ELA Vocabulary
For painter Jacob Lawrence, being _______ was an important part of the artistic process. Because he paid close attention to all the details of his Harlem neighborhood, Lawrence’s artwork captured nuances in the beauty and vitality of the Black experience during the Harlem Renaissance and the Great Migration.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
A) skeptical
B) observant
C) critical
D) confident
B) observant
In his 1963 exhibition Exposition of Music— Electronic Television, Korean American artist
Nam June Paik showed how television images could be manipulated to express an artist’s perspective. Today, Paik _______ considered the first video artist.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
A) will be
B) had been
C) was
D) is
D) is
In ancient Greece, an Epicurean was a follower of Epicurus, a philosopher whose beliefs revolved around the pursuit of pleasure. Epicurus defined pleasure as “the absence of pain in the body and of trouble in the _______ that all life’s virtues derived from this absence.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
A) soul,” positing
B) soul”: positing
C) soul”; positing
D) soul.” Positing
A) soul,” positing
If 6x = 42 and xk = 2, what is the value of k?
2/7
Give the lines y = 0.5x+3 and y=3x-2. What is the y value of the point of intersection?
4
Researchers have struggled to pinpoint specific causes for hiccups, which happen when a
person’s diaphragm contracts _______ . However, neuroscientist Kimberley Whitehead has found that these uncontrollable contractions may play an important role in helping infants regulate their breathing.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
A) involuntarily
B) beneficially
C) strenuously
D) smoothly
A) involuntarily
In winter, the diets of Japanese macaques, also known as snow monkeys, are influenced more
by food availability than by food preference. Although the monkeys prefer to eat vegetation and land-dwelling invertebrates, those food sources may become unavailable because of extensive snow and ice cover, _______ the monkeys to hunt for marine animals in any streams that have not frozen over.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
A) forces
B) to force
C) forcing
D) forced
C) forcing
Researchers studying magnetosensation have determined why some soil-dwelling roundworms in the Southern Hemisphere move in the opposite direction of Earth’s magnetic field when searching for _______ in the Northern Hemisphere, the magnetic field points down, into the ground, but in the Southern Hemisphere, it points up, toward the surface and away from worms’ food sources.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
A) food:
B) food,
C) food while
D) food
A) food:
If 4x + 5 = 13x + 4 – x – 9, then x = ?
5/4
(3x) = 9
What is x?
27
Scholarly discussions of gender in Shakespeare’s comedies often celebrate the rebellion of the playwright’s characters against the rigid expectations _______ by Elizabethan society. Most of the comedies end in marriage, with characters returning to their socially dictated gender roles after previously defying them, but there are some notable exceptions.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
A) interjected
B) committed
C) illustrated
D) prescribed
D) prescribed
In order to prevent nonnative fish species from moving freely between the Mediterranean and Red Seas, marine biologist Bella Galil has proposed that a saline lock system be installed along the Suez Canal in Egypt’s Great Bitter Lakes. The lock would increase the salinity of the lakes and _______ a natural barrier of water most marine creatures would be unable to cross.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
A) creates
B) create
C) creating
D) created
B) create
In 1943, in the midst of World War II, mathematics professor Grace Hopper was recruited by the
US military to help the war effort by solving complex equations. Hopper’s subsequent career would involve more than just _______ as a pioneering computer programmer, Hopper would help usher in the digital age.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
A) equations, though:
B) equations, though,
C) equations. Though,
D) equations though
A) equations, though:
If 3 – 3x < 20, which of the following could not be a value of x?
–6
If 2x2(5-x)(3x+2) = 0, then what is the sum of all of the possible values of x?
13/3
Critics have asserted that fine art and fashion rarely _______ in a world where artists create timeless works for exhibition and designers periodically produce new styles for the public to buy. Luiseño/ Shoshone-Bannock beadwork artist and designer Jamie Okuma challenges this view: her work can be seen in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and purchased through her online boutique.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
A) prevail
B) succumb
C) diverge
D) intersect
D) intersect
Small, flat structures called spatulae are found at the tips of the hairs on a spider’s leg. These spatulae temporarily bond with the atoms of whatever they touch. _______ spiders are able to cling to and climb almost any surface.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?
A) For instance,
B) However,
C) Similarly,
D) As a result,
D) As a result,
Although novels and poems are considered distinct literary forms, many authors have created hybrid works that incorporate elements of both. Bernardine Evaristo’s The Emperor's Babe, _______ is a verse novel, a book-length narrative complete with characters and a plot but conveyed in short, crisp lines of poetry rather than prose.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?
A) by contrast,
B) consequently,
C) secondly,
D) for example,
D) for example,
If 4xs = v, v = ks , and sv ≠ 0, which of the following is equal to k ?
4x
√(8y) + 18 = 4
What is y?
24.5
In studying the use of external stimuli to reduce the itching sensation caused by an allergic histamine response, Louise Ward and colleagues found that while harmless applications of vibration or warming can provide a temporary distraction, such _______ stimuli actually offer less relief than a stimulus that seems less benign, like a mild electric shock.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
A) deceptive
B) innocuous
C) novel
D) impractical
B) innocuous
In November 1934, Amrita Sher-Gil was living in what must have seemed like the ideal city for a young artist: Paris. She was studying firsthand the color-saturated style of France’s modernist masters and beginning to make a name for herself as a painter. _______ Sher-Gil longed to return to her childhood home of India; only there, she believed, could her art truly flourish.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?
A) Still,
B) Therefore,
C) Indeed,
D) Furthermore,
A) Still,
At two weeks old, the time their critical socialization period begins, wolves can smell but cannot yet see or hear. Domesticated dogs, _______ can see, hear, and smell by the end of two weeks. This relative lack of sensory input may help explain why wolves behave so differently around humans than dogs do: from a very young age, wolves are more wary and less exploratory.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?
A) in other words,
B) for instance,
C) by contrast,
D) accordingly,
C) by contrast,
If bx + c = e – ax, then what is x
(e-c) / (b+a)
√( 2x -7) = 3
What is x?
4