Adjectives and Adverbs in One-Blank Sentences

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PSAT Critical Reading › Adjectives and Adverbs in One-Blank Sentences

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

Chelsea's __________ sister almost never stops talking and interrupts every conversation she overhears.

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

The factory worker labored quickly and __________ to assemble automobile parts on the conveyer belt.

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Kevin was not known for making __________ arguments, for his sentences were often labyrinthine, obscure masses of confusion.

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

Annie and the other students in the Animal Rights Club are considered to be extremely friendly and __________ toward new and prospective members of the club.

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Jason's professor liked his creative writing piece, but thought that it was too full of __________ sayings like "the early bird gets the worm" that detracted from the work because of how overused the sayings were.

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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.

The children were amazed at how the __________ trapeze artist was able to walk the tight rope and fly through the air.

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The story was published __________, so Wallace knew that contacting the author would be a challenging task, as no one knew who he or she was.

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Few people are experts in many subjects, though some people can be at least __________ in quite a few.

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

Robert’s words were almost always __________, having little real content and ultimately no meaning for those to whom they were directed.

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