Practice Test Set 2 (Sentence Completion)

1. Those cottages _____ perfectly with the landscape.

   1. mix
   2. blend
   3. unite
   4. compound

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

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

4. He was _____ a member of Assembly.

   1. formerly
   2. formally
   3. lastly
   4. old

5. He said that there was no going back because his decision was _____.

   1. palatable
   2. peremptory
   3. premeditated
   4. revolutionary

6. Knowledge is like a deep well fed by _____ springs and your mind in the little bucket that you drop in it.

   1. external
   2. perennial
   3. immortal
   4. inexhaustible

7. The ____ of the headlights of the car almost blinded me.

   1. shine
   2. glare
   3. dazzle
   4. luminosity

8. If one know the facts one ________ not be so quiet to criticize.

   1. could
   2. can
   3. would
   4. will

9. I can not _____ that he would wish to harm us.

   1. hatch
   2. produce
   3. breed
   4. conceive

10. He felt great _____ for his daughter.

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

11. The government was _____ of incompetence.

    1. charged
    2. accused
    3. impeached
    4. censured

12. What a _____ you were not hurt in the accident.

    1. prayers
    2. praise
    3. blessing
    4. consecration

13. 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

14. Many chemicals react _____ in acid solutions.

    1. more quickly
    2. more quick
    3. quickly
    4. as quickly more

15. He ________ into the room as if he had just been ________ from a deep sleep.

    1. strode . . . ejected
    2. proceeded . . . summoned
    3. minced . . . fomented
    4. shambled . . . roused
    5. swaggered . . . awakened

16. We have _____ trust in you.

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

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

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

18. We were caught in the storm and got _____.

    1. soaked
    2. drenched
    3. damped
    4. moistened

19. The officer waited until the clerks ________ busily.

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

20. A _____ of the medal was put on show at the museum.

    1. fable
    2. facsimile
    3. allegory
    4. cosmos

21. Alarmist newspaper stories present the pit bull terrier as ________ killer, but owners insist that the dog is friendly and ________.

    1. an invidious . . . malleable
    2. a malign . . . philanthropic
    3. a ferocious . . . docile
    4. an infamous . . . self-serving
    5. a dissolute . . . venal

22. The price of food here is _____.

    1. askance
    2. exorbitant
    3. outlandish
    4. usury

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

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

24. It is now believed that some damage to tissues may result _____ them to frequent X-rays.

    1. the exposing
    2. from exposing
    3. from exposure
    4. expose

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

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

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