1.

Marion did not intentionally loose her passport so

that she could stay in Spain longer. A NO CHANGE

A NO CHANGE B completion

B loss C complement

C lose D comment

D loosen 7. Krista didn’t know how to precede when her history

teacher fell asleep during her presentation.
2. Most people don't eat the corps of an apple because
it has less flavor and a lot of seeds. A NO CHANGE

A NO CHANGE B proceed

B chore C proceeds

C core D cede

D court 8. Molly appreciated the visible spectrum of colors so

much that she decided to dice her hair all the colors of
3. Julie was quite convinced that her younger brother the rainbow. She loved the look, but it required a lot of
Jacob had pored too much syrup on his pancakes. maintenance.

A NO CHANGE A NO CHANGE

B had poured B die

C have pored C dye

D have poured D dry

4. Robert believes that everyone in the world should be 9. The partnership proved to be a success, as Jane's
fascinated by his research project, but most non- strengths complimented Joe's weaknesses.
scientists find it a bit of a boar.
A NO CHANGE
A NO CHANGE
B complemented
B bore.
C contemplated
C bohr.
D compelled
D boer.
10. The tyrant and his descendants reined over the
5. Romeo was faced with a life-changing decision: people of St. Guinevere for 300 years.
whether to honor his family or pursue his love, Juliet.
A NO CHANGE
A NO CHANGE
B reigned
B wither
C rained
C weather
D waned
D when
11. The great Genghis Khan tried to illicit fear in his
6. Surprisingly, bacon is a great compliment to caramel- enemies.
flavored ice cream.

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 A NO CHANGE A NO CHANGE

B elicit B patients.

C elucidate C patents.

D exude D patinas.

12. The students watched as the beekeeper collected 17. After her professor's explanation about using MLA
honey and calmly allowed the bees to envelop her arm style in academic papers, the student raised her hand.
without being stung. "But how do I sight a tweet?" she asked.

A NO CHANGE A NO CHANGE

B envelope B site

C develop C side

D develope D cite

13. It takes courage to except when you're wrong and 18. The whether is rapidly changing in our northwest
humbly apologize. broadcast area; just today, we've seen snow, rain, and
sunshine.
A NO CHANGE
A NO CHANGE
B accept
B wealthier
C expect
C weather
D intercept
D wether
14. A sincere enthusiast of oral history, Roy G. Bivens
seized every opportunity to tell an epic tale. 19. In many cultures, it is considered rude to not accept
food as a guest in someone’s home. Guests should
A NO CHANGE always eat a small portion of whatever they are served,
even if they don’t like it.
B orally
A NO CHANGE
C aura
B incept
D aural
C except
15. Overtired and under stress from his holiday orders,
the chocolatier could not decide whether to envelope D receipt
the pretzels in dark chocolate or almond bark.
20. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. effected great social
A NO CHANGE change through his leadership in nonviolent protests for
civil rights.
B redevelop
A NO CHANGE
C develop
B affected
D envelop
C afflicted
16. Dr. Solo looked at his empty waiting room and
sighed. Though he'd moved to the area months ago, he D inflicted
had still not acquired many patience.

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21. The 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora in Indonesia 26. Any serious fisherman will tell you that the best way
was the most powerful ever recorded. Many geologists to catch a fish is to remain stationery and quiet,
still flock to the cite to explore the enormous and still whether you cast your line from a boat or the shore.
active crater.
A NO CHANGE
A NO CHANGE
B stagnant
B sight
C sanctuary
C site
D stationary
D side
27. The American journalist Nellie Bly profoundly
22. The Bubonic Plague, also known as the Black effected investigative journalism with her undercover
Death, spread across Europe in the 1300s and inflicted story of a women’s mental institution.
a third of the human population.
A NO CHANGE
A NO CHANGE
B affected
B afflicted
C afflicted
C irritated
D infected
D effected
28. Most of his team members groaned when they saw
23.Please insure that this mishap does not happen the huge "surprise" obstacle at the end of the race, but
again. Masudi took it as an opportunity to test his mettle.

A NO CHANGE A NO CHANGE

B ensure B medal.

C sure C metal.

D secure D meddle.

24. The doctor will proscribe nasal spray to those 29. In 2005, a shepherd in Turkey lost most of his flock
suffering from allergies. when a single sheep wondered off a cliff and the 1,499
others followed it.
A NO CHANGE
A NO CHANGE
B prescribe
B wanders
C scribe
C wandered
D predetermine
D wonders
25. Bruce was discrete about his true identity as
Batman. 30. The man I spoke to had an accent so thick that I
could barely understand him.
A NO CHANGE
A NO CHANGE
B disagree
B assent
C concrete
C ascent
D discreet
D essence

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31. Although the table appeared to be carved out of a
single block of wood, it was actually composed of six
discrete parts.
A NO CHANGE
D though
36. If Impressionist paintings truly depict daily life in
1800s France, then people spent a good deal of time
laying in parks or by the riverside.

