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Adhere
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To cling to
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The teacher encouraged her students to _________ closely to the directions in order to get a good grade
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Fraught
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Filled with (often something negative)
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Buying the older home was ________ with difficulties from the onset
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Impervious
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Cannot be harmed
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The truck is designed to be _______ to harm; a bomb has to land directly on it to damage it
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Incontrovertible
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Indisputable; can't argue
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The DNA test provided _________ evidence of the man's innocence
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Indubitable
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Cannot be doubted or questioned
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Since the evidence that the two students had cheated was __________ , they were expelled from school
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Inexplicable
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Cannot be explained
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Many formerly-_________ aspects of the natural world have been explained using modern science.
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Inherent
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Occurring by nature or habit
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Since she was kin aped as a small child, she has a __________ distrust of strangers
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Insuperable
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Cannot be overcome or passed over
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The couple did not stay together because, despite many attempts at reconciliation, they had __________ difficulties.
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Irrevocable
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Cannot be undone
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The decisions made by the Supreme Court are so hard to change because they are essentially __________
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Porous
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Having openings for liquids or gases to pass through
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The ________ material quickly absorbed the spilled liquid
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