| Coverage : The GRE Practice Test - Sentence Completion III 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. | Right from the start, it was apparent that Jack regarded the forthcoming _________ as a\an _________ of his father's life and dedication. |
| a. | | analogy . . perpetration |
| b. | | ordination . . perpetuation |
| c. | | tryst . . precipitation |
| d. | | catastrophe . . emulation |
| e. | | predicament . . corollary
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| 2. | Ridden with a guilty conscience, a ________ part of his hoped that perhaps his father would have taken an early night. |
| a. | | sanguine |
| b. | | disparaging |
| c. | | conscious |
| d. | | craven |
| e. | | wily
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| 3. | It is quite offensive when people look down on someone only because of his refusal to accept the __________ ways they've interpreted the _________. |
| a. | | objective . . sacrosanct text |
| b. | | idiosyncratic . . ethic |
| c. | | heretic . . heathen |
| d. | | infantile . . heterodoxy |
| e. | | subjective . . scriptures
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| 4. | She grabbed his arm tightly, but noting her sudden _________ and ________ expression, he did not struggle to free himself. |
| a. | | glazed . . febrile |
| b. | | stricken . . bewildered |
| c. | | tactile . . glassy |
| d. | | onerous . . tender |
| e. | | servile . . iniquitous
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| 5. | Julia was as much in awe of her husband as were her children but she hid it under a veneer of __________, slightly _________ calm. |
| a. | | effervescence . . ominous |
| b. | | malice . . timorous |
| c. | | hatred . . tentative |
| d. | | impenetrable . . dour |
| e. | | indifference . . abashed
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| 6. | Mary intuitively knew how the headmistress would behave as she had seen her brothers do it in __________ at home repeatedly. |
| a. | | mimeograph |
| b. | | consternation |
| c. | | derision |
| d. | | mimetic |
| e. | | pantomime
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| 7. | The judge pronounced, with a ________ sense of __________, the quantum of punishment to the pedophile. |
| a. | | profound . . bias |
| b. | | clement . . justice |
| c. | | monotonous . . relish |
| d. | | morbid . . contempt |
| e. | | virtual . . politesse
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| 8. | For the past days, she has been visiting the church to light the _________ candles. |
| a. | | promissory |
| b. | | votive |
| c. | | oblation |
| d. | | obligatory |
| e. | | emptive
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| 9. | With a _________ rustling, the students shuffled the sheets of paper to one side so that elbows could be __________ placed on the desk. |
| a. | | strident . . subtly |
| b. | | deafening . . ostensibly |
| c. | | histrionic . . dramatically |
| d. | | muted . . surreptitiously |
| e. | | mutant . . superciliously
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| 10. | He believed that the lack of ________ for his family in the society was a result of his refusal to donate gold vestments to the _________. |
| a. | | veneration . . poor |
| b. | | respect . . sacristy |
| c. | | contempt . . charity |
| d. | | eminence . . monarch |
| e. | | status . . eminent
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| 11. | To escape the _________ of life, Henry always managed to find something in the wild countryside. |
| a. | | vicissitudes |
| b. | | odyssey |
| c. | | trajectory |
| d. | | plaintiveness |
| e. | | regularity
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| 12. | She used her beauty for getting what she wanted without _________, but she herself was never __________ by it. |
| a. | | qualms . . fazed |
| b. | | injunctions . . deterred |
| c. | | compunction . . enamored |
| d. | | hesitation . . dissuaded |
| e. | | scruples . . unshackled
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| 13. | People long to be eternal but die with everyday that passes; they deny, they change, they _________ - and they call it _________. |
| a. | | convolute . . dissidence |
| b. | | contradict . . growth |
| c. | | subjugate . . sacrilege |
| d. | | repress . . objectivism |
| e. | | rebel . . demand
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| 14. | Animation or ballet can capture the _______ , but not the struggles of the human mind or the ________ of the human soul. |
| a. | | heart . . innuendo |
| b. | | rudiments . . paroxysm |
| c. | | grace . . depiction |
| d. | | fantasy. . angst |
| e. | | nuances . . premise
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| 15. | The reports on the movie starlet claimed her to be remarkably _________ in her personal life. |
| a. | | clandestine |
| b. | | steeped |
| c. | | vehement |
| d. | | inimical |
| e. | | abstemious
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| 16. | After a taxing and __________ day at the sets, the actor sprawled on the chair with a loud _________ sigh. |
| a. | | assiduous . . remorseful |
| b. | | eventful . . icy |
| c. | | exacting . . histrionic |
| d. | | fruitful . . depreciatory |
| e. | | harrowing . . exultant
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| 17. | Barry loved to talk to his younger sister whom he found to be _________ and witty, along with being surprisingly inspired and intellectually ________. |
| a. | | ebullient . . stimulating |
| b. | | eloquent . . stimulant |
| c. | | appraising . . revealing |
