Sentence Completion

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Sentence Completion

• BINGO

w/ SAT Vocabulary!
Assembled by Ms. Caitlin Hanzlick Teacher, SAT
Prep, Stone Mountain H.S. Fall 2007
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RULES

• Read each sentence.
• First figure out the meaning of the word that
  will fill in the blank.
• Then look to see if a word in the corresponding
  BINGO column means the same as the word you came
  up with to fill in the blank.

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IMPORTANTLike the real SAT, this game is
TIMED.You have exactly 1 minute for each
sentence.
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GOOD LUCK!!
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G

• She had --------------- talent when it came to
  basketball, as if she was born with the ability
  to dribble, shoot and score.

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N

• The --------------- of Beanie Babies stored in
  her basement is a little excessive.

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G

• The teacher provided a ------------ example to
  help the students better understand the concept.

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O

• Once I bought a Volkswagon, they suddenly seemed
  so --------------- I couldnt drive anywhere
  without seeing at least five!

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O

• There is no need to --------------- the
  importance of videogames the bottom line is that
  they suck up a lot of time that could be better
  spent doing a number of other things, such as
  reading or exercising.

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G

• Someday technology may make door-to-door mail
  delivery seem -------, that is, as incongruous
  as pony express delivery would seem now.

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B

• College and university professors, who have read
  copious amounts of literature on their area of
  expertise, and it is precisely such
  --------------- that impresses students and earns
  their respect.

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O

• The students --------------- was shameful to
  continue to lie when youve pretty much been
  caught red-handed is not good.

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B

• Although visitors initially may find touring the
  city by subway to be -------, they are pleased
  to discover that subways are an inexpensive and
  ------- way to get around.

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O

• The task was ---------------, both physically and
  mentally.

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B

• In All Gods Children Need Traveling Shoes,
  author Maya Angelou uses ---------------, brief
  descriptive sketches, to provide a
  --------------- view of Ghana that clearly
  details the land and its people.

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B

• It is said that as a legal team Charles Houston
  and Thurgood Marshall complemented each other
  thoroughly Houstons sedate manner was -------
  Marshalls -------.

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N

• It must have taken a lot of ------------- for
  Ellen DeGeneres to come out and admit she is
  lesbian, especially at a time when people were
  not as accepting of gay women.

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B

• The students feelings about presenting the
  commencement address were ------- although
  visibly happy to have been chosen, he was
  nonetheless ------- about speaking in public.

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B

• In a society that abhors -------, the
  nonconformist is persistently -------.

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O

• Frank was confident that he had presented the
  most ------- plan possible, but in reality his
  proposals were just the opposite, neither
  practical nor useful enough to produce any
  worthwhile results.

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I

• Male ostriches are extremely ------- they can
  be perceived by the human eye at a distance of
  900 meters.

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B

• Trinkets intended to have only ------- appeal
  can exist virtually forever in landfills because
  of the ------- of some plastics.

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N

• Dressed in full ---------------, the members of
  the Class of 2007 proceeded into the auditorium
  for the graduation ceremonies.

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B

• Last night my head was killing me, but I couldnt
  find any aspirin to ----------the pain.

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B

• Jesses Jackson and Al Sharpton, both prone to
  expressing strongly held beliefs and opinions,
  are sometimes accused of being too ------.

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I

• The star student was also --------------- in
  athletics, especially basketball.

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N

• The interior design of the dormitories was far
  too --------------- for the college students
  colorful, kitschy, and eclectic style inside it
  felt sterile and serious, not fun or exciting.

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O

• The audience was surprised the politicians
  speech was so _______, for he is usually quite
  clear when speaking in public today, however, he
  made no sense and his examples were wholly
  _______ in helping him prove a point.

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I

• You are so --------------- to believe its
  actually raining cats and dogs.

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N

• Social and racial injustices of the 1950s and a
  lack of progress through nonviolence in the early
  1960s --------------- groups such as the Black
  Panthers to fight more --------------- for Civil
  Rights.

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O

• Her --------------- is really quite embarrassing
  she really needs help when it comes to etiquette
  and social graces.

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I

• Because the pandas had already been weakened by
  disease and drought, a harsh winter would have
  had --------------- consequences for them.

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N

• The teachers who --------------- the high school
  dance tore --------------- any young couples who
  became too touchy-feeling.

