| Coverage : The GRE Practise Test - Sentence Completion II 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. | It is hard to appreciate the depth of her soul without having experienced directly what it means to live without _________ ___________. |
| a. | | penurious . . ignominy |
| b. | | conceptual . . abstractions |
| c. | | cultural . . legacy |
| d. | | ideological . . felicity |
| e. | | coincidental . . repercussions
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| 2. | __________ about the mission of business learning creates a downward ________ of poor engagement between practitioners and business schools. |
| a. | | misgivings . . predilection |
| b. | | misnomers . . proclivity |
| c. | | disillusionment . . spiral |
| d. | | modalities . . tangent |
| e. | | misapprehension . . penchant
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| 3. | I have always despised the idea of dividing the world into the _________ and the __________. |
| a. | | affluent . . effluent |
| b. | | fundamentals . . basics |
| c. | | prudent . . prude |
| d. | | orient . . occident |
| e. | | apocalypse . . exodus
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| 4. | The library was the only room in that house which was not quite as ________ as the other rooms. |
| a. | | prescient |
| b. | | aesthetic |
| c. | | clairvoyant |
| d. | | chalcolithic |
| e. | | domineering
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| 5. | He realized, with a\an ________ sense of futility, that knowledge of life and the human condition ________ brought disillusionment and despair. |
| a. | | profound . . sporadically |
| b. | | emaciating . . intermittently |
| c. | | emanating . . profusely |
| d. | | sickening . . inevitably |
| e. | | corollary . . unaccountably
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| 6. | While designing her home, she realized that period furniture would be unfitting when _______ against the modern structure of the building. |
| a. | | paralleled |
| b. | | deemed |
| c. | | superimposed |
| d. | | synchronized |
| e. | | juxtaposed
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| 7. | The __________ of fighting at the company board meeting had appalled Tom more than he realized. |
| a. | | acrimony |
| b. | | latitude |
| c. | | credence |
| d. | | virulence |
| e. | | virago
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| 8. | Steve often wondered with a cold calculating ________, whether he would have the icy _________ to manipulate those men as astutely as his father had. |
| a. | | subjectivity . . frigidity |
| b. | | objectivity . . tenacity |
| c. | | demeanor . . temper |
| d. | | forethought . . foresightedness |
| e. | | shiver . . fortitude
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| 9. | Phrenology, the "science" of attributing one's personality to ____________ features arose in the nineteenth century, at the ________of psychology. |
| a. | | peripheral . . surge |
| b. | | cranial . . dawn |
| c. | | meretricious . . crux |
| d. | | nefarious . . apex |
| e. | | dormant . . nadir
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| 10. | Business practitioners are _________ , prone to assuming that what works is what works. |
| a. | | altruists |
| b. | | shenanigans |
| c. | | misanthropist |
| d. | | pragmatists |
| e. | | prosaic
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| 11. | The humanistic tradition of transparent documentation, hypothesis testing, ________ of experiments and debate is the _________ to just a little learning. |
| a. | | replication . . antidote |
| b. | | plethora . . anodyne |
| c. | | conduction . . compass |
| d. | | propounding . . panacea |
| e. | | patenting . . initiation
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| 12. | The policy was implemented in such a _________ manner that it had been rendered almost _________. |
| a. | | brilliant . . conducive |
| b. | | haphazard . . ineffective |
| c. | | nebulous . . stupendous |
| d. | | sycophant . . successful |
| e. | | obsequious . . obsolete
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| 13. | Noria and the Archimedean screw, the two _________ of more varied and complex machines, were first developed for use in irrigation systems. |
| a. | | vanguards |
| b. | | yeomen |
| c. | | forerunners |
| d. | | founts |
| e. | | appliances
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| 14. | A large number of students in half-truth are _________ by the personal beliefs, sectarian concerns and folk _________ of teachers. |
| a. | | flummoxed . . aberration |
| b. | | overridden . . lore |
| c. | | liberated . . legacy |
| d. | | mitigated . . bias |
| e. | | underpinned . . pedagogy
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| 15. | Paula enjoyed the simple pleasure of cooking, as it was a brief ________ that __________ her mind. |
| a. | | hiatus . . soothed |
| b. | | sojourn . . refreshed |
| c. | | chore . . engulfed |
| d. | | respite . . swayed |
| e. | | tryst . . embalmed
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| 16. | "Black Swan", the primitive painting of an ebony swan, with its neck arched in an __________ fashion was hardly a lifelike ___________ of that elegant bird. |
| a. | | unaesthetic . . personification |
| b. | | inarticulate . . depiction |
| c. | | ungainly . . rendition |
| d. | | incongruous . . replication |
| e. | | incredible . . duplication