| d. | | equivocating . . challenged |
| e. | | pampered . . inclined
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| 18. | The magazine was a respected publication of the glamour world, famous for speaking _________ truths in its own unique _________. |
| a. | | undiluted . . panegyric |
| b. | | caustic . . metaphor |
| c. | | unvarnished . . idiom |
| d. | | acerbic . . dialect |
| e. | | candied . . tailorings
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| 19. | George discoursed __________, but not too ____________ about the pleasures of living in a capitalistic society. |
| a. | | equivocally. . candidly |
| b. | | pompously . . fervently |
| c. | | immaculately . . apathetically |
| d. | | perfunctorily . . chauvinistically |
| e. | | impeccably . . implicitly
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| 20. | The conversation between the two country leaders was extremely _________ but exceptionally __________. |
| a. | | duplicitous . . convivial |
| b. | | cordial . . superficial |
| c. | | wholesome . . expendable |
| d. | | comatose . . coherent |
| e. | | surreptitious . . prolific
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| 21. | The thing that the diplomat liked best about Washington was the __________ of lovely women. |
| a. | | accompaniment |
| b. | | distinct elusiveness |
| c. | | veritable cornucopia |
| d. | | abundant superfluity |
| e. | | inevitable effacing
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| 22. | The novel made no attempt to re-create the ________, conversational, or psychological details, the story was set in a________ future and was told in simple terms. |
| a. | | perceptual. . Utopian |
| b. | | veracity . . nebulous |
| c. | | ambience . . presumptuous |
| d. | | phenomenal . . remote |
| e. | | satirical . . far-fetched
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| 23. | Habit and awe are harder to overcome than people realize until they actually try to ________ the conduct of years. |
| a. | | restrain |
| b. | | rescind |
| c. | | corroborate |
| d. | | circumvent |
| e. | | condone
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| 24. | She felt as if an enormous weight _______ her being, maybe a leaving behind of childhood, a _______ of what it was to be a woman. |
| a. | | forsook . . precipitation |
| b. | | beleaguered . . denunciation |
| c. | | settled upon . . presage |
| d. | | inundated . . vouching |
| e. | | entranced . . premonition
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| 25. | Great forks of lightning stood _______ in veins of fire all around the sky, and every moment _______ flashes in chains streaked across the clouds. |
| a. | | clustered . . diabolic |
| b. | | entwined . . meteoric |
| c. | | wedged . . nova |
| d. | | engraved . . spewing |
| e. | | ribbed . . naphtha
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| 26. | The will to survive is very strong in some, not so strong in others- in Elizabeth it was as refined and ______ as a steel ________. |
| a. | | tenuous . . coil |
| b. | | irrevocable . . hacksaw |
| c. | | tensile . . hawser |
| d. | | fortified . . conduit |
| e. | | intransigent . . strait jacket
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| 27. | Ignorance breeds ignorance, an un-awakened body and mind sleep through events which awareness _________ automatically. |
| a. | | capitulates |
| b. | | catalogues |
| c. | | replenishes |
| d. | | quenches |
| e. | | overrides
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| 28. | She grew very quiet, but in a manner quite different from a ________ isolation, hers was the _______ freezing of an animal caught in the serpent's basilisk stare. |
| a. | | rigorous . . canny |
| b. | | dreamy . . abject |
| c. | | dreaded . . voluntary |
| d. | | tranquil . . petrified |
| e. | | idyllic . . traumatic
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| 29. | If the babies cried, Rosa fussed over them in an agony of ________ for her neglect. |
| a. | | astuteness |
| b. | | trepidation |
| c. | | apprehension |
| d. | | exculpation |
| e. | | expiation
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| 30. | Only the infinite patience of a subtle, _______ man kept his _______ against her possessiveness hidden from her. |
| a. | | devious . . rebellion |
| b. | | facetious . . proclivity |
| c. | | capricious . . predilection |
| d. | | whimsical . . pestilence |
| e. | | insinuating . . nerve
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| 31. | Even Joe's ________ preoccupation with Sherry couldn't always overcome his _________ wisdom. |
| a. | | incessant. . saturnine |
| b. | | fixated . . irreprehensible |
| c. | | incongruous . . pseudo |
| d. | | alien . . politic |
| e. | | intrinsic . . inane
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| 32. | He derived a purring sense of contentment from watching his charm work on such a _________, _________ subject as Lizzie James. |
| a. | | sedulous . . tyro |
| b. | | cantankerous . . refractory |
| c. | | solicitous . . officious |
| d. | | prude . . irreconcilable |
| e. | | demure . . provocative
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| 33. | To _________ the House would have caught the government in a\an __________ situation. |
| a. | | filibuster . . delicate |
| b. | | convene . . litigious |
| c. | | adjourn . . castigating |
| d. | | prorogue . . compromising |
| e. | | summon . . conducive
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| 34. | Nick was making a whole __________ of happenings and memories out of her, and he was afraid of the ________. |
