Practice Test Set 2 (Sentence Completion)

1. Your conduct is most _____.

   1. reprobate
   2. recidivist
   3. reprehensible
   4. regurgitate

2. If the teams were not so evenly matched, it would be easier to _____ the outcome of the match.

   1. argue
   2. predict
   3. discuss
   4. influence

3. Time and time again, the power of the mob in Chicago appears to have been annihilated, but it has always ________ itself.

   1. reappeared
   2. eliminated
   3. returned
   4. regenerated
   5. exhumed

4. It is _____ to steal.

   1. sinful
   2. corrupt
   3. immoral
   4. wicked

5. God is kind and _____ to all sinners who repent.

   1. graceful
   2. gracious
   3. gaseous
   4. guessful

6. He became very _____ and started arguing with me angrily.

   1. subservient
   2. truculent
   3. pellucid
   4. stringent

7. I have no _____ motive in offering this advice, I seek no personal advantage.

   1. ulterior
   2. nominal
   3. disinterested
   4. incongruous

8. I _____ have to remind him of his responsibilities.

   1. continually
   2. continuously
   3. continually
   4. persistently

9. The Supreme Court has a reputation for being _____.

   1. stubborn
   2. capricious
   3. just
   4. humorous

10. The results of this policy will remain _____ for some times.

    1. outstanding
    2. dubious
    3. impressive
    4. remarkable

11. Unlike most historians, an anthropologist may not share the conventional ________ that the written word is more ________ than a tale told by a campfire.

    1. belief . . . prolix
    2. assumption . . . authentic
    3. idea . . . incredible
    4. tenet . . . specious
    5. canon . . . interesting

12. Comparing him to P.T. Barnum, Mencken called William Jennings Bryan a ________, a mountebank, a fake without shame or dignity.

    1. coward
    2. charlatan
    3. poltroon
    4. craven
    5. demigod

13. Ignoring the increasing cloudiness and the ________ rumblings in the sky, they opened the picnic basket on the shore of the lake.

    1. ominous
    2. blithe
    3. monetary
    4. arduous
    5. auspicious

14. The description of the accident given by him was quite _____.

    1. bright
    2. vivid
    3. glaring
    4. telling

15. The principal along with the students _____ gone on the picnic.

    1. has
    2. have
    3. were
    4. are

16. The eruption of the volcano in January was only ________ of the much larger event in March.

    1. an advent
    2. a ukase
    3. an elision
    4. a precursor
    5. a subtext

17. He has _____ knowledge of the subject.

    1. exceptional
    2. exceptionable
    3. exhaustible
    4. exhaustive

18. ________ must be distinguished from ________, which is the recognition of different categories of people without the inputing of any differences in rank.

    1. Totalitarianism . . . brotherhood
    2. Modification . . . ossification
    3. Classification . . . ramification
    4. Stratification . . . differentiation
    5. Finitude . . . infinitude

19. They refuse to _____ defeat.

    1. grant
    2. yield
    3. own
    4. acknowledge

20. After his operation he was _____ to bed for a week.

    1. circumscribed
    2. cramped
    3. confined
    4. limited

21. Advertisement will _____ your sale.

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

22. Loyalty tests are ________ in their consequences because they distract attention from truly disloyal activities, and they ________ the criticism that true loyalty inspires.

    1. salutary . . . intimidate
    2. cautionary . . . mute
    3. pernicious . . . silence
    4. unexceptional . . . abstract
    5. perilous . . . augment

23. _____ owe much of their success as a group to their unusual powers of migration.

    1. that birds
    2. a bird
    3. the bird
    4. birds

24. The officer waited until the clerks ________ busily.

    1. worked
    2. were working
    3. had worked
    4. are working

25. We _____ ourselves for difficult times.

    1. prop
    2. support
    3. brace
    4. refresh

Answers

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