Practice Test Set 3 (Sentence Completion)

1. You must _____ yourself to the new conditions.

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

2. Those cottages _____ perfectly with the landscape.

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

3. I do not have any _____.

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

4. Ozone in the Earth's atmosphere ________ living organisms from damaging ultraviolet radiation.

   1. protects
   2. warms
   3. reflects
   4. absorbs

5. 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

6. The officer waited until the clerks ________ busily.

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

7. 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

8. His _____ simplicity is one of his qualities.

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

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

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

10. That new law went into _____ last month.

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

11. God is kind and _____ to all sinners who repent.

    1. graceful
    2. gracious
    3. gaseous
    4. guessful

12. The ____ of the headlights of the car almost blinded me.

    1. shine
    2. glare
    3. dazzle
    4. luminosity

13. An _____ agreement was reached between both the parties.

    1. amiable
    2. amicable
    3. likeable
    4. desirable

14. I am intent ________.

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

15. You must show _____ for out teachers.

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

16. The company has accused its larger rival of trying to ________ the ________ retail market in the north by offering illegal contracts to outlets in the area.

    1. control . . . bankrupt
    2. monopolize . . . lucrative
    3. annul . . . profitable
    4. corner . . . factitious
    5. divest . . . remunerative

17. the child ________ crying for three hours.

    1. is
    2. has
    3. has been
    4. have been

18. He _____ a few steps when it started raining.

    1. had hardly taken
    2. hardly took
    3. hardly taken
    4. taken hardly

19. That so shameless, sentimental, and dishonest a film attracts a large and enthusiastic audience is ________ of how low the popular taste has ________.

    1. an indication . . . soared
    2. a gauge . . . refined
    3. a signatory . . . fallen
    4. a refutation . . . descended
    5. a barometer . . . plummeted

20. They refuse to _____ defeat.

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

21. If the teams were not so evenly matched, it would be easier to _____ the outcome of the match.

    1. argue
    2. predict
    3. discuss
    4. influence

22. There is _____ among the members of the party.

    1. contention
    2. discord
    3. battle
    4. war

23. We must _____ this accord.

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

24. Union leader tried to calm down _____ workers.

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

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

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

Answers

Practice Test Set 1
Practice Test Set 2
Practice Test Set 3