• The Istiqlal Mosque in Jakarta, Indonesia, is a massive mosque that can

accommodate approximately 200,000 people at once, making it an ______

sight to behold.
• Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or
phrase?
A) idealized
B) intricate
C) imposing
D) illusory
The creation of Lotte Reiniger’s 1926 animated film The Adventures of Prince Achmed was ______
process. Over the course of three years, Reiniger and her collaborators painstakingly made more than
250,000 individual images of hand-cut paper silhouettes and repeatedly had to invent entirely new
methods and tools to create the special effects Reiniger envisioned.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
A. a haphazard
B. a contentious
C. an ineffectual
D. an arduous
• Close analysis of the painting Girl with a Flute, long attributed to the seventeenth-century Dutch
painter Johannes Vermeer, has revealed subtle deviations from the artist’s signature techniques.
These variations suggest that the work may be that of a student under Vermeer’s tutelage—potentially
______ our understanding of Vermeer as a solitary artist.
• Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
• A. negating
• B. prefiguring
• C. entrenching
• D. substantiating
• In a 2018 article about films depicting the experiences of Black Americans,
critics for the New York Times praise Madeline Anderson’s 1970 film I Am
Somebody as “galvanizing” and Reginald Hudlin’s 1990 film House Party as
“exuberant.” Fans of the two films hope that such ______ will attract new
audiences to these [Link]:
• Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or
phrase?
• A) impartiality
• B) ambivalence
• C) foresight
• D) acclaim
During the 2007–2010 financial crisis, the United States furnished billions of
dollars to selected countries’ central banks via mechanisms called swap
lines. Aditi Sahasrabuddhe found that countries’ policy environments seem
to have been ____ swap-line decisions: the probability that banks would be
granted swap lines was 0.20 in countries open to foreign-capital inflows and
0.03 in countries with policies restricting such inflows.
Question:
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or
phrase?
• A. predicated on
B. mediated by
C. decoupled from
D. material to
• While most animals are incapable of passing somatic mutations—genetic alterations that arise in an
organism’s nonreproductive cells—on to their offspring, elkhorn coral (Acropora palmata) presents an
intriguing ______: in a 2022 study, researchers found that elkhorn coral produced offspring that
inherited somatic mutations from a parent.
• Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
• A. hypothesis
• B. affinity
• C. anomaly
• D. corroboration
• The plaice is ectothermic, or cold-blooded, and the southern bluefin tuna is a
regional endotherm, meaning that parts of its body are typically warmer than
the surrounding water. The basking shark had been classified as a full
ectotherm, a position that became ______ after researchers Haley R. Dolton
and colleagues showed that the basking shark’s body temperature is
consistently 1.0 to 1.5°C warmer than the water.
• Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise
word or phrase?
A) inconsolable
B) untenable
C) unequivocal
D) unanticipated
• Lady Grant and colleagues _____ pots of sterilized soil with slurries of live
microbes collected from soil in five sites across Colorado, including areas of
sagebrush and ponderosa pine forest. Grant and team then grew mustard
plants in the pots to see if the different microbial slurries affected levels of
spicy glucosinolates like butenyl in the plants’ seeds.
• Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or
phrase?
A) precluded
B) estimated
C) sanitized
D) populated
• Siemowit is said to have ruled what eventually became Poland in the 9th
century. Unlike that of Bezprym or other well-attested figures from early
Polish history, Siemowit’s existence has been the subject of debate, as our
knowledge of him is ______ somewhat dubious oral traditions first written
down hundreds of years after the events they describe.
• Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or
phrase?
• A) unsupported by
B) independent of
C) derived from
D) reminiscent of
• In the early 1990s, the price of mass-produced comic books rose
dramatically, which had the counterintuitive effect of _____ demand: buyers
who hadn’t previously wanted to purchase comics suddenly thronged the
market, believing prices would continue to rise and the comics could be
resold later at a profit.
• Question:4. Which choice completes the text with the most logical and
precise word or phrase?
