SAT Practice 2: The Four Logical Relationships
216 MCGRAW-HILL’S SAT- The fact that polar bears are tremendously strong
indicates the degree of ------ they must have in their
aggressive play, for they never hurt each other.
(A) intensity
(B) stamina
(C) concentration
(D) instinct
(E) restraint - Long an advocate of deterrence, General Wallace
had hoped that the ------ display of force would
------ further military action.
(A) formidable.. obviate
(B) subtle.. require
(C) impressive.. generate
(D) unnecessary.. prevent
(E) unbridled.. sustain - Disillusioned and ------, the impoverished young
writer was ready to ------ the artistic life for a
real job.
(A) capable.. abandon
(B) complacent.. invoke
(C) dejected.. forsake
(D) gracious.. deny
(E) crushed.. capture - The meal of raw eggs and vegetables, while ------,
in fact ------ all requisite nutrition to the young
athlete in training.
(A) meager.. denied
(B) sumptuous.. supplied
(C) spartan.. provided
(D) doleful.. restored
(E) appropriate.. allowed - Possessing seemingly boundless energy, DeVare
fights for the causes she supports with a ------ that
would leave others ------ at the end of the workday.
(A) grace.. scandalized
(B) commitment.. uncertain
(C) loyalty.. contrite
(D) vigor.. exhausted
(E) sincerity.. disillusioned - The members of the committee saw Vance’s reign
as chairman becoming more and more ------; his
decisions seemed based more on personal whim
than on the opinions of his fellow members.
(A) inclusive
(B) abstract
(C) irresistible
(D) illusory
(E) arbitrary - The boundary between Canada and the United
States is more a political than a cultural ------; the
people on both sides ------ a great deal in terms of
artistic sensibilities.
(A) demarcation.. share
(B) partition.. estrange
(C) event.. partake
(D) affiliation.. admit
(E) division.. conflict - Some criminal investigators believe that poly-
graphs reliably ------ deception by recording ------
reactions in a subject such as slight changes in
breathing rate or perspiration elicited by a set
of questions.
(A) judge.. imaginative
(B) detect.. physiological
(C) predict.. imperceptible
(D) subvert.. simulated
(E) induce.. verifiable - The author intentionally combines the vernacu-
lar of the Bronx with pretentious academic jar-
gon, creating a uniquely ------ style that makes her
novel particularly difficult to translate into other
languages.
(A) mundane
(B) taciturn
(C) alliterative
(D) idiosyncratic
(E) orthodox