| Coverage : The GRE Practise Test - Sentence Completion I has been designed to test the important aspects of sentence completion. The test determines the test taker's strength in vocabulary and problem solving while filling up the missing words in a given sentence. |
| 1. | Taxonomy can be described as the orderly _________of organisms according to their _________ natural relationship. |
| a. | | festering . . terrestrial |
| b. | | preclusion . . extraneous |
| c. | | habitat . . sustainable |
| d. | | disintegration . . endangered |
| e. | | nomenclature . . presumed
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| 2. | Jack's theory on rationalism is also gaining _________ among some sections of Western academics. |
| a. | | nomination |
| b. | | repetitiousness |
| c. | | momentous |
| d. | | approbation |
| e. | | abdication
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| 3. | Since the _________ survived on the financial ________ of the King, he could never, in reality articulate a protest against the King. |
| a. | | bard . . patronage |
| b. | | courtier . . parsimony |
| c. | | courtesan . . exculpation |
| d. | | jester . . doling |
| e. | | minstrel . . expiation
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| 4. | Despite onerous efforts by her family, after seven major surgeries, her body, mind and soul were thoroughly __________. |
| a. | | enervated |
| b. | | debilitated |
| c. | | exculpated |
| d. | | invigorated |
| e. | | regurgitated
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| 5. | Due to the sudden decline in conformist viewpoints, many religious leaders are now open to _________ beliefs as a means of gaining mass attention. |
| a. | | fundamental |
| b. | | radical |
| c. | | heretical |
| d. | | prosaic |
| e. | | banal
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| 6. | All __________ became powerful enough to challenge the __________ power. |
| a. | | bureaucrats . . plutocratic |
| b. | | mutineers . . temporal |
| c. | | rebellions . . corporeal |
| d. | | abdicators . . evangelistic |
| e. | | renouncers . . monarchial
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| 7. | The temple has a _________ nexus with its patrons which is based on a relatively equal exchange of wealth for _________ and the social recognition for piety. |
| a. | | sacrilegious . . apostates |
| b. | | conclusive . . neophytes |
| c. | | virtual . . paradigm shift |
| d. | | horizontal . . legitimation |
| e. | | terrific . . rebels
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| 8. | Poor marketing of the game and the _________ to shift football to the Salt Lake stadium from the Maidan area has also had an ________ impact on the spectator attendance. |
| a. | | pronouncement . . impinging |
| b. | | diktat . . potent |
| c. | | thoughtlessness. . adverse |
| d. | | magnanimity. . importunate |
| e. | | alacrity . . deciduous
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| 9. | Faced with the possibility of a _________ mutiny, the government finally had to ________. |
| a. | | seditious . . deliberate |
| b. | | veritable . . buckle |
| c. | | recalcitrant . . relinquish |
| d. | | conceivable . . infiltrate |
| e. | | plausible . . buttress
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| 10. | It is essential that those who ________ the corridors of power, apply Micawbers prescription to contain expenditure instead of mouthing ________ for the common man. |
| a. | | man . . platitudes |
| b. | | endorse. . invectives |
| c. | | warrant. . homilies |
| d. | | vitiate. . encomiums |
| e. | | abdicate . . sobriquets
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| 11. | ________ is, diametrically, the opposite of _________. |
| a. | | reconnoiter . . reconnaissance |
| b. | | tactics. . logistics |
| c. | | pragmatism . . radicalism |
| d. | | influx . . impasse |
| e. | | theoretical. . empirical
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| 12. | If a child is a natural _______, why hasn't he been used as a\an _________? |
| a. | | extrapolator . . idea generator |
| b. | | survivor . . modal |
| c. | | filibuster . . rector |
| d. | | egoist . . neologism |
| e. | | idolater . . propagator
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| 13. | Historically, peace has often been found challenged by historical ________, territorial claims and ethnic ________. |
| a. | | distortions . . awakening |
| b. | | animosity. . assertiveness |
| c. | | acrimony . . warfare |
| d. | | belligerence . . regression |
| e. | | stalemates . . subversion
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| 14. | In ________ democracies, politics is mostly conducted within the ________ of the legislatures. |
| a. | | obsolete . . protocol |
| b. | | third world . . representation |
| c. | | vintage . . premise |
| d. | | mature . . precincts |
| e. | | elected . . parameters
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| 15. | ________ burning of fossil fuels has resulted in ________ climatic changes leading to global warming. |
| a. | | indeterminate . . torrid |
| b. | | infinitesimal . . drastic |
| c. | | indiscriminate . . sustained |
| d. | | irascible . . cataclysmic |
| e. | | undeterred . . unwarranted
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| 16. | No other __________ but the _________ of bilateral talks only can reconcile the issue. |
| a. | | red herring . . prevarication |
| b. | | rationale . . pursuance |
| c. | | endeavor . . perseverance |
| d. | | phenomenon . . fudging |
| e. | | schema . . premise
