The following are excerpts from Christian Hoff Sommers’ “Are We Living in
a Moral Stone Age?” It discusses the problem of moral insensitivity in
America today.
This was demonstrated by Tonight Show host Jay Leno. Leno frequently does
“man-on-the-street” interviews, and one night he 1 some young people to ask them
questions about the Bible. “Can you name one of the Ten 2 ?” he asked two college-age
women. One replied, “Freedom of speech?” Mr. Leno said to the other, “Complete this
sentence: Let he who is without sin…” Her response was “have a good time?” Mr. Leno then
turned to a young man and asked “Who, according to the Bible, was eaten by a whale?” The
confident answer was “Pinocchio.”
As with many humorous anecdotes, the underlying reality is not funny at all. These young
people are morally confused. They are the students I and other teachers of ethics see every day.
Like most professors, I am 3 . aware of the “hole in the moral ozone.” One of the best
things out schools can do for America is to 4 repairing it-by confronting the moral 5
that is now the norm for so many students.
1
acquired
dismissed
collared
interrogated
The following are excerpts from Christian Hoff Sommers’ “Are We Living in
a Moral Stone Age?” It discusses the problem of moral insensitivity in
America today.
This was demonstrated by Tonight Show host Jay Leno. Leno frequently does
“man-on-the-street” interviews, and one night he 1 some young people to ask them
questions about the Bible. “Can you name one of the Ten 2 ?” he asked two college-age
women. One replied, “Freedom of speech?” Mr. Leno said to the other, “Complete this
sentence: Let he who is without sin…” Her response was “have a good time?” Mr. Leno then
turned to a young man and asked “Who, according to the Bible, was eaten by a whale?” The
confident answer was “Pinocchio.”
As with many humorous anecdotes, the underlying reality is not funny at all. These young
people are morally confused. They are the students I and other teachers of ethics see every day.
Like most professors, I am 3 . aware of the “hole in the moral ozone.” One of the best
things out schools can do for America is to 4 repairing it-by confronting the moral 5
that is now the norm for so many students.
2
Recommendations
)Commandments
Confinements
Amendments
The following are excerpts from Christian Hoff Sommers’ “Are We Living in
a Moral Stone Age?” It discusses the problem of moral insensitivity in
America today.
This was demonstrated by Tonight Show host Jay Leno. Leno frequently does
“man-on-the-street” interviews, and one night he 1 some young people to ask them
questions about the Bible. “Can you name one of the Ten 2 ?” he asked two college-age
women. One replied, “Freedom of speech?” Mr. Leno said to the other, “Complete this
sentence: Let he who is without sin…” Her response was “have a good time?” Mr. Leno then
turned to a young man and asked “Who, according to the Bible, was eaten by a whale?” The
confident answer was “Pinocchio.”
As with many humorous anecdotes, the underlying reality is not funny at all. These young
people are morally confused. They are the students I and other teachers of ethics see every day.
Like most professors, I am 3 . aware of the “hole in the moral ozone.” One of the best
things out schools can do for America is to 4 repairing it-by confronting the moral 5
that is now the norm for so many students.
3
naively
tenaciously
morally
acutely
The following are excerpts from Christian Hoff Sommers’ “Are We Living in
a Moral Stone Age?” It discusses the problem of moral insensitivity in
America today.
This was demonstrated by Tonight Show host Jay Leno. Leno frequently does
“man-on-the-street” interviews, and one night he 1 some young people to ask them
questions about the Bible. “Can you name one of the Ten 2 ?” he asked two college-age
women. One replied, “Freedom of speech?” Mr. Leno said to the other, “Complete this
sentence: Let he who is without sin…” Her response was “have a good time?” Mr. Leno then
turned to a young man and asked “Who, according to the Bible, was eaten by a whale?” The
confident answer was “Pinocchio.”
As with many humorous anecdotes, the underlying reality is not funny at all. These young
people are morally confused. They are the students I and other teachers of ethics see every day.
Like most professors, I am 3 . aware of the “hole in the moral ozone.” One of the best
things out schools can do for America is to 4 repairing it-by confronting the moral 5
that is now the norm for so many students.
4
set about
set aside
set up
set down
The following are excerpts from Christian Hoff Sommers’ “Are We Living in
a Moral Stone Age?” It discusses the problem of moral insensitivity in
America today.
This was demonstrated by Tonight Show host Jay Leno. Leno frequently does
“man-on-the-street” interviews, and one night he 1 some young people to ask them
questions about the Bible. “Can you name one of the Ten 2 ?” he asked two college-age
women. One replied, “Freedom of speech?” Mr. Leno said to the other, “Complete this
sentence: Let he who is without sin…” Her response was “have a good time?” Mr. Leno then
turned to a young man and asked “Who, according to the Bible, was eaten by a whale?” The
confident answer was “Pinocchio.”
As with many humorous anecdotes, the underlying reality is not funny at all. These young
people are morally confused. They are the students I and other teachers of ethics see every day.
Like most professors, I am 3 . aware of the “hole in the moral ozone.” One of the best
things out schools can do for America is to 4 repairing it-by confronting the moral 5
that is now the norm for so many students.
5
patriotism
nihilism
elitism
existentialism
We have been thrown back into a moral Stone Age; many young people are totally
unaffected by thousands of years of moral experience and moral progress. The notion of
objective moral truths is in 6 . And this mistrust of objectivity has begun to 7 into
other areas of knowledge.
Today, the concept of objective truth in science and history is also being 8 . An
undergraduate at Williams College recently reported that her classmates, who had been taught
that “all knowledge is a social construct,” were doubtful that the Holocaust ever occurred. One
of her classmates said, “Although the Holocaust may not have happened, it’s a perfectly
reasonable conceptual 9 .”
