Practice Test Set 2 (Sentence Completion)

1. If teaching _____ more, fewer teachers would leave profession.

   1. pays
   2. is paying
   3. paid
   4. had paid

2. A legislation was passed to punish brokers who _____ their clients funds.

   1. defalcate
   2. devastate
   3. devour
   4. embezzle

3. Beauty is to ugliness and adversity is to _____.

   1. prosperity
   2. cowardice
   3. miser
   4. happiness

4. Do not keep asking me what to do, use your own _____.

   1. unconstrained
   2. voluntary
   3. discretion
   4. gratuitous

5. Getting this contract is _____ to the future of our company.

   1. humane
   2. crucial
   3. reciprocal
   4. brutal

6. Union leader tried to calm down _____ workers.

   1. turbid
   2. turgid
   3. torpid
   4. turbulent

7. Unless protected areas are established, the Bengal tiger, the blue whale, face _____ of extinction.

   1. possible
   2. the possibility
   3. to be possible
   4. possibly

8. My land is _____ to your Land.

   1. contagious
   2. contiguous
   3. infectious
   4. touchy

9. Slavery is the ____ of freedom.

   1. oxymoron
   2. paradox
   3. metaphor
   4. antithesis

10. Enemy movement on the border look a bit _____.

    1. acute
    2. ominous
    3. unusual
    4. insipid

11. Ozone in the Earth's atmosphere ________ living organisms from damaging ultraviolet radiation.

    1. protects
    2. warms
    3. reflects
    4. absorbs

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

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

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

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

14. He is such an _____ that he's sure he will soon find a job.

    1. pessimist
    2. optimist
    3. philanthropist
    4. profiteer

15. When the hotel burned down, fifty people died in the _____.

    1. sirocco
    2. typhoon
    3. maelstrom
    4. holocaust

16. 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

17. 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

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

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

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

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

20. About fifty workers were declared _____ by the factory management.

    1. adulatory
    2. avid
    3. rhetorical
    4. redundant

21. The Govt must _____ the suffering of the people.

    1. ally
    2. allay
    3. rid
    4. palliate

22. Although buses are _____ to depart at a certain hour, they are often late.

    1. scheduled
    2. requested
    3. obligated
    4. loaded

23. Virginia has adopted detailed new ________ for what students should know in English, history, mathematics, and science.

    1. maxims
    2. jurisdictions
    3. benchmarks
    4. affirmations
    5. vortices

24. Meekness is more attractive than _____.

    1. sickness
    2. naughtiness
    3. laziness
    4. clumsiness

25. I do not have any _____.

    1. confident
    2. confidant
    3. confidential
    4. confederate

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