ISEE Sentence Completion Practice Test 4

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1. The ____ costumes greatly increased the children's ____ as they witnessed their first ballet performance.

  • A. elaborate ... understanding
  • B. grotesque ... discomfort
  • C. fanciful ... delight
  • D. comfortable ... skill

2. The construction crew unexpectedly unearthed traces of a ____ unknown burial ground.

  • A. historically
  • B. hitherto
  • C. fortunately
  • D. persistently

3. I ____ my grandfather; to me he is the ____ of a gentleman.

  • A. idolize ... epitome
  • B. despise ... prototype
  • C. adore ... antithesis
  • D. excuse ... model

4. The young suspect was released on his own ____ with the ____ that he remains in school.

  • A. volition ... caveat
  • B. recognition ... promise
  • C. signature ... prerequisite
  • D. recognizance ... proviso

5. If a broken leg remains in a cast too long, the muscles may ____ from disuse.

  • A. petrify
  • B. exacerbate
  • C. atrophy
  • D. putrefy

6. The judge ____ the physician to refrain from using too much medical ____ in his statement.

  • A. admonished ... jargon
  • B. ordered ... literature
  • C. permitted ... economics
  • D. implored ... jingoism

7. I am not ____ to walking in the rain, ____ if given the option I will ride.

  • A. accustomed ... however
  • B. opposed ... therefore
  • C. averse ... nonetheless
  • D. agreeable ... moreover

8. The psychiatrist feared that the suspect might commit suicide, so the suspect was kept under 24-hour ____.

  • A. arrest
  • B. constraints
  • C. interrogation
  • D. surveillance

9. The statement "You're only young once" is a(n) ____.

  • A. spoof
  • B. truism
  • C. adage
  • D. motto

10. That rice pudding is most ____; it looks like a(n) ____ mass.

  • A. delicious ... gargantuan
  • B. unappetizing ... glutinous
  • C. cloying ... quivering
  • D. uninspiring ... esoteric

11. With the current rise of ____ feeling, ____ are being kept busy delineating the shifting boundaries.

  • A. entrepreneurial ... artists
  • B. antagonistic ... governments
  • C. cooperative ... economists
  • D. nationalistic ... cartographers

12. I sat in the park and listened to the _____ from the nearby church tower.

  • A. carillon
  • B. harangue
  • C. calliope
  • D. sycophant

13. In the hot summer months, our city's air is often ____ with the ____ murk of pollution.

  • A. endowed ... luminous
  • B. infused ... negligible
  • C. suffused ... oppressive
  • D. alleviated ... aromatic

14. Could you supply some examples to ____ your argument?

  • A. refute
  • B. bolster
  • C. destroy
  • D. exaggerate

15. I fear the discipline in that household is so ____ that the children will grow up without character.

  • A. rigid
  • B. ludicrous
  • C. attainable
  • D. lax