SE Set 1

Sentence Equivalence Set 1
1. The children's storyseemingly a

simple tale of animals gathering for
a picnic in the foresttook a
______________ turn at the end,
admonishing readers to always be
honest.
(A) magnanimous
(B) beneficent
(C) didactic
(D) garrulous
(E) moralistic
(F) futile
2. Floodwaters had already breached
the library's walls, but hopeful
volunteers in hip boots worked
tirelessly to ___________ the
damage.
(A) mitigate
(B) exacerbate
(C) abase
(D) bolster
(E) forestall
(F) amalgamate
3. The candidate campaigned on a
platform
of
across-the-aisle
cooperation,
but
many
commentators were surprised that
he indeed turned out to be less
_______________
than
his
predecessor.
(A) irate
(B) divisive
(C) impulsive
(D) political
(E) infuriated
(F) combative
4. When Steven got angry about
politics, whether it was during an
argument with his family or with
just a coworker, it proved almost
impossible to _____________ him.
(A) condemn
(B) pacify
(C) judge
(D) incense
(E) mollify
(F) influence
5. The graduate student's experiment
yielded results as surprising as they
were promising; her next step was
to pursue additional data that would
____________ her findings.
(A) undergird
(B) buttress
(C) gainsay
(D) undermine
(E) eschew
(F) expatiate
6. There is no fundamental difference
between a person who quietly
___________ a bigoted viewpoint
to a friend and one who spews
chauvinist vitriol on television.
(A) eschews
(B) espouses
(C) professes
(D) denies
(E) abnegates
(F) arrogates
7. The _____________ behind Rachel
Carson's famous environmentalist
manifesto Silent Spring was a 1957
lawsuit against the U.S. Department
of Agriculture regarding aerial
pesticide spraying.
(A) stimulus
(B) conspiracy
(C) atrocity
(D) impetus
(E) catastrophe
(F) climate
8. A commentator with a more
_____________ worldview would
not find it so easy to divide up the
nation into good guys and bad
guys.
(A) belligerent
(B) subtle
(C) philosophical
(D) aberrant
(E) peaceful
(F) nuanced
9. Joyce's Finnegan's Wake, written in
a stream of consciousness style full
of convoluted puns and obscure
allusions, has a deserved reputation
for linguistic ___________ .
(A) elaborateness
(B) opacity
(C) meaninglessness
(D) informality
(E) uniqueness
(F) density
10. The financial situation in many
European
nations
is
_______________ enough that
even a small incident could lead to
catastrophe.
(A) calamitous
(B) unstable
(C) illegitimate
(D) unsafe
(E) precarious
(F) cataclysmic
11. While the argument for global
warning
may
not
be
_______________ by the record
low temperatures reported this year,
this data does not undermine the
overall trend of steadily higher
global temperatures.
(A) bolstered
(B) fortified
(C) subverted
(D) defined
(E) supplanted
(F) subordinated
12. Steve's debate teacher argued that
pithy quips and gibes, while
sometimes effective, had no place in
a _______________ argument.
(A) polite
(B) shallow
(C) competitive
(D) serious
(E) cantankerous
(F) substantive
13. Last year it was discovered that

