1. Though some judges have found in the Third Amendment to the US Constitution a (i) ______ for a right to privacy, it was drafted primarily to appease opponents of the Constitution, and was particularly a (ii) ______ to those antifederalists who sought to prevent the new state from maintaining a standing army. Since Article 1, section 8 of the Constitution explicitly grants to Congress the power to raise and maintain an army, the Third Amendment was largely (iii) ______ before it was written.
2. Finally, after refusing for a decade, the family patriarch, weakened by age and infirmity, surrendered to the impassioned pleas of his avaricious nieces, and gave his ______ to the risky investment stratagem.
3. Even thrill-seeking visitors to amusement parks will avoid those attractions with a reputation for real (i) ______, like those at the now-shuttered Action Park. These patrons want not danger but its (ii) ______, a ride that (iii) ______ but is in fact perfectly safe.
4. Desktop publishing allows (i) ______ to do for themselves the work once reserved for professionals whose (ii) ______ or other training developed design skills along with narrow technical mastery.
5. The (i) ______ of the author’s first novel is staggering: the plot is (ii) ______, the characters are entirely (iii) ______, and the prose is trite.
6. The psychic claimed to be able to divine the future by using a forked stick to locate underground water, but his methods were nothing more than ______.
7. The (i) ______ of the author’s first novel is staggering: the plot is (ii) ______, the characters are entirely (iii) ______, and the prose is trite.
8. The participants were of two minds as to whether the psychic had ______ a spirit, but everyone had felt the presence of something new in the room.
9. When he joked about his shortcomings as a husband, his humor grew too (i) ______ for our comfort, becoming so bitter and ironic that we found ourselves (ii) ______.
10. Churchill conceded that Russia, (i) ______ an ally of France and Great Britain, was in fact (ii) ______ to their security, but argued that Russian national interest would compel it to make (iii) ______ with those countries.
11. Just as ancient Greek culture in some ways provided the Romans with a model, the remnants of Roman culture ______ the development of medieval European mores.
12. (i) ______ the law had little impact, but it was (ii) ______ by subsequent legislation providing funding and enforcement.
13. Evoking both horror and joy in its audience in equal measure, the opera became an instant classic of ______ technique.
14. The famous Notre Dame cathedral in Paris took almost two hundred years to complete; this immense architectural effort included the first notable use of a flying ______, but this renowned feature was not part of the original design and only employed when the walls forming the nave began to crumble and needed additional support.
15. While no single empirical investigation can ever conclusively prove the (i) ______ of a theory, the fact that our data are (ii) ______ findings from over a dozen independent labs worldwide bodes well for our framework’s resilience.
16. A full account of the complexities of sleep, sought after by scientists, philosophers, and mystics for millennia, continues to elude us. That we are still so ignorant about a topic so (i) ______ to our daily lives is at once fascinating and (ii) ______.
17. Mozart’s brief life exemplified a discrepancy between fame and means: as his musical star (i) ______ beyond measure, his income (ii) ______.
18. The (i) ______ of the author’s first novel is staggering: the plot is (ii) ______, the characters are entirely (iii) ______, and the prose is trite.
19. The participants were of two minds as to whether the psychic had ______ a spirit, but everyone had felt the presence of something new in the room.
20. When he joked about his shortcomings as a husband, his humor grew too (i) ______ for our comfort, becoming so bitter and ironic that we found ourselves (ii) ______.
21. Churchill conceded that Russia, (i) ______ an ally of France and Great Britain, was in fact (ii) ______ to their security, but argued that Russian national interest would compel it to make (iii) ______ with those countries.
22. Just as ancient Greek culture in some ways provided the Romans with a model, the remnants of Roman culture ______ the development of medieval European mores.
23. (i) ______ the law had little impact, but it was (ii) ______ by subsequent legislation providing funding and enforcement.
24. Evoking both horror and joy in its audience in equal measure, the opera became an instant classic of ______ technique.
25. The famous Notre Dame cathedral in Paris took almost two hundred years to complete; this immense architectural effort included the first notable use of a flying ______, but this renowned feature was not part of the original design and only employed when the walls forming the nave began to crumble and needed additional support.
26. While no single empirical investigation can ever conclusively prove the (i) ______ of a theory, the fact that our data are (ii) ______ findings from over a dozen independent labs worldwide bodes well for our framework’s resilience.
27. A full account of the complexities of sleep, sought after by scientists, philosophers, and mystics for millennia, continues to elude us. That we are still so ignorant about a topic so (i) ______ to our daily lives is at once fascinating and (ii) ______.
28. Mozart’s brief life exemplified a discrepancy between fame and means: as his musical star (i) ______ beyond measure, his income (ii) ______.
29. The (i) ______ of the author’s first novel is staggering: the plot is (ii) ______, the characters are entirely (iii) ______, and the prose is trite.
30. The participants were of two minds as to whether the psychic had ______ a spirit, but everyone had felt the presence of something new in the room.
31. When he joked about his shortcomings as a husband, his humor grew too (i) ______ for our comfort, becoming so bitter and ironic that we found ourselves (ii) ______.
32. Churchill conceded that Russia, (i) ______ an ally of France and Great Britain, was in fact (ii) ______ to their security, but argued that Russian national interest would compel it to make (iii) ______ with those countries.
33. Just as ancient Greek culture in some ways provided the Romans with a model, the remnants of Roman culture ______ the development of medieval European mores.
34. (i) ______ the law had little impact, but it was (ii) ______ by subsequent legislation providing funding and enforcement.
35. Evoking both horror and joy in its audience in equal measure, the opera became an instant classic of ______ technique.
36. The famous Notre Dame cathedral in Paris took almost two hundred years to complete; this immense architectural effort included the first notable use of a flying ______, but this renowned feature was not part of the original design and only employed when the walls forming the nave began to crumble and needed additional support.
37. The (i) ______ of the author’s first novel is staggering: the plot is (ii) ______, the characters are entirely (iii) ______, and the prose is trite.
38. The (i) ______ of the author’s first novel is staggering: the plot is (ii) ______, the characters are entirely (iii) ______, and the prose is trite.
39. The psychic claimed to be able to divine the future by using a forked stick to locate underground water, but his methods were nothing more than ______.
40. The (i) ______ of the author’s first novel is staggering: the plot is (ii) ______, the characters are entirely (iii) ______, and the prose is trite.
41. Nora Ephron’s 1989 film, When Harry Met Sally, was more than a hit movie—for a generation, it was a cultural ______ regarding the often fraught relations between men and women.