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The following text is from Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel Dracula. The narrator is being driven in a carriage through a
remote region at night.
The baying of the wolves sounded nearer and nearer, as though they were closing round on us from every
side. I grew dreadfully afraid, and the horses shared my fear. The driver, however, was not in the least
disturbed; he kept turning his head to left and right, but I could not see anything through the darkness.
As used in the text, what does the word “disturbed” most nearly mean?
A. Disorganized
B. Alarmed
C. Offended
D. Interrupted
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Dance choreographer Jawole Willa Jo Zollar aims to give people the opportunity to be ______ her creative
process. For example, live performances of her dance HairStories, which debuted in 2001, featured videos of
people across the United States talking about their hair and audience members sharing pictures of their
interesting hairstyles.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
A. nervous about
B. completed by
C. delayed by
D. involved in
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A musician and member of the Quechua of Peru, Renata Flores Rivera was eager to promote the Quechua
language in her music, but she was ______ speaking it. She met this challenge by asking her grandmother, a
native speaker of Quechua, to help her pronounce words in her song lyrics and also by taking classes in the
language.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
A. prepared for
B. inexperienced with
C. skilled in
D. excited about
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The following text is from Yann Martel’s 2001 novel Life of Pi. The narrator’s family owned a zoo when he was a
child.
It was a huge zoo, spread over numberless acres, big enough to require a train to explore it, though it
seemed to get smaller as I grew older, train included.
©2001 by Yann Martel
As used in the text, what does the word “spread” most nearly mean?
A. Hidden
B. Discussed
C. Extended
D. Coated
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Charles “Teenie” Harris was a photographer for the Pittsburgh Courier from 1936 to 1975. During his career he
took over 70,000 photographs documenting everyday life in Pittsburgh’s Black communities. The Carnegie
Museum of Art maintains thousands of his photographs, carefully ______ them so that audiences can continue to
view them well into the future.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
A. replacing
B. inventing
C. preserving
D. counting
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ID: e3f05561 1.6

In the 1970s, video cameras became increasingly affordable for ordinary consumers and gave Ulysses Jenkins
and other artists capabilities that were previously unavailable except to television broadcasters. Jenkins
recognized and took full advantage of this ______ access to powerful technology to create groundbreaking works
of video art, such as Mass of Images (1978).
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
A. newfound
B. delicate
C. inevitable
D. habitual
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A brief book review cannot fully convey the ______ of Olga Tokarczuk’s novel The Books of Jacob, with its
enormous cast of characters, its complicated, wandering plot, and its page numbers that count backward
(beginning at 965 and ending at 1).
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
A. accuracy
B. inactivity
C. complexity
D. restraint
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ID: 9ccf463e 1.8

The following text is from Nella Larsen’s 1928 novel Quicksand.
The trees in their spring beauty sent through her restive mind a sharp thrill of pleasure. Seductive, charming,
and beckoning as cities were, they had not this easy unhuman loveliness.
As used in the text, what does the word “beckoning” most nearly mean?
A. Demanding
B. Signaling
C. Inviting
D. Shifting
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Biologist Jane Edgeloe and colleagues have located what is believed to be the largest individual plant in the world
in the Shark Bay area of Australia. The plant is a type of seagrass called Posidonia australis, and it ______
approximately 200 square kilometers.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
A. acknowledges
B. produces
C. spans
D. advances
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ID: f3fac04f 1.10

