ISEE Sentence Completion Practice Test 3

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1. The professor ____ had had a long and distinguished career and was held in high ____ by her peers.

  • A. eminent ... stratosphere
  • B. emeritus ... esteem
  • C. lecturing ... tribute
  • D. triumphant ... spirits

2. A famous person will sometimes prepare his own ____ to be engraved on his tombstone.

  • A. epitaph
  • B. elegy
  • C. epithet
  • D. eulogy

3. Common examples of verbal redundancies include expressions such as ____ poor and ____ natives.

  • A. indignant ... indolent
  • B. indulgent ... industrious
  • C. insolvent ... iniquitous
  • D. indigent ... indigenous

4. The teacher's ____ tone of voice ____ that the threat was not to be taken seriously.

  • A. gruff ... belied
  • B. sprightly ... inferred
  • C. jocular ... implied
  • D. languid ... asserted

5. Collecting cans and bottles and redeeming them for the deposit provides a meager ____.

  • A. squalor
  • B. subsistence
  • C. subsidy
  • D. supplement

6. Recent trials of serial murderers reveal ____ behavior, including ____ and cannibalism.

  • A. lunatic ... manipulation
  • B. lethargic ... massacre
  • C. macabre ... torture
  • D. mercurial ... grimaces

7. As the bus rounded the curve, it ____ violently and caused some standees to lose their balance.

  • A. lunged
  • B. overturned
  • C. lurched
  • D. plummeted

8. The elderly gentleman was noticeably shaken when he read his own ____ in the local newspaper.

  • A. editorial
  • B. obituary
  • C. necromancy
  • D. necrology

9. We have narrowed our vacation options to two destinations, ____, the Florida Keys or a Caribbean island.

  • A. in fact
  • B. both
  • C. therefore
  • D. namely

10. The child appeared to be tall and ____, so his frequent absences for illness led the teacher to suspect that he was ____.

  • A. fat ... faking
  • B. ruddy ... sick
  • C. robust ... malingering
  • D. lanky ... truant

11. The speaker rose from his seat, placed his notes on the ____, and began his address.

  • A. platform
  • B. dais
  • C. rostrum
  • D. lectern

12. The senator's attitude so ____ the community that the various groups came to ____ one another.

  • A. energized ... contradict
  • B. antagonized ... respect
  • C. polarized ... despise
  • D. divided ... assist

13. It is ____ to tape record the testimony of a witness so as to have a(n) ____ record.

  • A. advisable ... verbatim
  • B. illegal ... accurate
  • C. permissible ... facsimile
  • D. prudent ... visible

14. The prodigy's grandmother felt ____ pleasure at her grandchild's piano success.

  • A. violent
  • B. vicarious
  • C. virtuous
  • D. vocal

15. Many people offered to adopt the ____ ____ who had been abandoned in the mall.

  • A. rabid ... mongrel
  • B. crippled ... cart
  • C. winsome ... waif
  • D. fluffy ... boa