraduate programs.;

hatch

Every spring the moorhens build themselves a nest on a raft of twigs or on the bank at the waterline, for a clutch of speckled brown eggs to bring off a _________ of four or five tiny brown-black chicks.; And because cuttlefishes, like almost all cephalopods, die before their eggs have _________, there is no reason for them to recognize their young.; But my gratitude also extends to those drivers who reverse on to main roads, see _________ areas as special taxi lanes and who ask for the removal of the indicator lights upon purchase of their vehicle.;

exfoliate

Enzymes in the sanitized droppings help remove dirt and _________ dead skin cells.; Every inch of me had been cut, filed, steamed, _________, polished, painted, or moisturized.; I was then _________ from top to toe with nice scrubby stuff which left me all a-tingle.;

intricate

Even more seriously, this is a play full of the most _________, knotty, compacted language.; An unusual and attractive feature of the bathroom is a fireplace with _________ detail.; It is so complex and _________ that it relies on the full cooperation and participation of all its members.;

atlas

Even the way we learn and package information from books, magazines, _________, and newspapers has improved.; Although the _________ and axis are missing, the remaining cervical vertebrae are present and well preserved.; I am certain that my colleagues at the Swiss Ornithological Institute in Sempach will not rest on this achievement, however, and so I look forward to a third Swiss breeding bird _________ in a few years.;

toll

Even those costs shrivel beside the environmental _________.; They are looking at _________ existing sections of the national road network in Dublin, Cork, Limerick and Galway in order to raise revenue for the cash-starved, roads building programme.; Residents now put the _________ at 44 killed and at least 100 injured.;

angst

Everything bounces along with a youthful joy, devoid of cynical teenage _________, full of hope and dare we say it slightly soppy.; Each of us have tremendous _________ and shame and heartache about our eating disorders on the show.; The audience is propelled into the existential _________ of everyday living.;

baffle

Fashion still _________ me and probably always will.; You get the distinct impression that the cops are as _________ by the intractability of it all as everyone else.; Air cooling depends heavily on the condition of _________, or seals, inside the engine compartment that direct air flow to where it's needed.;

counteract

For example it may be that heroin addicts choose heroin because it _________ the rage and aggression they feel, while cocaine may be used to medicate against depression.; Going back into schools also _________ the fall in the number of male teachers and their tendency to give up time to spread the word about their passion for rugby.; He didn't, therefore, possess adrenaline - the life-saving drug which _________ the allergic reaction people have when sensitive to bee and wasp stings.;

outright

For example, he declared _________ that artistic directors have to back winners at the expense of exciting creativity.; Most habitat and wildlife will be killed _________ and retained pockets will be so small, scattered and pressurised by the surrounding development, that wildlife value will quickly deteriorate.; I know there were a few times that the first one didn't kill it _________.;

hibernation

Frogs in deep _________ take longer to emerge to answer the call of the spring mating season.; It's critical to weigh your turtle or tortoise prior to _________.; The German-based team say their study is the only report of prolonged _________ in a tropical mammal.;

playwright

George F Walker is one of Canada's most prolific and widely-produced _________.; Even if these people are the fictional creations of a _________, you feel that you know them at the end of a good play.; The most notable of the _________ are Aeschylus, Euripides and Sophocles.;

tumor

Given the slow growth of prostatic _________, such a delay should not affect treatment outcomes.; Both benign and malignant _________ showed ulceration of the overlying mucosa.; The knee is the most common joint involved in both benign and malignant _________.;

come out with

Having only spoken on the issue on Friday, I wondered what new information he was going to _________.; You always wondered what inappropriate remark he might _________, and what would be her state of health.;

strut

He bowed and walked off briskly through the ticket barriers, _________ like some sort of peacock.; At Prestonfield you watch peacocks _________ around manicured lawns before retiring to amazing stuccoed rooms.; He looked the opposite way and witnessed groups of men and women at the dance stage, _________ their stuff.;

grind

He captures the endless _________ of urban progress with background noises such as busses and television dominating the soundscape.; Keeping up the illusion of _________ away at the same old job isn't enough, however.; Jude glanced around, seeing Andy _________ with some girl who was not Claudia.;

falsify

He cites evidence that doctors or medics _________ death certificates to cover up homicides.; Thousands of unwitting South African women may be married illegally to foreigners who have paid corrupt officials to _________ marriage certificates.; No interest is served when it's easy to duplicate or _________ an identity document.;

enclave

He declined to give details on who the passengers were except to say they were from a nursing home in Bellaire, an upscale _________ within Houston.; It tells us that capitalism will not allow _________ of socialism to exist, be it a hippy commune or an island of socialism.; Most islands are multiethnic, with large and small groups forming geographical _________.;

dismissive

He denied the trust had been _________ towards Mr Blackbird and his family.; Woodward, you can also gather, wouldn't have been so _________ if England had been on the receiving end.; Miss Regan complained to the manager but said he was _________ of her complaint and walked off while she was still talking to him.;

speculation

He divides his discussion into what we know and what we don't know, and adds some _________ at the end.; The profitability of the trade has given rise to _________ that money from wildlife is financing terrorist activities.; He was free to continue his novel banking practices that ignored investment loans in favor of lucrative currency _________.;

epic

He engages with an unprecedented range of Greek and Roman writing; every genre, not just _________, leaves its mark in the poem's idiom.; I was pained to see that our very history and _________ had barely created a ripple in the minds of most people.; I know that as _________ as the performances of the athletes were, there were similarly heroic contributions that are almost entirely overlooked.;

