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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.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
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. The fact that the band was already booked to play in Hollywood on New year's Eve _____ their accepting the gig in London.
mollify
eulogy
insipid
preclude
2. When I saw how Fred and his fraternity brothers had trashed the frat house - I decided to _____ my offer to let them use our summer cottage over spring break.
gregarious
retract
ostentatious
rebuttal
3. All things change over time; nothing is _____.
contentious
immutable
alleviate
impair
4. It is _____ that his success came when he least wanted it.
ironic
retract
recluse
vacillate
5. Even the best-mannered students have trouble behaving with _____ on the last day of school.
garrulous
sporadic
decorum
verbose
6. You can _____ your chances of being admitted to the college of your choice by learning to write well.
document
strident
enhance
laconic
7. In the film Funny Face - the bookish heroine _____ fashion models for their lack of intellectual interests.
anecdote
homogeneous
recount
disdain
8. At commencement - the dean praised Ellen for her _____ behavior as class president.
implement
altruistic
exemplary
superfluous
9. We could tell we were in serious trouble from the _____ of the principal's expression.
gravity
adversity
debilitate
autonomous
10. Pointing out that the candidate consistently had voted against strengthening antipollution legislation - the reporter _____ her claim that she was a fervent environmentalist.
debunk
skeptic
immutable
adversity
11. Bobby was such a _____ eater that he would eat a sandwich only if his mother first cut off every scrap of crust.
arbitrary
discerning
fastidious
disparage
12. Youth's beauty is _____; it quickly fades with age.
rancor
transient
prolific
inane
13. After separating from Tony - Tina announced that she would _____ all debts incurred by her soon-to-be-ex-husband.
gravity
predilection
deprecate
repudiate
14. The legendary athlete Jim Thorpe - who _____ all his competitors at the 1912 Olympic Games - made a name for himself in baseball - football - and track.
refute
verbose
induce
surpass
15. The headmaster's _____ demeanor tended to care off the more timid students - who never visited his study willingly.
constraint
austere
mundane
abridge
16. Unlike Widow Douglas - who _____ Huck's minor offenses - Miss Watson did nothing but scold.
superfluous
condone
resolution
rebuttal
17. Please try not to include so many _____ details in your report; the bare facts are all I need.
discerning
superfluous
impeccable
profound
18. Covering the Olympic Games - the sportscasters _____ every American victory and grumbled about every American defeat.
acclaim
rancor
decorum
surreptitious
19. A doting mother - Emma was more likely to praise her son's childish finger paintings than to _____ them.
assumption
zealot
fallacious
disparage
20. Someone mute cannot talk; someone _____ can hardly stop talking.
extol
volatile
reprove
verbose
21. After medical school - the two doctors took widely _____ paths - one becoming a wealthy plastic surgeon - the other joining the nonprofit Doctors Without Borders.
jocular
feasible
substantiate
divergent
22. No wonder Ted doesn't think straight! His mind is so cluttered with _____ information that he can't concentrate on the essentials.
coercion
extraneous
ambivalence
immutable
23. Although Georgia O'Keeffe painted many subjects over the years - she had a definite _____ for painting flowers.
predilection
induce
emulate
nonchalance
24. The Beatles expressed themselves through capricious - flip humor and _____ displays of carefree abandon.
whimsical
rectify
predilection
esoteric
25. Suppose you are accepted by Harvard - Stanford - and Yale. Which one would you attend? Remember - this is only a _____ situation.
ambivalence
hypothetical
pragmatic
partisan
26. The inquisitors used both physical and psychological _____ to force Joan of Arc to deny that her visions were sent by God.
partisan
impair
adulation
coercion
27. The mayfly is an _____ creature; its adult life lasts little more than a day.
adulation
venerate
ephemeral
endorse
28. Drinking alcohol can _____ your ability to drive safely; if you're going to drink - don't drive.
impair
exuberance
hyperbole
adversary
29. A pragmatic politician - he was guided more by what was _____ than by what was right.
expedient
juxtaposition
repudiate
substantiate
30. Although Eric knew the boss had no sense of humor - he couldn't resist making one _____ remark.
ostentatious
elusive
endorse
jocular
31. 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
notoriety
reprove
feasible
32. The boss prefaced his speech by telling a pointless _____ about an encounter he'd had with former President Bush.
opulence
anecdote
rectify
skeptic
33. When you place a phone call from an airplane - _____ is essential; you are charged for every minute.
nurture
brevity
alleviate
ambivalence
34. When acacias are in bloom - the increase of pollen in the air _____ Richard's hay fever.
pragmatic
corroborate
presumptuous
exacerbate
35. The stereotypical cowboy is a _____ soul - answering lengthy questions with a simple 'yep' or 'nope.'
taciturn
fervor
subside
turbulent
36. Though Widow Douglas had hopes of reforming Huck - Miss Watson considered him _____ and swore he would come to no good end.
incorrigible
corroborate
specious
relegate
37. There is a fine line between speech that is _____ and to the point and speech so abrupt that it verges on rudeness.
exacerbate
criterion
terse
frivolous
38. Thoroughly baffled by Holmes's _____ remarks - Watson wondered whether Holmes was intentionally concealing his thoughts about the crime.
lavish
proliferation
cryptic
affirmation
39. These endorsements written by satisfied customers _____ our claim that Barron's SAT is the best SAT-prep book on the market.
adversity
levity
hyperbole
substantiate
40. Katya's _____ love of justice moved her to champion the cause of anyone she considered unfairly treated by society.
inherent
expedient
rectify
surreptitious
41. The glitter and _____ of the ballroom took Cinderella's breath away.
guile
reprimand
opulence
hypothetical
42. The defense called several respectable witnesses who were able to _____ the lying testimony of the prosecution's sole witness.
refute
surpass
acclaim
superfluous
43. The attorney came up with several far-fetched arguments in a vain attempt to _____ his weak case.
buttress
autonomous
specious
deprecate
44. Though Huck was quite willing to _____ Tom's story - Aunt Polly knew better than to believe either of them.
incite
predilection
corroborate
endorse
45. Though Aunt Bea at times had to _____ Opie for inattention in church - she believed he was at heart a God-fearing lad.
innate
redundant
oblivion
reprove
46. When Johnny came down with a bad case of poison oak - the doctor recommended calamine lotion to _____ the itching.
contentious
alleviate
pragmatic
flagrant
47. An occasional glass of wine with dinner is relatively _____ and should have no ill effect on you.
presumptuous
innocuous
exacerbate
prolific
48. Josh is such a greedy _____ that - as soon as the earthquake struck - he tripled the price of bottled water at his store.
metaphor
opportunist
frivolous
altruistic
49. Acetone is an extremely _____ liquid: it vaporizes instantly.
brevity
volatile
undermine
eclectic
50. 'Judicial activism' is the alleged tendency of some judges to _____ the power of elected legislatures by making the law rather than merely interpreting it.
benign
peripheral
preclude
usurp