Sentence Completions: Style, Intensity, and Connotation

Practice Questions

ISEE Middle Level Verbal Reasoning › Sentence Completions: Style, Intensity, and Connotation

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Choose the word or set of words that best completes the following sentence.

Some people are not merely unhappy about the misfortunes of life but instead are completely __________ about almost everything that ever happens to them.

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Each question below is made up of a sentence with one blank. Each blank indicates that a word is missing. The sentence is followed by five answer choices. Select the one word that will best complete the meaning of the sentence as a whole.

Wearing a feather boa with her neon colored outfits and dancing around the classroom while she taught every day, the English teacher could best be described as _____.

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Each question below is made up of a sentence with one blank. Each blank indicates that a word is missing. The sentence is followed by five answer choices. Select the one word that will best complete the meaning of the sentence as a whole.

For the Thanksgiving holiday, most American families have _____ dishes including turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing, and apple pie.

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Choose the word or set of words that best completes the following sentence.

Technology has a habit of quickly becoming __________; for example, while many people listen to music digitally today, far fewer people listen to records or cassette tapes, which were popular ways to store music in the past.

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Sentence Completions: Select the word or phrase that most correctly completes the sentence.

After much bargaining, the three men managed to reach a __________ solution that was acceptable to all of them.

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Choose the word or set of words that best completes the following sentence.

One look at the beautiful girl and the boy was __________, so he decided to ask her out.

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Sentence Completions: Select the word or phrase that most correctly completes the sentence.

The two siblings were surprisingly different; whereas Julie almost never set any significant goals to accomplish, Sarah had a very __________ personality.

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Choose the word or set of words that best completes the following sentence.

If you wish to __________ your skills at a sport, you must practice for many hours; otherwise, your abilities will be mediocre at best.

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Choose the word or set of words that best completes the following sentence.

The __________ was put down brutally by the forces of the autocratic government.

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Choose the word or set of words that best completes the following sentence.

Steve was in no hurry and so was content to __________ to his friend's house.

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