rhythm

He experimented constantly with _________ and stresses and verse forms, disliking and avoiding any facile flow.; I need my little musical _________ to wrap me up and shush me tenderly as I wonder about the black-haired girl, and the basilisks in the hotel lobby.; They're all played with a fantastically organic sense of _________ and the 1st violins shine throughout.;

sensational

He is a very attractive horse that showed _________ abilities at middle distances.; In the wake of a _________ murder case, local newspapers printed lurid headlines and helped increase passions in the city.; In 1869 he won fame as public prosecutor in the _________ murder trial that convicted Nancy Clem.;

qualify

He is also _________ as a teacher of English as a foreign language.; After working for more than fifty years I have been told that I do not _________ for benefits and I receive only £130 per week to support myself and my wife.; If it does not _________ me as a teacher, label my advice the ramblings of an old fool, and seek a teacher in whom you have confidence.;

prestigious

He is set to take on the most _________ daily newspaper job in Scotland.; We should be proud that our public servants are favourites for several _________ awards this year.; It is the view of many that _________ galleries should be in high profile city centre establishments.;

comet

He observed the _________ of 1665, and made other astronomical observations, publishing his descriptions of these events.; She discovered eight _________, a record by a female astronomer until 1987.; Bombardment by asteroids and _________ is an extraterrestrial process that may release huge quantities of water.;

flautist

He rapidly acquired a reputation as an accomplished _________, whilst at the same time producing his first important compositions.; The _________ had four different flutes, from a piccolo to a bass flute with a curly bell at the end.; A cello player and a _________ play some unobtrusive melody near the back of the living room; hands are shaken while knowing looks are exchanged.;

pinpoint

He said the guidelines were unique as they _________ gaps in emergency care and identified what needed to be done.; The spot was _________ and assessed by local police for security.; Scanner's visual tracks 1 and 2 focus upon a _________ of pulsating light from which extend lines of variegated, rapidly changing colours.;

time frame

He said the reason for this was that there is a _________ of about ten years between infection and death.; A _________ of three months has been set for the groups to submit their respective reports.; How confident are you that these concerns can be resolved within a reasonable _________?;

adjacent

He walked towards the cave exit, which was directly _________ to the room in which he had slept.; He pulled me into the other bathroom, _________ to Joel's room and locked both doors.; The new pergola is _________ to the dining room and is easily accessible through French doors.;

distraught

He was _________ and we virtually had to tie him down to stop him leaping back into the water.; He said floral tributes had been put at the front door to the flat, including one by a girl who seemed quite _________.; Matthew's _________ mother, Ann, was offered comfort by the youngsters at the scene.;

decorate

He was injured during both of the battles at El Alamein and he was never _________ for bravery in continuing to carry out his job.; It was claimed by later writers on Plato's life that he was _________ for bravery in battle during this period of his life.; Nutgrove Park is _________ in warm colours and has a number of attractive features.;

expose

He was officially _________ as a spy by then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in 1979 and was stripped of his knighthood.; He was wearing different clothing now, ripped denim shorts and a cut up shirt _________ his stomach, and his hair was down now and flowed past his shoulder blades.; For example, the Martian polar caps exhibit extensive layers that have been _________ by subsequent erosion.;

occupational

However, the new product is expected to appeal to members of ordinary _________ schemes.; And even then they were only aimed at limiting _________ exposure within the asbestos industry.; I am a member of an _________ pension scheme approved by the Inland Revenue.;

integral

His first mathematical research was on analysis, in particular concentrating on _________ and solutions of differential equations.; Outside, the property includes a double _________ garage, a paddock, extensive lawns and a vegetable garden.; Another analysis topic he studied was non-linear _________ equations.;

undercut

However, it is not clear how far this _________ the arguments for limited liability.; Opposite the cottonwood, on the far bank, is a 40-foot _________ cliff that resembles the prow of a ship.; After years of struggling to find cheap, reliable labor in Oklahoma, he had found a way to _________ his competitors without closing up shop and moving overseas.;

proliferate

If cloning by fission is viewed more generally as a form of tissue modeling seen in all metazoans, in which some cells _________ and others die, knowledge from other organisms can suggest candidate genes.; Country fairs have _________ to the extent that the season must be extended to fit them all in.; The cells remaining in the ruptured follicle _________ rapidly and form the corpus luteum.;

endow

If women hear a guy is well _________ all of a sudden they are really curious.; The Mojave and Kiowa American Indian people believed dreams _________ supernatural abilities for fighting and hunting.; Board members and others in the community are raising funds to _________ the center in his honor.;

scoop

If you are, or know of, a classical musician, you'll love the inside _________, which is more accurate than most folks would believe.; Yet, wedged into a cavernous socket _________ out of the mountain like ice cream and scoured smooth by wind and rain, the setting is spectacular.; So we get two _________ of each and we walk around the park.;

electorate

If you have not received yours and you live in my _________, give my office a ring.; In our _________ office's shared bathroom, a guy nervously smokes a cigarette.; A regular visitor to the Lindsay _________ office and a campaign supporter of Jackie Kelly.;

scald

If you turn on the hot-water faucet too far in the shower, you may be _________.; The same mixture will take the heat out of sunburn and _________ and soothe insect bites.; I pulled the doors open and stepped into my shower, adjusting the heat so that it wasn't _________ me anymore.;

get hold of

In a scene repeated in shops all over Hampshire youngsters who had managed to _________ the book were desperate to start reading it as soon as it was in their hands.; Your Aunt Lillian managed to _________ him and it seems there's little chance of my son escaping her clutches until the Season ends.; We managed to _________ someone at the company in order to explain to us how this concept works.;

