Practice Test Set 3 (Sentence Completion)

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

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

2. Slavery is the ____ of freedom.

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

3. They refuse to _____ defeat.

   1. grant
   2. yield
   3. own
   4. acknowledge

4. 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

5. I am intent ________.

   1. to win
   2. of winning
   3. on winning
   4. for winning

6. Praise always _____ him to make greater efforts.

   1. bores
   2. stimulates
   3. entices
   4. enervates

7. Your remarks are not _____ to the matter we are discussing.

   1. pertinent
   2. prolix
   3. prolonged
   4. acrimonious

8. At its _____ the Roman empire covered almost the whole of Europe.

   1. equinox
   2. nadir
   3. zenith
   4. solstice

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

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

10. Honest poverty is better than dishonest _____.

    1. riches wealth
    2. person
    3. wealth
    4. work

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

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

12. 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

13. He's been elected _____?

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

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

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

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

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

16. That new law went into _____ last month.

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

17. Some flowers bloomed, while others _____.

    1. withered
    2. delivered
    3. gathered
    4. scattered

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

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

19. Failing the exam was a _____ disappointment to him.

    1. sour
    2. tart
    3. bitter
    4. acrid

20. The officer waited until the clerks ________ busily.

    1. worked
    2. were working
    3. had worked
    4. are working

21. The general public _____ a large number of computers now, because prices are beginning to decrease.

    1. must buy
    2. must have bought
    3. must be buying
    4. must buying

22. He often _____ from the subject while lecturing.

    1. rambles
    2. roams
    3. digresses
    4. ranges

23. Briefly popular in the ’40s, the ’60s, and the ’80s, Brazilian music is now making one of its periodic ________ into the American ________.

    1. forays . . . consciousness
    2. escapes . . . miasma
    3. appearances . . . discourse
    4. eclipses . . . scene
    5. invasions . . . liturgy

24. Neither the officer nor the clerks _____ absent.

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

25. 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

Answers

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