1. The elderly woman was (i) ______ to have returned to her the ring that she had lost fifty years before in the (ii) ______ waters of the Mississippi River.
2. Hursthouse, (i) ______ virtue ethicists in general, argues that ethics is properly neither situational nor utilitarian and that one ought to seek out virtue and emulate it rather than base one’s judgments on subjective concerns or a (ii) ______ weighing of pain and pleasure likely to result from a given action; critics, of course, tend to (iii) ______ that Hursthouse and other virtue ethicists who seek to define virtue merely seek to enshrine their own prejudices under the guise of theory.
3. The film was (i) ______ (ii) ______ by critics; not a single reviewer had any positive thing to say about it.
4. Socrates advocated a life of moderation: live (i) ______, drink (ii) ______, and (iii) ______.
5. After the US Civil War, “carpetbaggers”—so-called because they carried suitcases made of inexpensive carpeting material— ______ the South, hoping to turn a quick profit.
6. December’s earthquake was but a ______ to a terrible year for a small island nation recently wracked by civil strife and devastating tropical storms.
7. Although they had never met, the two writers felt they were of one mind, each (i) ______ anticipating the contents of the other’s letters; never had two intellectuals been more (ii) ______.
8. After many years of war and bloodshed, some became ______ suffering, casting a blind eye to scenes of misery around them.
9. After a brief initial struggle over power, the group elected a leader and ______ into a surprisingly harmonious team.
10. The director inserted deliberate ______ into the play—for example, Hamlet typed his letters to Ophelia on a laptop.
11. The ancient tablet presents a true ______: none have been able to decode it.
12. According to supporters of progressive taxation, the payment of higher tax rates by those with higher incomes, those who (i) ______ such taxation systems tend to fall into two camps: the (ii) ______, who feel it unjust that the “most industrious” among us are “penalized” for their success, and the (iii) ______, who argue that higher taxes on the rich will harm us all by dampening the entrepreneurial spirit that drives the economy.
13. Just as reminiscences of a childhood spent in rural Mexico color the poet’s work, so too does the experience of war ______ her poetry.
14. The peanut is often (i) ______ referred to as a nut; (ii) ______ to such people, it is actually a legume.