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I

• Jean-Paul lived up to his --------------- as a
  --------------- of fine wine indeed, the French
  merlot he recommended went well with the roasted
  duck.

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N

• Smoking marijuana can --------------- your
  brains ability to process information.

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B

• Any biographer of this playwright, who assumed an
  elaborate public facade in order to conceal
  private concerns, must examine the impulse behind
  such -------.

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I

• At the wedding reception the brides relatives
  were very ---------------, acting like they
  didnt know the grooms family or as if they
  thought more highly of themselves than their
  in-laws.

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N

• Gigi tried everything to get Tyler to like her,
  but he --------------- all of her advances for he
  simply was not interested.

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I

• The presidents policies on the war in Iraq,
  specifically his so-called troop surge, are
  --------------- with what many Americans want,
  which is the phased withdrawal of U.S. troops
  from tumultuous regions of the Middle East.

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B

• The --------------- saw the huge statue of the
  dictator as a symbol of the totalitarian
  --------------- and quickly tore it down.

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N

• Although the teenager did not look like he had
  been crying, the -----------tone of his voice
  made it clear he was ------------- the death of
  his mother.

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I

• The intoxicated bum was extremely
  ---------------, stuttering and slurring his
  words as he asked me for some change.

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O

• A long-standing theory about the migration of
  green turtles was ------- by an innovative marine
  biologist who graciously defused potential ------
  by dedicating her work to the original
  researcher.

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I

• Good writers work to say as much as they can
  using as little words as possible, but there is a
  point at which a writer can be so concise as to
  be difficult or impossible to understand
  --------------- writing is therefore an error to
  avoid.

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N

• The football players teacher bought a team
  --------------- at the game so she could look up
  the players numbers and positions.

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N

• I have an --------------- taste in music my CD
  collection includes NWA, Destinys Child, Fall
  Out Boy, Johnny Cash and Nina Simone.

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N

• Senator Clinton has accused Borak Obama of being
  too --------------- she mocks his hopeful
  idealism and alleged penchant for overlooking
  practical considerations.

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I

• The word crunk has been used by so many people
  so many times, it is now considered a
  -------------- expression.

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O

• His qualifications for the diplomatic job were
  _______, and as a result his nomination was
  confirmed, and he became the ambassador to the
  United Nations.

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I

• Although Hitler did terrible things to a lot of
  people, he was an extremely ---------------
  character, able to convince practically all of
  Germany to agree with him on very radical ideas
  about race and society.

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N

• Ironically, humor is an emotional
  --------------- for many comedians, who use
  jokes and laughter as a defense against pain and
  sadness.

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G

• Coachs remarks after the game were
  --------------- he did not have a whole lot to
  say about our loss, nor was he the slightest bit
  happy.

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O

• Teachers can be fired on grounds of moral
  ---------------, which means they have committed
  a crime so egregious it cannot be excused.

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I

• An unpleasant --------------- of sound was
  produced as the orchestra tuned their
  instruments the sounds became euphonic only once
  the musicians were in synch.

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G

• Parents and teachers, who are older and wiser
  than their children or students, -------------
  the ------------ of youth.

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N

• Julia had a --------------- tongue and was always
  putting her friends down behind their backs.

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N

• The authors use of ------- detail, though
  intended to deepen the readers appreciation of a
  tumultuous era, was instead regarded by many as a
  ------- of trivial information.

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I

• Politicians often provide -------------- answers
  to controversial questions, a campaigning
  strategy whereby the candidate hopes to gain more
  votes by refraining from saying anything that
  would alienate his supporters.

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N

• The antique store had an impressive
  --------------- of vintage jewelry on display.
  

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I

• Try as he might, the lawyer could not find any
  --------------- loopholes in the contract.

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N

• The enemy troops erected a --------------- to
  --------------- the advances of the oppositions
  army.

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G

• Anna Nicole Smith died from a ---------------
  dose of prescription medication.

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I

• Both ------- and -------, Wilson seldom spoke and
  never spent money.

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G

• My sisters inability to be --------------- when
  telling me a story can -------------- a
  five-minute chat into an hour-long conversation.

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B

• If a child is confined by ---------------
  parental restrictions and denied the opportunity
  to exercise personal responsibility, at
  adolescence the child is likely to engage in
  dangerous and self-destructive behavior.

