Sentence Completion Worksheet
Sentence Completion Worksheet
Sentence Completion Worksheet
1. She hadn’t eaten all day, and by the time she got home she was
______.
a. blighted
b. confutative
c. ravenous
d. ostentatious
e. blissful
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3. His neighbors found his ______ manner bossy and irritating, and
they stopped inviting him to backyard barbeques.
a. insentient
b. magisterial
c. reparatory
d. restorative
e. modest
6. The dress Ariel wore ______ with small, glassy beads, creating a
shimmering effect.
a. titillated
b. reiterated
c. scintillated
d. enthralled
e. striated
7. Being able to afford this luxury car will ______ getting a better-
paying job.
a. maximize
b. recombinant
c. reiterate
d. necessitate
e. reciprocate
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11. Prince Phillip had to choose: marry the woman he loved and ______
his right to the throne, or marry Lady Fiona and inherit the crown.
a. reprimand
b. upbraid
c. abdicate
d. winnow
e. extol
12. If you will not do your work of your own ______, I have no choice
but to penalize you if it is not done on time.
a. predilection
b. coercion
c. excursion
d. volition
e. infusion
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13. After sitting in the sink for several days, the dirty, food-encrusted
dishes became ______.
a. malodorous
b. prevalent
c. imposing
d. perforated
e. emphatic
14. Giulia soon discovered the source of the ______ smell in the room:
a week-old tuna sandwich that one of the children had hidden in
the closet.
a. quaint
b. fastidious
c. clandestine
d. laconic
e. fetid
15. After making ______ remarks to the President, the reporter was
not invited to return to the White House pressroom.
a. hospitable
b. itinerant
c. enterprising
d. chivalrous
e. irreverent
16. With her ______ eyesight, Krystyna spotted a trio of deer on the
hillside and she reduced the speed of her car.
a. inferior
b. keen
c. impressionable
d. ductile
e. conspiratorial
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17. With a(n) ______ grin, the boy quickly slipped the candy into his
pocket without his mother’s knowledge.
a. jaundiced
b. nefarious
c. stereotypical
d. sentimental
e. impartial
18. Her ______ display of tears at work did not impress her new boss,
who felt she should try to control her emotions.
a. maudlin
b. meritorious
c. precarious
d. plausible
e. schematic
19. Johan argued, “If you know about a crime but don’t report it, you
are ______ in that crime because you allowed it to happen.”
a. acquitted
b. steadfast
c. tenuous
d. complicit
e. nullified
21. The story’s bitter antagonist felt such great ______ for all of the other
characters that as a result, his life was very lonely and he died alone.
a. insurgence
b. malevolence
c. reciprocation
d. declamation
e. preference
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23. The ______ weather patterns of the tropical island meant tourists
had to carry both umbrellas and sunglasses.
a. impertinent
b. supplicant
c. preeminent
d. illustrative
e. kaleidoscopic
25. Kym was ______ in choosing her friends, so her parties were
attended by vastly different and sometimes bizarre personalities.
a. indispensable
b. indiscriminate
c. commensurate
d. propulsive
e. indisputable