ISEE Upper Level Verbal Reasoning › Nouns and Verbs in Two-Blank Sentences
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Sometimes it is better to let your children make mistakes and learn from them instead of continually __________ them. Such constant protection does little to teach them the __________ of their actions.
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Once the __________ for the trip was established, the teacher decided to __________ the details to make sure that he was certain about the whole itinerary.
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For years upon years, the people grew ever more tired under the reign of the tired old king, who refused to alter the power structure even in his aging __________. At last, in a sudden turn of events, he __________ from his rule and granted the kingship to his heir.
Karen's ___________ made her incredibly good at coding complex websites; what would take most engineers a week only took her a couple of days because she focused on even the tiniest of details when she worked and didn't have to spend time fixing absentminded mistakes, allowing her to __________ her projects and complete them ahead of schedule.
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Often, much time is wasted on an undertaking that would be significantly __________ if every intervening __________ were first removed.
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Luckily, certain patients in the hospital were __________ and kept away from the others as soon as the doctors suspected that the disease that they were all suffering from could turn into a(n) __________ and infect everyone in the surrounding area if proper precautions were not taken.
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Each generation will __________ another; the world repeats its __________ until the end of time.
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The child could not remember every __________ of the story that he was __________, for the intervening months blurred many aspects of it in his memory.
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When that mischievous __________ appeared in her eyes, he knew that they were going to get into trouble, no matter what steps he took to __________ such an outcome.
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In order to __________ the process of processing computer instructions, often the instructions are split up into smaller stages in order to allow them to be processed more quickly by running the sub-stages at the same time in __________.