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G

• The Senator made no attempt to deny his
  --------------- disregard for the truth.

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B

• I couldnt believe it when her boyfriend proposed
  with such a --------------- engagement ring
  even more shocking was the way she showed the
  gaudy, cheap, and fake piece of jewelry off as if
  it were real.

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N

• My --------------- friend is always telling me
  that it is impossible to know whether or not God
  exists.

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G

• For once the Republics and Democrats
  --------------- both agree that neither is a
  -------------- for new ideas.

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B

• The judge ordered the clerk to ------------the
  lawyers statement from the record.

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G

• The --------------- resemblance a random woman in
  the supermarket had to my deceased mother sent a
  chill down my spine, an --------------- reminder
  of her death nearly a decade ago.

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B

• The spotted bowerbird has a --------------- for
  amassing the bright shiny objects it needs for
  decorating its bower it will enter houses to
  --------------- coins, cutlery, thimbles,
  jewelry and even car keys.

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I

• To avoid being ---------------, jazz musicians
  strive for element of surprise in their songs.

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I

• The _______ people of Africa have long been at
  odds with the European explores who colonized
  their land and _______ much of the land from
  native tribes.

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G

• He was considered to be the most _______ of all
  the family members because he was the only one to
  have earned several graduate degrees.

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B

• Among the --------------- belonging to Herodotos
  of Athens at the time of his death were sixteen
  slaves, seven horses, six hunting dogs, and three
  midget gladiators.

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G

• Kanye West, albeit a talented producer and
  lyricist, comes off as ------------- the way he
  runs his mouth and brags about himself.

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G

• Many wealthy and educated members of society look
  down upon methamphetamine addicts and consider
  the abuse of the drug a rather ---------------
  habit.

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G

• I could not bear to see the --------------- so
  --------------- as he lay on his bed in the
  hospital very close to death.

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G

• My sister has an --------------- habit of tapping
  her pencil on her desk when Im trying to study.

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G

• The food critic called the new restaurant
  -------, going so far as to describe it as
  ------- the menu, the service, and the décor had
  all been extraordinary.

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O

• The further we climbed up the mountain, the more
  --------------- the trail became, and we should
  have --------------- the trouble that would
  ultimately befall us.

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O

• As a result of his bitter _______ towards his
  adversaries, he _______ to have their campaign
  funds stolen so that they could not continue with
  their campaigns.

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B

• Both by nationality and by gender, American
  painter Mary Cassatt was an -------, because her
  artistic peers were Frenchmen.

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O

• Due to _______ seismic activity over the past
  few days, government officials have evacuated
  residential areas near the volcano in case it
  should erupt.

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O

• Considering that most women had very little
  control over their own lives in medieval England,
  Margery Kempes fifteenth-century autobiography
  demonstrates a remarkable degree of _______.

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O

• Knowing how you learn best and knowing how to
  study are essential strategies for success on the
  SAT the technical word for thinking about
  thinking is _______.

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O

• When she saw how many homeless people there were
  in the big city, her _______ of the sheltered
  young woman was exposed by a look of shock on her
  face.

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B

• Three 6 Mafia was --------------- by a Hollywood
  movie company to -------------the Academy
  Award-Winning soundtrack to Hustle Flow.

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O

• Squirrels and possums are two of many _______
  animals.

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B

• The board members, accustomed to the luxury of
  being chauffeured to corporate meetings in
  company limousines, were predictably ------- when
  they learned that this service had been -------.

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O

• Despite its apparent -------, much of early Greek
  philosophical thought was actually marked by a
  kind of unconscious dogmatism that led to
  ------- assertions.

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B

• Rather than accepting the theory unquestioningly,
  Deborah regarded it with ---------------.

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I

• Since the invention of the personal computer,
  typewriters have all but faded into -----------.

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O

• MC Hammers --------------- spending habits
  eventually forced him to file for bankruptcy.

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N

• The school board has requested that all
  gang-related graffiti on school property be
  --------------- that Saturday the custodial
  staff spent eighteen hours at the school
  scrubbing, scraping off, and sanding away all
  offensive signs and symbols.

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RESOURCES

• Some of the questions used in this presentation
  were obtained from the following websites
• ? CollegeBoard.com
• ? SparkNotes.com