recursive

In other words, the _________ action of fictional analysis reconstructs and reconfigures the power of the word through learning about text.; An expression could invoke _________ functions or entire subprograms, for example.; With the latest security holes, the programs are vulnerable only when acting as _________ name servers.;

continuum

In other words, these forms may correspond to different points on a _________.; In this study, the meanings women attached to food differed depending on where they were on the recovery _________.; But gender identity should be seen as a _________, just like sexual orientation.;

resurgence

In the 1950s its columns reflected the popular _________ of domesticity and traditional values, to which it added regular coverage of the British royal family.; The band is enjoying a _________ in popularity, at least in the live arena, which might be why they've just released their third live album in four records.; Analyst firms have begun to track a _________ in the technology industry that began to increase late in 2003 and into 2004.;

aggressor

In the case of international aggression this must be the _________ as well as victims of aggression.; Gain an understanding of the _________ body language, and the rituals of aggression and deception that he will use against you.; The target is attacked circuitously and the _________ can therefore remain unidentified.;

ally

In the first innings Lee had been erratic and expensive, like Warne conceding more than 100 runs, but yesterday he sustained a decent pace and _________ it to accuracy.; Many Jews had fought for the _________ during World War Two and had developed their military skills as a result.; What if every 200 humans adopted a species and _________ themselves with it throughout their lives?;

descend

Indeed the latest attacks, for all their threat of danger, soon _________ into farce.; Heathcliff dies intestate, the property _________ - as it should - to the young lovers, and the two great houses revert to their dynastic owners.; For traffic driving east, the road _________ down a gradient of 0.023 through a wooded area with trees overhanging the road on both sides.;

cutlery

Iris was prevented from answering immediately because as soon as she retrieved her _________ she forked some pancake into her mouth.; I arrange some serviettes on the table, along with some _________ and utensils.; Not for nothing is David Mellor one of the leading designers in this country who has consistently turned out beautiful _________ and utensils.;

hedonic

Is there a way out of the _________ treadmill, the Western model of craving and attachment?; Your top character traits are those that allow you to achieve meaningful happiness, instead of mere _________ pleasure.; Other psychologists have proposed theories to account for the changes in behavior that take place when _________ events follow the behavior.;

realm

Is this beyond the _________ of possibility given the government's action in the last few weeks?; Because such a warranty belongs in the _________ of the law of contract not tort.; As yet there is no release date, and while having the first showing in Skipton is not beyond the _________ of possibility, it remains a hope.;

curb

It all began with _________ on open grazing and felling of trees, control on population growth and ban on dowry and alcoholism.; Banks worldwide are targeting mainland lending, credit card, insurance and fund management services as it prepares to meet World Trade Organisation rules by lifting _________ on lenders.; Despite _________ on satellite TV, many get such broadcasts, as well as bootleg videotapes and smuggled publications.;

outdated

It amazes me that many people do not realize this and still cling to the _________ relics of the past.; It was rundown, with _________ equipment and a half-empty order book.; November 24 will signal the end of the _________ licensing system, which dates back to the First World War.;

precursory

It can take off in a completely different and original direction, making up for all the endless _________ scenes we have had to sit through.; The collapse will occur during some future eruption after days or weeks of _________ deformation and earthquakes,' Dr Day predicted.; The activity observed in 1994 occurred largely at the site of the 1998 eruption and may have indicated _________ volcanic activity at a site on the brink of an eruption.;

tardy

It can use fuelling trucks but the trucks delay flights because of _________, lazy drivers.; The High Court judge recently criticised the _________ process and said taxpayers were footing the bill, including legal costs in successful claims.; In my years at Rio Rancho High School, I've been _________ to class and been busted for dress code, receiving my fair share of hours in after-school detention.;

saline

It compared intravenous fluid replacement with a protein solution made up with albumin versus plain ordinary _________ - salt water.; Immediately after thoracotomy, the pleural cavity was carefully washed with 100 mL of physical _________ solution, and the fluid was examined.; In coastal areas, a decline in the water-table can also induce flow of _________ groundwater from the formation beneath the ocean or sea toward wells on land.;

charisma

It didn't matter that everyone who worked with him said that, in private, he was charming, with genuine _________.; It is an attractive diversion somewhat enhanced by the charm and _________ of its stars.; She said that he doesn't have any charm or _________ in front of the camera and that she could do a better job.;

granite

It includes a variety of rocks, such as basalt, _________, gneiss, quartzite, slate, and schist.; The temple was made from 2 differed types of stone: limestone and _________.; New surfaces are made from chemical compounds and are designed to mimic _________, limestone, marble, slate, or soapstone.;

shipwreck

It is a fable recalled by a lonely man who lies between the clumps of grass on the sands by a river (the scene looks deceptively lyrical), like a survivor washed ashore after a _________.; There have been _________ here, for as long as there has been shipping.; Off the Kent coast _________ seamen managed to find a foothold don the Goodwin Sands, but they knew the rising sea would drown them if they were not taken off.;

immersive

It is a low-cost 3D _________ viewing system with a wide range of applications.; Computer games are an intricate blend of _________ graphics and creative gameplay programming.; So, shouldn't a truly _________ 3D experience include a way of recreating binocular vision?;

siege

It is clear Helen has not been happy in Troy either - especially during the years Troy has been under _________ by invading Greeks.; A generation ago, mounting an expedition meant drafting a herd of porters, slogging loads of gear to a rocky base camp, and laying _________ to a Himalayan peak.; True to form the press were preparing to lay _________ to the two family homes.;

