Vocabulary College Prep Essentials — Set 1: Practice flashcards
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Thirty-three sentence-completion questions on the Set 1 words: four choices, one blank, and why the tempting wrong answer fails.
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Dr. Ferrante answers questions about soil chemistry with ease, but when students ask about insect behavior, she sends them to a colleague, explaining that the topic falls outside her ______.
A) paradigm
B) domain
C) schema
D) vantageB) domainThinking & Knowing
Soil chemistry versus insect behavior marks off areas of knowledge, and insects lie outside hers: her domain. Paradigm is tempting, but it is a set of assumptions shaping how a field sees things, not an area of expertise. -
The study surveyed only forty students at one school; ______, its findings say more about that school than about teenagers in general, though the authors insist otherwise.
A) invariably
B) conversely
C) arguably
D) nonethelessC) arguablySpeaking & Arguing
A claim backed by a good reason, the small sample, yet disputed by the authors is arguably true. Nonetheless is tempting as a linking word, but it signals a contrast, and the small sample supports the claim instead of working against it. -
When the college library began lending laptops, it ______ opened online courses to students who had no computer at home.
A) conversely
B) respectively
C) thereby
D) nonethelessC) therebyChange & Growth
Lending laptops is the means by which the courses opened up: thereby. Nonetheless is tempting as another linking word, but it signals a contrast, and nothing here works against the lending. -
In the culinary class's prize-winning dessert, a layer of bitter dark chocolate ______ the sweetness of the caramel, so neither flavor overwhelmed the other.
A) quantified
B) precluded
C) offset
D) incurredC) offsetSize & Amount
An opposite taste that balances another so neither wins offset it. Precluded is tempting because the chocolate keeps the sweetness in check, but to preclude is to prevent something entirely, and the caramel is still sweet, just balanced. -
As class treasurer, Ji-woo studied the town's ______ records to learn how much it collected in property taxes and how much it spent on its schools each year.
A) demographic
B) utopian
C) societal
D) fiscalD) fiscalSociety & Power
Records of a government's money, what it raises in taxes and what it pays out, are fiscal records. Demographic is tempting because towns keep those records too, but demographic records describe the people who live there, how old they are and what they earn, not what the town collects and spends. -
Decades after the ______ of the railroad, its timetables finally pushed many American towns to give up their own local noons and adopt standard time zones in 1883.
A) antecedent
B) obsolescence
C) advent
D) longevityC) adventNature & Time
The arrival of an important new technology is its advent. Antecedent is tempting because the railroad came before the time zones and led to them, but "the antecedent of the railroad" would be something that came before the railroad itself.
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