6
disrepute
retrospect
combat
dispute
We have been thrown back into a moral Stone Age; many young people are totally
unaffected by thousands of years of moral experience and moral progress. The notion of
objective moral truths is in 6 . And this mistrust of objectivity has begun to 7 into
other areas of knowledge.
Today, the concept of objective truth in science and history is also being 8 . An
undergraduate at Williams College recently reported that her classmates, who had been taught
that “all knowledge is a social construct,” were doubtful that the Holocaust ever occurred. One
of her classmates said, “Although the Holocaust may not have happened, it’s a perfectly
reasonable conceptual 9 .”
7
step up
invade
spill over
permeate
We have been thrown back into a moral Stone Age; many young people are totally
unaffected by thousands of years of moral experience and moral progress. The notion of
objective moral truths is in 6 . And this mistrust of objectivity has begun to 7 into
other areas of knowledge.
Today, the concept of objective truth in science and history is also being 8 . An
undergraduate at Williams College recently reported that her classmates, who had been taught
that “all knowledge is a social construct,” were doubtful that the Holocaust ever occurred. One
of her classmates said, “Although the Holocaust may not have happened, it’s a perfectly
reasonable conceptual 9 .”
8
assimilated
defined
patronized
impugned
We have been thrown back into a moral Stone Age; many young people are totally
unaffected by thousands of years of moral experience and moral progress. The notion of
objective moral truths is in 6 . And this mistrust of objectivity has begun to 7 into
other areas of knowledge.
Today, the concept of objective truth in science and history is also being 8 . An
undergraduate at Williams College recently reported that her classmates, who had been taught
that “all knowledge is a social construct,” were doubtful that the Holocaust ever occurred. One
of her classmates said, “Although the Holocaust may not have happened, it’s a perfectly
reasonable conceptual 9 .”
9
hierarchy
strategy
hallucination
identification
According to the industrial 10 , the ideal human residence [from the Latin residere,
“to sit back” or “remain sitting”] is one on which the residers do not work. The house is built,
equipped, decorated, and 11 by other people, by strangers. In it, the married couple
practice as few as possible of the disciplines of household or homestead. Their domestic labor
consists principally, of buying things, putting things away, and throwing things away, but it is
understood that it is “best” to have even those jobs done by an “inferior” person, and the
ultimate industrial ideal is a “home” in which everything would be done by 12 . In such a
“home,” a married couple are mates, sexually, legally, and socially, but they are not 13 ;
they do noting useful either together or for each other. According to the ideal, work should be
done away from home. When such spouses say to each other, “I will love you forever,” the
meaning of their words is seriously impaired by their circumstances; they are speaking in the
presence of so little that they have done and made. Their history together is essentially
placeless; it has no visible or tangible incarnation. They have only themselves in view.
In such circumstance, the 14 of the body is inevitable, and this is implicitly
acknowledged by the existence of the “physical fitness movement.” Back in the era of the body,
when women and men were physically useful, as well as physically attractive to one another,
physical fitness was simply a 15 . Little conscious attention was given to it; it was a
by-product of useful work. Now an obsessive attention has been fixed upon it. Physical fitness
has become extremely mental; once free, it has become expensive, an industry-just as sexual
attractiveness, once the result of physical 16 and useful work, has now become an
industry. The history of “sexual liberation” has been a history of increasing 17 to
corporations.
10
propaganda
formula
revolution
classification
According to the industrial 10 , the ideal human residence [from the Latin residere,
“to sit back” or “remain sitting”] is one on which the residers do not work. The house is built,
equipped, decorated, and 11 by other people, by strangers. In it, the married couple
practice as few as possible of the disciplines of household or homestead. Their domestic labor
consists principally, of buying things, putting things away, and throwing things away, but it is
understood that it is “best” to have even those jobs done by an “inferior” person, and the
ultimate industrial ideal is a “home” in which everything would be done by 12 . In such a
“home,” a married couple are mates, sexually, legally, and socially, but they are not 13 ;
they do noting useful either together or for each other. According to the ideal, work should be
done away from home. When such spouses say to each other, “I will love you forever,” the
meaning of their words is seriously impaired by their circumstances; they are speaking in the
presence of so little that they have done and made. Their history together is essentially
placeless; it has no visible or tangible incarnation. They have only themselves in view.
In such circumstance, the 14 of the body is inevitable, and this is implicitly
acknowledged by the existence of the “physical fitness movement.” Back in the era of the body,
when women and men were physically useful, as well as physically attractive to one another,
physical fitness was simply a 15 . Little conscious attention was given to it; it was a
by-product of useful work. Now an obsessive attention has been fixed upon it. Physical fitness
has become extremely mental; once free, it has become expensive, an industry-just as sexual
attractiveness, once the result of physical 16 and useful work, has now become an
industry. The history of “sexual liberation” has been a history of increasing 17 to
corporations.
11
sabotaged
dismantled
alleviated
provisioned
According to the industrial 10 , the ideal human residence [from the Latin residere,
“to sit back” or “remain sitting”] is one on which the residers do not work. The house is built,
equipped, decorated, and 11 by other people, by strangers. In it, the married couple
practice as few as possible of the disciplines of household or homestead. Their domestic labor
consists principally, of buying things, putting things away, and throwing things away, but it is
understood that it is “best” to have even those jobs done by an “inferior” person, and the
ultimate industrial ideal is a “home” in which everything would be done by 12 . In such a
“home,” a married couple are mates, sexually, legally, and socially, but they are not 13 ;
they do noting useful either together or for each other. According to the ideal, work should be
done away from home. When such spouses say to each other, “I will love you forever,” the
meaning of their words is seriously impaired by their circumstances; they are speaking in the
presence of so little that they have done and made. Their history together is essentially
placeless; it has no visible or tangible incarnation. They have only themselves in view.