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| 17. | Just as religion has __________ the field of ethics, turning morality against man, so has it usurped the highest moral concepts of our _______. |
| a. | | impounded . . epoch |
| b. | | endorsed . . legion |
| c. | | stimulated . . cohort |
| d. | | fathomed . . premises |
| e. | | preempted . . language
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| 18. | The account given by the witness was ________ and __________ enough to nail the don. |
| a. | | cogent . . good |
| b. | | fluent . . convincing |
| c. | | judicious . . true |
| d. | | cognizable . . dependable |
| e. | | factitious . . facetious
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| 19. | The word __________ is the same as __________. |
| a. | | criticism . . review |
| b. | | cryptic . . elucidated |
| c. | | epitome . . picture |
| d. | | cushioned . . cosseted |
| e. | | ethnic . . national
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| 20. | _________ from regression is possible only when one _________ what regression is . |
| a. | | rescue . . undergoes |
| b. | | liberation . . deems |
| c. | | eradication . . perceives |
| d. | | freedom . . comprehends |
| e. | | emancipation . . knows
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| 21. | Free competition in an unequal world shall create industrialists who, after _________ capital in their countries, will intensify colonization of the third world countries thus triggering ________ wars. |
| a. | | garnering . . imperialist |
| b. | | swindling . . capitalist |
| c. | | ensuing . . communal |
| d. | | frittering . . perpetrated |
| e. | | usurping . . pecuniary
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| 22. | The editor had to ________ in the use of the material related to the exposé on the crime and politics nexus. |
| a. | | circumvent |
| b. | | circumnavigate |
| c. | | circumflex |
| d. | | circumscribe |
| e. | | circumspect
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| 23. | The representative pointed out that the ___________ was established to ensure _________. |
| a. | | fact . . defect |
| b. | | paradigm . . transparency |
| c. | | theory . . success |
| d. | | machination . . honest transactions |
| e. | | theme . . semantics
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| 24. | In contemporary times, when science has _________ time and space, values are becoming more and more ___________. |
| a. | | transcended . . objective |
| b. | | annihilated . . pervasive |
| c. | | embraced . . narcissistic |
| d. | | elevated . . redundant |
| e. | | inflated . . corrosive
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| 25. | ________ is a kind of jurisprudence that deals with the contents of an actual legal system, as existing at any time, whether past or present. |
| a. | | impunity |
| b. | | arcane |
| c. | | esoteric |
| d. | | expository |
| e. | | legatee
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| 26. | The words "DO NOT" were the ________ in the lives of many women but today, they seem to have turned into an ________. |
| a. | | diktat . . absolution |
| b. | | refrain . . impasse |
| c. | | leitmotif . . anthem |
| d. | | moral fiber . . anathema |
| e. | | resonance . . approbation
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| 27. | ________ can ________ a person or a moment and then become something greater than either. |
| a. | | turpitude . . asphyxiate |
| b. | | genius . . supersede |
| c. | | gluttony . . swathe |
| d. | | avarice . . transcend |
| e. | | philanthropy . . stymie
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| 28. | We are not ________ selves but have an intimate relationship with the material world which includes, emphatically, the products of human _________. |
| a. | | radicalized . . adroitness |
| b. | | disembodied . . ingenuity |
| c. | | cocooned . . subservience |
| d. | | idiosyncratic . . vehemence |
| e. | | reticent . . contentiousness
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| 29. | His ________ was a joke to many, a source of unease to an equal number and at times, the bane of his existence but _________ against his search for justice. |
| a. | | impertinence . . countervailing |
| b. | | cliché . . innocuous |
| c. | | wrath . . bulwark |
| d. | | parsimony . . indispensable |
| e. | | ineptitude . . expedient
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| 30. | Frankfurter believed that democracy involves the ________ of ________ responsibility of every citizen. |
| a. | | predicament . . seasoned |
| b. | | moot point . . undiluted |
| c. | | tenet . . unceasing |
| d. | | precept . . implacable |
| e. | | fallacy . . importunate
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| 31. | Freedom is a\an ________ endeavor, never a\an ________ achievement. |
| a. | | unremitting . . irrefutable |
| b. | | hyped . . chimerical |
| c. | | intrepid . . interminable |
| d. | | indefatigable . . enervating |
| e. | | unrequited . . holistic
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| 32. | A ________ world would _________ us of much complexity. |
| a. | | singular . . repudiate |
| b. | | polarized . . yoke |
| c. | | pluralistic . . purge |
| d. | | paradoxical . . fleece |
| e. | | diabolical . . concur
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| 33. | ___________ is the dark cousin of the much _________ emotion called love. |
| a. | | lust . . vitiated |
| b. | | passion . . venerated |
| c. | | diatribe . . serenaded |
| d. | | sensuality . . hallowed |
| e. | | opportunism . . fantasized
