Advanced Sentence Completion Exercise 1

1. Rather than be melancholy all winter, Jim should try to be more ______.
   1.   ?    energetic
   2.   ?    jovial
   3.   ?    depraved
   4.   ?    depressed
   5.   ?    heterogeneous
2. Elise always envisioned the monastery as an austere place of worship; however, upon visiting it, she found it surprisingly ______.
   1.   ?    comfortable
   2.   ?    barren
   3.   ?    strict
   4.   ?    ornate
   5.   ?    simple
3. Although it is necessary to carry a relatively large number of provisions when traversing the Australian Outback, it is ______ that you keep your pack from becoming too ______.
   1.   ?    crucial...ponderous
   2.   ?    mandatory...insulated
   3.   ?    helpful...elongated
   4.   ?    imperative...compact
   5.   ?    important...convoluted
4. After living a life of depravity and transgression, the offender felt so ______ that he declared he would become a priest, and devote the remainder of his life to ______.
   1.   ?    melancholy...sadness
   2.   ?    tentative...shame
   3.   ?    terrible...sin
   4.   ?    contrite...atonement
   5.   ?    stolid...repentance
5. He vowed to embrace a newfound ______ once the trial began; nonetheless the accused resorted to his typical manner of ______ as soon as he took the stand.
   1.   ?    ingenuousness…naïveté
   2.   ?    mendaciousness...deceitfulness
   3.   ?    passion...exuberance
   4.   ?    candor...duplicity
   5.   ?    residence...decrepitude
6. Despite some members of the Board of Education admitting to the ______ of his argument, Proposition G6 was still denied by a vote of 4 to 3.
   1.   ?    brusqueness
   2.   ?    truculence
   3.   ?    negligence
   4.   ?    cogency
   5.   ?    force
7. The boy is not ______ - he is ______ - and therefore should not be tried in court as an adult.
   1.   ?    mature...juvenile
   2.   ?    experienced...inveterate
   3.   ?    young...fledgling
   4.   ?    youthful...established
   5.   ?    puerile...young
8. Mr. Plainview is a man of secrecy. He deals with the mob and other ______ organizations, and regularly participates in their ______ activities.
   1.   ?    clandestine...unlawful
   2.   ?    anarchistic...fraudulent
   3.   ?    amiable...illegitimate
   4.   ?    disdainful...scrupulous
   5.   ?    illegal...exhilarating
9. Even the most ______ gambler stops betting when he or she runs out of money.
   1.   ?    intelligent
   2.   ?    cautious
   3.   ?    hazardous
   4.   ?    foolhardy
   5.   ?    circumspect
10. The ______ icicles hardly cast a shadow.
    1.   ?    diaphanous
    2.   ?    auspicious
    3.   ?    malleable
    4.   ?    opaque
    5.   ?    muddled