Bioluminescent beetles called fireflies may seem to create flashes of light randomly, but each species of firefly
actually has its own special series of repeated flashes and pauses. These unique ______ allow fireflies of the
same species to find each other.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
A. quantities
B. decorations
C. patterns
D. agreements
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Visual artist Gabriela Alemán states that the bold colors of comics, pop art, and Latinx culture have always
fascinated her. This passion for the rich history and colors of her Latinx community translates into the ______
artworks she produces.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
A. vivid
B. unknown
C. definite
D. reserved
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In recommending Bao Phi’s collection Sông I Sing, a librarian noted that pieces by the spoken-word poet don’t
lose their ______ nature when printed: the language has the same pleasant musical quality on the page as it does
when performed by Phi.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
A. scholarly
B. melodic
C. jarring
D. personal
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The Appalachian Trail is a hiking path in the eastern United States. Much of the 2,000 mile trail passes through
wilderness areas. In order to ______ those areas, the United States Congress passed the National Trails System
Act in 1968, ensuring that the trail would not be sold or commercially developed.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
A. borrow
B. postpone
C. protect
D. decorate
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The following text is adapted from Sui Sin Far’s 1912 short story “Mrs. Spring Fragrance.” Mr. and Mrs. Spring
Fragrance immigrated to the United States from China.
Mrs. Spring Fragrance was unaware that Mr. Spring Fragrance, tired with the day’s business, had thrown
himself down on the bamboo settee on the veranda, and that although his eyes were engaged in scanning
the pages of the Chinese World, his ears could not help receiving the words which were borne to him
through the open window.
As used in the text, what does the word “receiving” most nearly mean?
A. Denying
B. Entering
C. Carrying
D. Hearing
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In 1877, 85% of California’s railways were already controlled by the Southern Pacific Railroad. The company
further solidified its ______ in rail access to the state’s Pacific coast when it completed the Sunset Route in 1883:
running from Louisiana to Southern California, the route established the first transcontinental rail line across the
southern United States.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
A. dominance
B. creativity
C. insignificance
D. neutrality
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Cucurbits, a group of plants that includes squash and melons, relied on mastodons to spread their seeds in the
Ice Age. When these animals died out, cucurbits faced extinction in turn, having lost their means of seed
dispersal. Around this time, however, the ancestors of Indigenous peoples in North America began raising
cucurbits as crops, thus ______ the plants’ survival.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
A. verifying
B. multiplying
C. comforting
D. ensuring
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ID: b92c13fa 1.17

According to statistician Nassim Nicholas Taleb, the best way to predict the amount of time a nonperishable entity
(such as a building or a technology) will continue to exist is to examine how long it has survived so far. In this
view, an item’s age is the strongest ______ how much longer it will last.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
A. uncertainty about
B. indicator of
C. motivation for
D. criticism of
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In the mid-nineteenth century, some abolitionist newspapers ______ westward migration in the United States; by
printing a letter that described the easy fortunes and high salaries miners could make in California during the Gold
Rush, Frederick Douglass’s newspaper North Star was one such publication that inspired readers to relocate.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
A. stimulated
B. assigned
C. opposed
D. disregarded
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ID: 9671d61d 1.19

The following text is from Claude McKay’s 1922 poem “Morning Joy.” The speaker is looking out a window and
observing a wold, or large area of land.
At night the wide and level stretch of wold,
Which at high noon had basked in quiet gold,
Far as the eye could see was ghostly white;
Dark was the night save for the snow’s weird light.
I drew the shades far down, crept into bed;
Hearing the cold wind moaning overhead
Through the sad pines, my soul, catching its pain,
Went sorrowing with it across the plain.
As used in the text, what does the word “drew” most nearly mean?
A. Pulled
B. Drained
C. Inspired
D. Sketched
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ID: 9d73c9eb 1.20

Osage Nation citizen Randy Tinker-Smith produced and directed the ballet Wahzhazhe, which vividly chronicles
Osage history and culture. Telling Osage stories through ballet is ______ choice because two of the foremost
ballet dancers of the twentieth century were Osage: sisters Maria and Marjorie Tallchief.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
A. a suitable
B. a determined
C. an arbitrary
D. an unpredictable
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ID: 8d579825 1.21

The printing of Virginia Woolf’s novels featured a creative ______ between Woolf and her sister Vanessa Bell: a
talented painter, Bell worked closely with Woolf to create original cover art for most of the novels.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
A. rebellion
B. partnership
C. discovery
D. disagreement
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Sumerian civilization (which lasted from around 3300 to 2000 BCE) ______ many concepts that persist into
present-day civilizations: for example, the first description of the seven-day week appears in the Sumerian Epic of
Gilgamesh.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
A. transformed
B. introduced
C. inherited
D. overlooked
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Physicist Joseph Weber performed ______ work in gravitational wave research in the 1960s and 1970s,
conducting key experiments that scientists later used as the basis for their own investigations that led to the first
verified detection of a gravitational wave in 2015.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
A. foundational
B. supplementary
C. repetitive
D. ineffective
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As an architect in Los Angeles in the 1950s, Helen Liu Fong became known for avoiding ______ designs in her
buildings. Instead of using standard shapes and colors, she typically explored innovative forms and daring hues.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
A. creative
B. bold
C. traditional
D. understandable
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Sueño de Familia is an exhibition of drawings, paintings, and ceramics that explores the artistic heritage of US-
based artist Yolanda González. The exhibition ______ five generations, featuring works by González’s great-
grandfather, grandmother, mother, and niece as well as González herself.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
A. borrows
B. spans
C. judges
D. neglects
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US traffic signals didn’t always contain the familiar three lights (red, yellow, and green). Traffic lights only ______
red and green lights until the three-light traffic signal was developed in the 1920s.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
A. avoided
B. featured
C. appreciated
D. disregarded
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ID: a4f50d30 1.27

