SAT Sentence Completion Questions

If you come across any unfamiliar words below, look them up in a dictionary for your future knowledge after you have completed these sentence completion questions. We have made a conscious effort to use many of the commonly-used SAT vocabulary words.

1.) His ---- sense of humor caused more ---- than he must have intended.

(A) debunk..sobriety

(B) wry..confusion

(D) dry..jargon
(E) incorrigible..paucity

2.) Because Jim was generally ---- on the football field, he was genuinely touched by the amount of praise he received for his game-winning touchdown.

(A) indelible

(B) methodical

(D) pious
(E) unheralded

3.) Although the professor was quite prominent in her field, she wore an air of --- while lecturing her students.

(A) unanimity

(B) sanction

(D) parsimony
(E) morose

4.) Don't ---; you have to get over your disappointment and get on with your life.

(A) deliberate

(B) temper

(D) lament
(E) obscure

5.) While the winemakers were exhausted at the end of their first season, they took --- in the fact that the vines would require much less effort in the coming years.

(A) solace

(B) prerogative

(D) urgency
(E) divergence

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SAT Sentence Completion Questions