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* *The Industrial Revolution didn't go so well for Luddites whose jobs were displaced by mechanized looms, but it eventually raised living standards and created more jobs than it destroyed.*
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| loom | contaminate | taint | defile
| preach | remnant | revive | revitalize
| stimulant | vapor | cultivate | turbine
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* *The ruling produced an explosion in business-method patent filings, initially by emerging internet companies trying to stake out exclusive rights to specific types of online transactions.*
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| stake | transaction | hedge | punch
| ascend | augment | escalate | intensify
| hoist | spiral |||
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* *Even though there is plenty of evidence that the quality of the teachers is the most important variable, teachers' unions have fought against getting rid of bad ones and promoting good ones.*
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| clamp | imply | patrol | pension
| unionize | vigorously | averse | frown
| copious | lavish | multitude | plenteous
| profuse | swarm |||
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* *Yet most ancestry testing only considers a single lineage, either the Y chromosome inherited through men in a father's line or mitochondrial DNA, which is passed down only from mothers.*
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| chromosome | inherit | kinship | martial
| paternal | paternity | prescription | saliva
| swab | censor | scrutiny | inquiry |
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* *Moreover, even though humans have been upright for millions of years, our feet and back continue to struggle with bipedal posture and cannot easily withstand repeated strain imposed by oversize limbs.*
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| bipedal | withstand | limb | alternation
| brace | choke | coil | fling
| flip | toss | gallop | grin
| grope | heave | hurl | inhale
| snatch | sniff | stir | stoop
| stride | stumble | tumble ||
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