In such circumstance, the 14 of the body is inevitable, and this is implicitly
acknowledged by the existence of the “physical fitness movement.” Back in the era of the body,
when women and men were physically useful, as well as physically attractive to one another,
physical fitness was simply a 15 . Little conscious attention was given to it; it was a
by-product of useful work. Now an obsessive attention has been fixed upon it. Physical fitness
has become extremely mental; once free, it has become expensive, an industry-just as sexual
attractiveness, once the result of physical 16 and useful work, has now become an
industry. The history of “sexual liberation” has been a history of increasing 17 to
corporations.
12
sparing the rod
biting the bullet
pushing buttons
hitting the hay
According to the industrial 10 , the ideal human residence [from the Latin residere,
“to sit back” or “remain sitting”] is one on which the residers do not work. The house is built,
equipped, decorated, and 11 by other people, by strangers. In it, the married couple
practice as few as possible of the disciplines of household or homestead. Their domestic labor
consists principally, of buying things, putting things away, and throwing things away, but it is
understood that it is “best” to have even those jobs done by an “inferior” person, and the
ultimate industrial ideal is a “home” in which everything would be done by 12 . In such a
“home,” a married couple are mates, sexually, legally, and socially, but they are not 13 ;
they do noting useful either together or for each other. According to the ideal, work should be
done away from home. When such spouses say to each other, “I will love you forever,” the
meaning of their words is seriously impaired by their circumstances; they are speaking in the
presence of so little that they have done and made. Their history together is essentially
placeless; it has no visible or tangible incarnation. They have only themselves in view.
In such circumstance, the 14 of the body is inevitable, and this is implicitly
acknowledged by the existence of the “physical fitness movement.” Back in the era of the body,
when women and men were physically useful, as well as physically attractive to one another,
physical fitness was simply a 15 . Little conscious attention was given to it; it was a
by-product of useful work. Now an obsessive attention has been fixed upon it. Physical fitness
has become extremely mental; once free, it has become expensive, an industry-just as sexual
attractiveness, once the result of physical 16 and useful work, has now become an
industry. The history of “sexual liberation” has been a history of increasing 17 to
corporations.
13
helpmates
soul mates
childhood sweethearts
newlyweds
According to the industrial 10 , the ideal human residence [from the Latin residere,
“to sit back” or “remain sitting”] is one on which the residers do not work. The house is built,
equipped, decorated, and 11 by other people, by strangers. In it, the married couple
practice as few as possible of the disciplines of household or homestead. Their domestic labor
consists principally, of buying things, putting things away, and throwing things away, but it is
understood that it is “best” to have even those jobs done by an “inferior” person, and the
ultimate industrial ideal is a “home” in which everything would be done by 12 . In such a
“home,” a married couple are mates, sexually, legally, and socially, but they are not 13 ;
they do noting useful either together or for each other. According to the ideal, work should be
done away from home. When such spouses say to each other, “I will love you forever,” the
meaning of their words is seriously impaired by their circumstances; they are speaking in the
presence of so little that they have done and made. Their history together is essentially
placeless; it has no visible or tangible incarnation. They have only themselves in view.
In such circumstance, the 14 of the body is inevitable, and this is implicitly
acknowledged by the existence of the “physical fitness movement.” Back in the era of the body,
when women and men were physically useful, as well as physically attractive to one another,
physical fitness was simply a 15 . Little conscious attention was given to it; it was a
by-product of useful work. Now an obsessive attention has been fixed upon it. Physical fitness
has become extremely mental; once free, it has become expensive, an industry-just as sexual
attractiveness, once the result of physical 16 and useful work, has now become an
industry. The history of “sexual liberation” has been a history of increasing 17 to
corporations.
14
appropriation
obsolescence
opposition
emphasis
According to the industrial 10 , the ideal human residence [from the Latin residere,
“to sit back” or “remain sitting”] is one on which the residers do not work. The house is built,
equipped, decorated, and 11 by other people, by strangers. In it, the married couple
practice as few as possible of the disciplines of household or homestead. Their domestic labor
consists principally, of buying things, putting things away, and throwing things away, but it is
understood that it is “best” to have even those jobs done by an “inferior” person, and the
ultimate industrial ideal is a “home” in which everything would be done by 12 . In such a
“home,” a married couple are mates, sexually, legally, and socially, but they are not 13 ;
they do noting useful either together or for each other. According to the ideal, work should be
done away from home. When such spouses say to each other, “I will love you forever,” the
meaning of their words is seriously impaired by their circumstances; they are speaking in the
presence of so little that they have done and made. Their history together is essentially
placeless; it has no visible or tangible incarnation. They have only themselves in view.
In such circumstance, the 14 of the body is inevitable, and this is implicitly
acknowledged by the existence of the “physical fitness movement.” Back in the era of the body,
when women and men were physically useful, as well as physically attractive to one another,
physical fitness was simply a 15 . Little conscious attention was given to it; it was a
by-product of useful work. Now an obsessive attention has been fixed upon it. Physical fitness
has become extremely mental; once free, it has become expensive, an industry-just as sexual
attractiveness, once the result of physical 16 and useful work, has now become an
industry. The history of “sexual liberation” has been a history of increasing 17 to
corporations.
15
hobby
movement
condition
luxury
According to the industrial 10 , the ideal human residence [from the Latin residere,
“to sit back” or “remain sitting”] is one on which the residers do not work. The house is built,
equipped, decorated, and 11 by other people, by strangers. In it, the married couple
practice as few as possible of the disciplines of household or homestead. Their domestic labor
consists principally, of buying things, putting things away, and throwing things away, but it is
understood that it is “best” to have even those jobs done by an “inferior” person, and the
ultimate industrial ideal is a “home” in which everything would be done by 12 . In such a
“home,” a married couple are mates, sexually, legally, and socially, but they are not 13 ;
they do noting useful either together or for each other. According to the ideal, work should be
done away from home. When such spouses say to each other, “I will love you forever,” the
meaning of their words is seriously impaired by their circumstances; they are speaking in the
presence of so little that they have done and made. Their history together is essentially
placeless; it has no visible or tangible incarnation. They have only themselves in view.
