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Though many ___ studies of the effect of altitude on blood chemistry focus on people who...Easy
Text corpora such as the American National Corpus are enormous collections of...Easy
Alfred Nobel intended for the Nobel Prize to be an award honoring those who have...Easy
As used in the text, what does the phrase "concern myself with" most nearly mean?Easy
The invention in 1958 of the integrated circuit (or microchip) radically altered the...Easy
A unique dialect, or regional variety, of Spanish is spoken in Puerto Rico. It contains...Easy
As used in the text, what does the word "recall" most nearly mean?Easy
Though it does not guarantee a book's commercial success, ___ can play a big role in that...Easy
Sarah Marquis, who walked 16,000 kilometers across Asia, Siberia, and Australia...Easy
Some cities track pedestrian activity to map their sidewalks, but this method often ___...Easy
As used in the text, what does the word "anticipating" most nearly mean?Easy
Diadromous fish migrate between freshwater and marine biomes during their life cycle. The...Intense
The American continents are home to a huge diversity of languages, from Mayo, found in...Easy
Today’s theater stages are frequently filled with props and scenery to immerse the...Medium
Agglomeration economies arise when multiple firms in related industries ___ an area, as...Easy
Lucian of Samosata (modern-day Turkey) was a second-century satirist who mostly published...Easy
The presence of Belarus’s Mir Castle Complex on the United Nations Educational...Easy
As used in the text, what does the word "good" most nearly mean?Easy
The term "agglomeration economies" refers to the economic benefits enjoyed by firms in the...Medium
Geomagnetic storms can disturb Earth's ionosphere, causing the models underlying the...Easy
The Polynesian languages, a group of related languages originating on islands in the...Medium
Physicist Joseph Weber performed ___ work in gravitational wave research in the 1960s and...Medium
The printing of Virginia Woolf’s novels featured a creative ___ between Woolf and her...Easy
While we can infer information about climate activity in Earth’s distant past from...Easy
The recent discovery of a carved wooden figure dating to around 2,000 years ago in a ditch...Medium
The güiro, a musical instrument traditionally made from a dried and hollowed gourd, is...Easy
In 1929 the Atlantic Monthly published several articles based on newly discovered letters...Medium
A musician and member of the Quechua of Peru, Renata Flores Rivera was eager to promote...Easy
Portable video game consoles and other small electronic devices tend to ___ internal...Easy
In a garden, ___ the spread of unwelcome weeds such as nutgrass can be difficult because...Medium
Studying wrappers from discontinued candies, menus from nineteenth-century restaurants...Medium
Studying wrappers from discontinued candies, cover images from out-of-print magazines, and...Intense
New and interesting research conducted by Suleiman A. Al-Sweedan and Moath Alhaj is...Intense
In the architectural process called modular construction, a building is manufactured in...Medium
A rising illustrator of children’s books spoke at a recent publishing conference about...Easy
As used in the text, what does the word "surveyed" most nearly mean?Easy
As used in the text, what does the word "reserve" most nearly mean?Medium
Several scholars of children's literature recently ___ to discuss the work of Sharon Bell...Medium
The Apollo Moon landings (1969–1972) brought magnetic field sensors and temperature probes...Medium
The financial situation of playwrights in Elizabethan theater was often ___, but being as...Intense

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