Hope you had a good learning experience with solving the single blank text completion questions.
Hope that you have been able to adapt some really good words in your vocabulary.
Also, hope that you are getting good at cracking numbers now.
Now, let's move on to another important aspect of the Verbal Reasoning Section - Sentence Equivalence.
We will first start with some easy questions. Down the line, we will move on to a higher difficulty.
We have added answers to all the questions. But our suggestion, as always, would be that you solve the question by your own before moving on to the answers.
Overview
The Sentence Equivalence questions consist of a single sentence with one blank and six answer choices. You have to select two answer choices, with no partial credit.
Practice Questions
1. While the colonists would eventually push westward, first, they were in for a long, difficult winter, and the main challenge was to their existing resources.
🔘sell
🔘peddle
🔘upend
🔘husband
🔘procure
🔘steward
2. Emblematic of the slaughter of the First World War, 60,000 British soldiers died for naught on the first day of the battle of the Somme, literally consumed into a stew of blood and .
🔘grief
🔘gore
🔘steel
🔘bullets
🔘carnage
🔘anguish
3. Forty years ago, anthropologists firmly believed that Neanderthals and Homo sapiens never mated, but advances in genetic testing proved that incorrect - such is the
nature of science.
🔘fallacious
🔘evolving
🔘counterfactual
🔘advancing
🔘vacillating
🔘undeterminable
4. A field trip was arranged so that this troupe of dancers could observe the real masters of their art.
🔘seasoned
🔘fledgling
🔘expert
🔘torpid
🔘novice
🔘lithe
5. After a long, hard practice in the summer sun, the players were visibly .
🔘flagging
🔘hale
🔘lissome
🔘loathsome
🔘vigorous
🔘enervated
6. While he says that he did not mean to kill, some feel that his actions are murder.
🔘preceded by
🔘on par with
🔘superseded by
🔘homage to
🔘an accrual of
🔘tantamount to
7. Geneticists find Iceland a living laboratory for the study of because virtually all of its current 300,000 citizens descend from less than a thousand Icelanders who survived the medieval black death.
🔘diversity
🔘revivification
🔘therapy
🔘history
🔘mutation
🔘rejuvenation
8. Given the influx of information via social media, the only way that a person can function effectively is , to metaphorically separate the wheat from the chaff.
🔘delete
🔘triage
🔘prioritize
🔘respond
🔘requite
🔘eliminate
9. Although historically, paints were often tinted with toxic elements such as lead, cadmium and mercury, number of painters lived to be seventy, eighty and even ninety.
🔘an incomprehensible
🔘a flabbergasting
🔘an impossible
🔘a confounding
🔘a dismaying
🔘an enlightening
10. In 1905, there were only fourteen automobiles in the United States, yet, enough, two of them ran into each other in St. Louis.
🔘justifiably
🔘ironically
🔘inevitably
🔘deservedly
🔘ludicrously
🔘lamentably
Solutions:
1. steward, husband
2. gore, carnage
3. evolving, advancing
4. fledgling, novice
5. flagging, enervated
6. on par with, tantamount to
7. diversity, mutation
8. triage, prioritize
9. a flabbergasting, a confounding
10. ironically, ludicrously
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