Linguaphiles

..... of metal, this mechanism is approximately the size of shoebox.

Because concrete generates considerable heat as it sets, large volumes can become exceedingly hot, .................

By the end of the 1800s, naturally occurring reserves of nitrogen-based compounds had been so badly depleted by their use as fertilizers ................. some feared a worldwide famine when supplies ran out. that

Thunder is caused by lightning, ............ essentially a stream of electrons flowing between or within clouds, or between a cloud and the ground

The Western scientific view of the body is reductionist. It sees the body as a machine that is made up of different components, __.

This close connection between Polish Romanticism and Polish history became one of the defining qualities of the literature of Polish Romanticism period, differentiating it from __ other countries.

__ in her sitting room, Charlotte looked as if she were posing for Manet.

The toxins will cause the white blood cells to __ to the point they are no longer able to fight germs.

Because anemia can be treated with blood transfusions, some historians state that in the dark ages people with porphyria might have tried drinking blood as a folk __.

When J. Langdon Down first described savant syndrome in 1887, coining its name and noting its association with __ powers of memory, he cited a patient who could recite Edward Gibbon's The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire verbatim.

Astronomers have been able to examine much of the universe's history by training their telescopes on distant galaxies and quasars that __ their light billions of years ago

The deceptiveness is not built into their appearance, as with the mirror orchid, ............... in rigid behavioral routines like those of the hog-nosed snake.

The interweaving of so many different parts of physics ............... the tight logical structure of the laws of nature.

The traffic light turns red, you stop, and an old lady steps into the crosswalk from the left. All of a sudden you are overcome with a feeling that you have been here before — in the same car, at the same crosswalk, ............... .

Pity Dorothy, The Wizard of Oz heroine ran into her home in the face of an approaching “cyclone” after ............... out of the storm cellar.

Humans like to categorize, Hyde explains, and once we devise categories we immediately start judging ...............

Insurance companies have been reporting an increase ............... the instructions of their sat-navs.

When the next earthquake strikes the impressive but crowded city of Istanbul ............... the consequences are likely to be incredibly terrible.

.................. readily acknowledged that workers are not motivated by money alone, their abstractions were based only on the economic aspects of reality.

From the viewpoint of the insured person, an insurable risk is one for which the probability of loss is not .................. excessive premiums.