Practice Test Set 1 (Sentence Completion)

1. 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

2. He has _____ all the miseries heroically.

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

3. The Oxford research team was afraid that sensationalized television reports of its work on paranormal phenomena would undermine its academic ________.

   1. responsibility
   2. questioning
   3. credibility
   4. freedom
   5. credulousness

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

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

5. The examiner made us _____ our identification in order to be admitted to the test center.

   1. showing
   2. show
   3. showed
   4. to show

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

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

7. The _____ from the mountain is dangerous.

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

8. I do not have any _____.

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

9. We will do out work _____.

   1. latter
   2. later
   3. long
   4. after

10. Union leader tried to calm down _____ workers.

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

11. Prices for bikes can run _____ Rs. 30000/-.

    1. as high as
    2. as high to
    3. so high to
    4. so high as

12. 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

13. _____ owe much of their success as a group to their unusual powers of migration.

    1. that birds
    2. a bird
    3. the bird
    4. birds

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

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

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

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

16. Neither the officer nor the clerks _____ absent.

    1. was
    2. were
    3. have been
    4. are

17. 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

18. We have _____ trust in you.

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

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

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

20. You must _____ after hard work.

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

21. Whatever he does is always contrary ________ my wishes.

    1. with
    2. from
    3. to
    4. for

22. He was quite able _____ after himself.

    1. to looking
    2. for looking
    3. to look
    4. of looking

23. You must show _____ for out teachers.

    1. reverence
    2. adoration
    3. homage
    4. veneration

24. _____ at 212 degrees F and freezes at 32 degrees F.

    1. waters boils
    2. the water boils
    3. water bills
    4. water boil

25. The ________ problem of piracy has the music industry worried, because the pirates overseas are ________ by the crackdown in the United States.

    1. burgeoning . . . unabashed
    2. widespread . . . intimidated
    3. immaterial . . . incriminated
    4. minor . . . untroubled
    5. evanescent . . . undeterred

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