Test Prep TEAS Test Exam
Test of Essential Academic Skills: Reading Comprehension, Sentence Correction, Math Problem Solving, Sentence Completion (Page 9 )

Updated On: 1-Feb-2026

His brilliant prose style is sometimes ____________by his lapses into ____________respecting and pretentious languages.

  1. achieved; facile
  2. extended; whimsical
  3. disrupted; understated
  4. anticipated; personal
  5. marred; banal

Answer(s): E



As a people, the Aztecs were full of contradictions; ____________and yet prizing humility, ____________and yet obliging and kind.

  1. arrogant; benevolent
  2. pious; gallant
  3. provincial; sullen
  4. tolerant; competitive
  5. proud; implacable

Answer(s): E



Narrowing the eyes when startled by a sudden noise or a noxious stimulus is ____________response, serving to reduce the exposure of sense organs to injury.

  1. an imaginative
  2. a protective
  3. a corrective
  4. a therapeutic
  5. a therapeutic

Answer(s): E



Her sense of time was oddly ____________; ten minutes sometimes seemed like an hour.

  1. credible
  2. distorted
  3. idealized
  4. consistent
  5. formidable

Answer(s): B



He makes his attack with a massive display of scholarship but no great ____________; all to often the
____________ rather than the rapier is his chosen weapon.

  1. pedantry; bomb
  2. elaboration; axe
  3. emphasis; pen
  4. discrimination; dart
  5. subtlety; bludgeon

Answer(s): A



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