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Test of Essential Academic Skills: Reading Comprehension, Sentence Correction, Math Problem Solving, Sentence Completion (Page 12 )

Updated On: 1-Feb-2026
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The movie avoids many of the ____________ novel, bringing into sharper focus characters that originally were amiable or disagreeable ____________.

  1. subtleties; monsters
  2. excellencies; stereotypes
  3. allusions; individuals
  4. particulars; nonentities
  5. shortcomings; blur

Answer(s): E

Explanation:

If the movie had brought the characters in the novel to a sharper focus, those characters must have been portrayed with less sharpness in the novel. Among the choices, it, is “stereotypes” and “blurs” which have this meaning. But “stereotypes” cannot be described as excellence of a novel. So, “excellencies” can also be ruled out.
The pair “shortcomings; blur” completes a meaningful sentence, and is the answer.



People, being prisoners of ____________, have made failing a basic metaphor for failure, from the fall of the stock market to the fall of government.

  1. politics
  2. gravity
  3. greed
  4. turbulence
  5. emotion

Answer(s): B

Explanation:

The author says that the use of the word “fall”, as a metaphor to represent “failure”, arises out of the people being prisoners of something. Among the given choices, it is “gravity” that is the best choice, because it is gravity that brings every physical object from a higher (success) to a lower (failure) level. So, “gravity” is the answer.



Far from exercising a counter influence to intellectual orthodoxy, the movement itself has become a center of ____________.

  1. conformity
  2. notoriety
  3. enmity
  4. theology
  5. idealism

Answer(s): A

Explanation:

The use of the phrase “far from” becoming a challenge to “intellectual orthodoxy” implies that the new movement has also become something similar to such orthodoxy. Among the choices, it is the word “conformity” which is closest to the word “orthodoxy.” So, “conformity” is the answer.



This book has neither merit nor distinction, and it all but ____________whatever prestige the author may once have had.

  1. challenges
  2. maximizes
  3. epitomizes
  4. nullifies
  5. encompasses

Answer(s): D

Explanation:

If the author of the book had prestige earlier, but has now produced a book which has neither merit nor distinction, the new book would nullify his earlier prestige. So, “nullifies” is the answer.



The historian's assertion that there is a ____________of verifiable information about nineteenth-century Native Americans is ____________, for there exist many transcripts of authentic oral accounts of their activities.

  1. wealth; fallacious
  2. shortage; legitimate
  3. depletion; irrefutable
  4. paucity; erroneous
  5. surfeit; implausible

Answer(s): D

Explanation:

The second part of the sentence says that there exist many transcripts of genuine accounts of the activities of Native Americans. So, the first part must mean either that the historian correctly asserted that there is a lot of verifiable information, or that he wrongly asserted that there is little of verifiable information.
Among the choices, it is “paucity; erroneous” which means the latter, and is the answer.



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