In such circumstance, the 14 of the body is inevitable, and this is implicitly
acknowledged by the existence of the “physical fitness movement.” Back in the era of the body,
when women and men were physically useful, as well as physically attractive to one another,
physical fitness was simply a 15 . Little conscious attention was given to it; it was a
by-product of useful work. Now an obsessive attention has been fixed upon it. Physical fitness
has become extremely mental; once free, it has become expensive, an industry-just as sexual
attractiveness, once the result of physical 16 and useful work, has now become an
industry. The history of “sexual liberation” has been a history of increasing 17 to
corporations.
16
literacy
apprehension
vigor
allegation
According to the industrial 10 , the ideal human residence [from the Latin residere,
“to sit back” or “remain sitting”] is one on which the residers do not work. The house is built,
equipped, decorated, and 11 by other people, by strangers. In it, the married couple
practice as few as possible of the disciplines of household or homestead. Their domestic labor
consists principally, of buying things, putting things away, and throwing things away, but it is
understood that it is “best” to have even those jobs done by an “inferior” person, and the
ultimate industrial ideal is a “home” in which everything would be done by 12 . In such a
“home,” a married couple are mates, sexually, legally, and socially, but they are not 13 ;
they do noting useful either together or for each other. According to the ideal, work should be
done away from home. When such spouses say to each other, “I will love you forever,” the
meaning of their words is seriously impaired by their circumstances; they are speaking in the
presence of so little that they have done and made. Their history together is essentially
placeless; it has no visible or tangible incarnation. They have only themselves in view.
In such circumstance, the 14 of the body is inevitable, and this is implicitly
acknowledged by the existence of the “physical fitness movement.” Back in the era of the body,
when women and men were physically useful, as well as physically attractive to one another,
physical fitness was simply a 15 . Little conscious attention was given to it; it was a
by-product of useful work. Now an obsessive attention has been fixed upon it. Physical fitness
has become extremely mental; once free, it has become expensive, an industry-just as sexual
attractiveness, once the result of physical 16 and useful work, has now become an
industry. The history of “sexual liberation” has been a history of increasing 17 to
corporations.
17
demand
bondage
dividends
affirmation
The following are excerpts from Martin Luther King’s speech, “Beyond
Vietnam—A Time to Break Silence.”
For those who ask the question, “Aren’t you a civil rights leader?” and thereby mean to
exclude me from the movement for peace, I have this further answer. In 1957 when a group of
us formed the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, we chose as our 18 : “To save
the soul of America.” We were 19 that we could not limit our vision to certain rights for
black people, but instead affirmed the conviction that America would never be free or saved
from itself until the descendants of its slaves were loosed completely from the shackles they
still wear. In a way we were agreeing with Langston Hughes, that black 20 of Harlem,
who had written earlier:
O, yes,
I say it plain,
America never was America to me,
And yet I swear this oath - -
America will be!
Now, it should be 21 clear that no one who has any concern for the integrity and life
of America today can ignore the present war. If America’s soul becomes totally poisoned, part
of the 22 must read: Vietnam. It can never be saved so long as it destroys the deepest
hopes of men the world over. So it is that those of us who are yet determined that America will
be - - are - - are led down the path of protest and dissent, working for the health of our land.
18
antidote
niche
emblem
motto
The following are excerpts from Martin Luther King’s speech, “Beyond
Vietnam—A Time to Break Silence.”
For those who ask the question, “Aren’t you a civil rights leader?” and thereby mean to
exclude me from the movement for peace, I have this further answer. In 1957 when a group of
us formed the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, we chose as our 18 : “To save
the soul of America.” We were 19 that we could not limit our vision to certain rights for
black people, but instead affirmed the conviction that America would never be free or saved
from itself until the descendants of its slaves were loosed completely from the shackles they
still wear. In a way we were agreeing with Langston Hughes, that black 20 of Harlem,
who had written earlier:
O, yes,
I say it plain,
America never was America to me,
And yet I swear this oath - -
America will be!
Now, it should be 21 clear that no one who has any concern for the integrity and life
of America today can ignore the present war. If America’s soul becomes totally poisoned, part
of the 22 must read: Vietnam. It can never be saved so long as it destroys the deepest
hopes of men the world over. So it is that those of us who are yet determined that America will
be - - are - - are led down the path of protest and dissent, working for the health of our land.
19
convinced
captivated
coaxed
catalyzed
The following are excerpts from Martin Luther King’s speech, “Beyond
Vietnam—A Time to Break Silence.”
For those who ask the question, “Aren’t you a civil rights leader?” and thereby mean to
exclude me from the movement for peace, I have this further answer. In 1957 when a group of
us formed the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, we chose as our 18 : “To save
the soul of America.” We were 19 that we could not limit our vision to certain rights for
black people, but instead affirmed the conviction that America would never be free or saved
from itself until the descendants of its slaves were loosed completely from the shackles they
still wear. In a way we were agreeing with Langston Hughes, that black 20 of Harlem,
who had written earlier:
O, yes,
I say it plain,
America never was America to me,
And yet I swear this oath - -
America will be!
Now, it should be 21 clear that no one who has any concern for the integrity and life
of America today can ignore the present war. If America’s soul becomes totally poisoned, part
of the 22 must read: Vietnam. It can never be saved so long as it destroys the deepest
hopes of men the world over. So it is that those of us who are yet determined that America will
be - - are - - are led down the path of protest and dissent, working for the health of our land.
20
gladiator
barb
motley
vulgarian
The following are excerpts from Martin Luther King’s speech, “Beyond
Vietnam—A Time to Break Silence.”