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| 17. | All indications ________ that the kidnapping was _________ by elements agitated over the U.S. action against Afghanistan. |
| a. | | suggested . . finagled |
| b. | | corroborate . . encouraged |
| c. | | pustule . . engineered |
| d. | | purvey . . wangled |
| e. | | hint . . derided
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| 18. | Despite a challenging year, the software industry has proven to be _________ and continues to record a\an _________ growth. |
| a. | | audacious . . impressive |
| b. | | unconvincing . . indiscernible |
| c. | | resilient . . conspicuous |
| d. | | indiscriminate . . atypical |
| e. | | sturdy. . augmented
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| 19. | The earth has been damaged irreparably by pesticides, fertilizers etcetera and thus man is filled with greater ________ for man made products than for the _________. |
| a. | | proclivity . . preserved |
| b. | | repugnance . . genetic |
| c. | | consternation . . modified |
| d. | | dilemma . . natural |
| e. | | predilection . . biological
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| 20. | Taxonomy supplies through the ___________ of phylogenetic relationships within and between the groups. |
| a. | | explosion |
| b. | | implosion |
| c. | | delineation |
| d. | | exigency |
| e. | | withering
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| 21. | An understanding of a cultural idiom involves more than just appreciation of its ________ or ________ form. |
| a. | | etymological . . theosophical |
| b. | | enlightening . . historic |
| c. | | alliteration . . transcendental |
| d. | | connotation . . conjectural |
| e. | | religious . . aesthetic
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| 22. | ________, not tradition, development, not _________ is responsible for the successful storming of the upper class citadel. |
| a. | | iconoclasm . . liberalization |
| b. | | customs . . regression |
| c. | | modernity . . stagnation |
| d. | | education . . philanthropy |
| e. | | altruism . . misogyny
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| 23. | The most powerful ______ in the ascent of man is his _______ in his skill. |
| a. | | propeller . . ignominy |
| b. | | steer . . manifestation |
| c. | | thrust . . gratification |
| d. | | contradiction . . gratuitousness |
| e. | | rationale . . narcissism
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| 24. | After spilling wine on her dress, I would have preferred her most scathing _______ to the _______ look on her face. |
| a. | | denigration . . pontifical |
| b. | | rapprochement . . rarefied |
| c. | | whiplash . . beatific |
| d. | | diatribe . . condescending |
| e. | | histrionics . . pernicious
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| 25. | Because he had the tickets to the opera, my colleague Richard _______ my suggestion to work on the project till late. |
| a. | | endorsed |
| b. | | scoffed |
| c. | | mulled over |
| d. | | balked at |
| e. | | gleaned at
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| 26. | It is impossible to approach the question of overpopulation ________ because demographic patterns are _______ around the world. |
| a. | | apolitically . . dissimilar |
| b. | | escalation . . variegated |
| c. | | politically . . refulgent |
| d. | | assiduously . . contradictory |
| e. | | democratically . . exacerbating
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| 27. | Forced to grow food and raise livestock on ________ land, man aggravates the problems of erosion and _________. |
| a. | | fallow . . famine |
| b. | | marginal . . deforestation |
| c. | | marshy . . denudation |
| d. | | pithy . . global warming |
| e. | | verdant . . population
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| 28. | _______ jobs employ a large number of Americans, and this makes any attempt to ________ the federal payroll, both difficult and painful. |
| a. | | offshore . . mitigate |
| b. | | corporate . . supplement |
| c. | | federal . . prune |
| d. | | minimum wage . . rein in |
| e. | | undeserving . . concur
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| 29. | The dangers of subjecting impressionable young minds to _______ values makes self-censorship by the entertainment industry a _________ alternative. |
| a. | | transcend . . devil's |
| b. | | garner . . abhorrent |
| c. | | conventional . . supercilious |
| d. | | violent . . lucrative |
| e. | | questionable . . viable
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| 30. | Too much discipline can stifle children and instead of providing them with a moral ________ lead them to become unthinking ________. |
| a. | | compass . . automatons |
| b. | | replenishment . . egocentrics |
| c. | | turpitude . . human beings |
| d. | | footing . . individualists |
| e. | | premises . . megalomaniacs
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| 31. | As soon as this test is ________ as routine procedure in hospitals around the world, the death rate from this disease will ________. |
| a. | | proclaimed . . accumulate |
| b. | | recognized . . skyrocket |
| c. | | founded . . harness |
| d. | | withdrawn . . dwindle |
| e. | | instituted . . plummet
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| 32. | The players took the words as ________ what the instructor claimed were ________. |
| a. | | altercation . . inimical |
| b. | | reprimand . . encouraging |
| c. | | equivocal . . equitable |
| d. | | anodynes . . much needed |
| e. | | superficial . . expeditious
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| 33. | When I am ________, I am also _________, I elucidated to my friends who wondered at my long face. |
