Sentence Completions
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Practice Set 3
1.    The highway construction project required more funding than the state could -------, so the highway commission proposed working in ------- private sources.
(A) demand . . opposition to
(B) renege . . place of
(C) review . . comparison with
(D) justify . . harmony with
(E) allocate . . association with
2.    Reacting to reviews that called his work childish and -------, the artist began his next series of paintings with a determination to convey maturity and -------.
(A) irresponsible . . sincerity
(B) meaningless . . simplicity
(C) vulgar . . refinement
(D) tedious . . generosity
(E) obscure . . decisiveness
3.    Siberian tigers are considered among the most ------- of animals; their striking coloration, powerful musculature, and aloof bearing leave many people -------.
(A) fascinating . . defiant
(B) anomalous . . fearful
(C) splendid . . indifferent
(D) disdainful . . perplexed
(E) majestic . . awestruck
4.    The accident resulted from ------- of unfortunate events; many factors came together to create the dangerous conditions.
(A) a monopoly
(B) a coincidence
(C) a divergence
(D) a repudiation
(E) an elimination
5.    Often ------- and -------, much of the country’s workforce gets too little sleep and too little exercise.
(A) cranky . . forlorn
(B) vehement . . coercive
(C) juvenile . . heedless
(D) overextended . . flabby
(E) exhilarated . . careful
6.    Nguyen prided himself on his -------, an understanding of others’ feelings that has earned him many friends.
(A) empathy
(B) temerity
(C) astuteness
(D) lethargy
(E) sociability
7.    The butcher, an especially ------- and devious man, often swindled his customers by rigging the scales in his shop.
(A) furtive
(B) bellicose
(C) perceptive
(D) emotive
(E) diligent
8.    Tonya’s ------- in social situations became obvious when she offended the host by asking about his income at the party.
(A) profligacy
(B) mendacity
(C) turpitude
(D) gaucheness
(E) severity
9.    Though automobiles were relatively scarce in the first decades of the twentieth century, by 1950 they had ------- to the point of -------.
(A) amalgamated . . invisibility
(B) aggrandized . . ambivalence
(C) proliferated . . ubiquity
(D) evolved . . fruition
(E) regressed . . dependability


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