Practice Test Set 3 (Sentence Completion)

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

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

2. Walters and Torres ________ seven other candidates in the special election, but because neither ________ more than 50 percent of the vote, a runoff election will have to be held for the two of them.

   1. trailed . . . captured
   2. defeated . . . recaptured
   3. out-polled . . . garnered
   4. eliminated . . . reclaimed
   5. evaded . . . achieved

3. 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

4. Face _____ with courage.

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

5. Because light travels faster then sound lightning appears to _____ thunder.

   1. prolong
   2. traverse
   3. go before
   4. repel

6. Government did not realize the _____ of people's feeling on this issue.

   1. fragments
   2. attrition
   3. intensity
   4. barbarism

7. We ________ friends since we were children.

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

8. He said that there was no going back because his decision was _____.

   1. palatable
   2. peremptory
   3. premeditated
   4. revolutionary

9. He suggest that the meeting _____ postponed.

   1. be
   2. is leaving
   3. must
   4. would be

10. He became very _____ and started arguing with me angrily.

    1. subservient
    2. truculent
    3. pellucid
    4. stringent

11. He's been elected _____?

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

12. This legend has been _____ from father to son.

    1. handed down
    2. handed for
    3. handed in
    4. handed over

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

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

14. The bacteria in milk is destroyed when _____ to at least 62 C.

    1. it be heated
    2. it heated
    3. it is heated
    4. it will be heated

15. Your conduct is most _____.

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

16. 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

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. His ______ capacity for food was abnormal.

    1. venal
    2. venial
    3. voracious
    4. veracious

19. The show is worth seeing for the ________ of Judy Convoy’s vivacious performance, which ________ the stage whenever she appears.

    1. effervescence . . . enlivens
    2. verve . . . deforms
    3. torpor . . . dominates
    4. bravado . . . enervates
    5. sprightliness . . . muffles

20. Though it lasted only half an hour, the ponderous lecture seemed ________ to most of the students.

    1. interminable
    2. cabalistic
    3. waggish
    4. vendible
    5. expressive

21. If one know the facts one ________ not be so quiet to criticize.

    1. could
    2. can
    3. would
    4. will

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

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

23. My land is _____ to your Land.

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

24. The average height of Himalayas is twenty thousand feet, and Mount Everest _____ to more than twenty-nine thousand feet at its apex.

    1. raise
    2. rises
    3. roses
    4. arises

25. The task seemed impossible but some-how Rashid _____ very skillfully in the end.

    1. pulled it up
    2. pulled it off
    3. pulled it away
    4. pulled it out

Answers

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