carbon dioxide

It is the only beer in which _________ and nitrogen are present.; When harmful gases like _________ are released into the atmosphere they form a dense layer around the earth.; The second mechanism is keeping the already produced _________ through correct breathing.;

municipality

It must now see to it that neither private sector nor government bodies such as _________ violate the law.; This project may get a loan of 20 million euros, which will be distributed among seven or eight _________.; There are also four golf clubs in the _________ and temperatures at this time of year make a round of the fairways very pleasant.;

provoke

It said his name in a mocking way, _________ him to an anger that he dared not express in front of such a fiend.; Rather, they make her work harder to achieve it and they also _________ her to motivate other associates for the cause.; The power of his language is illustrated through performance, _________ the audience to re-assess Shakespeare and his plays.;

outpatient

It showed about 100 patients waiting at the _________ clinic, most of them elderly.; Many children receive chemotherapy on an _________ basis at a clinic or hospital.; There was no difference in success or complication rate between hospitalized patients and _________.;

assertive

It showed that she was finding it very hard to be _________, and her son was confused by his mother's contradictory signals.; We just have to push a little harder, be a little more _________, and I think we can pull it off.; They reported increased confidence in being more _________ with patients.;

subtlety

It's also true that you miss many of the nuances and _________ of a finely crafted print.; A lot of women don't want to hurt a guy's feelings so they tend to be vague, but _________ is lost on most men.; These _________ and uncertainties have encouraged speculation.;

stochastic

It was heavy duty mathematics at that, involving an obscure technique known as _________ differential equations.; He has written on _________ geometry and its applications, and the statistical theory of shape.; The fact that the problem is _________ means that the airline needs to work with expected values and probability distributions, which makes the optimisation harder to solve.;

divest

It was time to retire, so he began to _________ himself of his businesses.; This did not mean that they were _________ of all religious significance.; During the Nineties healthcare firms were keen to _________ themselves of their interests in vaccines.;

militant

It wasn't just the _________ offices that walked out.; Ours is not a _________ area, but support for the strike inside and outside the fire brigade remains high.; Communism has been replaced by equally totalistic and _________ forms of nationalism and religious fundamentalism.;

prominent

It went on to say that the suggested site is situated in a _________ section of this new streetscape.; The issue of passive smoking is very _________ in the minds of almost everyone in this day and age.; He has also been _________ in fund-raising circles for All Hallows College in Dublin.;

exterminate

It's a massacre, they _________ people for the fun of it.; Not only did these _________ whole populations, they also destroyed native faith in their rulers, culture, and gods.; Like it or not there is no truly humane way to _________ a fox, one way or another there is distress.;

adorn

It's also a fact that in my life I have spent far more on dressing and _________ myself than I ever have on a bed.; I lingered in the hallways for awhile admiring the artistic prints of money _________ the walls.; She has also produced a large scale mural which now _________ the wall of the LSU.;

lean

Jack was first tempted to open his garden when someone _________ over the gate to chat and was invited in.; I think it is important for you to share with children how things were in the _________ years of your family.; He _________ forward and pointed to a list of five names on the second page in the folder.;

hone

Jenny _________ her physique, tackled the gymnastics, and turned pro the following summer at the USA Championships.; A Hercules aircraft _________ in on the boat's locator beacon and an oil tanker eventually launched a lifeboat to rescue the man.; I like to start with a soft stone, such as the stick-like _________ sometimes used by watchmakers.;

skeleton

Jobcentres and benefit offices in York were operating with a _________ staff today as workers began 48-hour strike action in an increasingly bitter pay dispute.; The human body has a dynamic framework of bone and cartilage called the _________.; Sheltered by an undulating copper canopy on a wooden _________, the garden's form and content celebrates life's diversity.;

contour

Kom can have as many as eight phonetic tones including _________, or combinations of tones.; One of the things he most loves about that landscape is the way the stone walls that thread across the hills pick out the _________ of the land.; More impressive still is his quicksilver dexterity in following the ever-changing _________ of Sibelius' form.;

agitated

Later that night, when taken to Manchester Royal Infirmary for treatment to a hand, she was not psychiatrically assessed despite her _________ condition and was allowed home.; They didn't even become in the slightest _________ when O'Neill's men disappeared down the tunnel for the interval without having breached the St Mirren goal.; In many other healing temples for _________ people physical restraints are used, but they are not used here.;

panelist

Leveling that kind of criticism gets easier as time goes on, _________ agreed.; As some _________ indicated, they begin by asking questions that point to an ethical process.; Three of the four _________ are current or former editorial page editors.;

replenish

Like a well of water, creative energy _________ itself slowly over time.; Conversely, diversified, grain and poultry & livestock cooperatives _________ their unallocated equity accounts while revolving member equity.; As a section's inventory ran low, library volunteers carted out cases of books from the front of the warehouse to _________ it.;

motion sickness

Like other forms of _________, space sickness is due to a conflict of sensory information from the vestibular system and eyes to the central nervous system.; Other risk factors include a history of _________ or migraines.; She agrees with anecdotal reports from aviators that controlled breathing is an effective countermeasure for _________.;

mineral

Loss on ignition values up to 5% correspond to the abundance of hydrous and carbonate alteration _________ in the samples.; It enticed customers with finger food, beer, wine and _________ until 8pm last week at its offices on Temple Road in Blackrock.; Eat foods that provide all the requirements of nutrients, everyday vitamins, proteins, _________, carbohydrates and fats.;

