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Advanced Sentence Completion 1
Directions: Choose the best word(s) to complete each sentence.
1) Rather than be melancholy all winter, Jim should try to
be more ______. 7) The boy is not ______ - he is ______ - and therefore
A) energetic should not be tried in court as an adult.
B) jovial A) puerile…young
C) heterogeneous B) mature…juvenile
D) depraved C) experienced…inveterate
E) depressed D) young…fledgling
2) Elise always envisioned the monastery as an austere A) youthful…established
place of worship; however, upon visiting it, she found it 8) Mr. Plainview is a man of secrecy. He deals with the mob
surprisingly ______. and other ______ organizations, and regularly
A) comfortable participates in their ______ activities.
B) simple A) clandestine…unlawful
C) barren B) anarchistic…fraudulent
D) strict C) amiable …illegitimate
E) ornate D) disdainful…scrupulous
3) Although it is necessary to carry a relatively large E) illegal…exhilarating
number of provisions when traversing the Australian 9) Even the most ______ gambler stops betting when he or
Outback, it is ______ that you keep your pack from she runs out of money.
becoming too ______. A) intelligent
A) crucial…ponderous B) circumspect
B) important…convoluted C) cautious
C) imperative…compact D) hazardous
D) helpful…elongated E) foolhardy
E) mandatory…insulated
10) The ______ icicles hardly cast a shadow.
4) After living a life of depravity and transgression, the A) diaphanous
offender felt so ______ that he declared he would B) auspicious
become a priest, and devote the remainder of his life to C) malleable
______. D) muddled
A) melancholy…sadness E) opaque
B) tentative…shame
C) stolid…repentance 11) Upon hearing the ______ argument for the opposition,
D) terrible…sin Mr. Algene felt ______ that he would win the debate.
E) contrite…atonement A) dubious…uncertain
B) substantial…sure
5) He vowed to embrace a newfound ______ once the trial C) deplorable…convinced
began; nonetheless the accused resorted to his typical D) tenuous…confident
manner of ______ as soon as he took the stand. E) hardy…positive
A) ingenuousness…naïveté
B) mendaciousness…deceitfulness 12) The lifestyle of a Cenobite is ______; one must devote
C) passion…exuberance oneself to religious exercise, self discipline, and
D) candor…duplicity abstention from material satisfaction.
E) residence…decrepitude A) dull
B) ascetic
6) Despite some members of the Board of Education C) lachrymose
admitting to the ______ of his argument, Proposition D) prodigal
G6 was still denied by a vote of 4 to 3. E) harsh
A) brusqueness
B) truculence
C) negligence
D) cogency
E) force
Answers and Explanations The offender feels sorry and remorseful, so they would
like to pay for their bad behavior by living a life of
1) B penitence or compensation for bad behavior.
10) A
11) E
After reading this sentence, you should see that the first
clause causes the second clause to be true. In order to
maintain this relationship, two antonyms are needed If
the argument for opposition is tenuous, it is weak or
shaky. This should make Mr. Algene feel confident.
Therefore, (D) tenuous…confident is the correct
answer.
12) A