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Sentence Completion — two-word — ISEE Upper practice questions

On the ISEE Upper Verbal Reasoning section, Sentence Completion — two-word questions give a sentence with two blanks and require the student to pick the word pair that fits both gaps at once. The student has to parse the logic of the whole sentence, especially contrast or continuation signals such as not, but, and nevertheless, and check tone as well as meaning. Answer choices come as paired options. A frequent trap is a pair that works in one blank but not the other, or that makes the two ideas agree when the sentence sets them against each other.

  • Section: Verbal Reasoning 40 questions on the paper
  • 442 practice questions in the app

Sample questions

Question 1

The witness was , not ; she admitted what she did not remember.

  1. Ahostile … calm
  2. Bforgetful … honest
  3. Ccandid … evasive
  4. Dprecise … vague
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Answer: C — candid … evasive

Admitting uncertainty is candid and contrasts with being evasive.

Question 2

The memoir's voice is about past mistakes but never , balancing regret with perspective.

  1. Aboastful … reflective
  2. Bremorseful … self-pitying
  3. Cremorseful … reflective
  4. Dboastful … self-pitying
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Answer: B — remorseful … self-pitying

Remorseful fits the regret about past mistakes; never self-pitying matches perspective without wallowing. “boastful … reflective” would create a register the sentence does not support.

Question 3

Testing every glaze recipe on identical clay at the same firing temperature reduced about the source of any color differences; nevertheless, the potter withheld judgment until further trials established that those differences were .

  1. Aambiguity … reproducible
  2. