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SENTENCE EQUIVALENCE – 2

1. Noting the murder victim’s flaccid musculature and pear like figure, she deduced that the
unfortunate fellow earned his living in some ____________ occupation.
A) treacherous
B) prestigious
C) desk-bound
D) illegitimate
E) sedentary
F) ill paying

2. Since she believed him to be both candid and trustworthy, she refused to consider the
possibility that his statement had been ____________.
A) irrelevant
B) facetious
C) ludicrous
D) critical
E) insincere
F) hypocritical

3. Always circumspect, she was reluctant to make judgments, but once arriving at a
conclusion, she was ____________ in its defense.
A) nonplussed
B) obsequious
C) intransigent
D) resolute
E) deferential
F) negligent

4. The kenjogo or humble language used in Japanese to refer to oneself and the sonkeigo
or honorific language used to describe inoculator are often toned down in English
translation, as more accurate renderings might sound ____________ to an ear
accustomed to more egalitarian phrasings.
A) servile
B) garrulous
C) obsequious
D) circumspect
E) querulous
F) loquacious

5. Laurent Cantet’s Time Out tells the true story of a man so obsessed with retaining
the ____________ of plenitude even after he is discharged from his employment that he
doesn't even tell his wife and his kids about his termination.
A) corollaries
B) paradigms
C) semblance
D) prepossessions
E) veneer
F) consequences

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6. Since becoming commissioner, Mr. Vincent has snapped at the heels of the dominant
firms in European industry more ____________ than his smoother predecessors and has
consequently acquired many more enemies.
A) sporadically
B) irascibly
C) persistently
D) pugnaciously
E) fitfully
F) judiciously

7. While in many ways their personalities could not have been more different – she was
ebullient where he was glum, relaxed where he was awkward, garrulous where he
was ____________ they were surprisingly well suited.
A) solicitous
B) munificent
C) irresolute
D) laconic
E) fastidious
F) taciturn

8. The vegetation at Stone Mountain, the best known of the large rock masses known as
monad nocks, is far from ____________, having been decimated by the hiking traffic.
A) blighted
B) endangered
C) picturesque
D) pristine
E) undisturbed
F) vulnerable

9. The judge’s standing in the legal community, though shaken by phony allegations of
wrongdoing, emerged, at long last, ____________.
A) unqualified
B) undiminished
C) undecided
D) undamaged
E) unresolved
F) unprincipled

10. The space mission to deploy a probe to Uranus, while greeted with much enthusiasm by
those in the scientific and lay community alike, has been ____________ not so much by
the technical challenges of launching a probe into such a distant orbit as by the lack of
funding.
A) hobbled
B) informed
C) altered
D) hamstrung
E) enhanced
F) scrapped

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11. Her ____________ should not be confused with miserliness: as long as I have known her,
she has always been willing to assist those who are in need.
A) stinginess
B) diffidence
C) frugality
D) illiberality
E) intolerance
F) thrift

12. The expectation of instant gratification engendered by the ease and speed of modern
communication can set one up for ____________ in personal relationships that rely on
e-mail or text messages, especially if they’re not returned immediately.
A) chagrin
B) endearment
C) recompense
D) vexation
E) elation
F) pacifism

13. Overlarge, uneven, and ultimately disappointing, the retrospective exhibition seems too
much like special pleading for a forgotten painter of real but ____________ talents.
A) limited
B) partial
C) undiscovered
D) circumscribed
E) prosaic
F) hidden

14. Newspapers report that the former executive has been trying to keep a low profile since
his ____________ exit from the company.
A) celebrated
B) mysterious
C) long-awaited
D) fortuitous
E) indecorous
F) unseemly

15. Retrofitted with stabilizing devices, some of which ____________ its aesthetics, the
bridge has been reopened, no longer prone to excessive swaying but not quite the
breath-taking structure it originally was.
A) impair
B) resist
C) improve
D) enhance
E) restore
F) compromise

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16. That people ____________ the musical features of birdsongs suggests that despite the
vast evolutionary gulf between birds and mammals, songbirds and humans share some
common auditory perceptual abilities.
A) mimic
B) recognize
C) relish
D) are confounded by
E) can make out
F) are puzzled by
17. Torpey’s study has turned a seemingly ____________ topic, the passport, into a
fascinating one by making an original contribution to the sociology of the state.
A) ironic
B) banal
C) provocative
D) witty
E) insipid
F) stimulating
18. The band’s long-standing strategy of laying leisurely explorations atop a steady funk beat
has proven to be surprisingly ____________: a concert in Cologne from 1972 sounds as
if it could have taken place today.
A) fortuitous
B) foresighted
C) prescient
D) popular
E) serendipitous
F) lucrative
19. Although many proponents of lie detection desire to engage disciplines outside of law
enforcement and to stimulate interest in the progressive success of science's newest
machine, the history of mechanical lie detection are fraught with questions
of ____________ and inclusion.
A) efficiency
B) coherence
C) feasibility
D) legitimacy
E) validity
F) practicability
20. Through its state associations, the American Medical Association controlled who could
become a physician and dominated ____________ professions like nursing and
occupational therapy.
A) commensurate
B) proportionate
C) kindred
D) affiliated
E) imperative
F) voluntary