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14. In retrospect, Gordons students appreciated her ____ assignments,realizing that such assignments were specifically designed to ____ original thought rather than to review the content of her course. didactic.. ingrain intimidating.. thwart difficult.. discourage conventional.. explicate enigmatic.. stimulate 15.The insecticide proved ____; by killing the weak adults of a species, it assured that the strong ones would mate among themselves and produce offspring still more ____ to its effects. ineffective.. hostile cruel.. vulnerable feasible.. susceptible necessary.. immune counterproductive.. resistant 16. She writes across generational lines, making the past so ____ that our belief that the present is the true locus of experience is undermined. complex distant vivid mysterious mundane 17. The technical know-how, if not the political ____, appears already at hand to feed the worlds exploding population and so to ____ at last the ancient scourges of malnutrition and famine. will.. weaken expertise.. articulate doubt.. banish | 