B secrete A NO CHANGE

C discreet B allaying

D replete C lying

32. I don't care if Bill has every 1980s movie D allying

memorized—I can't stand him or his constant illusions
to pop culture. 37. When he finally quit his terrible job, Justin wanted to
ensure that he wouldn't be able to go back. So he
A NO CHANGE swapped his employer's prized autographed photo of
Bruce Springsteen with one of Weird Al Yankovic.
B allusions
A NO CHANGE
C alluvia
B reassure
D collusions
C assure
33. Critics of modern cinema wonder if filmmakers have
foregone basic elements like story and character in D posture
favor of flashy, yet increasingly familiar, special affects.
38. When our server at El Toro Negro talked down to us
A NO CHANGE because we couldn't pronounce the Spanish words
correctly, we refused to tip him on principal.
B defects.
A NO CHANGE
C impacts.
B principate
D effects.
C principality
34. The jury was stuck. The defendant's actions existed
somewhere in the gray area between right and wrong— D principle
an immoral space.
39. As a couple, they were complementary— she was
A NO CHANGE tall where he was short and he was funny where she
was serious. She could talk for hours at length, while he
B an amoral rarely spoke in public.

C a memorial A NO CHANGE

D a balmoral B alimentary

35. Rania successfully completed her first novel during C complimentary

National Novel Writing Month thorough diligently writing
2,000 words per day. D supplementary

A NO CHANGE 40. When he was cornered by a tribe of monkeys in the

jungle, João was able to allude them by cleverly
B threw throwing his voice.

C through A NO CHANGE

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 B elude B memorial

C exclude C immortal

D preclude D moral

41. Because Pinocchio was a marionette that lacked 46. In order to ensure an orderly distribution of his late
many human characteristics, his friend Jiminy Cricket wife's assets, George needed to have the property
served as his official conscious. appraised.

A NO CHANGE A NO CHANGE

B conscient. B apprised.

C cornichon. C apprehended.

D conscience. D appreciated.

42. South Carolina succeeded from the Union on 47. The modern Abrahamic religions draw from extant
December 20, 1860; five more states followed suit in texts that have caused controversy for millennia.
January of 1861.
A NO CHANGE
A NO CHANGE
B exiled
B acceded
C extent
C exceeded
D exigent
D seceded
48. When she sailed or played basketball, Natalya
43. This beautiful flower is indigenous to this island. observed and calculated practical physics problems in
her head. When she had to sit through a classroom
A NO CHANGE lectern on physics, she became disinterested and fell
asleep.
B indigent
A NO CHANGE
C indignant
B letter
D indigo
C lector
44. I’d like too go with you two, too.
D lecture
A NO CHANGE
49. According to Theodore Schultz, education is a
B to major form of human capitol: a nation which invests in
scholarship will generate greater economic growth than
C two would otherwise be possible.

D tutu A NO CHANGE

45. In the Epic of Gilgamesh, the title character B capital

searches for a plant which will make him amoral, a
symbolic quest shared by many literary heroes who C captain
attempted to escape death.
D capitulation
A NO CHANGE

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50. When he encountered one section of Mars' she was living on public assistance when she wrote the
indignant population, the Red Martians, John Carter first Harry Potter book.
was impressed by their advanced technology and
wealthy culture. A NO CHANGE

A NO CHANGE B imminence

B indicative C innocence

C indigent D immanence

D indigenous 55. Despite the company's hints that the phone launch
was immanent, the eager consumers had to wait
51. When Ignatius saw the very large "DO NOT months for the bugs in the new operating system to be
ENTER" sign hanging from the door of the abandoned fixed.
house, he had an original and ingenuous idea: he
turned around, walked away, and everyone lived A NO CHANGE
happily ever after.
B eminent
A NO CHANGE
C imminent
B ingenious
D innominate
C ingenues
56. With a desire to track the illegal elephant ivory
D igneous trade, the journalist devised an ingenuous solution.
With the aid of his team and a skilled taxidermist, he
52. During a class discussion on Shakespeare's King developed fake elephant tusks and equipped them with
Lear, the English professor cited Christopher Moore's GPS devices.
Fool as a re-telling of the Elizabethan tragedy, rather
than one grand allusion to it. A NO CHANGE

A NO CHANGE B ingenious

B illusion C igneous

C delusion D ingenue

D elution
53. Medieval physicians advised their patients based
on the Theory of Humors, which was a diagnostic
practice that considered several things, including a
person's temperament; their illness with relationship to
the four "elements" (earth, air, fire, and water); and the
"qualities" (hot, cold, wet, and dry) of those elements.
57. The potential investor shook her head and turned
back to the room one last time. "I just can't put down
that kind of capitol without a guarantee of a return," she
said, and closed the door.
A NO CHANGE
B capitulation

A NO CHANGE C capital

B adviced D caption

C advanced 58. In Victorian England, where many topics of

conversation were prescribed, people communicated
D advertised secret messages through floriography, the language of
flowers.
54. Despite her eminence as the first author to earn
over $1 billion, J.K. Rowling had humble beginnings; A NO CHANGE

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 B proscribed,

C inscribed,

D described,

59. The warm classroom, combined with the monotone

voice that the professor afflicted upon his students, put
them all to sleep.

A NO CHANGE

B inflected

C inflicted

D affected

60. After he made the mistake of using the wrong verb

form, Jake's French teacher apprised him of the proper
usage.

A NO CHANGE

B excised

C apprized

D appraised