For those who ask the question, “Aren’t you a civil rights leader?” and thereby mean to
exclude me from the movement for peace, I have this further answer. In 1957 when a group of
us formed the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, we chose as our 18 : “To save
the soul of America.” We were 19 that we could not limit our vision to certain rights for
black people, but instead affirmed the conviction that America would never be free or saved
from itself until the descendants of its slaves were loosed completely from the shackles they
still wear. In a way we were agreeing with Langston Hughes, that black 20 of Harlem,
who had written earlier:
O, yes,
I say it plain,
America never was America to me,
And yet I swear this oath - -
America will be!
Now, it should be 21 clear that no one who has any concern for the integrity and life
of America today can ignore the present war. If America’s soul becomes totally poisoned, part
of the 22 must read: Vietnam. It can never be saved so long as it destroys the deepest
hopes of men the world over. So it is that those of us who are yet determined that America will
be - - are - - are led down the path of protest and dissent, working for the health of our land.
21
incompatibly
irreparably
incandescently
indecipherably
The following are excerpts from Martin Luther King’s speech, “Beyond
Vietnam—A Time to Break Silence.”
For those who ask the question, “Aren’t you a civil rights leader?” and thereby mean to
exclude me from the movement for peace, I have this further answer. In 1957 when a group of
us formed the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, we chose as our 18 : “To save
the soul of America.” We were 19 that we could not limit our vision to certain rights for
black people, but instead affirmed the conviction that America would never be free or saved
from itself until the descendants of its slaves were loosed completely from the shackles they
still wear. In a way we were agreeing with Langston Hughes, that black 20 of Harlem,
who had written earlier:
O, yes,
I say it plain,
America never was America to me,
And yet I swear this oath - -
America will be!
Now, it should be 21 clear that no one who has any concern for the integrity and life
of America today can ignore the present war. If America’s soul becomes totally poisoned, part
of the 22 must read: Vietnam. It can never be saved so long as it destroys the deepest
hopes of men the world over. So it is that those of us who are yet determined that America will
be - - are - - are led down the path of protest and dissent, working for the health of our land.
22
penalty
indictment
autonomy
autopsy
Once scientists have functional mammoth chromosomes in hand, they could wrap them in
a 23 to create an artificial cell nucleus. Then they could follow the approach 24 in
creating Dolly, the sheep cloned in 1996 by scientists at the Roslin Institute in Scotland:
Remove the nucleus of an elephant’s egg and replace it with the rebuilt mammoth nucleus,
electrically stimulate the egg to trigger initial cell division into an embryo, and eventually
transfer the embryo into an elephant’s womb for 25 . Each of these steps has significant
question marks of its own. No one knows, for example, just how to build a mammoth nucleus.
Harvesting an elephant egg is difficult, and bringing a mammoth fetus 26 in an elephant
uterus is 27 with uncertainties.
23
membrane
spine
capillary
ligament
Once scientists have functional mammoth chromosomes in hand, they could wrap them in
a 23 to create an artificial cell nucleus. Then they could follow the approach 24 in
creating Dolly, the sheep cloned in 1996 by scientists at the Roslin Institute in Scotland:
Remove the nucleus of an elephant’s egg and replace it with the rebuilt mammoth nucleus,
electrically stimulate the egg to trigger initial cell division into an embryo, and eventually
transfer the embryo into an elephant’s womb for 25 . Each of these steps has significant
question marks of its own. No one knows, for example, just how to build a mammoth nucleus.
Harvesting an elephant egg is difficult, and bringing a mammoth fetus 26 in an elephant
uterus is 27 with uncertainties.
24
formed
pioneered
adapted
exhorted
Once scientists have functional mammoth chromosomes in hand, they could wrap them in
a 23 to create an artificial cell nucleus. Then they could follow the approach 24 in
creating Dolly, the sheep cloned in 1996 by scientists at the Roslin Institute in Scotland:
Remove the nucleus of an elephant’s egg and replace it with the rebuilt mammoth nucleus,
electrically stimulate the egg to trigger initial cell division into an embryo, and eventually
transfer the embryo into an elephant’s womb for 25 . Each of these steps has significant
question marks of its own. No one knows, for example, just how to build a mammoth nucleus.
Harvesting an elephant egg is difficult, and bringing a mammoth fetus 26 in an elephant
uterus is 27 with uncertainties.
25
gestation
digestion
excretion
perspiration
Once scientists have functional mammoth chromosomes in hand, they could wrap them in
a 23 to create an artificial cell nucleus. Then they could follow the approach 24 in
creating Dolly, the sheep cloned in 1996 by scientists at the Roslin Institute in Scotland:
Remove the nucleus of an elephant’s egg and replace it with the rebuilt mammoth nucleus,
electrically stimulate the egg to trigger initial cell division into an embryo, and eventually
transfer the embryo into an elephant’s womb for 25 . Each of these steps has significant
question marks of its own. No one knows, for example, just how to build a mammoth nucleus.
Harvesting an elephant egg is difficult, and bringing a mammoth fetus 26 in an elephant
uterus is 27 with uncertainties.
26
to light
to heel
to term
to full circle
Once scientists have functional mammoth chromosomes in hand, they could wrap them in
a 23 to create an artificial cell nucleus. Then they could follow the approach 24 in
creating Dolly, the sheep cloned in 1996 by scientists at the Roslin Institute in Scotland:
Remove the nucleus of an elephant’s egg and replace it with the rebuilt mammoth nucleus,
electrically stimulate the egg to trigger initial cell division into an embryo, and eventually
transfer the embryo into an elephant’s womb for 25 . Each of these steps has significant
question marks of its own. No one knows, for example, just how to build a mammoth nucleus.
