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Thirty-three sentence-completion questions on the Set 2 words: four choices, one blank, and why the most tempting wrong answer fails.

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  1. After her family moved to a remote farm, Tamsin soon became ______: she made her own decisions and handled chores alone instead of turning to her older brothers.

    A) self-reliant
    B) sociable
    C) compliant
    D) selfless
    A) self-reliant

    Deciding for herself and doing chores alone, not leaning on her brothers, is being self-reliant. Selfless is tempting because both begin with self-, but selfless means putting others first, even ahead of your own needs, which the sentence never mentions.
    Character & Behavior
  2. Sofia had a real ______ on her hands: telling the teacher that her best friend copied the homework would cost her a friend, but staying quiet would leave her feeling dishonest.

    A) dilemma
    B) notion
    C) flaw
    D) setback
    A) dilemma

    A choice between two options that is hard to make, since both turn out badly, is a dilemma. Setback is tempting because Sofia has a problem, but a setback is a turn of events that leaves you worse off or slows your progress, while she still has a choice to make.
    Thinking & Knowing
  3. Knowing the other team's tallest player tired easily, the coach tried a new ______: pass the ball quickly up the court on every play so the tall player had to keep running.

    A) motive
    B) incentive
    C) setback
    D) tactic
    D) tactic

    A move planned ahead to win a game is a tactic. Incentive is tempting because it also gets people to act, but an incentive is whatever gives someone a reason to act, such as a reward, not a plan for wearing out an opponent.
    Actions & Effort
  4. The lighthouse sends out a bright, ______ flash, once every ten seconds all night long, so ships can tell it apart from the other lights along the shore.

    A) eternal
    B) periodic
    C) spontaneous
    D) consecutive
    B) periodic

    A flash that comes back like clockwork, once every ten seconds, is periodic. Consecutive is tempting because the flashes follow one another, but consecutive describes items in a row, like three consecutive nights, not how often one flash repeats.
    Change & Growth
  5. Since the little town floods every spring, the name 'Puddleton' seems ______, even if the people who live there are tired of the jokes.

    A) absurd
    B) apt
    C) generic
    D) vague
    B) apt

    A watery name for a town that floods every spring suits it well: apt. Absurd is tempting because the name sounds silly, but absurd means making no sense, and this name makes perfect sense for a soggy town.
    Quality & Judgment
  6. Only goats and the most experienced climbers can cross the ______ mountain pass, a rough path of loose rock, jagged boulders and sudden drops.

    A) perishable
    B) lush
    C) rugged
    D) brittle
    C) rugged

    A rough path of loose rock and jagged boulders is rough, rocky and uneven: rugged. Brittle is tempting because the rock is loose, but brittle means hard yet able to crack with very little force, which describes a material, not a whole mountain pass.
    Nature & Time

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