ward

Made _________ of court, their two children remained free.; The children were made _________ of court and their parents were sent to Harmondsworth detention centre, where they pleaded for their lives in Britain.; The veil was also believed to magically have the power to _________ off surrounding evils that wish to harm the bride.;

rite

Marriage is another important _________ of passage.; Such _________ are practised in joint consultative committees, grievance procedures, procedures for disputes resolution and the like.; Even now he is surrounded by his ministers and clergymen prepared to administer final _________.;

constrain

May the Lord graciously grant us this holy faith and the love for Christ that rises from it - a love that is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit, _________ us to lean on him alone.; However, innovation for years to come will be severely _________ by the space and premises.; However, I am _________ to view, with great disquiet, some aspects of these plans.;

cube

Mix gravy, _________ turkey and leftover vegetables into a casserole dish.; Add _________ potatoes, cook for a while, add chick peas, and garden peas, and some torn basil leaves.; The fluorite tends to occur only as _________ modified by the dodecahedron, with simple _________ or octahedra uncommon or absent.;

cholesterol

Nephrotic syndrome also features abnormally high levels of blood _________.; They are also rich in vitamins C and E and are known to lower blood _________.; The body can make all the _________ it needs without having to take in any additional _________ from the food we eat.;

dilation

Nitric oxide is a free radical that promotes infection resistance and blood vessel _________.; He was discharged and scheduled for repeat _________ and possible stent placement in 3 weeks.; Her _________ on these opinions seemed to carry us to about 8.30 without any awareness of the passage of time.;

substantiate

No evidence _________ this claim has been made public, however, and the CIA itself has refused any comment on the operation.; In themselves they don't really mean a lot unless they can be _________ by some scientific evidence.; But the bureau said the motives could either not be ascertained or _________ by evidence.;

deterministic

Of course, the universe on one reading is highly abstract and some of its laws are mechanistic and _________.; Strictly speaking this process of inference cannot be completely _________.; He expressed an underlying instability indicative of the gradual disillusionment with the promises of _________ reasoning.;

partition

Office walls and interior cubicle _________ are typically transparent or translucent.; The country was _________ amid the most violent fratricidal fury.; Plasma membranes were isolated using the two-phase aqueous polymer _________ system.;

gland

Often the sore throat feels sharp or splinterlike, and the _________ are swollen.; In the unstimulated state, 70 percent of saliva is secreted by the submandibular and sublingual _________.; In meth users - partly because of the dehydration common because they do not drink enough fluids - salivary _________ quit and swell shut.;

senate

On the Ides of March, two days before he was due to leave Rome on his great eastern expedition, he was stabbed to death at a meeting of the _________ in Pompey's new theater.; The faculty _________ at Virginia State University was abolished in 2001.; We have had here more than 200 potential investors, two governors of regions, one deputy minister, four ministers, the vice premier and the president of the Italian _________ and there are still a lot to come.;

hypothesis

Several _________ have been proposed to explain the number of times segmentation arose.; This variation is poorly understood, and several _________ have been proposed.; Almost all were rhetorical or editorial, with some offering explanatory _________ or sociological theories.;

eccentric

She could have been a true British _________, although I seem to recall her having a foreign accent.; This creates a bond between the two of them, both of whom are viewed as _________ by the community.; Which got me thinking about local characters and _________ - like the gentleman who could be seen for years until the mid-1980s walking around Greenwich immaculately turned out, with his Siamese cat on a lead.;

swerving

She was kept in jail for several hours by LA cops after they spotted her pick-up truck _________ wildly on the freeway out of the city.; It should be widened and sidewalks introduced - a truck _________ to avoid a pedestrian was the cause of one of last week's crashes there.;

lapse

Smith's own concentration _________ as the fourth official failed to produce the board to enable the introduction of Craig Beattie and perhaps, in looking across, so did that of his defenders.; Training of grass-roots leaders is one thing, but in order to avoid a _________ into traditional authoritarian styles, more is needed.; A decade after the rape, he explains the time _________, as well as his frequent nosebleeds and fainting spells, as the work of alien abductors.;

infer

Smuggling is _________ from a few of the tails allegedly being undersized and illegal.; In the first place it is possible to _________ a certain topicality in the discourse.; Other circumstances in addition thereto must exist to allow the trier of fact to _________ malice.;

converge

That they were prevented from _________ on their target destination left the protesters no option but to stage their demonstrations where they were.; This will involve three separate marches _________ on the city centre.; Instead, it is a collection of rules and practices employed by various partisans at different times that _________ to shape the electorate in a single campaign.;

mechanism

The Iraqi people must have an effective _________ to bring complaints against soldiers who abuse their human rights.; As soon as they are about to hit the trigger _________, bang the coin-return button.; Felix is a very clever engineer who designs _________ that in the end are very simple and also easy to maintain.;

confound

The Northeast is not where I grew up either, and Yankee culture (one of only many cultures within the history and heritage of the Northeast) still _________ me.; It was a suitably surreal showpiece for a night that _________ all expectations.; Mind you, sometimes, now and again, Nature _________ us by letting an early break of fair skies extend itself a little, hover on the cusp of change and then, once the weather men are completely confused, settle in for a long hot summer.;

aide

The Prime Minister's closest _________ are confident that their political master can ride out the latest storm.; As for the pace of this preparation, the _________ are saying the president is comfortable with him.; The Admiral looked at his _________ and looked at his counsel of fellow officers.;

