Sentence Completion Practice

Mr. Flaff was a real ___; all he did was walk around pompously, boasting about the amount of coin in his wallet.

Although identical twins get confused with fraternal twins the __ between them is sometimes too __ to tell who’s who!

Lauren had never visited Niagara Falls, but she could appreciate their splendor ____ through the descriptions of others.

A discerning modelling agency can _ promising models from a mass of submissions and auditions, separating the good from the bad.

The novel’s protagonist, a pearl diver, naïvely expects that the buyers will compete among themselves to pay him the best price for his pearl, but instead they __ to __ him.

Simon’s radical ideas and conspiracies were frowned on by most of his coworkers, who found them too __ for their conservative tastes and values.

Members of the research team were initially so adversarial that __ seemed impossible; the project’s inauspicious start made its final success all the more __ .

With the edition of orange rind into the cake, the flavours seemed to work better together to ____ the aromas of the batter.

Because King Philip’s desire to make Spain the dominant power in sixteenth-century Europe ran counter to Queen Elizabeth’s insistence on autonomy for England, _ was ___ .

Questions adapted from the Official SAT Study Guide, written by Steven Fox, Elaine Israel and Robin O’Callaghan. (2005)