South Park ______________ part of
its Inception spoof from a similar
College Humor sketch.
(A) amalgamated
(B) filched
(C) indulged
(D) combined
(E) poached
(F) assumed
14. Some critics view Abstract
Expressionism,
which
is
characterized by geometric shapes
and swathes of color, as a
_______________
of
realist
painting.
(A) rejection
(B) manifestation
(C) refutation
(D) interpretation
(E) commemoration
(F) elucidation
15. America's first spy, Nathan Hale,
was captured by the British when he
attempted to ______________
British-controlled New York City to
track enemy troop movements.
(A) thwart
(B) penetrate
(C) infiltrate
(D) permeate
(E) research
(F) conquer
16. Romantic comedies of the 1950s
were characterized more by sexual
______________
than
the
straightforward
vulgarity
that
characterizes dialogue in today's
rom-coms.
(A) conversation
(B) blatancy
(C) insinuation
(D) illusion
(E) innuendo
(F) banter
17. Inflation
isn't
dead,
only
_____________; as the economy
turns around, the purchasing power
of the dollar is likely to fall again.
(A) paralyzed
(B) dormant
(C) indigent
(D) itinerant
(E) problematic
(F) latent
18. Some boxers talk about trying to
access their more _____________
selves in order to counter the fact
that civilized people generally don't
punch each other in the face.
(A) seething
(B) barbaric
(C) irate
(D) insidious
(E) dynamic
(F) primitive
19. Many people assume that creative
work is less _______________ than
manual
labor,
but
they
underestimate the difficulty of
being entirely self-motivated (as
well as writing one's own
paychecks).
(A) inventive
(B) collaborative
(C) serious
(D) arduous
(E) taxing
(F) grave
20. The education debate is only getting
more
_______________
as
politicians demonize teachers
unions, and every special interest
group jumps into the fray.
(A) vehement
(B) overt
(C) heated
(D) problematic
(E) tired
(F) unavoidable
21. While many individual religions

insist on the primacy of their
particular
deity,
syncretism
advocates the ______________ of
multiple religious beliefs.
(A) exclusion
(B) marriage
(C) commingling
(D) division
(E) commutation
(F) partitioning
22. The ambassador was invested with
____________ power by his
government and hence was able to
finalize the agreement personally.
(A) tertiary
(B) plenary
(C) enigmatic
(D) tyrannical
(E) complete
(F) dictatorial
23. Sometimes it seems that today's
politicians will exploit any
opportunity to ______________
their views, no matter how sordid or
partisan.
(A) declaim
(B) invoke
(C) exclaim
(D) parrot
(E) adduce
(F) trumpet
24. The many chapters of the
organization decided that a
mandatory
national
______________
would
be
necessary to reconcile what had
become a haphazard and often
chaotic set of bylaws and
regulations.
(A) introduction
(B) conferment
(C) intervention
(D) colloquium
(E) symposium
(F) mediation
25. Though it seems implausible that

one could be a great writer without
some experience of life, many
famous authors have led a
______________ and solitary
existence.
(A) idiosyncratic
(B) cloistered
(C) harbored
(D) enigmatic
(E) sheltered
(F) cryptic
26. Though he wasn't particularly wellknown as a humanitarian, his deep
sense of responsibility for the
suffering was real, and was only
belied by an outward appearance of
_________________.
(A) concern
(B) ambivalence
(C) mirth
(D) jouissance
(E) insouciance
(F) indifference
27. Excessive
patriotism
is
by
definition _________________, as
the apotheosizing of one country
necessarily requires some amount
of demonization of other people.
(A) minatory
(B) xenophobic
(C) unethical
(D) bigoted
(E) nationalistic
(F) truculent
28. One possible explanation for the
mandatory debauchery of most
bachelor parties is that if the
husband-to-be is able to practice
_______________
in
those
circumstances, he must be ready for
marriage.
(A) continence
(B) sobriety
(C) fiat
(D) tenacity
(E) abstemiousness
(F) autonomy
29. Jon Stewart's Rally to Restore
Sanity was purportedly organized
to prove that it was possible to
discuss politics humorously but
civilly, without ______________
those on the other side of the fence.
(A) bespeaking
(B) eulogizing
(C) lampooning
(D) calumniating
(E) caricaturing
(F) maligning
30. Though practiced, very few forms
of corporal punishment have been
______________ by the military,
due less to the Geneva Conventions
than to the overwhelmingly
negative popular response to reports
of abuse.
(A) recognized
(B) sanctioned
(C) endorsed
(D) considered
(E) rejected
(F) polarized

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13. Last year it was discovered that

21. While many individual religions

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