Harvesting an elephant egg is difficult, and bringing a mammoth fetus 26 in an elephant
uterus is 27 with uncertainties.
jeopardized
undermined
inflicted
fraught
There are several arguments made against the strategy of simply reducing emissions as a
primary method of 28 climate change. One is that reducing emissions by the amount
necessary to prevent significant climate change would simply be too costly to win public
support ( 29 major research breakthroughs). Another, however, is that 30 emission
reductions across the whole of the world’s nearly 200 countries is critical to the success of the
policy—big reductions in America and Europe won’t matter much if emissions grow 31
across the emerging world, for instance—and such international coordination is very difficult
to imagine. It would require agreement on targets and mechanisms for penalizing 32 countries.
The world has had some success with coordination of this nature, in averting wars, for example,
and in policing and liberalizing trade. But those efforts have been decades in the making—time
we lack.
28
refracting
elevating
combating
debating
There are several arguments made against the strategy of simply reducing emissions as a
primary method of 28 climate change. One is that reducing emissions by the amount
necessary to prevent significant climate change would simply be too costly to win public
support ( 29 major research breakthroughs). Another, however, is that 30 emission
reductions across the whole of the world’s nearly 200 countries is critical to the success of the
policy—big reductions in America and Europe won’t matter much if emissions grow 31
across the emerging world, for instance—and such international coordination is very difficult
to imagine. It would require agreement on targets and mechanisms for penalizing 32 countries.
The world has had some success with coordination of this nature, in averting wars, for example,
and in policing and liberalizing trade. But those efforts have been decades in the making—time
we lack.
29
in accordance with
in the absence of
under the assumption of
in response to
There are several arguments made against the strategy of simply reducing emissions as a
primary method of 28 climate change. One is that reducing emissions by the amount
necessary to prevent significant climate change would simply be too costly to win public
support ( 29 major research breakthroughs). Another, however, is that 30 emission
reductions across the whole of the world’s nearly 200 countries is critical to the success of the
policy—big reductions in America and Europe won’t matter much if emissions grow 31
across the emerging world, for instance—and such international coordination is very difficult
to imagine. It would require agreement on targets and mechanisms for penalizing 32 countries.
The world has had some success with coordination of this nature, in averting wars, for example,
and in policing and liberalizing trade. But those efforts have been decades in the making—time
we lack.
30
coordinate
coordinating
coordinated
coordinates
There are several arguments made against the strategy of simply reducing emissions as a
primary method of 28 climate change. One is that reducing emissions by the amount
necessary to prevent significant climate change would simply be too costly to win public
support ( 29 major research breakthroughs). Another, however, is that 30 emission
reductions across the whole of the world’s nearly 200 countries is critical to the success of the
policy—big reductions in America and Europe won’t matter much if emissions grow 31
across the emerging world, for instance—and such international coordination is very difficult
to imagine. It would require agreement on targets and mechanisms for penalizing 32 countries.
The world has had some success with coordination of this nature, in averting wars, for example,
and in policing and liberalizing trade. But those efforts have been decades in the making—time
we lack.
31
relentlessly
vivaciously
repetitively
instantaneously
There are several arguments made against the strategy of simply reducing emissions as a
primary method of 28 climate change. One is that reducing emissions by the amount
necessary to prevent significant climate change would simply be too costly to win public
support ( 29 major research breakthroughs). Another, however, is that 30 emission
reductions across the whole of the world’s nearly 200 countries is critical to the success of the
policy—big reductions in America and Europe won’t matter much if emissions grow 31
across the emerging world, for instance—and such international coordination is very difficult
to imagine. It would require agreement on targets and mechanisms for penalizing 32 countries.
The world has had some success with coordination of this nature, in averting wars, for example,
and in policing and liberalizing trade. But those efforts have been decades in the making—time
we lack.
32
shirking
developing
major
wavering
Today, some 1,300 tribespeople live in 23 villages across 600,000 acres. Though they are
as likely to wear T-shirts and jeans as feathered headdresses, the Surui are determined to
preserve and protect the tribal culture of their Amazon 33 . They are 34 again, from
illegal logging and deforestation, but this time it’s different. The Surui have 35 their
bows and arrows and taken up a new weapon: the Internet.
The chief asked about the possibility of 36 the Surui territory using Google Earth
software, annotating the reserve with tags and photos marking villages, hunting grounds, and
sacred sites, along with areas targeted by logging and mining companies. An online tour of the
reserve, he believed, would help protect the Surui by showing the world the effects of
deforestation and the attacks on tribal land. It would also inform the government about illegal
operations. This way, Narayamoga hoped to 37 funds to restore the rain forest by
planting one million trees. “Training and education is now our kind of war,” he says. “We
know we have to adapt.”
33
encampment
enclave
colony
kingdom
Today, some 1,300 tribespeople live in 23 villages across 600,000 acres. Though they are
as likely to wear T-shirts and jeans as feathered headdresses, the Surui are determined to
preserve and protect the tribal culture of their Amazon 33 . They are 34 again, from
illegal logging and deforestation, but this time it’s different. The Surui have 35 their
bows and arrows and taken up a new weapon: the Internet.
The chief asked about the possibility of 36 the Surui territory using Google Earth
software, annotating the reserve with tags and photos marking villages, hunting grounds, and
sacred sites, along with areas targeted by logging and mining companies. An online tour of the
reserve, he believed, would help protect the Surui by showing the world the effects of
deforestation and the attacks on tribal land. It would also inform the government about illegal
operations. This way, Narayamoga hoped to 37 funds to restore the rain forest by
planting one million trees. “Training and education is now our kind of war,” he says. “We
know we have to adapt.”
34
in dilemma
wiped out
in vain
under siege
Today, some 1,300 tribespeople live in 23 villages across 600,000 acres. Though they are
as likely to wear T-shirts and jeans as feathered headdresses, the Surui are determined to
preserve and protect the tribal culture of their Amazon 33 . They are 34 again, from
illegal logging and deforestation, but this time it’s different. The Surui have 35 their
bows and arrows and taken up a new weapon: the Internet.