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| 34. | He vigorously exposed the ___________ of the bureaucracy upon civil liberty and representative government. |
| a. | | rampant corruption |
| b. | | endemic affluence |
| c. | | vapid influence |
| d. | | burgeoning incursion |
| e. | | insidious encroachments
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| 35. | In a complex __________, the contribution of an individual to the eventual decision cannot be readily ___________ . |
| a. | | quandary . . arbitrated |
| b. | | hierarchy . . isolated |
| c. | | scenario . . condescended |
| d. | | phenomenon . . realigned |
| e. | | pedagogy . . censored
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| 36. | He felt extraordinarily _________ under what should have been extremely ________ circumstances. |
| a. | | restive . . ravaging |
| b. | | valiant . . provocative |
| c. | | pacified . . provoking |
| d. | | skeptical . . tranquil |
| e. | | acrimonious . . festering
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| 37. | The hands shot up, _________ invisible knives, were really probes to see if she had _________ as scholar. |
| a. | | yielding . . mettle |
| b. | | wielding . . cadre |
| c. | | personifying . . qualified |
| d. | | symbolizing . . withstood |
| e. | | brandishing . . substance
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| 38. | The ________ school curriculum was like that of ordinary schools but with one significant addition. |
| a. | | denounced |
| b. | | revered |
| c. | | tailored |
| d. | | parochial |
| e. | | heterodox
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| 39. | In the far away Buddhist __________, he was mesmerized by the young boys striving to learn _________. |
| a. | | hamlet . . epics |
| b. | | monastery . . quartets |
| c. | | chaplet . . fine arts |
| d. | | synagogue . . yoga |
| e. | | seminary . . catechism
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| 40. | The truce turned out to be anything but _________ and in two days the things were again _________. |
| a. | | amicable . . unprecedented |
| b. | | congenial . . conducive |
| c. | | cohesive . . sanguinary |
| d. | | acrimonious . . disarrayed |
| e. | | compromising . . topsy-turvy
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| 41. | _________ can be taken to mean nearly the same as _________. |
| a. | | machinations . . scheming |
| b. | | austerity . . ostentation |
| c. | | mechanization . . revolution |
| d. | | imitated . . plagiarized |
| e. | | supporter . . promoter
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| 42. | For the annual service, the Classics Department magically transformed the ________ spot into a Tercentenary Theater. |
| a. | | proscenium |
| b. | | torrid |
| c. | | arid |
| d. | | sylvan |
| e. | | derelict
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| 43. | For the Senior Week, the university arranged a series of assorted ceremonies as a kind of anodyne for the trauma of ____________. |
| a. | | symbiotic arrangement |
| b. | | symbolic rebirth |
| c. | | configuration |
| d. | | juvenile delinquency |
| e. | | orientation
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| 44. | John confided in Mary, whom he found to be well informed on matters both _________ and ________. |
| a. | | esoteric . . abstract |
| b. | | corporeal . . material |
| c. | | ecclesiastical . . secular |
| d. | | conflicting . . contemptible |
| e. | | contemporary . . inviolate
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| 45. | Creativity is not the __________ of only a few select professions. |
| a. | | dominion |
| b. | | ream |
| c. | | prerogative |
| d. | | vindication |
| e. | | preserve
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| 46. | Like the stretto in the ___________ the spring term _________ the tempo of a melody already racing to its conclusion. |
| a. | | fugue . . accelerated |
| b. | | symphony . . substantiated |
| c. | | crescendo . . authenticated |
| d. | | soprano . . retarded |
| e. | | opera . . relegated
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| 47. | Whether ________ or ___________, Daniel Rossi had chosen to lead the class. |
| a. | | effusive . . elusive |
| b. | | corpulent . . diffident |
| c. | | mellow . . timorous |
| d. | | abrasive . . derisive |
| e. | | acerbic . . placid
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| 48. | Their work voiced a _________ for the downtrodden, but their phraseology, though __________, was soundly based on Scripture. |
| a. | | insurrection . . heretical |
| b. | | invocation . . scathing |
| c. | | plea . . polemic |
| d. | | cavil . . temporal |
| e. | | manifestation . . unequivocal
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| 49. | They, literally, started their professional lives in the __________ of the __________ zone. |
| a. | | culmination . . terrestrial |
| b. | | ignominy . . twilight |
| c. | | zenith . . celestial |
| d. | | sycophancy . . Hellenistic |
| e. | | astuteness . . critical
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| 50. | A professional need for curriculum review emerged from the long ________ of an education system that viewed teachers as the '___________of information'. |
| a. | | pantheon . . incarnation |
| b. | | ossification . . dispensers |
| c. | | dissertation . . propagators |
| d. | | concurrence . . personification |
| e. | | exhortation . . conduits
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