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Sentence Completion Practice
A test by
Krista Boniface
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Mr. Flaff was a real _____________; all he did was walk around pompously, boasting about the amount of coin in his wallet.
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auspicious
culpable
denigrate
braggart
aloof
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Although identical twins get confused with fraternal twins the ____________ between them is sometimes too ____________ to tell who's who!
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difference . . vast
interchangeabilty . .particular
parallel . . identical
connection . . exact
similarities. . uncanny
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Lauren had never visited Niagara Falls, but she could appreciate their splendor __________ through the descriptions of others.
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voluminously
mystically
heedlessly
vicariously
innocuously
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A discerning modelling agency can ___________ promising models from a mass of submissions and auditions, separating the good from the bad.
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overhaul
winnow
dramatize
supplant
finagle
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The novel's protagonist, a pearl diver, naïvely expects that the buyers will compete among themselves to pay him the best price for his pearl, but instead they ____________ to ____________ him.
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venture . . reward
pretend . . praise
collude . . swindle
refuse . . cheat
conspire . . reimburse
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Simon's radical ideas and conspiracies were frowned on by most of his coworkers, who found them too ________ for their conservative tastes and values.
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sagacious
meticulous
incoherent
precise
heretical
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Members of the research team were initially so adversarial that ________ seemed impossible; the project's inauspicious start made its final success all the more ____________ .
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collaboration . . predictable
hostility . . dazzling
cooperation . . remarkable
disagreement . . incongruous
concentration . . incidental
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With the edition of orange rind into the cake, the flavours seemed to work better together to __________ the aromas of the batter.
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celebrate
objectify
invalidate
enrich
incite
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Because King Philip's desire to make Spain the dominant power in sixteenth-century Europe ran counter to Queen Elizabeth's insistence on autonomy for England, _________ was _______ .
Questions adapted from the Official SAT Study Guide, written by Steven Fox, Elaine Israel and Robin O'Callaghan. (2005)
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ruination . . impossible
diplomacy . . simple
conflict . . inevitable
reconciliation . . assured
warfare . . avoidable
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