render

The audio is clear of noise and both dialogue and music are _________ faithfully.; Furthermore, it had to wait 24 hours before _________ a verdict in a case.; He intimated mortality by _________ the things represented on his canvas as escaping the grasp of our gaze.;

probe

The _________ can be used in a variety of medical applications; Doctors have been prodding and _________ women for centuries to help produce healthy babies.; For an observer to acquire both donor and acceptor fluorescence for this dual-image ratiometric measurement, the fluorescent _________ must exhibit spectral overlap.;

choreograph

The ballet was directed and _________ by Reema Goyal, a dance tutor at the institute.; Those current events just happened so it was almost like I could say they _________ my future life.; But it helped _________ an energy boom that is transforming the Rocky Mountains into the country's newest energy frontier.;

impose

The board chairmen and editors did not _________ themselves on anyone.; As the victim gets older, he begins to re-enact the abuse _________ on him on to other people.; Unanimous rather than majority vote of seven military commissioners will be required to _________ the death penalty.;

predisposition

The book touches briefly on the issue of genetic _________, but does not dwell on it.; Attitudes are _________ to act in a particular situation, and involve three elements.; Insurers wanted to use the tests to lower premiums to policyholders who were free from certain genetic _________ to particular illnesses.;

helmet

The boom was loud enough to make my ears ring, even through the protective mufflers of the _________.; Some wearing protective visored _________, they gained the element of surprise by running down an alleyway towards the back of the block.; The adjustable hood fits over _________ and hats and won't hinder your vision while you're out and about.;

attribute

The destination of the alias is stored in the maildrop _________.; Metadata is a set of _________ used to describe an object.; We have tended to _________ negative characteristics to the body without realizing that this results in the destructive functioning of the spirit.;

stimulating

The dining room is a place where one wants to be relaxed when eating but also enjoy _________ conversations when entertaining.; Frankly, if I were old and ailing, I might want to stay in the thick of _________, new experiences.; We have very _________ conversations.;

genre

The director specializes in quirky, fun _________ flicks, and this one continues the trend.; This is something that has never been adequately explained in past _________ literature to a full extend.; Any movie that does not rest solidly on _________ formula requires flawless execution.;

sophisticated

The film is a _________ and æsthetically beautiful horror film.; Although nonhuman animals can develop highly _________ systems of social security, this isn't always the case.; Time is not external to us, something we can use more efficiently through _________ techniques of time management.;

pact

The main focus of these proposals is eradication _________ with community or individual growers.; Oblivious, the party bosses clung on, negotiating _________ and deals, blocking any new ideas or initiatives.; If free trade were the only purpose of these trade _________, the agreements could be written on a few sheets of paper.;

saga

The manuscripts are the source for all the major texts of Old and Middle Irish literature, such as _________, dinnshenchas, genealogies, law tracts, and much other lore.; It had also a supporting role within several great ethno-historical myths: the Táin, the Welsh epics, the lives of saints, the Viking _________.; The first _________ were the Norse _________ from Iceland and Scandinavia.;

denote

The names of the strains _________ the place where the virus originated or was first isolated.; Now of course this comment is based on knowledge of our own decimal system which is a positional system with nine special symbols and a zero symbol to _________ an empty place.; Bewildered, she attempted to fight her way across the hall to another large staircase, pulling out her schedule from a back jeans pocket and looking desperately around for signs _________ the halls.;

sub-zero

The national weather service have warned that _________ temperatures at night could result in some severe frost and icy roads for tomorrow morning.; He never once seemed cold despite the _________ temperatures and the icy storm that was tearing the sky down around them.; Mont Blanc is just 13 km from Les Droites, the peak on which Andrew doggedly clung to life for five days in _________ temperatures after becoming trapped in a storm.;

garment

The old man of about sixty was dressed in his official _________ and sported a short, white beard.; All the dresses and _________ were well made, but I just can't see the theme of this collection.; Instead, look for _________ with a bit of contour to add volume to your midsection.;

evoke

The principal reason for this is that poetry _________ a pre-determined response.; Full of existential angst and loneliness, her paintings are able to _________ an empathetic response from the viewer.; What's to say there's not a homeless soul on a cold Dublin street who occasionally glances at a digital photo - using the memories _________ by the image to hold onto reality for yet another day.;

legislative

The second thing is that the Commission is not a court; it is a body exercising delegated _________ power.; The recommendations of the Royal Commission would have a bearing on any final _________ proposals.; Dieter says the debate prompted _________ proposals for similar changes or studies in about 17 states.;

treason

The security laws ban _________, sedition, subversion and the theft of state secrets.; God defend your Church from the _________ of men.; Military officials initially told the press that he might face charges of espionage and sedition, even _________.;

reel

The society sponsored fishing rods and _________ for fifteen students chosen from St. Edward's, St. John's and the Mercy National School, all in Sligo town.; She was given a button, a needle, a cotton _________ and a choice of private places she could use to sew a button on in school.; What's more, sexual outlaws must always get their comeuppance by the final _________.;

delimit

The temperature and concentration domains of each of these phases were experimentally determined, and coexistence domains have been also _________.; Here, the overall inventive concept is said to be obvious, and the particular means used to _________ the boundaries of the claim is insufficiently described.; There is need to _________ the boundary of the Indus drainage basin on its south-eastern side to determine the area of the Basin falling in Haryana and Rajasthan.;

endeavour

The website goes further and tells how you can support this _________ by becoming a producer.; Other than our defensive lapses and the fact we forgot our shooting boots, I could not fault them for their effort and _________,' he said.; People like the Victorian reformer John Ruskin argued that the working classes should be included in education, so that all could appreciate the wonders of human intellectual _________.;

