Practice Test Set 1 (Sentence Completion)

1. The ________ songs of Irving Berlin captured the uninhibited joy and ________ verve of New York in the twenties.

   1. jaunty . . . insouciant
   2. tuneful . . . timorous
   3. cacophonous . . . careless
   4. catchy . . . lurid
   5. popular . . . flagrant

2. We have _____ trust in you.

   1. perfect
   2. entire
   3. imperative
   4. absolute

3. I _____ him for a long time.

   1. am not met
   2. did not meet
   3. do not meet
   4. have not met

4. His argument is quite _____.

   1. sickly
   2. unconvincing
   3. fragile
   4. infirm

5. The war has seriously _____ attempts to achieve peace.

   1. impaired
   2. attenuated
   3. enfeebled
   4. declined

6. So long you are not well avoid _____ exercise.

   1. strong
   2. lusty
   3. vigorous
   4. powerful

7. The show is worth seeing for the ________ of Judy Convoy’s vivacious performance, which ________ the stage whenever she appears.

   1. effervescence . . . enlivens
   2. verve . . . deforms
   3. torpor . . . dominates
   4. bravado . . . enervates
   5. sprightliness . . . muffles

8. His ______ capacity for food was abnormal.

   1. venal
   2. venial
   3. voracious
   4. veracious

9. There is _____ among the members of the party.

   1. contention
   2. discord
   3. battle
   4. war

10. The ________ problem of piracy has the music industry worried, because the pirates overseas are ________ by the crackdown in the United States.

    1. burgeoning . . . unabashed
    2. widespread . . . intimidated
    3. immaterial . . . incriminated
    4. minor . . . untroubled
    5. evanescent . . . undeterred

11. Vitamin _____ can lead to illness.

    1. shortage
    2. deficiency
    3. poverty
    4. want

12. _____ the gulf stream is warmer than the ocean water surrounding it.

    1. wholly
    2. whole
    3. as whole
    4. a whole as

13. Churchill was cordial to Beria when they first met, but that was the last show of ________ between them.

    1. charity
    2. enmity
    3. amiability
    4. pathology
    5. austerity

14. Unfortunately, too many American actors in a Shakespeare play chop the verse into gobbets that are ________ to the audience and ________ to their own vocal chords.

    1. inscrutable . . . an expedience
    2. congenial . . . a danger
    3. galling . . . a panacea
    4. anodyne . . . an emollient
    5. incomprehensible . . . a threat

15. If one helps a criminal, he is also considered _____ of the crime.

    1. suspicious
    2. daring
    3. guilty
    4. culpable

16. This legend has been _____ from father to son.

    1. handed down
    2. handed for
    3. handed in
    4. handed over

17. Advertisement will _____ your sale.

    1. boost
    2. hoist
    3. lift
    4. aid

18. Political dissidents complained of being _____ by the police.

    1. capitulated
    2. desecrated
    3. minimized
    4. harassed

19. Heavy _____ were reported in the battle

    1. depreciation
    2. despoliation
    3. obsolescence
    4. casualties

20. Face _____ with courage.

    1. misery
    2. poverty
    3. adversity
    4. affliction

21. So many servants attended _____ him during his illness.

    1. only how
    2. with
    3. at
    4. upon

22. He worked _____ for ten year to make the project successful.

    1. deliberately
    2. assiduously
    3. ingenuously
    4. deliriously

23. He could not _____ the incident from his memory.

    1. emboss
    2. paramount
    3. exculpate
    4. expunge

24. As the controversial argument continued, the debaters became more _________ and their remarks became more ________.

    1. subdued . . . hostile
    2. vehement . . . acrimonious
    3. reticent . . . cliché
    4. affable . . . adverse
    5. emotional . . . adroit

25. Urge people who smoke to _____ the habit.

    1. surrender
    2. abandon
    3. discontinue
    4. desert

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