Practice Test Set 2 (Sentence Completion)

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

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

2. Penguins an aquatic bird, may live _____ twenty years.

   1. since
   2. before
   3. for
   4. from

3. An _____ agreement was reached between both the parties.

   1. amiable
   2. amicable
   3. likeable
   4. desirable

4. They refuse to _____ defeat.

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

5. Some historians contend that the ________ Germany was forced to pay after World War I ________ made possible the rise of Nazism.

   1. restorations . . . indefinitely
   2. recriminations . . . finally
   3. expenditures . . . gratuitously
   4. reparations . . . ultimately
   5. disbursements . . . immediately

6. Face _____ with courage.

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

7. Get a _____ for the merchandise.

   1. recipe
   2. receipt
   3. slip
   4. letter

8. An announcement of further increase in taxes is _____.

   1. imminent
   2. eminent
   3. immanent
   4. permanent

9. _____ is a person who produces works of art, especially painting.

   1. beautician
   2. writer
   3. artistic
   4. artisan

10. He's been elected _____?

    1. hasn't he
    2. didn't he
    3. isn't he
    4. doesn't he

11. The _____ from the mountain is dangerous.

    1. decent
    2. descent
    3. ascent
    4. jump

12. He felt great _____ for his daughter.

    1. affection
    2. affectation
    3. love
    4. defection

13. Urge people who smoke to _____ the habit.

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

14. You must _____ enough evidence to ensure his conviction.

    1. hoard
    2. store
    3. rallied
    4. accumulate

15. He keeps forgetting things: I think he is getting _____.

    1. feeble
    2. an octogenarian
    3. forgetful
    4. senile

16. You must _____ after hard work.

    1. relax
    2. repose
    3. compose
    4. depose

17. If I ________ more time, I would have checked my paper again.

    1. had
    2. have
    3. had had
    4. have had

18. He _____ a few steps when it started raining.

    1. had hardly taken
    2. hardly took
    3. hardly taken
    4. taken hardly

19. I would like to have the newspaper as soon as you ____ it.

    1. finished
    2. are finish
    3. will finish
    4. have finished

20. He often _____ from the subject while lecturing.

    1. rambles
    2. roams
    3. digresses
    4. ranges

21. Here is a _____ for chocolate cake.

    1. receipt
    2. recipe
    3. formula
    4. technique

22. We have _____ trust in you.

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

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

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

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

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

25. 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

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