Mikhail Gorbachev is _______________ with helping to bring about the end of communism in Europe.

The government has _______________ a couple of changes to the driver's licensing procedure in an attempt to reduce the number of accidents involving new drivers.

The downturn in the economy has forced us to __________ our investment goals.

Carbon __________ can help encourage companies to reduce the amount of greenhouse gas emissions they produce by assigning a financial cost to polluting the air.

The Olmecs of ancient Mexico recognized the __________ utility of zero a thousand years before the development of the Arabic numbering system we use today.

Before _______________ in a new dictionary, look up a couple of words in a few different ones so you can see which one has the clearest definitions.

The bacteria _______________ that we examined under the microscope was actually quite beautiful to look at.

The landscape of our planet is dominated by _______________ formed by running water.

The students did an exercise in which they had to _______________ the new vocabulary according to the part of speech.

Keith Folse has observed that second language learners see _______________ of vocabulary as their greatest source of problems.

Police forces in Vancouver worked to develop a __________ sensitive security program for the 2010 Olympic Games.

Part of the difficulty with __________ Pluto is that no clear definition of a planet has been developed within the scientific community.

Frederick Douglass once noted that the white man's happiness cannot be __________ by the black man's misery.

The sharing of physical __________ by members of the same family creates what we commonly refer to as a family resemblance.

During the experiment, the drug was _______________ to a monkey, and the results were studied.

In response to Indian nuclear weapons testing, Pakistan _______________ its own tests in 1998.

The local _______________ of Greenpeace is protesting against water pollution in our area.

Our new product __________ is going to be launched next spring.

In the beginning of democracy in America, the right to vote was __________ to white male property owners.

The results of the experiment were published in an important chemistry _______________.

For many years, the area now known as Angola was a _______________ of the African slave trade.

The Scandinavian nation of Norway has the __________ of being repeatedly identified as the best place to live in by the United Nations.

The head negotiator has said that he is confident that they will __________ a peace agreement by the end of the year.

Water and salt both work to _______________ the water content of the body.

The people of Sri Lanka have absorbed cultural _______________ from the Arabs, Chinese, Portuguese, Dutch and British who have come to the island.

I can't understand why they hired him to work in the computer lab; at best he has only a very __________ knowledge of computers.

Talking about the personal life of employees is not _______________ to a discussion of their ability to do their job.

Many people _______________ Canada with snow, but in the city where I live, sometimes we don't get any snow all winter.

Studies show that constant exposure to media content _______________ violence, with the result that children come to believe that society is violent.

Schmitt and McCarthy have stated that vocabulary is now regarded as the key _______________ of learning a second language.

Your summary has too many _______________ details; you need to make it much more concise.

Many traditional job skills have become __________ as machines replace man in more and more jobs.

Wolves live in packs which are __________ social structures.

Playing games helps children to learn both social __________ and social skills.

The victim's __________ are not considered life-threatening.

The results of the poll have now been _______________, and will be distributed to the news media this afternoon.

Every employee's work performance will be _______________ on a yearly basis.

_______________ valid results is a major goal of all research.

World chess champion Gary Kasparov was recently beaten by a machine which was able to _______________ its moves almost instantly.

Vitamins are best _______________ through fresh fruit and vegetables, rather than by taking pills.

An industrialist by the name of Oskar Schindler is _______________ with saving the lives of about 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust.

The Bank of Montreal is one of this country's largest financial _______________.

According to a recent _______________, safety procedures at U.S. airports are no better now than before the attacks of 9-11.

The Dalai Lama once observed that great love and great _______________ involve great risk.

The dream of peace in the Middle East sometimes seems completely __________ given the current poor state of relations between countries in the region.

This magazine is __________ aimed at adolescent girls.

The book is __________ because it is out of print, and any copies that do exist are in the hands of collectors.

A tooth believed to have belonged to Buddha __________ in the Sri Dalada Maligawa temple in Sri Lanka.

Leaders of the largest developed countries need to __________ summit meetings at least annually to address the growing problem of global pollution.