For each blank select one entry from the corresponding column of choices. Fill all blanks in the way that best completes the text. |
1 | Crustly and egotistical, albert A. Knopf, the publisher, wore ______ shirts from the most exclusive tailors; was a connoisseur of music,food,and wine; nurtured a garden of exotic plants; and enjoyed rare cigars. His self-assured, ______ manner, together with his insistence on the best of everything, shaped his house's image as a _____ of works of enduring value. |
2 | Despite an affected ___ that convinced casual observers that John was ____ about his painting and cared only for frivolity, Peter cared deeply about his art and labored at it _________. |
For each blank select one entry from the corresponding column of choices. Fill all blanks in the way that best completes the text. |
3 | Shakespeare's _________ of Richard III is so _______ that it is difficult to imagine that the ruler had been dead for more than a century before the Bard cast him as the central character in one of his plays. |
4 | Richard's _____ handling of the _____ scandal successfully prevented what seemed poised to become the spectacular dissipation of his coalition. |
5 | The _____ men were just barely held at bay by a loyalist battalion _____ by its allies' reinforcements. |
6 | Although the young boys in the class grew _____ under the principal's new discipline policy, the girls seemed _____ by it. |
7 | When finishing an essay, do not end with a(n) _____ for not having said anything, or with a(n) _____ statement about the unfairly small time period. |
For each blank select one entry from the corresponding column of choices. Fill all blanks in the way that best completes the text. |
8 | John Wright chose the ______ Mark Twain as a result of his knowledge of river boat piloting.
mountebank protagonist misanthrope hallucination pseudonym alias |
9 | If the nail decided to ________, it would not pierce butter
brash malinger interdict obscure temperance covet |
10 | Truman tried to continue Roosevelt's ______ approach to the Soviet Union, but by 96, he had adopted a much tougher policy towards the Russians.
conciliatory cursory strict obligatory uncompromising
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11 | Despite Adam's intense _____, he failed to secure the prestigious university's coveted diploma.
lugubriosity imbibition mettle lucubration magnanimity
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12 | The novel was written in Sanskrit, and ideas derived from Sanskrit philoshopy were _____ in many parts of it.
altered criticised nullified incorporated translated
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Select the two answer choices that, when used to complete the sentence, fit the meaning of the sentence as a whole and produce completed sentences that are alike in meaning. |
13 | It was her view that the country's problems had been _______ by foreign technocrats, so that to ask for such assistance again would be counterproductive.
ameliorated ascertained diagnosed exacerbated overlooked worsened |
14 | Perhaps because something in us instinctively distrusts such displays of natural fluency,some readers approach John Smith with ______.
wariness indifference suspicion veneration bewilderment remorse |