| a. | | scintillating . . verbose |
| b. | | quiescent . . succinct |
| c. | | lugubrious . . lachrymose |
| d. | | reviled . . providential |
| e. | | providential . . rubicund
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| 34. | That ________ and parole are reformative methods, yet the two differ in many ___________. |
| a. | | amnesty . . respects |
| b. | | punishment . . fundamentals |
| c. | | probity . . bounds |
| d. | | probation . . parameters |
| e. | | exoneration . . moot points
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| 35. | The Renaissance in the history of development of natural law was marked by _________ and _________ of new ideas in different fields of knowledge. |
| a. | | retroactivity . . regression |
| b. | | congruence . . influx |
| c. | | rationalism . . emergence |
| d. | | persecution . . insurgence |
| e. | | prolixity . . bludgeoning
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| 36. | Kant's theory was __________ on the ground that it was little concerned with realities and was based on ________ assumptions. |
| a. | | applauded . . empirical |
| b. | | censured . . theoretical |
| c. | | founded . . ephemeral |
| d. | | justified . . pragmatic |
| e. | | validated . . scientific
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| 37. | Her question had an urgency that ________an answer, but the answer might have been too dreadful to _________. |
| a. | | demanded . . contemplate |
| b. | | beseeched . . comprehend |
| c. | | quavered . . redeem |
| d. | | sought . . rationalize |
| e. | | prompted . . sequester
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| 38. | The more _________ the person or the activity, the harder it generally is to keep a\an _________eye on him. |
| a. | | subtle . . subverted |
| b. | | pensive . . implicit |
| c. | | solitary . . covert |
| d. | | facetious . . vigilant |
| e. | | reserved . . explicit
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| 39. | The ________ of events could bring the country out of the dark ages and into the 20th century era of _________ thought. |
| a. | | chain . . resurrected |
| b. | | polarization . . cataclysmic |
| c. | | plethora . . contemporary |
| d. | | snowballing . . conjectural |
| e. | | momentum . . political
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| 40. | The disgraceful period of ________ did not have the slightest capacity to ________ the memory for superior works of the past glory. |
| a. | | vindication . . blight |
| b. | | ghettoization . . regale |
| c. | | annihilation . . inundate |
| d. | | decadence . . efface |
| e. | | absolving . . delineate
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| 41. | The proposed policy might have little or no ________ effect on the people. |
| a. | | unconstitutional |
| b. | | substantive |
| c. | | tangible |
| d. | | circuitous |
| e. | | nonchalant
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| 42. | His lilt was an impression that he had assiduously __________. |
| a. | | abhorred |
| b. | | cultivated |
| c. | | contrived |
| d. | | declined |
| e. | | toiled for
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| 43. | We had to listen to a _________ on the frivolousness of the youth. |
| a. | | peroration |
| b. | | pedagogy |
| c. | | pedantic |
| d. | | pediment |
| e. | | treatise
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| 44. | _________ literature or even a\an _________ remark can have a pernicious influence on the society that has become a tinderbox. |
| a. | | proscribed . . equivocal |
| b. | | classified . . uninhibited |
| c. | | provocative . . ravishing |
| d. | | perspicacious . . instigating |
| e. | | incendiary . . inimical
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| 45. | __________ is to falsehood what _________ is to amiable. |
| a. | | subjugation . . submission |
| b. | | impunity . . impugned |
| c. | | carnage . . amicable |
| d. | | veracity . . recalcitrant |
| e. | | slake . . unctuousness
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| 46. | It was supposed to appear that they were discussing ordinary pleasantries, Jack supposed, with the added ________ that his colleague was enjoying himself. |
| a. | | panegyric |
| b. | | dimension |
| c. | | disbelieve |
| d. | | contour |
| e. | | plight
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| 47. | Ancient evidence ________ likelihood of ________ among the Neanderthals. |
| a. | | withholds . . extant |
| b. | | questions . . organized governance |
| c. | | substantiates . . cannibalism |
| d. | | warrants . . mummification |
| e. | | challenges . . sacrilege
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| 48. | Nothing could __________ the outrage at the blasphemy perpetrated by the proclamations of the self-styled godman. |
| a. | | extenuate |
| b. | | avenge |
| c. | | denounce |
| d. | | extirpate |
| e. | | accentuate
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| 49. | Much to his dismay, he had hired a\an ________ worker instead of a\an ________ one. |
| a. | | ardent . . servile |
| b. | | lacunae . . tyro |
| c. | | lackluster . . convivial |
| d. | | intrepid . . tenacious |
| e. | | slovenly . . fastidious
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| 50. | The super-powers sought commanders to effect control over people since _________ force was becoming politically ________. |
| a. | | nucleus . . justifiable |
| b. | | defense . . correct |
| c. | | lethal . . unpalatable |
| d. | | cleric . . dormant |
| e. | | radical . . hued
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