SAT - Sentence Completion, Comparisons

Possessing seemingly boundless energy, DeVare fights for the causes she supports with a _____ that would leave others _____ at the end of the workday.

• grace . . scandalized

• commitment . . uncertain

• loyalty . . contrite

• vigor . . exhausted

• sincerity . . disillusioned

The boundary between Canada and the United States is more a political than a cultural _____; the people on both sides _____ a great deal in terms of artistic sensibilities.

• demarcation . . share

• partition . . estrange

• event . . partake

• affiliation . . admit

• division . . conflict

Some criminal investigators believe that polygraphs reliably _____ deception by recording _____ reactions in a subject such as slight changes in breathing rate or perspiration elicited by a set of questions.

• judge . . imaginative

• detect . . physiological

• predict . . imperceptible

• subvert . . simulated

• induce . . verifiable

The fact that polar bears are tremendously strong indicates the degree of _____ they must have in their aggressive play, for they never hurt each other.

• intensity

• stamina

• concentration

• instinct

• restraint

Long an advocate of deterrence, General Wallace had hoped that the _____ display of force would _____ further military action.

• formidable . . obviate

• subtle . . require

• impressive . . generate

• unnecessary . . prevent

• unbridled . . sustain

Disillusioned and _____, the impoverished young writer was ready to _____ the artistic life for a real job.

• capable . . abandon

• complacent . . invoke

• dejected . . forsake

• gracious . . deny

• crushed . . capture

The meal of raw eggs and vegetables, while _____, in fact _____ all requisite nutrition to the young athlete in training.

• meager . . denied

• sumptuous . . supplied

• spartan . . provided

• doleful . . restored

• appropriate . . allowed

During the day, crabs move slowly and _____, but at night, they roam _____ across sandy sea bottoms, climbing reefs or foraging for kelp.

• frantically . . wildly

• cautiously . . freely

• gradually . . sluggishly

• deliberately . . carefully

• rashly . . rapidly

The building should be _____ not only for its long recognized architectural merit but also for its _____ in the history of Black American theater.

• designed . . role

• commissioned . . usefulness

• preserved . . importance

• demolished . . future

• constructed . . place

Although the government has frequently _____ some parental responsibilities, at heart it must still be parents, not agencies, who are _____ to care for children.

• obscured . . assumed

• precluded . . adjured

• exulted . . incompetent

• disavowed . . impelled

• usurped . . obligated