Sentence Completion 101

Question 0

My husband is so ___ sometimes.

Recluse
Devout
Aromatic
Obdurate

Answer 0

Obdurate (stubborn)

• Person who lives in seclusion or apart from society
• devoted to worship or service
• scent

Question 1

…didnt mind hitting the target because it was___?

Jocose
Funtionary
Inanimate
Incontrovertible

Answer 1

Inanimate

• jokingly, playful
• functioning in a specified capacity
• $lifeless or dull$
• not open to question or dispute

Question 2

The ___ of the crime frightened the entire community

Atrocity
Decadence
Frugality
Allegiance

Answer 2

Atrocity (size, horror, enormous)

• decay or deterioration
• cheap
• loyalty to government or group

Question 3

I am considered a ____ in my new pottery class.

Prude
Tyro
Virago
Hermit

Answer 3

• Snobby, goodytushus
• a newbie @ something
• aggresive woman
• being solitary

Answer- tyro

Question 4

China has an ____ of people.

Agglomeration
Alcove
Onslaught
Regiment

Answer 4

• heap, large quantity
• compartment or corner in a building
• assault
• controlled order

Answer- agglomeration

Question 5

I got my salary cut in half. I became ___ that they didn’t give me any warning.

Flippant
Refulgent
Irate
Exonerated

Answer 5

• sarcastically disrespectful
• luminius
• angered
• clear a name, dismiss a case

Answer: irate

Question 6

What he did was ___ to murder. He will be punished.

Perennial
Tantamount
Verbatim
Equivocate

Answer 6

• endless, lasting forever
• equivalent
• accurate word for word repeated
• vague, beating around the bush

Answer: tantamount

Question 7

After the boxing championship there was ____ the decision was a sham.

Frugality
Conflagaration
Pandemonium
Progonostication

Answer 7

• cheap
• disastrous fire
• crazyness, chaos or in rumors
• prediction

Answer: pandemonium

Question 8

The deformation of his arm is____.it did not happen because of an accident.

Salient
Carnal
Affinity
Congenital

Answer 8

• noticeable or important
• erotic, or lewd, sensual
• attraction
• condition present at birth

Answer: congenital

Question 9

This ____began 22 years ago. It will culminate this year.

Peregrination
Marauding
Procurement
Knell

Answer 9

• course of travel
• marching an area
• accquiring or obtaining successfully
• bell rung slowly like at a funeral or death

Answer: peregrination

Question 10

He became indigent in a very short period of time, because he was ____.

Indigent
Improvident
Attrophied
Adversarial
Disparaging

Answer 10

…poor
…careless, not paying attention
…malnourished, anorexic wasting away body
…people or who go against or attack (syn.. Protesters)
…belittling, or minimizing someone

$$- improvident

Question 11

My ___ has been tiny since I was a baby.

Hubris
Sobriquet
Hirsute
Madrigal

Answer 11

…arrogant, audacity, excessive cockiness. Muy fui fui
…“aka”, alias, nickname (apodo)
…bearded, or shaggy
…chorus or pan of song

$$$: sobriquet

Question 12

Of all the______things he has done, this had to be the worst.

Penitent
Baroque
Execrable

Answer 12

…feeling sorrow, apologetic
…bizarre, flamboyant, creative
…very bad unpleasant

&&- execrable

Question 13

My social activities are ____and limited by the rules in my home.

Circumscribed
Exculpated
Corroborated
Authenticated

Answer 13

…to draw a line, limiting someone’s freedom.
…forgive exonerate, clear name.
…CONFIRM a statement, could be with evidence
…TO PROVE that something is authentic

$$-circumscribed