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GRE - Sentence Completion Test 29

Choose the word or set of words that best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.
Questions 1 - 5 of 10

1. Those __________ ancestors doubtless found sticks helpful for pointing out a direction, tracing a diagram in the dirt or __________ up a slab of useful flint.

A. decrepit - fixing
B. faulty - picking
C. distant - prying
D. olden - raise
E. aged - keeping

2. Despite __________ printed in newspapers and broadcast over the internet and on television, Americans __________ to lose millions to internet con artists.

A. predictions - persevere
B. warnings -. continue
C. encouragement - proceed
D. cautions - persist
E. signals - incur

3. Georgia 's teachers received the third largest salary hike in the country last year but still did not move up in national __________.

A. competition
B. readings
C. ranting
D. ratings
E. rankings

4. Scanners have long been neglected by the designers of the PC world ? __________ boxes that take up far too __________ space on the desktop.

A. sleek - many
B. ornamental - little
C. clumsy - few
D. clunky - much
E. blusterous - numerous

5. Most easily measured ___________ gains come from increasing the capital stock and improving the efficiency with which the capital stock is used.

A. lucrative -
B. lachrymose -
C. economic -
D. correctional -
E. gainful -