Scientists previously thought that all electric eels belong to a single species, but a team of researchers led by
zoologist C. David de Santana proved this idea wrong by ______ that there are in fact three distinct species of
electric eels.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
A. pretending
B. complaining
C. requiring
D. demonstrating
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Studying how workload affects productivity, Maryam Kouchaki and colleagues found that people who chose to do
relatively easy tasks first were less ______ compared to those who did hard tasks first. Finishing easy tasks gave
participants a sense of accomplishment, but those who tackled hard tasks first actually became more skilled and
productive workers over time.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
A. secretive
B. efficient
C. outgoing
D. unsympathetic
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ID: faa5696c 1.29

Arturo A. Schomburg was dedicated to preserving books, art, and other materials from peoples of African descent
around the world. To get these items, Schomburg ______ friends and colleagues, whom he asked to bring back
rare and valuable objects from their international travels. Now, Schomburg’s collection is a valuable resource for
scholars of Black history and culture.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
A. admired
B. disagreed with
C. warned
D. depended on
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The following text is adapted from Mohsin Hamid’s 2017 novel Exit West. Saeed lives with his mother and father.
On cloudless nights after a daytime rain, Saeed’s father would sometimes bring out the telescope, and the family
would sip green tea on their balcony, enjoying a breeze, and take turns to look up at objects whose light, often,
had been emitted before any of these three viewers had been born—light from other centuries, only now reaching
Earth.
©2017 by Mohsin Hamid
As used in the text, what does the word “reaching” most nearly mean?
A. Arriving at
B. Consulting with
C. Running to
D. Clinging to
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ID: 428cd2c1 1.31

Some people have speculated that two helmets with attached horns discovered in Denmark in 1942 belonged to
Vikings, but scholars have long been skeptical. Archaeologist Helle Vandkilde and colleagues recently provided
radiocarbon dates for the helmets, and their findings ______ scholars’ skepticism: the helmets date to the Nordic
Bronze Age, centuries before the Vikings existed.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
A. anticipate
B. inspect
C. reveal
D. justify
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ID: 82b7c3b2 1.32

The following text is from Booth Tarkington’s 1921 novel Alice Adams.
Mrs. Adams had always been fond of vases, she said, and every year her husband’s Christmas present to her
was a vase of one sort or another—whatever the clerk showed him, marked at about twelve or fourteen
dollars.
As used in the text, what does the word “marked” most nearly mean?
A. Staged
B. Priced
C. Stained
D. Watched
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ID: aad56f2b 1.33

As a young photographer in the 1950s, William Klein ______ the conventions of photography by creating images
that were high contrast and included blurred and distorted elements—features generally seen as flaws. So
unorthodox was Klein’s work that he had difficulty finding a publisher for his now-iconic 1956 photo book Life is
Good & Good for You in New York.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
A. reviewed
B. defied
C. respected
D. prevented
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1.34
Ronyoung Kim creatively captures the Korean American immigrant experience in her novel Clay Walls by writing about a
family from three ______ perspectives. The first section of the novel is from the mother Haesu’s perspective, the second is
from the father Chun’s perspective, and the last is from the daughter Faye’s perspective.

Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word?

A. distinct

B. required

C. unintended

D. unknown
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1.35
Latro, the main character of Gene Wolfe’s novel Soldier of the Mist, is a man in ancient Greece. He completely loses his
memory whenever he sleeps. So, before sleeping, Latro records the important experiences of each day on a scroll, carefully
choosing which ones to ______.

Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

A. suspect

B. preserve

C. suggest

D. imagine
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1.36
The following text is from Mark Oshiro’s 2018 novel Anger Is a Gift. In the novel, Moss and his friends are on a subway train
in Northern California.

Lights from the outside world then filled the train car as it rose out of the ground and climbed the elevated track. As
long as Moss had lived in West Oakland, he’d never tired of this specific view, so he pointed toward the windows.
“Check it,” he said, and the Port of Oakland began to pass by them.
©2018 by Mark Oshiro

As used in the text, what does the word “specific” most nearly mean?

A. Imaginary

B. Energetic

C. Correct

D. Particular
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1.37
It would be a mistake to ______ the exhibit that artist and curator Joe Baker, who is a member of the Lenape (Delaware)
people, has organized at the Brooklyn Public Library. The exhibit, which includes Lenape beadwork from the 1850s as well as
modern works that use traditional patterns, is essential viewing.

Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

A. complicate

B. amplify

C. overlook

D. assemble
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1.38
The following text is from Darcie Little Badger’s 2021 novel A Snake Falls to Earth. Nina is looking at old family photographs.

Nina couldn’t stop looking at the sepia-toned photograph in an oak frame. Propped on the window ledge, it featured a
portrait of Great-Great-Grandmother Rosita as a young woman.
©2021 by Darcie Little Badger

As used in the text, what does the word “featured” most nearly mean?

A. Displayed

B. Questioned

C. Approved

D. Ignored
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1.39
Researcher Lucy Salazar is using radiocarbon dating to study Machu Picchu, an ancient Incan fortress in the Andes
Mountains. She and her colleagues have found that the site’s age differs from the ______ estimate: it is approximately 20
years older than scholars thought when first encountering Machu Picchu in 1911.

Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

A. genuine

B. intentional

C. independent

D. original
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1.40
The following text is adapted from Lewis Carroll’s 1871 novel Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There. Alice,
a child, is talking to her cat.

“Do you hear the snow against the window-panes, Kitty? How nice and soft it sounds! Just as if someone was kissing
the window all over outside.”

As used in the text, what does the word “soft” most nearly mean?

A. Gentle

B. Sensitive

C. Shapeless

D. Bland
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1.41
The following text is adapted from Charles Chesnutt’s 1899 story “The Wife of His Youth.” Mr. Ryder is hosting a formal
gathering where he will propose marriage to the woman he has been courting.

[A] younger and less cautious man would long since have spoken. But he had made up his mind, and had only to
determine the time when he would ask her to be his wife. He decided to give a ball in her honor, and at some time
during the evening of the ball to offer her his heart and hand.

As used in the text, what does the word “determine” most nearly mean?

A. Choose

B. Influence

C. Demonstrate

D. Measure
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1.42
When marine biologist Brittany Williams played different ocean recordings to groups of oyster larvae, groups that heard
sounds of a healthy oyster reef were the most ______. They were twice as likely as other groups to show signs of making a
permanent home. This suggests that playing recordings of a healthy ocean reef may encourage oysters to create such a
reef.

Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

A. responsive

B. inactive

C. liked

D. distressed
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1.43
Manul cats are small, shy felines. They live mostly alone in out-of-the-way parts of Asia, such as on Mount Everest. These
cats have been difficult to research because their habitats are so ______ large populations of humans.

Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

A. full of

B. drawn to

C. responsible for

D. distant from
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1.44
Archaeologist Erika Karuzas works with the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of Montana to preserve culturally
significant sites. In 2015 they decided that creating a new national trail connecting many of these sites would ______ their
preservation efforts, because the US government provides some protections to national trails that aren’t given to other areas.

Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

A. inspire

B. ignore

C. promote

D. reduce
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1.45
The following text is adapted from José Martí’s 1891 poem “At the Salon” (translated by Cecil Charles in 1898). The speaker
describes a painting featuring a female figure.

From the sterile soil no ray Of hope in a blade of green, Nor sheltering roof is seen—
Though the skies are heavy and gray. Ah, this is the woman fair Who stole away my heart
In the splendid halls of art Yester-e’en as I wandered there!

As used in the text, what does the word “sheltering” most nearly mean?

A. Protective

B. Restrictive

C. Affectionate

D. Suspicious