Inglés 11

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Inglés I GRE - Cualitativo (Inglés 11) Quiz sobre Inglés 11, criado por Daniel Tapia em 01-02-2017.
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Questão 1

Questão
Select the two answer choices that, when used to complete the sentence, fit the meaning of the sentence as a whole and produce completed sentences that are alike in meaning. Question 1 Sylvia Plath was not as ________ a poet as was her husband Ted Hughes, having produced just two volumes of poetry in her short lifespan.
Responda
  • Dejected
  • Celebrated
  • Satiric
  • Ubilant
  • Prolific
  • Fruitful

Questão 2

Questão
Select the two answer choices that, when used to complete the sentence, fit the meaning of the sentence as a whole and produce completed sentences that are alike in meaning. Question 2 The unfounded fear that some children, and even adults, have of the circus clown is rather ironic considering that he is meant to be ________ character who invokes laughter and enjoyment.
Responda
  • An ace
  • A surly
  • A genial
  • An artful
  • A crackerjack
  • An affable

Questão 3

Questão
Select the two answer choices that, when used to complete the sentence, fit the meaning of the sentence as a whole and produce completed sentences that are alike in meaning. Question 3 The photographer _________ posed the bride for her portrait, carefully adjusting each fold of her dress and each curl of her hair before taking the picture.
Responda
  • Meticulously
  • Frantically
  • Subversively
  • Hectically
  • Fastidiously
  • Hysterically

Questão 4

Questão
Select the two answer choices that, when used to complete the sentence, fit the meaning of the sentence as a whole and produce completed sentences that are alike in meaning. Question 4 After finishing the editing workshop, the writers found that they were able to give each other __________ comments, instead of the general and unhelpful suggestions they had been making beforehand.
Responda
  • Cursory
  • Derisive
  • Superficial
  • Amateurish
  • Critical
  • Constructive

Questão 5

Questão
Select the two answer choices that, when used to complete the sentence, fit the meaning of the sentence as a whole and produce completed sentences that are alike in meaning. Question 5 Many admirers of art _________ the beauty of Jackson Pollock´s paintings, while others disparage the splatters of color as simplistic.
Responda
  • Defame
  • Overlook
  • Ignore
  • Commend
  • Underrate
  • Extol

Questão 6

Questão
Select the two answer choices that, when used to complete the sentence, fit the meaning of the sentence as a whole and produce completed sentences that are alike in meaning. Question 6 Expecting Tom to protest the poor grade on his psychology paper, the professor was disheartened when he _________ tossed it in his bag and left the room.
Responda
  • Gingerly
  • Flippantly
  • Timidly
  • Prudently
  • Thoughtlessly
  • Delicately

Questão 7

Questão
Select the two answer choices that, when used to complete the sentence, fit the meaning of the sentence as a whole and produce completed sentences that are alike in meaning. Question 7 The stock market having plunged drastically, the investor´s _________ mood on the trading floor seemed incongruous.
Responda
  • Enervated
  • Sanguine
  • Inconsolable
  • Sardonic
  • Funereal
  • Buoyant

Questão 8

Questão
Select the two answer choices that, when used to complete the sentence, fit the meaning of the sentence as a whole and produce completed sentences that are alike in meaning. Question 8 Hundreds of _________ fans waited in line for hours at the comic book convention to talk to their favorite artists and buy limited-edition toy variants otherwise unavailable.
Responda
  • Staunch
  • Malodorous
  • Hirsute
  • Zealous
  • Noisome
  • Impecunious

Questão 9

Questão
Select the two answer choices that, when used to complete the sentence, fit the meaning of the sentence as a whole and produce completed sentences that are alike in meaning. Question 9 The group´s final paper, replete with errors in spelling, diction, and idiom, showed every sign of having been given only _________ proofreading.
Responda
  • An artless
  • A cursory
  • An extraneous
  • A fastidious
  • A meticulous
  • A perfunctory

Questão 10

Questão
Select the two answer choices that, when used to complete the sentence, fit the meaning of the sentence as a whole and produce completed sentences that are alike in meaning. Question 10 Releasing a series of solo recordings, collaborating with such musicians as David Byrne and Robert Fripp, and producing artists from Devo to U2 made Brian Eno so __________ for a time that one music industry observer was moved to note that “Brain Eno is everywherelike God, or salt.”
Responda
  • Omnivorous
  • Ignoble
  • Fortuitous
  • Omnipresent
  • Odious
  • Ubiquitous

Questão 11

Questão
Select the two answer choices that, when used to complete the sentence, fit the meaning of the sentence as a whole and produce completed sentences that are alike in meaning. Question 11 Some for Dr. Seuss´s most famous characters had _________ meanings that would be lost on his young readers until adulthood; the title character in Yertle the Turtle, for instance, was based on Hitler, and the imperiled Who people in Horton Hears a Who represented the citizens of post-World War II Japan.
Responda
  • Banal
  • Manifest
  • Oblique
  • Nascent
  • Allusive
  • Lucid

Questão 12

Questão
Select the two answer choices that, when used to complete the sentence, fit the meaning of the sentence as a whole and produce completed sentences that are alike in meaning. Question 12 Oblivious to the magnitude of his costly mistake, Whitman was unprepared to be _________ at so public a forum as the annual shareholder´s meeting.
Responda
  • Censured
  • Excoriated
  • Instigated
  • Lauded
  • Repatriated
  • Extolled

Questão 13

Questão
Select the two answer choices that, when used to complete the sentence, fit the meaning of the sentence as a whole and produce completed sentences that are alike in meaning. Question 13 Because they were written to entertain both parents and children, Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies served an unexpectedly _________ purpose: vex, parry and overture, for example, are among the advanced vocabulary that the young audience could learn in context from The Bugs Bunny Show.
Responda
  • Didactic
  • Obfuscating
  • Edifying
  • Aggrandizing
  • Ephemeral
  • Mystifying

Questão 14

Questão
Select the two answer choices that, when used to complete the sentence, fit the meaning of the sentence as a whole and produce completed sentences that are alike in meaning. Question 14 Not known to go out of his way to get along with people, the reclusive author nonetheless managed to surprise the interviewer with his ________ comments.
Responda
  • Simpatico
  • Abstruse
  • Recondite
  • Splenetic
  • Winsome
  • Churlish

Questão 15

Questão
Select the two answer choices that, when used to complete the sentence, fit the meaning of the sentence as a whole and produce completed sentences that are alike in meaning. Question 15 The decision to continue the investigation was not so much about doubting the veracity of the witness´s statement, which had been corroborated by other reliable interviews, as it was about a conviction that there was further evidence that could play a ________ role in the case.
Responda
  • Paramount
  • Negligible
  • Salient
  • Perjurious
  • Mendacious
  • Marginal

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