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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. Uncertain which suitor she ought to accept - the princess _____ - first favoring one and then the other.
vacillate
concise
implement
mitigate
2. When Johnny came down with a bad case of poison oak - the doctor recommended calamine lotion to _____ the itching.
capricious
prudent
implement
alleviate
3. Stop giggling and wriggling around in the pew; such _____ is improper in church.
levity
pervasive
altruistic
malicious
4. 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.
vacillate
pragmatic
mitigate
extricate
5. Seeking the end of slavery - the abolitionists _____ freedom for the slaves.
lavish
laconic
verbose
advocate
6. To win his audience - the speaker used every _____ trick in the book.
impede
rhetorical
pervasive
undermine
7. The doctor assured the boy's parents that his fever would eventually _____.
peripheral
flagrant
subside
recluse
8. A miser hoards money - not because he is _____ - but because he is stingy.
prudent
autonomous
arbitrary
rectify
9. Despite airing her clothes for several hours - she could not rid them of the _____ odor of mothballs that clung to them.
impeccable
usurp
rancor
pervasive
10. Although Nancy enjoyed Bill's _____ - lighthearted companionship - she sometimes wondered whether he could ever be serious.
contentious
frivolous
coercion
satirical
11. Denying that she advocated total _____ - Katya maintained she wished only to change our government - not to destroy it utterly.
incite
emulate
anarchy
fervor
12. Warned of _____ weather conditions ahead - the pilot told the passengers to fasten their seat belts.
prolific
turbulent
detachment
debilitate
13. According to Sherlock Homes - the very point that appears to complicate a case - when duly considered and scientifically handled - is the one most likely to _____ it.
elucidate
delineate
mollify
taciturn
14. When Elizabeth realized that Darcy considered himself too good to dance with his inferiors - she took great offense at his _____.
hyperbole
reprove
haughtiness
impede
15. Their _____ in rank made no difference at all to the prince and Cinderella.
decorum
disparity
alleviate
fallacious
16. Though Glenn was devout - he was no _____; he never tried to force his beliefs on friends.
aesthetic
incite
inadvertently
zealot
17. The classic cowboy hero is a _____ figure - someone generally described as the strong - silent type.
esoteric
conciliatory
advocate
laconic
18. The Head Start program attempts to _____ prekindergarten children so that they will do well when they enter elementary school.
prolific
nurture
divergent
quandary
19. Rumors of police corruption led the mayor to _____ an investigation into the department's activities.
instigate
interpid
frivolous
alleviate
20. 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.
terse
homogeneous
allusion
mitigate
21. Michael's severe bout of the flue _____ him so much that for a week he was too tired to go back to work.
constraint
immutable
debilitate
refute
22. Because a _____ examination of the ruins indicates the possibility of arson - we believe the insurance agency should undertake a more thorough investigation of the fire's cause.
alleviate
cursory
impede
partisan
23. Cool - calm - and collected - James Bond shows remarkable _____ in the face of danger.
inadvertently
recluse
notoriety
nonchalance
24. The stereotypical cowboy is a _____ soul - answering lengthy questions with a simple 'yep' or 'nope.'
austere
surpass
taciturn
redundant
25. Looking for any inconsistency in the testimony that might exonerate his client - the defense lawyer pounced on a _____ between the two witnesses' versions of what had occurred.
jocular
discrepancy
superfluous
renounce
26. A pragmatic politician - he was guided more by what was _____ than by what was right.
disseminate
garrulous
frivolous
expedient
27. I was bowled over by the _____ of Amy's welcome. What an enthusiastic greeting!
rectify
condone
digression
exuberance
28. After Ralph dropped his second try of drinks that week - the manager swiftly _____ him to a minor post behind the bar.
arbitrary
relegate
resigned
eulogy
29. Someone mute cannot talk; someone _____ can hardly stop talking.
verbose
superfluous
autonomous
decorum
30. His coarse - hard-bitten exterior _____ his inner sensitivity.
coercion
belie
presumptuous
verbose
31. The conceited rap star relished the _____ he received from his groupies and yes-men.
adulation
profane
scrutiny
detachment
32. After a decade of popularity - Hurston's works had fallen into _____; no one bothered to read her novels and short stories any more.
inherent
compliance
relegate
oblivion
33. Typically - partygoers are _____; hermits are not.
disparage
lethargic
levity
gregarious
34. The headmaster's _____ demeanor tended to care off the more timid students - who never visited his study willingly.
reprimand
extraneous
subside
austere
35. Though Huck was quite willing to _____ Tom's story - Aunt Polly knew better than to believe either of them.
superfluous
corroborate
discerning
endorse
36. In Tibet today - the common people still _____ their traditional spiritual leader - the Dalai Lama.
fastidious
venerate
ostentatious
banal
37. At commencement - the dean praised Ellen for her _____ behavior as class president.
embellish
satirical
exemplary
zealot
38. Psychoanalysts must maintain their professional _____ and stay uninvolved with their patients' personal lives.
detachment
censure
allusion
delineate
39. The architect realized that her design for the new school had to be in _____ with the local building code.
taciturn
malicious
compliance
autonomous
40. At the protest rally - the students cheered the strikers and booed the dean with equal _____.
fervor
exacerbate
coercion
scrutiny
41. Because Sal once had fallen asleep while reading War and Peace - he thought that all Russian novels were _____.
pervasive
gravity
superfluous
soporific
42. The reviewers heaped _____ on the novice playwright - ridiculing his pretentious dialogue - flat characters - and simple-minded plot.
derision
reserve
arbitrary
fastidious
43. There is a fine line between speech that is _____ and to the point and speech so abrupt that it verges on rudeness.
belie
inane
terse
rectify
44. At evening block inspection - the recruits' bunk room - washroom - and gear come under the inspecting officer's close _____.
scrutiny
nonchalance
profound
condone
45. My editors must assume I'm a _____ writer; they expect me to revise six books this year.
fallacious
prolific
lavish
resigned
46. To revise a textbook properly - you must do more than make a few _____ changes to the manuscript.
superficial
impair
ambivalence
rectify
47. Torn between loving her parents one minute and hating them the next - she was confused by the _____ of her feelings.
superfluous
rancor
ambivalence
resigned
48. Rejecting the candidate's _____ comments on tax reform - the reporter pressed him to state clearly where he stood on the issue.
digression
verbose
equivocal
innocuous
49. The infant Mozart's parents quickly realized that their son had an _____ gift for music.
affirmation
innate
explicit
nonchalance
50. Although Georgia O'Keeffe painted many subjects over the years - she had a definite _____ for painting flowers.
delineate
extricate
predilection
guile