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Vocabulary
Sentence Completion
Sentence completions
Sentence completions
Sentence completions
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Inflexibility; refusal to compromise
What is intransigence?
100
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?
100
Keywords are usually these two types of words.
What are strong verbs and adjectives?
100
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
c. intuition
100
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?
200
to spread or broadcast
What is disseminate?
200
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?
200
Far from blunting America's economic advantage, environmental regulation spurs the development of new products that ________ our competitive edge. a. commandeer b. pale c. sharpen d. elucidate e. stem
What is c. sharpen?
200
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.
200
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?
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to wander from a given topic
What is digress?
300
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?
300
The way the sentence completions questions are arranged.
What is in order of difficulty (easy to hard)?
300
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 The number one incorrect answer choice on the passage-based reading section.
What is a. critics, epitome
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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.
400
Friendly; polite; approachable
What is affable?
400
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?
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With its losing record and two key players injured, the team's chances of making it to the playoffs are _________ at best. a. remote b. credulous c. overt d. predatory e. solidified
What is a. remote?
400
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.
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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, abstruse?
500
stingy or tightfisted
What is miserly?
500
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.
500
The 19th century composer Donizetti was renowned in his own time for his serious operas, which often took as their subject tragic historical figures; _________ audiences, however, prefer his lighter work depicting the ________ of ordinary people. a. contemporary...suffering b. modern...antics c. discerning...acquisitions d. meticulous...behavior e. archaic...foolishness
What is b. modern...antics?
500
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.
500
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?