SAT Practice 3: Structural Keys
220 MCGRAW-HILL’S SAT- His ------ maintained that Mr. Frank was con-
stantly at odds with the corporate officers; yet the
truth was that his ideas were not at all ------ with
the officers’ reasonable goals.
(A) detractors.. in accord
(B) supporters.. at variance
(C) advocates.. harmonious
(D) disparagers.. incompatible
(E) apologists.. in conflict - In spite of the ------ of Larry’s speech, most of the
audience was ------ well before he had finished.
(A) conciseness.. cheering
(B) humor.. intrigued
(C) appropriateness.. enrapt
(D) brevity.. asleep
(E) cleverness.. reluctant - If a child is ------ by arbitrary parental restric-
tions and denied the opportunity to exercise per-
sonal responsibility, at adolescence the child is
likely to engage in dangerous and self-destructive
behavior.
(A) nurtured
(B) appeased
(C) confined
(D) fascinated
(E) liberated - Although the government has frequently ------
some parental responsibilities, at heart it must
still be parents, not agencies, who are ------ to care
for children.
(A) obscured.. assumed
(B) precluded.. adjured
(C) exulted.. incompetent
(D) disavowed.. impelled
(E) usurped.. obligated - The ------ of the neighborhood is revealed by sub-
tle practices, like the fact that so many people in
the community use the same hand gestures when
speaking.
(A) diversity
(B) adaptability
(C) modernization
(D) cohesiveness
(E) creativity - During the day, crabs move slowly and ------, but
at night, they roam ------ across sandy sea bot-
toms, climbing reefs or foraging for kelp.
(A) frantically.. wildly
(B) cautiously.. freely
(C) gradually.. sluggishly
(D) deliberately.. carefully
(E) rashly.. rapidly - Because the President was used to receiving the
support of his advisers, he was ------ when he dis-
covered that their views on the handling of the
crisis were ------ with his own.
(A) stunned.. irreconcilable
(B) relieved.. inconsistent
(C) amused.. consonant
(D) oblivious.. compatible
(E) sorry.. commensurate - The building should be ------ not only for its long-
recognized architectural merit but also for its
------ in the history of Black American theater.
(A) designed.. role
(B) commissioned.. usefulness
(C) preserved.. importance
(D) demolished.. future
(E) constructed.. place - The lecture on number theory and its applica-
tions might have been particularly trying for the
nonspecialists in the audience had the professor
not ------ it with humorous asides.
(A) exhorted
(B) leavened
(C) intercepted
(D) countermanded
(E) rebuffed