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Traditionally, pollination by wind has been viewed as a repr
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23 Jun 2022, 07:57
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To many environmentalists, the extinction of plants-accompa
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21 Jun 2022, 06:00
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Extensive housing construction is underway in Pataska Forest
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28908
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VerbalBot
21 Jun 2022, 05:53
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We can distinguish three different realms of matter, three l
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Carcass
20 Jun 2022, 05:09
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The more that is discovered about the intricate organization
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Science
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5099
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Carcass
15 Jun 2022, 01:10
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A portrait type that appeared with relentless frequency in e
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Source: PowerPrep Free Test 2
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23951
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VerbalBot
14 Jun 2022, 13:27
3
Recent appraisals of developing media technologies, such as
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Social Science
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Source: OG Revised 2nd Ed. (paper-based)
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Source: PowerPrep Free Test 2
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VerbalBot
11 Jun 2022, 03:01
21
Jean Wagner's most enduring contribution to the study of Afr
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EXCEPT
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Humanities
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Medium Reading
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Social Science
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8389
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VerbalBot
07 Jun 2022, 20:38
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QOTD # 1-2 Supernovas in the Milky Way are the likeliest sou
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Science
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Source: OG Verbal Reasoning
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14171
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07 Jun 2022, 04:17
19
The determination of the sources of copper ore used in the m
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Science
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Source: OG 10th Ed. (paper-based)
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Source: OG Big Book
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6071
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Carcass
03 Jun 2022, 04:34
17
During the Great Depression of the 1930s, the prevailing aes
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Medium Reading
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Social Science
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Source: OG Revised 2nd Ed. (paper-based)
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Source: PowerPrep Free Test 2
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20020
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Carcass
26 May 2022, 22:00
5
Instead of relying on general tax revenue, as it now does,
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VerbalBot
25 May 2022, 18:35
6
Sometime during the 1950's, rock music pennanently ousted
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1657
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24 May 2022, 08:43
14
Echolocating bats emit sounds in patterns—characteristic of
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VerbalBot
24 May 2022, 06:51
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Last year, support for the social and behavioral sciences re
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2802
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NickOP
15 May 2022, 21:06
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United States and the Soviet Union in terms of crop yields
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Source: OG Revised 1st Ed.
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Source: OG Revised 2nd Ed.
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Source: OG Revised 3rd Ed.
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16274
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NickOP
15 May 2022, 20:38
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In the United States between 1850 and 1880, the number
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Source: OG Revised 3rd Ed.
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12 May 2022, 09:48
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Computer programmers often remark that computing machines, w
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Difficulty: Medium
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Long Reading
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Source: OG Big Book
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Carcass
11 May 2022, 00:51
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Traditionally, the study of history has had fixed boundaries
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09 May 2022, 19:26
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OG_VPR # 20-21-22-23 During the 1920s, most advocates of sci
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Business
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Source: OG Verbal - Mixed Sets
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13487
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halcykon
08 May 2022, 13:16
11
The 38- corporations that filed United States income tax ret
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2047
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VerbalBot
08 May 2022, 02:49
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QOTD # 10 X-ray examination of a recently discovered painti
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Difficulty: Hard
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15037
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halcykon
07 May 2022, 10:46
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The transplantation of organs from one individual to another
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Science
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Source: OG 10th Ed. (paper-based)
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Source: OG Big Book
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11499
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VerbalBot
06 May 2022, 02:07
4
The school bus always stops at the railroad tracks. When the
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2208
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volcanictempest78
21 Apr 2022, 22:47
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It has been known for many decades that the appearance of su
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Inference
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Source: OG Practice Test (paper-based)
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12185
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VerbalBot
23 Mar 2022, 01:28
6
Any United States flag manufactured outside the United Stat
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Difficulty: Hard
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Passage Paragraph Argument
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Weaken
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Source: OG Big Book
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2188
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VerbalBot
17 Mar 2022, 08:14
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When released into the atmosphere, the refrigerant Freon dam
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2857
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VerbalBot
17 Mar 2022, 08:10
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Historically, a cornerstone of classical empiricism has been
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Carcass
14 Mar 2022, 10:18
31
Islamic law is a particularly instructive example of "sacred
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4986
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HarishKumar
14 Mar 2022, 07:21
7
The molecules of carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere af
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Difficulty: Hard
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Long Reading
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Science
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Source: OG Big Book
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3271
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HarishKumar
10 Mar 2022, 20:20
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Many literary detectives have pored over a great puzzle conc
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4108
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HarishKumar
10 Mar 2022, 00:03
30
In his 1976 study of slavery in the United States, Herbert G
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HarishKumar
08 Mar 2022, 05:23
6
Earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and unusual weather have ca
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Difficulty: Hard
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Passage Paragraph Argument
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Weaken
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Source: OG Big Book
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2519
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VerbalBot
03 Mar 2022, 19:59
22
Flatfish, such as the flounder, are among the few vertebrates that lac
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7388
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HarishKumar
03 Mar 2022, 07:13
28
The deep sea typically has a sparse fauna dominated by tiny
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9730
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HarishKumar
02 Mar 2022, 05:55
12
Historian F. W. Maitland observed that legal documents are t
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Difficulty: Hard
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Social Science
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Source: PowerPrep Free Test 2
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23879
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Carcass
27 Feb 2022, 13:28
17
In eighteenth-century France and England, r
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6889
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HarishKumar
25 Feb 2022, 05:18
17
Practically speaking, the artistic maturing of the cinema wa
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7222
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HarishKumar
16 Feb 2022, 23:07
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People often recall having felt chilled before the onset of
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3190
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HarishKumar
01 Feb 2022, 22:58
17
Thomas Hardy's impulses as a writer, all of which he indulge
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Humanities
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7536
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Greprep911
31 Jan 2022, 03:40
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In the early 1970's, when art reached its current high leve
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Strengthen
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2788
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HarishKumar
31 Jan 2022, 02:04
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All of Francoise Duparc's surviving paintings blend portrai
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HarishKumar
28 Jan 2022, 07:45
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By 1950, the results of attempts to relate brain processes t
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Carcass
21 Jan 2022, 07:11
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Superficially, college graduates in 1982 resemble college gr
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2755
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VerbalBot
19 Jan 2022, 13:08
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Praising a historian for factual accuracy in describing even
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1683
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VerbalBot
19 Jan 2022, 02:51
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If we employ a broad definition of what is urban-that is, o
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19 Jan 2022, 02:48
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many anthropologists assumed that the environment of what is
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VerbalBot
10 Jan 2022, 02:45
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"I want to criticize the social system, and to show it at wo
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VerbalBot
09 Jan 2022, 01:29
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In the early 1950's, historians who studied preindustrial Eu
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VerbalBot
08 Jan 2022, 02:22
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Viruses, infectious particles consisting of nucleic acid pac
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07 Jan 2022, 04:49
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