Category: Sentence Completion

1. After a period of protracted disuse, a muscle will atrophy, _____ both its strength and the ability to perform its former function.

2. Even though he is a leading authority on the French Revolution, the chairperson of the department is a _____ speaker whose lectures on even the most exciting aspect of that historical period cause students to yawn and fidget.

3. The governor’s intolerance of _____ among his aides was intensified by his insistence upon total _____ from all.

4. The conductor’s choice of tempo seemed entirely _____, so that each successive movement of the piece seemed to have no necessary connection to what had come before.

5. The report issued by the committee was completely _____, extolling in great detail the plan’s strengths but failing to mention its _____.

6. There is no _____ for the United States to sign the treaty since there is every reason to believe no other nation intends to honor its provisions

7. The chairperson, who is a specialist in French history, is a _____ speaker whose lectures on the French Revolution completely _____ studnets

8. There are many dialects of English with radically different pronunciations of the same word, but the spelling of these words is _____.

9. When Great Britain declared war on Germany in 1914, many people expected Lloyd George to resign because his _____ tendencies made him an unsuitable leader during a time of conflict.

10. Although the conditions in which she chooses to live to suggest that she is miserly, her contributions to charities show that she is _____.

11. The quarterback’s injury was very painful but not _____, and he managed to _____ the game in spite of it.

12. The plot of the movie was extremely complicated and included many minor characters _____ to the central events.