Vocabulary College Prep Essentials — Set 2: Practice flashcards
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Thirty-three sentence-completion questions on the Set 2 words: four choices, one blank, and why the tempting wrong answer fails.
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Archivists praised the ______ of the restored film: frame for frame, the new copy matched the original reels, down to the grain of each picture and the crackle of the soundtrack.
A) longevity
B) semblance
C) opacity
D) fidelityD) fidelityCharacter & Behavior
Matching the original reels "frame for frame" is exactness to a source: fidelity. Semblance is tempting, but a semblance only looks like the real thing from the surface and may be hollow beneath, and this copy truly matches. -
The pen-pal program asks each student to ______ with a partner at a school in Ghana at least once a month, writing letters about family, food and school life.
A) converge
B) intersect
C) confer
D) correspondD) correspondThinking & Knowing
Writing letters back and forth with someone is to correspond with them. Confer is tempting because it also means talking with someone, but to confer is to hold talks with others ahead of a decision, and these letters decide nothing. -
As a teenager, Benjamin Franklin tried to ______ the essays of a London periodical he admired, rewriting them from brief notes and comparing his versions with the originals.
A) surmount
B) emulate
C) embody
D) undercutB) emulateActions & Effort
Copying writing he admired in hopes of matching it is to emulate it. Embody is tempting because he hoped to write as well, but someone who embodies a quality is that quality made real in a person, and he was still practicing. -
The debate team's narrow win at regionals left it a fragile lead in the state rankings, so the coach used the summer to ______ that position with weekly practice rounds and six new recruits.
A) offset
B) recoup
C) consolidate
D) surmountC) consolidateChange & Growth
Making a fragile position stronger and more secure is to consolidate it. Recoup is tempting, but it means getting back something lost or spent, and the team still holds its lead; nothing needs recovering. -
The student council promised ______ answers at its next meeting, and it delivered: a plan to shorten the cafeteria lines and a vote to add two late buses.
A) inadvertent
B) cohesive
C) substantive
D) prospectiveC) substantiveQuality & Judgment
A real plan and a real vote get at the heart of the problems: substantive answers. Cohesive is tempting because good answers hang together, but cohesive describes parts that fit together and act as one, not whether the answers address real problems. -
The one-room school on Ridge Road is the county's only ______ schoolhouse from the 1800s; fires, floods and road building claimed the dozens of others long ago.
A) nominal
B) successive
C) prospective
D) extantD) extantNature & Time
An old schoolhouse still standing when all the others from its time are lost is extant. Nominal is tempting because its first sense mentions existing, but nominal describes something true only on paper, or an amount far below what a thing is worth, and this school is a real, surviving building, not a mere title or a token sum.
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