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The snow leopard, also known as the ounce, is -------- in size and general appearance to the leopard.

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1 West Virginia became ------- of the United States on June 20, 1863.
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3 One researcher observed ------- after two months in the wild some game-farm turkeys still allowed humans to approach within six feet before showing alarm.


 
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The human skin forms ------- against the action of physical, chemical, and bacterial agents on the deeper tissues.

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The Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., is generally considered ------- the city’s major cultural treasures.

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Once information has been attended to and recognized as meaningful or relevant, ------- to short-term memory.

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Speech synthesizers can break down speech into basic elements that are then combined into words ------- sentences.

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The Sun, the Moon, and Earth have magnetic fields, and ------- evidence that the stellar galaxies have fields that extend through vast regions of space.

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9 High altitude is a high-stress environment, and the plants there have fewer stems and leaves than ------- at lower altitudes.
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A radio is tuned ------- of the receiver circuit until it coincides with the frequency of radio waves reaching the antenna.

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The Big Dipper, a configuration of seven stars in the northern sky, is part of the constellation Ursa Major, -------.

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12 ------- birth rates and substantial immigration, Canada suffered a net outflow of people for most of the period between 1870 and 1900.
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The development of very large scale integration technology, enabling many transistors to be put on a single silicon chip, made personal computers -------.

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Not until 1976 --------, founded in 1847 as the Free Academy, begin to charge tuition.

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------- while swimming may be the most energy-efficient method for schools of fishes to cover long distances.

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