warrant

There really is no _________ for taking it at this speed and I will not have it, so will you kindly move on.; The police obtain a _________, search Deirdre's apartment, and discover the uniform.; It says they are given a travel _________ and asked to sign a form - waiving their right to access further homeless services in York if they return.;

jury

These are _________ awards, which means two or three jurors are given all of the books submitted by publishers within one category.; Having succeeded in rigging _________ masts and putting the vessel to rights, sail was made.; Danon's own admission that the _________ is out on his mobile and wireless telephony target does little to convince the sceptics that he or the company can make in-roads into a sector it only recently abandoned.;

uniform

These knives can be clipped to a waistband, an inside coat pocket, an equipment bag, a boot and in the case of a really small folder, even to the collar of a _________ shirt.; Coughlin then made Michael an honorary lifetime crewmember by giving him an autographed and signed team _________ shirt.; When it was over last night, though, he was a kid again, running in from left field, hair flying, tugging his _________ shirt out of his pants.;

ideal

These organizations can make you aware of internship opportunities, which are _________ for giving you experience and exposure into the industry.; India, we are told, has _________ conditions for manufacturing and selling small urban electric vehicles, unlike most developed countries.; The pavement managing system to identify pavement conditions is an index of 10, with 10 representing an _________ road surface.;

synthesize

They are also _________ during some developmental processes such as pollen or seed maturation.; Richard's own work _________ and elaborates upon this eclectic mix of aesthetics, philosophy, and area studies.; The philosophy of intrinsic exercise is my own, but it is based on years of scientific research that I have _________ to create a whole new way of thinking about fitness.;

acquaintance

What a surreal pleasure to make Gibb 's _________.; His varied _________ included Boswell, Bentham, Godwin, Paine, and Coleridge.; Long _________ with a work is therefore essential.;

aesthetic

This _________ appreciation extends to previous writers on the subject.; Chasseriau's attenuation of his figures certainly borrows a Mannerist _________.; It is also deeply involved in our _________ appreciation of the world around us, and there are many examples to draw on.;

thesis

This _________ is not yet proved; but its resolution appears feasible in the foreseeable future.; But the central _________ of the work was that these leaders generally make decisions based on imprecise readings of the past.; Nor can I accept the _________ that his long statement was a police concoction.;

disrupt

This _________ the concentration gradients and so alters the natural design.; It is an antistructuralist reading, one that _________ both the structures within the text and those that frame it.; It will specifically target offenders and _________ their activities.;

wield

This also holds entirely for the party that _________ the state power within the boundaries of the USSR.; But, as far as I remember, I could not recall any princess that _________ a weapon.; This bandit was a lot bigger than the other bandits and he _________ his weapons with skill.;

friction

This could cause _________ between landowners and visitors.; But there is much _________ between the five people on the base and the rescued explorer, who wants all the glory for himself.; Some of the scenes of domestic _________ between family members are obviously written from recent experience, as they ring resoundingly true.;

blockbuster

This film delivers _________ action, but its blistering pace leaves the story as soulless as the monsters that inhabit it.; The big production houses are mostly putting their money on the _________ category of films with a big star cast that promise money.; Not only is she one of America's most respected space scientists, she was also the model for the heroine of a _________ Hollywood film.;

cloakroom

This gives an illusion of space even in tiny rooms like _________.; She recounts one episode late at night, when she was confronted by the man in a corridor in the parliament building - before escaping through a _________.; Off the hall, there is a guest _________ with toilet and hand basin.;

strip

This had been a lake with a _________ of land connecting the Welsh and Wexford coasts in the south.; Anytime anywhere,' Merrick sneered as he _________ his shirt and followed her in.; The hold I had on my brother's hand got even tighter as the doctor began to gradually urge the thin _________ of metal out of my body.;

lubricate

This has _________ the engine, and we've got to keep going.; The engine is designed to _________ itself perfectly well at idle speed.; The night continues, _________ by alcohol, until it starts getting late and people start to leave.;

inept

This is the second year we have been disenfranchised by this _________ system and incompetence behind its planning.; He is socially _________, he has no personal life, yet he tries to help damaged minds.; Consecutive governments have insisted on a completely _________ policy of open immigration.;

commendable

This is very _________ and those people have, I am sure, the silent thanks of the general public.; Steve Sterling did a _________ job in his first year at the helm on Long Island.; Given just a couple hours to tell a tale I think all in all the folks involved did a _________ job.;

severely

This means that when fundamentalists say they are obeying the word of God, they have _________ understated the authority for their position.; To prevent theft, tar is put all around the fence and any slave found with it is _________ punished.; Treatment with 0.4 M KCl _________ damaged the plants.;

chore

This meant mastering the tedious _________ of day-to-day living as well as making a new social life and network of friends.; Many months passed and the guru and his disciples peacefully went about their routine _________.; Yet there are simple and safe alternatives to those everyday household cleaning _________.;

centenary

This month sees the _________ of the events that began the 1905 Revolution.; The chimes are sounding at Royal Naval Reserve unit HMS Eaglet after it was presented with a replacement bell in time for _________ commemorations.; On February 7 a service was held at the Baptist chapel, to celebrate the _________ of its re-opening on February 4, 1904.;

arbitrary

This system was so _________ and irrational that it resulted in large numbers of poor persons being excluded.; Make sure the decision about who goes is not _________ or based on favoritism.; It has been said more than once that 10 seems a rather _________ number, and it has not been clear how the authors of the law arrived at it.;

