1. It’s worth wondering if the increase in diagnoses of psychological disorders has caused us to see certain behaviors that were once considered normal as _________.
2. Proust proved that the _________ can be the domain of the novel every bit as much as the fantastical.
3. The magazine’s editor was known to be a very busy woman, so it was important when speaking with her to get right to the _________ of the issue.
4. While environmental concerns continue to _________, most climate scientists say the interest comes too late, as we’ve already passed the proverbial tipping point.
5. The government interpreted the enemy’s decision to move their army to the borderline as _________ act of aggression.
6. The saying “Time stops for no man” also applies to rock and roll; once the rebellious sound of the young, it became part of the culture of the old, just as had every preceding style of music.
7. Isherwood’s sympathy for communism during the interwar period was not only a reaction against fascism, but also a mark of his fellow feeling for the laboring classes and his _________ to engage as an equal with working people.
8. Academic freedom does not protect a professor’s classroom remarks on matters irrelevant to his subject, though it guarantees the professor considerable liberty of speech about matters _________ to his or her academic work.
9. Unbridled passion, whether rage or ardor, gives way to the sort of rash declarations that too often end in _________ and sorrow.
10. The tremendous wealth of ancient life on display as part of the Ancient Life of New York exhibit—billion-year-old blue-green bacteria from the Adirondacks, fossilized tree stumps and spiders from Schoharie County, trilobites from Oneida County, and armored fish from throughout the state—represents only a tiny fraction of the New York State Museum’s _________ collection of over one million specimens.