The chief asked about the possibility of 36 the Surui territory using Google Earth
software, annotating the reserve with tags and photos marking villages, hunting grounds, and
sacred sites, along with areas targeted by logging and mining companies. An online tour of the
reserve, he believed, would help protect the Surui by showing the world the effects of
deforestation and the attacks on tribal land. It would also inform the government about illegal
operations. This way, Narayamoga hoped to 37 funds to restore the rain forest by
planting one million trees. “Training and education is now our kind of war,” he says. “We
know we have to adapt.”
35
put up
put aside
put out
put about
Today, some 1,300 tribespeople live in 23 villages across 600,000 acres. Though they are
as likely to wear T-shirts and jeans as feathered headdresses, the Surui are determined to
preserve and protect the tribal culture of their Amazon 33 . They are 34 again, from
illegal logging and deforestation, but this time it’s different. The Surui have 35 their
bows and arrows and taken up a new weapon: the Internet.
The chief asked about the possibility of 36 the Surui territory using Google Earth
software, annotating the reserve with tags and photos marking villages, hunting grounds, and
sacred sites, along with areas targeted by logging and mining companies. An online tour of the
reserve, he believed, would help protect the Surui by showing the world the effects of
deforestation and the attacks on tribal land. It would also inform the government about illegal
operations. This way, Narayamoga hoped to 37 funds to restore the rain forest by
planting one million trees. “Training and education is now our kind of war,” he says. “We
know we have to adapt.”
36
defending
pointing
charting
configuring
Today, some 1,300 tribespeople live in 23 villages across 600,000 acres. Though they are
as likely to wear T-shirts and jeans as feathered headdresses, the Surui are determined to
preserve and protect the tribal culture of their Amazon 33 . They are 34 again, from
illegal logging and deforestation, but this time it’s different. The Surui have 35 their
bows and arrows and taken up a new weapon: the Internet.
The chief asked about the possibility of 36 the Surui territory using Google Earth
software, annotating the reserve with tags and photos marking villages, hunting grounds, and
sacred sites, along with areas targeted by logging and mining companies. An online tour of the
reserve, he believed, would help protect the Surui by showing the world the effects of
deforestation and the attacks on tribal land. It would also inform the government about illegal
operations. This way, Narayamoga hoped to 37 funds to restore the rain forest by
planting one million trees. “Training and education is now our kind of war,” he says. “We
know we have to adapt.”
37
raise
rise
arise
arouse
Oscar stands 13½ inches tall and weighs in at a 38 8½ pounds. The film reel
features five spokes, signifying the five original branches of the Academy: actors, directors,
producers, technicians and writers. Although the statuette remains true to its original design,
the size of the base 39 until 1945, when the current standard was adopted.
Officially named the Academy Award of Merit, the statuette is better known by its
nickname, Oscar, While the origins of the 40 aren’t clear, a popular story has it that upon
seeing the trophy for the first time, Academy librarian (and eventual executive director)
Margaret Herrick remarked that it 41 her Uncle Oscar. The Academy didn’t adopt the
nickname officially until 1939, but it was widely known enough by 1934 that Hollywood
columnist Sidney Skolsky used it in a 42 referring to Katharine Hepburn’s first Best
Actress win.
38
vulnerable
robust
stupefying
delicate
Oscar stands 13½ inches tall and weighs in at a 38 8½ pounds. The film reel
features five spokes, signifying the five original branches of the Academy: actors, directors,
producers, technicians and writers. Although the statuette remains true to its original design,
the size of the base 39 until 1945, when the current standard was adopted.
Officially named the Academy Award of Merit, the statuette is better known by its
nickname, Oscar, While the origins of the 40 aren’t clear, a popular story has it that upon
seeing the trophy for the first time, Academy librarian (and eventual executive director)
Margaret Herrick remarked that it 41 her Uncle Oscar. The Academy didn’t adopt the
nickname officially until 1939, but it was widely known enough by 1934 that Hollywood
columnist Sidney Skolsky used it in a 42 referring to Katharine Hepburn’s first Best
Actress win.
39
varies
vary
varied
varying
Oscar stands 13½ inches tall and weighs in at a 38 8½ pounds. The film reel
features five spokes, signifying the five original branches of the Academy: actors, directors,
producers, technicians and writers. Although the statuette remains true to its original design,
the size of the base 39 until 1945, when the current standard was adopted.
Officially named the Academy Award of Merit, the statuette is better known by its
nickname, Oscar, While the origins of the 40 aren’t clear, a popular story has it that upon
seeing the trophy for the first time, Academy librarian (and eventual executive director)
Margaret Herrick remarked that it 41 her Uncle Oscar. The Academy didn’t adopt the
nickname officially until 1939, but it was widely known enough by 1934 that Hollywood
columnist Sidney Skolsky used it in a 42 referring to Katharine Hepburn’s first Best
Actress win.
40
token
moniker
décor
epithet
Oscar stands 13½ inches tall and weighs in at a 38 8½ pounds. The film reel
features five spokes, signifying the five original branches of the Academy: actors, directors,
producers, technicians and writers. Although the statuette remains true to its original design,
the size of the base 39 until 1945, when the current standard was adopted.
Officially named the Academy Award of Merit, the statuette is better known by its
nickname, Oscar, While the origins of the 40 aren’t clear, a popular story has it that upon
seeing the trophy for the first time, Academy librarian (and eventual executive director)
Margaret Herrick remarked that it 41 her Uncle Oscar. The Academy didn’t adopt the
nickname officially until 1939, but it was widely known enough by 1934 that Hollywood
columnist Sidney Skolsky used it in a 42 referring to Katharine Hepburn’s first Best
Actress win.
41
recalled
reminded
assembled
resembled
Oscar stands 13½ inches tall and weighs in at a 38 8½ pounds. The film reel
features five spokes, signifying the five original branches of the Academy: actors, directors,
producers, technicians and writers. Although the statuette remains true to its original design,
the size of the base 39 until 1945, when the current standard was adopted.
