SAT Practice Test Paper 1 Section D Questions and Answers Part 1
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Section - D
Time - 25 minutes
27 Questions
1. The professor՚s oldest colleague was selected to give the ________ at the funeral.
(A) Eulogy
(B) Elegy
(C) Epigraph
(D) Eponymy
(E) Epitaph
2. The new team member՚s ________ was an encouragement to the rest of the team, who had become ________ by the string of defeats.
(A) Enthusiasm. . Elated
(B) Vigor. . Inundated
(C) Ebullience. . Dispirited
(D) Dourness. . Undone
(E) Excessiveness. . Downcast
3. By the end of the campaign both candidates had resorted to ________ the other.
(A) Commending
(B) Denigrating
(C) Mollifying
(D) Conceding
(E) Swindling
4. The cat ________ crept across the lawn, gracefully ________ the dog.
(A) Felicitously. . Enticing
(B) Swiftly. . Defeating
(C) Acrobatically. . Apprehending
(D) Maladroitly. . Undermining
(E) Deftly. . Eluding
5. The storyteller՚s ________ anecdotes earned her the ________ attention of the crowd.
(A) Compelling. . Rapt
(B) Pointed. . Spellbound
(C) Moribund. . Lucid
(D) Poignant. . Abrasive
(E) Meandering. . Distracted
6. The bill became bogged down in a (n) ________ of contentious issues in a Senate subcommittee.
(A) Marsh
(B) Sequence
(C) Iota
(D) Conundrum
(E) Quagmire
7. The outcome of the race seemed ________ before the leader՚s misstep on the final leg gave her competitions a (n) ________ of winning the title.
(A) Dubious. . Prospect
(B) Inevitable. . Hope
(C) Indubitable. . Air
(D) Assured. . Expectation
(E) Partial. . Endeavor
8. Though the new pharmaceutical regime was intended to be beneficial, its actual effect was ________, a result the medical community ________.
(A) Harmful. . Heralded
(B) Abundant. . Castigated
(C) Fortuitous. . Ignored
(D) Detrimental. . Lamented
(E) Negative. . Projected
9. The life of the lightening bug is ________ to human eyes: They live only twenty-four hours.
(A) Ludicrous
(B) Ephemeral
(C) Epic
(D) Ecstatic
(E) Incandescent
10. The kangaroo species ________ in the new environment where there was an abundant supply of food and a (n) ________ of predators.
(A) Stagnated. . Excess
(B) Bolstered. . Paucity
(C) Exploded. . Abundance
(D) Flagged. . Absence
(E) Flourished. . Dearth
11. With her speech, the politician attempted to ________ the fears of the ________ citizens.
(A) Intensify. . Disingenuous
(B) Ignore. . Alarmed
(C) Assuage. . Concerned
(D) Quell. . Disaffected
(E) Exploit. . Serene
12. The fencing champion was ________ with her rapier, but in most other sports she was rather ________.
(A) Adroit. . Awkward
(B) Adept. . Lithe
(C) Tenacious. . Passable
(D) Incompetent. . Clumsy
(E) Deft. . Skillful