compact

This theme is carried through to the interior with a lower seating position, aluminium trim elements, a higher centre console and a _________ instrument cluster.; Used as a family snapshot camera it's on a par with early colour _________, using cheap colour film and cheap laboratory processing.; Some of the most dominating physical features I've ever encountered, a glacier is a vast mass of ice formed from the accumulation of snow that _________ faster than it melts and sublimates.;

up to par

This was a television series rather than a feature film and the acting isn't _________ with what you would expect out of one.; Downing says that the quality of the food and water abroad isn't always _________ with the United States.; The technical quality of the disc is _________ with the rest of the volumes.;

pivotal

Which is why today's trip to Aberdeen could prove _________ come the end of the season.; Both men were _________ figures in the golden age of the Hollywood studio system.; The even more _________ figure Tony Blair will have to wrestle with is himself.;

species

This was supposed to be representative of the very best our _________ was capable of achieving?; In an industry where song writers are a rare _________, Louie X has come to stand-out as one of the most song writers of note.; Organisms of a particular _________ all have the same genes but have different alleles.;

costly

This will teach him very early in life that some mistakes are _________ and cannot afford to be made again.; The repairs will not only be _________ but will also take a considerable amount of time to complete.; It is also a pity that, after such a fine career, he made such a _________ error.;

in line with

This would bring the law _________ that on offensive weapons such as knives.; It is boosting production of its malaria drug _________ sharply increased demand.; This has been our policy for some time and is _________ most other train companies' policies.;

itemize

To reissue the _________ bill on subscriber request, regardless of the pay monthly price plan, a $1 monthly fee applies.; Ron Paige, the secretary of education, as you point out, _________ some of the accomplishments of this administration, and they're actually rather substantial.; These were all _________ on the 137 invoices he received from a wide variety of dealers.;

detergent

Water is a fabulous cleaning agent, but it's even better when tiny nanoscale particles, such as _________ surfactants, are dispersed in it.; Indeed, there was preliminary evidence for a dimeric arrangement of CitS in _________ micelles and lipid membranes.; This same swimming response can be elicited by contact with several other seastars, or by surfactants such as soaps and _________, or by strong salt solutions.;

linger

We all have certain silly tunes that _________ in our memory but defy identification.; He said it could _________ on for a long time unless both sides were willing to make peace.; The camera _________ over his body, reversing the gaze traditionally directed toward the nude female.;

prosperous

What she uncovers is an epidemic of unimaginable proportions within the world's most _________ nation.; If they were successful, it supposedly meant they would have a _________ life together.; However, there can be no doubt that we are becoming more _________.;

sting

What the books often don't tell you is that there are another set of spikes on the side of the gill plates, which can also inflict a painful _________.; She says that for centuries, plantain has been used to provide immediate relief from mosquito bites, hornet _________ and the painful itching of poison ivy or poison oak.; The air outside was crisp and very cold, the kind of cold that is sharp and _________ the throat.;

sermon

What's often missing in these tedious _________ is the fun of these ads, the ridiculous enthusiasm and vivacity, and an appreciation for the artistry evident in every ad.; Instead, such preaching avoids real issues, uses outdated or irrelevant materials and doesn't feature God as the _________ subject.; Has my prayer life improved because writing the weekly _________ has become easier?;

overreach

When _________ occurs a horse may strike the sole of the front foot, as it lifts off the ground, with the toe of the hind foot.; Once on your perch, don't _________ or lean when working.; Never _________, lean out or away, push or pull a ladder while standing on it.;

pod

When a _________ of whales beach themselves on the coast, the tribespeople try everything in their power to push the beasts back to the safety of the ocean.; Wright was on a small boat with a local man, amidst a large _________ of whales.; Outside the hotel one of the ships saw the escape _________ launch.;

caveat

When the Sheriff Clerk receives a petition against which a _________ has been lodged, it is his responsibility to give intimation to the caveator.; But it is also liberally sprinkled with _________ and warnings as to the difficulties in turning up more evidence.; However, some _________ and limitations must be noted.;

thresh

When they had secured Charles's crops, and _________ his corn, the only thing remaining to them was to return home.; The frenzy of participation reaches its acme during the immersion that concludes the festival, when thousands of worshippers _________ around the icons as they are taken in convoy to the Arabian Sea.; It would appear that field crops were _________ and sieved in other locations, perhaps in the vicinity of nearby farmhouses, in the fields, or on _________ floors around the perimeter of the site.;

life expectancy

Which leads me to wonder if the _________ of the average blog might not be rather short.; By inviting children to holiday in Ireland it is said to increase their _________ by two years.; Their little boy is permanently dependent on oxygen and also has a shortened _________.;

equity

With a lousy economy and a sinking stock market, _________ funds were doomed.; It contains chapters on contracts, torts, restitution, property, and _________.; It is also likely that the issue of _________ will be aggravated by the accession of poorer countries from Eastern Europe in the medium term.;

squander

With the defeat in Barbados, the unpredictable Pakistan side _________ the opportunity of winning their first-ever Test series.; Yet, they _________ these opportunities by not working hard enough.; Both sides then _________ chances with Motherwell especially culpable in passing up three golden opportunities in quick succession.;

savagely

Within a month a new, _________ virulent haemorrhagic fever crept from the jungle.; He forced through his reformation by terror, against the wills of almost all his subjects, by _________ suppressing dissent.; She plays a prostitute who was once _________ beaten by a man in Pennsylvania.;