Officially named the Academy Award of Merit, the statuette is better known by its
nickname, Oscar, While the origins of the 40 aren’t clear, a popular story has it that upon
seeing the trophy for the first time, Academy librarian (and eventual executive director)
Margaret Herrick remarked that it 41 her Uncle Oscar. The Academy didn’t adopt the
nickname officially until 1939, but it was widely known enough by 1934 that Hollywood
columnist Sidney Skolsky used it in a 42 referring to Katharine Hepburn’s first Best
Actress win.
42
portrait
statuette
piece
spectacle
The real war does not resemble the legendary war in its process or its conclusion. If it had
inspired or directed the development of the legend, then certainly the Ring would have been
43 and used against Sauron; he would not have been 44 but enslaved, and
Barad-Dûr would not have been destroyed but occupied. Saruman, failing to get possession of
the Ring, would in the confusion and treacheries of the time have found in Mordor the missing
links in his own researches into Ring-lore, and 45 he would have made a Great Ring of
his own with which to challenge the self-styled Ruler of Middle-earth. In that conflict both
sides would have held hobbits in hatred and 46 : they would not long have survived even
as slaves.
43
seized
forsaken
ravaged
allured
The real war does not resemble the legendary war in its process or its conclusion. If it had
inspired or directed the development of the legend, then certainly the Ring would have been
43 and used against Sauron; he would not have been 44 but enslaved, and
Barad-Dûr would not have been destroyed but occupied. Saruman, failing to get possession of
the Ring, would in the confusion and treacheries of the time have found in Mordor the missing
links in his own researches into Ring-lore, and 45 he would have made a Great Ring of
his own with which to challenge the self-styled Ruler of Middle-earth. In that conflict both
sides would have held hobbits in hatred and 46 : they would not long have survived even
as slaves.
44
annihilated
abolished
blasphemed
demonized
The real war does not resemble the legendary war in its process or its conclusion. If it had
inspired or directed the development of the legend, then certainly the Ring would have been
43 and used against Sauron; he would not have been 44 but enslaved, and
Barad-Dûr would not have been destroyed but occupied. Saruman, failing to get possession of
the Ring, would in the confusion and treacheries of the time have found in Mordor the missing
links in his own researches into Ring-lore, and 45 he would have made a Great Ring of
his own with which to challenge the self-styled Ruler of Middle-earth. In that conflict both
sides would have held hobbits in hatred and 46 : they would not long have survived even
as slaves.
45
ever since
before long
up to now
from time to time
The real war does not resemble the legendary war in its process or its conclusion. If it had
inspired or directed the development of the legend, then certainly the Ring would have been
43 and used against Sauron; he would not have been 44 but enslaved, and
Barad-Dûr would not have been destroyed but occupied. Saruman, failing to get possession of
the Ring, would in the confusion and treacheries of the time have found in Mordor the missing
links in his own researches into Ring-lore, and 45 he would have made a Great Ring of
his own with which to challenge the self-styled Ruler of Middle-earth. In that conflict both
sides would have held hobbits in hatred and 46 : they would not long have survived even
as slaves.
46
contempt
ambivalence
melancholy
calamity
Gollum looked at them. A strange expression passed over his lean hungry face. The 47
faded from his eyes, and they went dim and grey, old and tired. A 48 of pain seemed to
twist him, and he turned away, peering back up towards the pass, shaking his head, as if
engaged in some interior debate. Then he came back, and slowly putting out a trembling hand,
very cautiously he touched Frodo’s knee—but almost the touch was a caress. For a fleeting
moment, could one of the sleepers have seen him, they 49 that they beheld an old weary
hobbit, 50 by the years that had carried him far beyond his time, beyond friends and kin,
and the fields and streams of youth, an old starved pitiable thing.
47
accumulation
flesh
gleam
shadow
Gollum looked at them. A strange expression passed over his lean hungry face. The 47
faded from his eyes, and they went dim and grey, old and tired. A 48 of pain seemed to
twist him, and he turned away, peering back up towards the pass, shaking his head, as if
engaged in some interior debate. Then he came back, and slowly putting out a trembling hand,
very cautiously he touched Frodo’s knee—but almost the touch was a caress. For a fleeting
moment, could one of the sleepers have seen him, they 49 that they beheld an old weary
hobbit, 50 by the years that had carried him far beyond his time, beyond friends and kin,
and the fields and streams of youth, an old starved pitiable thing.
48
wake
series
batch
spasm
Gollum looked at them. A strange expression passed over his lean hungry face. The 47
faded from his eyes, and they went dim and grey, old and tired. A 48 of pain seemed to
twist him, and he turned away, peering back up towards the pass, shaking his head, as if
engaged in some interior debate. Then he came back, and slowly putting out a trembling hand,
very cautiously he touched Frodo’s knee—but almost the touch was a caress. For a fleeting
moment, could one of the sleepers have seen him, they 49 that they beheld an old weary
hobbit, 50 by the years that had carried him far beyond his time, beyond friends and kin,
and the fields and streams of youth, an old starved pitiable thing.
49
would think
may think
would have thought
might as well think
Gollum looked at them. A strange expression passed over his lean hungry face. The 47
faded from his eyes, and they went dim and grey, old and tired. A 48 of pain seemed to
twist him, and he turned away, peering back up towards the pass, shaking his head, as if
engaged in some interior debate. Then he came back, and slowly putting out a trembling hand,
very cautiously he touched Frodo’s knee—but almost the touch was a caress. For a fleeting
moment, could one of the sleepers have seen him, they 49 that they beheld an old weary
hobbit, 50 by the years that had carried him far beyond his time, beyond friends and kin,
and the fields and streams of youth, an old starved pitiable thing.
50
shrinking
shrunken
shrank
shriek
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