Practice Test Set 2 (Sentence Completion)

1. Your conduct is most _____.

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

2. Penguins an aquatic bird, may live _____ twenty years.

   1. since
   2. before
   3. for
   4. from

3. America at Sea is a one-volume ________ history that covers the nation’s military and commercial activities.

   1. aquatic
   2. ancient
   3. meretricious
   4. theological
   5. maritime

4. I do not have any _____.

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

5. Students at Pennsylvania State University have ________ the Liberty Bell’s original tone, a ________ of four notes, E flat, F sharp, G sharp, and B flat.

   1. relegated . . . combination
   2. replicated . . . melding
   3. decanted . . . concurrence
   4. reproduced . . . disjunction
   5. intimated . . . knell

6. Govt must hold a _____ inquiry.

   1. intelligent
   2. judicial
   3. sensible
   4. discreetly

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

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

8. Churchill was cordial to Beria when they first met, but that was the last show of ________ between them.

   1. charity
   2. enmity
   3. amiability
   4. pathology
   5. austerity

9. Because of his _____ personality he is always very difficult to handle.

   1. voluble
   2. volatile
   3. voluptuous
   4. expensive

10. I _____ have to remind him of his responsibilities.

    1. continually
    2. continuously
    3. continually
    4. persistently

11. The war has seriously _____ attempts to achieve peace.

    1. impaired
    2. attenuated
    3. enfeebled
    4. declined

12. By the twenty-first century, the computer _____a necessity in every home.

    1. became
    2. becoming
    3. has become
    4. will have become

13. Those cottages _____ perfectly with the landscape.

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

14. Rashid walked boldly upto the platform without _____.

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

15. Political dissidents complained of being _____ by the police.

    1. capitulated
    2. desecrated
    3. minimized
    4. harassed

16. 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

17. 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

18. Her fears were first _____ when her son did not come here.

    1. arise
    2. arisen
    3. arouse
    4. aroused

19. Many chemicals react _____ in acid solutions.

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

20. _____ 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

21. In one fierce battle the enemy were completely wiped _____.

    1. out
    2. off
    3. away
    4. over

22. Death is preferable ________ dishonor.

    1. than
    2. to
    3. from
    4. of

23. 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

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

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

25. Face _____ with courage.

    1. misery
    2. poverty
    3. adversity
    4. affliction

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