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Complete Advanced Sentences
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Subjects
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english
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grammar
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Unlike Widow Douglas - who _____ Huck's minor offenses - Miss Watson did nothing but scold.
enhance
hierarchy
laconic
condone
2. Although her early poetry was clearly _____ in nature - the critics thought she had promise and eventually would find her own voice.
derivative
sporadic
impair
belie
3. Without additional funding - it may not be _____ to build a new stadium for the team on the city's highly developed West Side.
impeccable
resigned
feasible
turbulent
4. What _____ did you use when you selected this essay as the prizewinner?
criterion
gregarious
peripheral
prolific
5. The costume designer _____ the leading lady's ball gown with yards and yards of ribbon and lace.
opportunist
surpass
fallacious
embellish
6. The fact that the band was already booked to play in Hollywood on New year's Eve _____ their accepting the gig in London.
extol
preclude
soporific
exemplary
7. In class - she tried to stay alert and listen to the professor - but the stuffy room made her _____; she felt as if she were about to nod off.
nonchalance
alleviate
instigate
lethargic
8. The rich new student tried to attract friends by making an _____ display of his wealth.
refute
endorse
ostentatious
relegate
9. Covering the Olympic Games - the sportscasters _____ every American victory and grumbled about every American defeat.
autonomous
rancor
acclaim
incongruous
10. Bobby was such a _____ eater that he would eat a sandwich only if his mother first cut off every scrap of crust.
discrepancy
scrupulous
fastidious
insipid
11. Whenever Sue was angry - she tried to avoid raising her voice because she had no wish to sound _____.
banal
strident
explicit
quandary
12. Instead of delivering a spoken _____ at Genny's memorial service - Jeff sang a song he had written in her honor.
esoteric
eulogy
lavish
endorse
13. Although you can still hear _____ outbursts of laughter and signing outside - the Halloween parade has passed; the party is over till next year.
allusion
sporadic
furtive
gregarious
14. Although Nancy enjoyed Bill's _____ - lighthearted companionship - she sometimes wondered whether he could ever be serious.
garrulous
endorse
frivolous
eclectic
15. Matilda thought it was somewhat _____ of the young man to have addressed her without first having been introduced. Perhaps manners were freer here in the New World.
presumptuous
oblivion
derivative
adulation
16. On certain issues of principle - the senator refused to take a _____ stand - but let her conscience be her guide.
haughtiness
partisan
surpass
opportunist
17. Because the student body at their daughter's prep school was so _____ - they decided to send her to a school that offered greater cultural diversity.
allusion
heresy
decorum
homogeneous
18. The headmaster's _____ demeanor tended to care off the more timid students - who never visited his study willingly.
austere
incite
implement
benign
19. A born storyteller - my father loved to _____ anecdotes about his early years in New York.
feasible
disseminate
hyperbole
recount
20. My editors must assume I'm a _____ writer; they expect me to revise six books this year.
obdurate
zealot
prolific
compliance
21. All things change over time; nothing is _____.
apathy
corroborate
refute
immutable
22. The boss prefaced his speech by telling a pointless _____ about an encounter he'd had with former President Bush.
discerning
dogmatic
anecdote
flagrant
23. A pragmatic politician - he was guided more by what was _____ than by what was right.
heresy
volatile
expedient
derision
24. Typically - partygoers are _____; hermits are not.
enhance
predilection
gravity
gregarious
25. The young wrestler struggled to defeat his formidable _____.
abstract
predilection
oblivion
adversary
26. A firm believer in democratic government - she could not understand the _____ of people who never bothered to vote.
ambivalence
apathy
mundane
scrutiny
27. After a decade of popularity - Hurston's works had fallen into _____; no one bothered to read her novels and short stories any more.
coercion
ephemeral
debilitate
oblivion
28. Is an old-fashioned hairstyle an apt _____ for being out of step with the times and in need of change?
metaphor
predilection
homogeneous
adversary
29. _____ to his downtrodden existence - the day laborer was too meek to protest his supervisor's bullying.
resigned
hyperbole
anarchy
disdain
30. An occasional glass of wine with dinner is relatively _____ and should have no ill effect on you.
innocuous
extraneous
proliferation
gravity
31. Nothing could shake his _____ that his children would get the best education that money could buy.
gregarious
nonchalance
resolution
divergent
32. To be low man on the totem pole is to have a decidedly inferior place in the _____.
hierarchy
reprove
homogeneous
derision
33. Paradoxically - _____ reasoning does not always produce incorrect results; even though your logic may be flawed - the conclusion you reach may still be correct.
heresy
resolution
reserve
fallacious
34. His coarse - hard-bitten exterior _____ his inner sensitivity.
belie
indifferent
transient
buttress
35. Psychoanalysts must maintain their professional _____ and stay uninvolved with their patients' personal lives.
detachment
ambivalence
transient
derision
36. Shrewdly purchasing valuable plots of land for small sums - John Jacob Astor gained a reputation as an _____ investor.
disparage
delineate
astute
haughtiness
37. There's no point to what you're saying. Why are you bothering to make such _____ remarks?
opulence
furtive
inane
assumption
38. Because solar energy has the power to reduce greenhouse gases and increase energy efficiency - conversion to the use of solar energy may help _____ the threat of global warming.
colloquial
mitigate
placate
ambiguous
39. Icebreakers were needed to _____ the trapped whales from the icy floes that closed them in.
quandary
meticulous
extricate
opportunist
40. At the protest rally - the students cheered the strikers and booed the dean with equal _____.
resigned
debunk
extraneous
fervor
41. My Uncle Henry can out-talk any three people I know. he is the most _____ man in Cayuga County.
garrulous
constraint
aesthetic
impair
42. To John - who had never missed a meal - hunger was an _____ concept - one he understood only in theory.
opportunist
mitigate
derision
abstract
43. There is a fine line between speech that is _____ and to the point and speech so abrupt that it verges on rudeness.
flagrant
terse
reprimand
ambivalence
44. After separating from Tony - Tina announced that she would _____ all debts incurred by her soon-to-be-ex-husband.
delineate
extraneous
repudiate
succinct
45. Although defeat appeared inevitable - the general was _____ in his refusal to surrender.
hypothetical
predilection
fallacious
obdurate
46. Despite Tom's _____ of innocence - Aunt Polly suspected he had eaten the pie.
strident
affirmation
extol
enhance
47. Drinking alcohol can _____ your ability to drive safely; if you're going to drink - don't drive.
nurture
haughtiness
incorrigible
impair
48. The glitter and _____ of the ballroom took Cinderella's breath away.
superfluous
opulence
nurture
repudiate
49. Con artists take advantage of the _____ of inexperienced Internet users to gain access to their credit card information.
reserve
credulity
constraint
inherent
50. We made an _____ choice to eat at the first restaurant we saw.
heresy
adulation
implement
arbitrary