Practice Test Set 3 (Sentence Completion)

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

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

2. I do not have any _____.

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

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

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

4. The writing is awkward, even ________, but the novel has nonetheless attracted a large ________.

   1. felicitous . . . following
   2. grotesque . . . vacuity
   3. elegant . . . repertoire
   4. graceful . . . audience
   5. ungainly . . . readership

5. He is _____ for promotion.

   1. illegible
   2. legible
   3. eligible
   4. ineligible

6. Non-violence is the law of saints as violence is the law of the _____.

   1. coward
   2. foolish
   3. brute
   4. ignorant

7. You must apply ________ the judge for pardon.

   1. to
   2. with
   3. upon
   4. over
   5. in

8. 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

9. His _____ simplicity is one of his qualities.

   1. childish
   2. childlike
   3. infantile
   4. puerile

10. The laboratory has a _____ of equipment.

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

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

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

12. They refuse to _____ defeat.

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

13. Fauzia presents herself as a bold journalist by asking people in politics the kinds of ________ questions that other reporters do not ask.

    1. controversial
    2. circumnutating
    3. abnormal
    4. irrelevant

14. The greater the demand, _____ the price.

    1. higher
    2. high
    3. the higher
    4. the high

15. All the family members will get together on the _____ day of Eid.

    1. suspicious
    2. obvious
    3. auspicious
    4. conspicuous

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

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

17. Rashid walked boldly upto the platform without _____.

    1. faltering
    2. flexible
    3. unsteady
    4. wavering

18. You must _____ yourself to the new conditions.

    1. adopt
    2. adept
    3. adapt
    4. convert

19. He felt great _____ for his daughter.

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

20. Although they are now commercially ________, caper bushes are still found growing wild in many ________ Mediterranean areas.

    1. exported . . . fertile
    2. marketed . . . urban
    3. preempted . . . fluvial
    4. eluded . . . indigenous
    5. cultivated . . . remote

21. ____ the events of Aslam's resigning his job, his family would starve.

    1. intelligent
    2. on
    3. at
    4. within

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

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

23. We can not _____ any of out territory.

    1. exceed
    2. accede
    3. concede
    4. precede

24. When your body does not get _____ it can not make the glucose it needs.

    1. enough food
    2. food as enough
    3. food enough
    4. enough the food

25. Your conduct is most _____.

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

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