Sentence Completion
For a long time, most doctors maintained that taking massive doses of vitamins was relatively harmless; now, however, some are warning that excessive dosages can be ________.
a. healthy
b. expensive
c. wasteful
d. toxic
What is d. toxic
Commerce on the remote island was conducted exclusively by ____, exchanging goods for goods.
a. credit
b. loan
c. faith
d. barter
What is d. barter
In rock climbing, survival depends as much on ____, the ability to perceive without conscious reasoning, as on physical strength.
a. autonomy
b. incoherence
c. intuition
d. sophistry
What is c. intuition
Where am I from?
What is Ohio
What is my maiden name?
What is Camp
In Jamaica Kincaid's novel Lucy, the West Indian heroine ______ her employer's world, critically examining its assumptions and values.
a. idealizes
b. avoids
c. beautifies
d. scrutinizes
What is d. scrutinizes
The existence of environmental contamination is no longer a point of ____; government, industry, and the public agree that it is a serious problem.
a. concern
b. cooperation
c. urgency
d. dispute
What is d. dispute
Using computer labs to ____ classroom instruction is most effective when the curriculum _____ lab exercises and classroom teaching in a coordinated manner.
a. supplement, integrates
b. substantiate, undermines
c. remedy, compromises
d. disparage, reinforces
What is a. supplement, integrates
What score do you need to pass the SAT?
What is 24 or 430
What color car do I drive?
What is red Mazda 3
The frequent name changes that the country has undergone ______ the political turbulence that has attended its recent history.
a. argue against
b. contrast with
c. testify to
d. jeopardize
What is c. testify to
Brachiopods, clamlike bivalves of prehistoric times, were one of the most _____ forms of life on the Earth: more than 30,000 species have been _____ from fossil records.
a. plentiful, subtracted
b. ornate, retrieved
c. multifarious, catalogued
d. scarce, extracted
What is c. multifarious, catalogued
Many ____ of the style of painting exemplified by Marcel Duchamp's work focused on Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase as the ____ of what they detested about modern art.
a. critics, epitome
b. proponents, realization
c. advocates, embodiment
d. debunkers, rejection
What is a. critics, epitome
What is my first name?
What is Jordan
What is my baby's due date?
What is January 5th
Some interactive computer games are so elaborately contrived and require such _____ strategies that only the most _____ player can master them.
a. byzantine, adroit
b. nefarious, conscientious
c. devious, lackadaisical
d. onerous, slipshod
What is a. byzantine, adroit
Johnson's writing is considered ____ and ____ because it is filled with obscure references and baffling digressions.
a. deceiving, ingenuous
b. arcane, abstruse
c. spare, didactic
d. lucid, definitive
What is b. arcane, abstuse
By portraying a wide spectrum of characters in his one-man show, John Leguizamo provides a ____ to the theater's tendency to offer a limited range of roles to Latino actors.
a. corrective
b. tribute
c. corollary
d. stimulus
What is a. corrective
What sport did my husband play in College?
What is Baseball.
What educational skill do I secretly struggle with?
What is spelling.
Because the congresswoman has been so openhanded with many of her constituents, it is difficult to reconcile this ____ with her private _____.
a. selfishness, inattention
b. insolence, virtue
c. magnanimity, pettiness
d. opportunism, ambition
What is c. magnanimity, pettiness
Colonial American playwright Mercy Otis Warren was known for her political ____ : her keen judgement and insight were widely acknowledged.
a. partisanship
b. intemperance
c. acumen
d. irreverence
What is c. acumen
Following the decree banning _____ acts, suspected ____ could be forcibly detained without the filing of formal charges.
a. rebellious, conformists
b. apolitical, loyalists
c. seditious, insurrectionists
d. subversive, nonpartisans
What is c. seditious, insurrectionists
What is my husband's name?
What is Sixto
What sport did I play in college and at what University?
What is softball, University of West Florida.