ISEE Upper Level (grades 9-12) Verbal Reasoning

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ISEE Upper Level Verbal Reasoning › ISEE Upper Level (grades 9-12) Verbal Reasoning

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Select the answer choice that is closest in meaning to the word in capital letters.

RESOLUTE

2

Select the answer choice that is closest in meaning to the word in capital letters.

ARBITRARY

3

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

Sally __________ when she saw the __________ height restriction for the roller coaster she had wanted to ride because she assumed that she was not tall enough to ride; while no one under five feet tall could ride with no exceptions, she was luckily exactly that height.

4

Select the answer choice that is closest in meaning to the word in capital letters.

ELITIST

5

Select the answer choice that is closest in meaning to the word in capital letters.

FURTIVE

6

Select the answer choice that is closest in meaning to the word in capital letters.

MYRIAD

7

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

Although the question of the soul’s immortality was interesting to the physicist, he was not currently concerned with it, as it was __________ to the questions he was asking in his experiment on the rotation of the earth on its axis.

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

I am not a particularly __________ person, so I have had difficulties __________ into new communities after moving to a new city.

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The hike that Marty took with his friends followed a __________ route full of twists and turns, and when he began to worry that they were getting lost, he began to __________ in his backpack for the map of the area.

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

Henry of Ghent spent much of his late career as a professor in Paris __________ the positions of Thomas Aquinas, whose theological views he believed to be false and in need of a vigorous response.

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