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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. I was bowled over by the _____ of Amy's welcome. What an enthusiastic greeting!
interpid
oblivion
subside
exuberance
2. Josh is such a greedy _____ that - as soon as the earthquake struck - he tripled the price of bottled water at his store.
hyperbole
skeptic
quandary
opportunist
3. The defense called several respectable witnesses who were able to _____ the lying testimony of the prosecution's sole witness.
colloquial
exacerbate
refute
elusive
4. Although the movie star was no genius - she was sufficiently _____ to tell her true friends from the countless phonies who flattered her.
jocular
debunk
discerning
volatile
5. My editors must assume I'm a _____ writer; they expect me to revise six books this year.
condone
prolific
refute
vacillate
6. Acetone is an extremely _____ liquid: it vaporizes instantly.
acclaim
innate
volatile
implement
7. After Ralph dropped his second try of drinks that week - the manager swiftly _____ him to a minor post behind the bar.
disseminate
decorum
sporadic
relegate
8. Psychoanalysts must maintain their professional _____ and stay uninvolved with their patients' personal lives.
subside
rhetorical
detachment
mundane
9. The conceited rap star relished the _____ he received from his groupies and yes-men.
adulation
haughtiness
recount
turbulent
10. She kept all the receipts form her business trip in order to _____ her expenses for the Internal Revenue Service.
strident
impeccable
document
indifferent
11. Othello's false friend lago uses considerable _____ to trick Othello into believing that Desdemona has been unfaithful to him
adversity
allusion
guile
jocular
12. In a brief essay - describe a person you admire - someone whose virtues and achievements you would like to _____.
emulate
skeptic
recluse
contentious
13. Nothing could shake his _____ that his children would get the best education that money could buy.
ostentatious
resolution
anarchy
refute
14. The bottle of wine I brought to Sharon's party was certainly _____: how was I to know that Sharon owned a winery?
innocuous
redundant
vacillate
prudent
15. 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.
fervor
lethargic
repudiate
constraint
16. Typically - partygoers are _____; hermits are not.
inadvertently
innate
gregarious
elusive
17. At the protest rally - the students cheered the strikers and booed the dean with equal _____.
feasible
fervor
banal
gravity
18. Although some girls were attracted by Mark's air of _____ - Judy was put off by it - for she felt his aloofness indicated a lack of openness.
recluse
reserve
disparage
arbitrary
19. 'Any publicity is good publicity - 'said the starlet. 'If I can't have a good reputation - I'll settle for _____.'
profane
adversity
notoriety
prudent
20. Judy's great fear was that she might _____ omit a question on the exam and mismark her entire answer sheet.
affirmation
emulate
inadvertently
enhance
21. Though Huck was quite willing to _____ Tom's story - Aunt Polly knew better than to believe either of them.
corroborate
pragmatic
recount
exacerbate
22. You had better _____ your accounting errors before the auditors arrive.
rectify
terse
homogeneous
laconic
23. These endorsements written by satisfied customers _____ our claim that Barron's SAT is the best SAT-prep book on the market.
ambiguous
substantiate
constraint
implement
24. The wealthy - self-indulgent young man felt oddly drawn to the strict - _____ lifestyle practiced by members of some monastic orders.
enhance
ascetic
peripheral
innocuous
25. The infant Mozart's parents quickly realized that their son had an _____ gift for music.
innate
recount
ephemeral
constraint
26. Shrewdly purchasing valuable plots of land for small sums - John Jacob Astor gained a reputation as an _____ investor.
astute
levity
profane
prevalent
27. Tourists are urged not to _____ the sanctity of holy places by wearing immodest garb.
extricate
predilection
banal
profane
28. When Elizabeth realized that Darcy considered himself too good to dance with his inferiors - she took great offense at his _____.
anarchy
reprimand
haughtiness
delineate
29. Times of economic hardship inevitably encourage the _____ of countless get-rich-quick schemes.
exacerbate
austere
proliferation
turbulent
30. 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.
mitigate
taciturn
haughtiness
detachment
31. At commencement - the dean praised Ellen for her _____ behavior as class president.
proximity
exemplary
juxtaposition
elusive
32. After a decade of popularity - Hurston's works had fallen into _____; no one bothered to read her novels and short stories any more.
extol
rancor
garrulous
oblivion
33. Historically - traders and missionaries often proved themselves to be _____ explorers - bravely venturing into new territories despite the dangers involved.
mitigate
interpid
pervasive
equivocal
34. The winter storm was ______; it changed course constantly.
furtive
adulation
capricious
contentious
35. The president _____ the astronauts - whom he called 'the pioneers of the Space Age.'
extol
benign
criterion
vacillate
36. _____ to his downtrodden existence - the day laborer was too meek to protest his supervisor's bullying.
elusive
fastidious
resigned
repudiate
37. When Amanda said to the ticket scalper - 'One hundred bucks? What do you want - a pound of flesh?' she was making an _____ to Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice.
resigned
strident
altruistic
allusion
38. Through the comments of the characters in his cartoon strip - Doonesbury - Gary Trudeau ridicules political corruption; his humor is _____ in nature.
profane
profound
satirical
ambiguous
39. A pragmatic politician - he was guided more by what was _____ than by what was right.
expedient
constraint
criterion
taciturn
40. We could tell we were in serious trouble from the _____ of the principal's expression.
verbose
altruistic
gravity
endorse
41. 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.
scrutiny
nurture
juxtaposition
presumptuous
42. 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.
retract
altruistic
strident
predilection
43. A radical committed to social change - Reed had no patience with the conservative views _____ in the America of his day.
extol
decorum
whimsical
prevalent
44. Unlike Widow Douglas - who _____ Huck's minor offenses - Miss Watson did nothing but scold.
constraint
enhance
frivolous
condone
45. To win his audience - the speaker used every _____ trick in the book.
rhetorical
garrulous
ostentatious
induce
46. Please try not to include so many _____ details in your report; the bare facts are all I need.
explicit
fastidious
superfluous
pragmatic
47. Even though she knew she would be burned at the stake as a witch - Joan of Arc refused to _____ her belief that her voices came from God.
renounce
strident
ambiguous
substantiate
48. You can _____ your chances of being admitted to the college of your choice by learning to write well.
inadvertently
presumptuous
enhance
reprove
49. The attorney came up with several far-fetched arguments in a vain attempt to _____ his weak case.
satirical
explicit
buttress
contentious
50. Jealous of Cinderella's beauty - her _____ stepsisters expressed their spite by forcing her to do menial tasks.
ephemeral
jocular
resigned
malicious