• A. monetizing
• B. precipitating
• C. stabilizing
• D. exploiting
• The familial structure of the black swan (Cygnus atratus) shows tremendous
____: breeding pairs with demonstrated success in rearing cygnets (young
swans) have been observed to foster those of less successful pairs, and
while rearing by female-male pairs is most common, male-male pairs
sometimes rear cygnets too, achieving a significantly higher rate of survival
to adulthood than female-male pairs.
• Question: Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise
word or phrase?
• A. elasticity
• B. reciprocity
• C. cohesion
• D. affection
• Some ethicists challenge the concept of personal character, claiming that if
it were meaningful, situational factors could not, as they clearly can, induce
behavior contrary to that character. As Rachana Kamtekar observes, this
argument is difficult to reconcile with our lay conception of character: we
expect a person of helpful character to be frequently helpful, not ____.
• Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or
phrase?
• A) unfailingly
B) self-servingly
C) grudgingly
D) sporadically
• The 2023 anthology The Big Book of Cyberpunk contains 108 stories,
including Fritz Leiber’s “Coming Attraction” (1950) and Erica Satifka’s “Act of
Providence” (2021). With its chronological scope, it is more comprehensive
than the much shorter 1986 cyberpunk anthology Mirrorshades, but
Mirrorshades's careful selection of stories makes that anthology more
______.
• Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or
phrase?
• A) capacious
B) outmoded
C) cursory
D) discerning
• Lisa Linn Kanae is a celebrated contemporary Hawaiian author whose work
is _____ by a rich literary history. From the traditional stories of the Kanaka
Maoli, or Native Hawaiian people, to the works of writers such as David
Malo, the literary heritage of Hawai‘i is distinctive and vibrant.
• Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or
phrase?
A) preceded
B) summarized
C) supplanted
D) overlooked
• Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or
phrase?
The recovery program led by Marisel López-Flores has dramatically
increased the population size of the endangered Amazona vittata, the
endemic parrot of Puerto Rico. Given that A. vittata corresponds in
physiology, behavior, and ecology to endangered Amazona species
elsewhere in the Caribbean, the conservation approach developed by
López-Flores may be _____ across the genus.
• A. replicable
B. comprehensible
C. observable
D. redeemable
• [Mr. Brooke] had travelled in his younger years, and was held in this part of
the country to have contracted a too rambling habit of mind. Mr. Brooke’s
conclusions were as difficult to predict as the weather.
• As used in the text, what does the word “contracted” most nearly mean?
• A
• Settled
• B
• Developed
• C
• Restricted
• D
• Described
• The following text is adapted from James Baldwin’s 1956 novel Giovanni’s Room.
The narrator is riding in a taxi down a street lined with food vendors and shoppers
in Paris, France.
• The multitude of Paris seems to be dressed in blue every day but Sunday, when,
for the most part, they put on an unbelievably festive black. Here they were now, in
blue, disputing, every inch, our passage, with their wagons, handtrucks, their
bursting baskets carried at an angle steeply self-confident on the back.
• ©1956 by James Baldwin
• As used in the text, what does the word “disputing” most nearly mean?
A) Arguing about
B) Disapproving of
C) Asserting possession of
D) Providing resistance to
• The following text is from Kenneth Grahame’s 1908 novel The Wind in the
Willows.
• The Rat is looking for the Mole, his friend, in the woods.[The Rat] had
patiently hunted through the wood for an hour or more, when at last to his
joy he heard a little answering cry. Guiding himself by the sound, he made
his way through the gathering darkness to the foot of an old beech tree.
• Question:
• As used in the text, what does the word “guiding” most nearly mean?
• A) Withdrawing
• B) Presenting
• C) Instructing
• D) Steering
• The following text is from Thomas Hardy’s 1874 novel Far from the Madding
Crowd. In the text, the narrator describes an open tract of land.
The changes of the seasons are less obtrusive on spots of this kind than
amid woodland scenery. Still, to a close observer, they are just as
perceptible; the difference is that their media of manifestation are less trite
and familiar than such well-known ones as the bursting of the buds or the
fall of the leaf.
• As used in the text, what does the word “obtrusive” most nearly
mean?
• A) Stubborn
B) Expansive
C) Insolent
D) Conspicuous