| a. | | rigmarole . . hysteria |
| b. | | drama . . flagellation |
| c. | | crypt . . snowballing |
| d. | | avalanche . . scenario |
| e. | | arsenal . . consequences
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| 35. | His instinct to offer himself in any required _________ capacity _________ with an obsessive horror of becoming utterly necessary to someone human. |
| a. | | honorary . . complemented |
| b. | | humane . . prevailed |
| c. | | spiritual . . warred |
| d. | | acerbic . . clashed |
| e. | | executive . . jarred
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| 36. | The symposium was held under the _________ of a premier ___________. |
| a. | | aegis . . condominium |
| b. | | auspices . . prelate |
| c. | | honor . . .conglomerate |
| d. | | niche . . corporation |
| e. | | manipulation . . cartel
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| 37. | While lips shaped __________ phrases, eyes and the minds behind them speculated, deduced, smiled _________. |
| a. | | conventional . . slyly |
| b. | | factious . . munificently |
| c. | | instigating . . deviously |
| d. | | secular . . cannily |
| e. | | incoherent . .malevolently
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| 38. | The house had an unheard degree of _________ that the envious neighbors had been caught calling _________ . |
| a. | | opulence . . sybaritic |
| b. | | grandeur . . licentiousness |
| c. | | decadence . . profligacy |
| d. | | vista . . ostentation |
| e. | | quaintness . . kitsch
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| 39. | A famous writer once said that art is the recreation of reality according to an artist's __________ value judgments. |
| a. | | propitiatory |
| b. | | metaphysical |
| c. | | ethical |
| d. | | atheistic |
| e. | | apocryphal
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| 40. | Tim was adamant about not having a _______or ________introduction to his book. |
| a. | | euphemistic . . servile |
| b. | | subjective . . historical |
| c. | | didactic . . laudatory |
| d. | | retrospective . . edifying |
| e. | | sycophantic . . assertive
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| 41. | Her voluminous journals show her mind in action, confident when groping, purposeful even when ________, luminously eloquent though _______. |
| a. | | disoriented . . paraphrased |
| b. | | waning . . verbose |
| c. | | devastated . . exuberant |
| d. | | stymied . . unedited |
| e. | | validated . . vanquished
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| 42. | It is ______for a creator to be optimistic in the deepest sense, since the creator believes in a ________universe and functions on that premise. |
| a. | | proper . . benevolent |
| b. | | naïve . . pragmatic |
| c. | | empirical . . unified |
| d. | | incomprehensible . . divine |
| e. | | infeasible . . fragmented
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| 43. | Man's _______for his own highest potentiality is diametrically opposed to _______ of mankind as a collective. |
| a. | | diffidence . . perambulations |
| b. | | premises . . phenomenon |
| c. | | confidence . . acceptance |
| d. | | propinquity . . pestilence |
| e. | | deference . . veneration
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| 44. | Her _________was, for the philosopher, the embodiment of his _________. |
| a. | | visage . . persona |
| b. | | ingenuity . . craftiness |
| c. | | pedagogy . . dissertation |
| d. | | quintessence . . abstractions |
| e. | | treatise . . dissemination
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| 45. | Little did he realize that his being inconspicuous would prove to be _________ . |
| a. | | retroactive |
| b. | | prophylactic |
| c. | | inconsequential |
| d. | | reputable |
| e. | | prophetic
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| 46. | The ______ speeches of the young leader succeeded in _______ the student fraternity. |
| a. | | moribund . . provoking |
| b. | | intense . . chastising |
| c. | | exhorting . . proselytizing |
| d. | | belligerent . . waking |
| e. | | igniting . . inveigling
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| 47. | Substitute a\an _________ incisiveness for sweetness and she resembled a\an________, willful martyr rather than the resigned, contemplative saint of his dreams. |
| a. | | subtle . . supreme |
| b. | | tentative . . prophetic |
| c. | | incarcerating . . persecuted |
| d. | | unleashed . . obdurate |
| e. | | trenchant . . vigorous
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| 48. | There exists, within every man, a/an _______ and inherently ________ thing that enables him to deal with reality and survive. |
| a. | | intrinsic . . evasive |
| b. | | fundamental . . selfish |
| c. | | elusive . . chauvinistic |
| d. | | congenial . . discreet |
| e. | | cognitive . . egocentric
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| 49. | The professor was, by nature, ________ but eager and even _________ while discussing his favorite artists. |
| a. | | laconic . . verbose |
| b. | | disarming . . extroverted |
| c. | | terse . . succinct |
| d. | | tacit . . volatile |
| e. | | voluble . . self-assertive
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| 50. | Western philosophy has been plagued with a vicious ________, making facts seem ________ . |
| a. | | dichotomy . . inane |
| b. | | monotony . . archaic |
| c. | | serendipity . . platitudes |
| d. | | smog . . fiction |
| e. | | sanction . . convoluted
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