Practice Test Set 3 (Sentence Completion)

1. Those cottages _____ perfectly with the landscape.

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

2. I do not have any _____.

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

3. You must _____ enough evidence to ensure his conviction.

   1. hoard
   2. store
   3. rallied
   4. accumulate

4. The principal along with the students _____ gone on the picnic.

   1. has
   2. have
   3. were
   4. are

5. He keeps forgetting things: I think he is getting _____.

   1. feeble
   2. an octogenarian
   3. forgetful
   4. senile

6. You must _____ yourself to the new conditions.

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

7. Union leader tried to calm down _____ workers.

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

8. He felt great _____ for his daughter.

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

9. 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

10. Lahore is a city of gardens _____?

    1. doesn't it
    2. isn't it
    3. hasn't it
    4. didn't it

11. He has _____ knowledge of the subject.

    1. exceptional
    2. exceptionable
    3. exhaustible
    4. exhaustive

12. We must _____ this accord.

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

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

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

14. Unfortunately, too many American actors in a Shakespeare play chop the verse into gobbets that are ________ to the audience and ________ to their own vocal chords.

    1. inscrutable . . . an expedience
    2. congenial . . . a danger
    3. galling . . . a panacea
    4. anodyne . . . an emollient
    5. incomprehensible . . . a threat

15. When the hotel burned down, fifty people died in the _____.

    1. sirocco
    2. typhoon
    3. maelstrom
    4. holocaust

16. Urge people who smoke to _____ the habit.

    1. surrender
    2. abandon
    3. discontinue
    4. desert

17. The thought of a nuclear ________ sparked by a misunderstanding poses an awesome ________.

    1. device . . . reverberation
    2. holocaust . . . specter
    3. danger . . . spectacle
    4. liaison . . . probability
    5. explosion . . . calamity

18. You ________ respect your parents and teacher.

    1. should
    2. would
    3. should have
    4. would have

19. His _____ simplicity is one of his qualities.

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

20. A legislation was passed to punish brokers who _____ their clients funds.

    1. defalcate
    2. devastate
    3. devour
    4. embezzle

21. Slavery is the ____ of freedom.

    1. oxymoron
    2. paradox
    3. metaphor
    4. antithesis

22. If a ruby is heated it _____ lose its colour.

    1. would
    2. will
    3. does
    4. had

23. The ________ songs of Irving Berlin captured the uninhibited joy and ________ verve of New York in the twenties.

    1. jaunty . . . insouciant
    2. tuneful . . . timorous
    3. cacophonous . . . careless
    4. catchy . . . lurid
    5. popular . . . flagrant

24. He's been elected _____?

    1. hasn't he
    2. didn't he
    3. isn't he
    4. doesn't he

25. In the hot sun the surface of the road seems wet, but that is only an _____.

    1. illusion
    2. allusion
    3. delusion
    4. conclusion

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