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

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  1. The coach showed the team a video of Dana's ______ shooting form, pointing out her steady feet and smooth release as the model every player should copy.

    A) erratic
    B) flamboyant
    C) exemplary
    D) feeble
    C) exemplary

    Form so good that every player should copy it is exemplary. Flamboyant is tempting because her shooting is put on show, but flamboyant means bold and showy, and steady feet and a smooth release are the opposite of showy.
    Character & Behavior
  2. With no map and no time to read the trail signs, the ranger relied on ______, a gut feeling that the left fork led back to camp, and she turned out to be right.

    A) hindsight
    B) intuition
    C) worldview
    D) misconception
    B) intuition

    A quick feeling, without careful reasoning, that turns out right is intuition. Hindsight is tempting, but hindsight is the clear view you get by looking back once the outcome is known, and she chose the fork before she knew.
    Thinking & Knowing
  3. The principal ______ the student newspaper's story about the cafeteria contract, blacking out two paragraphs she feared would upset parents before the issue was printed.

    A) censored
    B) amplified
    C) condensed
    D) fabricated
    A) censored

    Cutting material judged harmful out of a story before it is printed is to censor it. Condensed is tempting because the story got shorter, but condensing keeps the main points; blacking out removes content on purpose.
    Speaking & Arguing
  4. The old car's speedometer had grown ______, jumping from twenty to seventy and back to forty while we were rolling along at a steady thirty miles an hour.

    A) sporadic
    B) stagnant
    C) rampant
    D) erratic
    D) erratic

    A needle that jumps around with no pattern is erratic. Sporadic is tempting because the readings are wrong, but sporadic means happening only now and then, and this needle moves wildly all the time.
    Change & Growth
  5. Over one weekend, the volunteers collected a ______ number of cans for the food bank: more than forty thousand, nearly ten times what they had gathered the year before.

    A) minuscule
    B) paltry
    C) staggering
    D) voluminous
    C) staggering

    More than forty thousand cans is an amazingly huge haul, almost beyond belief: staggering. Voluminous is tempting because it means very large, but it describes loose clothing, hair or long records, not a number.
    Size & Amount
  6. Divers spent the morning counting the reef's ______, recording every fish, crab, sea star and octopus they saw, while a second team recorded the seaweeds and seagrasses.

    A) aftermath
    B) flora
    C) fauna
    D) epoch
    C) fauna

    Fish, crabs, sea stars and octopuses are the reef's animals: its fauna. Flora is tempting because the two words go together, but flora means plants, and the seaweeds and seagrasses were the second team's job.
    Nature & Time

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