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MCQ Sentence Completion

Directions: MCQ on Sentence completion tests your ability to use the information found in complex, but incomplete, sentences in order to correctly complete the sentences. Sentence completions test two separate aspects of your verbal skills: your vocabulary and your ability to follow the internal logic of sentences.
The word provided in the option must fit in the sentence’s blank space and make the given sentence meaningful and grammatically correct also. You have to check all the options until you find a suitable answer. After finding the suitable word or phrase mark this option as your correct answer.
Be sure your choice is both logical and grammatically correct. If you don’t know some words, use elimination and educated guessing (elimination method)

51. With all of the recent negative events in her life, she felt ___________ forces must be at work.
    a. resurgent
    b. premature
    c. malignant
    d. punctilious
    e. antecedent

52. The ______ rumors did a great deal of damage even though they turned out to be false.
    a. bemused
    b. prosaic
    c. apocryphal
    d. ebullient
    e. tantamount

53. When her schoolwork got to be too much, Pam had a tendency to ________, which always put her further behind.
    a. dedicate
    b. rejuvenate
    c. ponder
    d. excel
    e. procrastinate

54. Rachana’s glance was a __________ invitation to speak later in private about events of the meeting.
    a. trecherous
    b. scintillating
    c. tactful
    d. tacit
    e. taboo

55. She reached the __________ of her career with her fourth novel, which won the Pulitzer Prize.
    a. harbinger
    b. apogee
    c. metamorphosis
    d. dictum
    e. synthesis

56. The ___________ townspeople celebrated the soldier’s return to his home by adorning trees with yellow ribbons and balloons.
    a. somber
    b. jubilant
    c. pitiless
    d. cunning
    e. unsullied

57. The governor-elect was hounded by a group of _______ lobbyists and others hoping to gain favor with her administration.
    a. facetious
    b. abstruse
    c. magnanimous
    d. fawning
    e. saccharine

58. The mock graduation ceremony with a trained skunk posing as the college president—was a complete _______ that offended many college officials.
    a. tempest
    b. epitome
    c. quintessence
    d. travesty
    e. recitative

59. The busy, ______ fabric of the clown’s tie matched his oversized jacket, which was equally atrocious.
    a. mottled
    b. bleak
    c. credible
    d. malleable
    e. communicable

60. Kendrick’s talent _______ under the tutelage of Anya Kowalonek, who as a young woman had been the most accomplished pianist in her native Lithuania.
    a. bantered
    b. touted
    c. flourished
    d. embellished
    e. colluded