Practice Test Set 2 (Sentence Completion)

1. The _____ motion of the earth as it turns on its axis creators the changes of seasons.

   1. accident
   2. rhythmic
   3. leisurely
   4. perpetual

2. That new law went into _____ last month.

   1. affect
   2. effect
   3. action
   4. selection

3. You must show _____ for out teachers.

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

4. There was a lot of hustle and _____ in the market.

   1. bustle
   2. stir
   3. flutter
   4. ado

5. _____ is a person who produces works of art, especially painting.

   1. beautician
   2. writer
   3. artistic
   4. artisan

6. The jury _____ him of murder.

   1. discharged
   2. acquitted
   3. absolved
   4. finished

7. So many servants attended _____ him during his illness.

   1. only how
   2. with
   3. at
   4. upon

8. The belief in life after death is prevalent in both primitive societies _____ advanced culture.

   1. and
   2. and in
   3. and also
   4. also

9. His _____ simplicity is one of his qualities.

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

10. 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

11. All communication with outside world has been cut _____.

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

12. 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

13. Some historians contend that the ________ Germany was forced to pay after World War I ________ made possible the rise of Nazism.

    1. restorations . . . indefinitely
    2. recriminations . . . finally
    3. expenditures . . . gratuitously
    4. reparations . . . ultimately
    5. disbursements . . . immediately

14. I do not have any _____.

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

15. Rashid walked boldly upto the platform without _____.

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

16. My land is _____ to your Land.

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

17. Do not keep asking me what to do, use your own _____.

    1. unconstrained
    2. voluntary
    3. discretion
    4. gratuitous

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

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

19. We congratulate him _____.

    1. on his success
    2. for his success
    3. at his success
    4. in his success

20. It is usually _____ lava but gas that kills people during volcanic eruptions.

    1. not only
    2. not
    3. neither
    4. no

21. There seems to be a _____ of good young players at the moment.

    1. plague
    2. series
    3. plethora
    4. dearth

22. As the controversial argument continued, the debaters became more _________ and their remarks became more ________.

    1. subdued . . . hostile
    2. vehement . . . acrimonious
    3. reticent . . . cliché
    4. affable . . . adverse
    5. emotional . . . adroit

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

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

24. The controversy is likely to create _____ between the two rival.

    1. doubt
    2. amity
    3. bitterness
    4. revenge

25. _____ the gulf stream is warmer than the ocean water surrounding it.

    1. wholly
    2. whole
    3. as whole
    4. a whole as

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