Practice Test Set 2 (Sentence Completion)

1. They refuse to _____ defeat.

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

2. He flew into a _____ when I would not lend him any money.

   1. overt
   2. sporadic
   3. furtive
   4. fury

3. Vitamin _____ can lead to illness.

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

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

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

5. 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

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

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

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

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

8. We _____ ourselves for difficult times.

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

9. Pretending in his works to be gauche, uneducated, and ________, the real Chaucer was a sophisticated, widely read, and ________ man.

   1. provincial . . . cosmopolitan
   2. exiguous . . . vigorous
   3. avuncular . . . shrewd
   4. inept . . . dauntless
   5. incompetent . . . flaccid

10. Some flowers bloomed, while others _____.

    1. withered
    2. delivered
    3. gathered
    4. scattered

11. The bacteria in milk is destroyed when _____ to at least 62 C.

    1. it be heated
    2. it heated
    3. it is heated
    4. it will be heated

12. 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

13. We must _____ this accord.

    1. greet
    2. hail
    3. salute
    4. receive

14. The ________ of Darwin’s theory of evolution on Victorian religion was to create a bitter ________ of ideas and beliefs.

    1. result . . . moderation
    2. effect . . . conflict
    3. extension . . . growth
    4. origin . . . compromise
    5. influence . . . solidarity

15. He has _____ all the miseries heroically.

    1. born
    2. borne
    3. bane
    4. boon

16. His knowledge of the subject is _____.

    1. expensive
    2. extensive
    3. spacious
    4. spatial

17. I _____ him for a long time.

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

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

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

19. He _____ satisfactory progress in the school.

    1. makes
    2. has made
    3. had made
    4. is making

20. 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

21. He worked ____, because he aspired to stand first in the examination.

    1. very hard
    2. harder
    3. much hard
    4. the harder

22. 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

23. The laboratory has a _____ of equipment.

    1. large amount
    2. large number
    3. little amount
    4. big amount

24. Puzzled passersby occasionally see the ________ message “Nowhere in Particular” on the destination signs of Culver City buses.

    1. minatory
    2. exclamatory
    3. enigmatic
    4. surreptitious
    5. ameliorative

25. This disease is _____ do not sit near him.

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

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