Advanced Sentence Completion Exercise 4

1. To her teacher’s surprise, as soon as Delia met her new friends she abandoned her typical reticence and adopted a new, ______ personality.
   1.   ?    reproachful
   2.   ?    deplorable
   3.   ?    asinine
   4.   ?    garrulous
   5.   ?    irascible
2. In order to keep the audience’s attention, students were advised to avoid ______ discussion, and to speak only about subjects ______ to their report.
   1.   ?    brusque...mandatory
   2.   ?    digressive...tangential
   3.   ?    irrelevant...germane
   4.   ?    disinterested...impartial
   5.   ?    melancholy...jovial
3. After being approached by a mendicant in the street,
   Jaime knew he had ventured beyond the border which circumscribed the ______ part of town.
   1.   ?    pleasant
   2.   ?    affluent
   3.   ?    costly
   4.   ?    altruistic
   5.   ?    magnanimous
4. Toxins released into the town’s drinking water have had a ______ effect on the overall health of its inhabitants.
   1.   ?    deleterious
   2.   ?    strange
   3.   ?    potent
   4.   ?    innocuous
   5.   ?    ravenous
5. Rowan gasped at pictures of the ______ living conditions found in third world countries.
   1.   ?    squalid
   2.   ?    impeccable
   3.   ?    sordid
   4.   ?    boorish
   5.   ?    immaculate
6. His ______ attitude towards the surrounding chaos made me appreciate the advantages of stoicism.
   1.   ?    constant
   2.   ?    temperamental
   3.   ?    impetuous
   4.   ?    impassive
   5.   ?    transfixed
7. Onlookers shuddered at the particularly ______ nature of the transgression; it was evident that something must be done to ______ such incidents from ever happening again.
   1.   ?    monstrous...preclude
   2.   ?    temperamental...halt
   3.   ?    homicidal...precipitate
   4.   ?    atrophied...extenuate
   5.   ?    typical...prevent
8. Rather than give in to the fact that her son had no gift for tennis, she entertained the notion that his talent was simply ______ in its exposition.
   1.   ?    manifest
   2.   ?    reclusive
   3.   ?    suppressed
   4.   ?    timid
   5.   ?    latent
9. The ______ judge would not be swayed by emotion nor predilection; he attended to nothing more than the facts as they were presented.
   1.   ?    lethargic
   2.   ?    insouciant
   3.   ?    disinterested
   4.   ?    partial
   5.   ?    scholarly
10. Although the sunset was splendid that evening, Akira knew that its beauty was ______, and that all good things must come to an end.
    1.   ?    ephemeral
    2.   ?    tenuous
    3.   ?    fragile
    4.   ?    transitory
    5.   ?    brittle