| 1. | 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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| 2. | 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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| 3. | 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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| 4. | 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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| 5. | 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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| 6. | 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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| 7. | 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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| 8. | 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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| 9. | 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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| 10. | 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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| 11. | 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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| 12. | 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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| 13. | 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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| 14. | 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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| 15. | i want to go to the______ to buy gum and candy. |
| a. | | house |
| b. | | store |
| c. | | office |
| d. | | bathroom
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What others think about GRE Practice Test - Sentence Completion III |
| By: ugh on Sep 18, 2010 |
| | these questions are bizzarre |
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| By: n/a on Jun 28, 2010 |
| | i feel like these are harder than the average question |
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| By: kanha narla on Oct 17, 2009 |
| | was a nice test but little confusing |
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| By: tola on Oct 13, 2009 |
| | i think is kind of tricky |
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| By: sachin patel on Oct 12, 2009 |
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| By: shankar on Oct 5, 2009 |
| | very tough questions. good job guys!
keep rocking |
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| By: ankur on Aug 24, 2009 |
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| By: jayanth on Aug 21, 2009 |
| | good for eleventh hour preperation. |
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| By: haneesh on Jul 25, 2009 |
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| By: wevkh on Jul 21, 2009 |
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| By: abhijit chakraborty on Jul 19, 2009 |
| | the words are very unconventional. |
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| By: vikas on Mar 25, 2009 |
| | gre is a typical but vindictive exam for the admission in good grad. school |
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| By: Ranjit Divakaran on Feb 10, 2009 |
| | Gives a better judgement of you sentence completion skills. |
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| By: Moise on Dec 4, 2008 |
| | This is a fun sentence completion. Very helpful. |
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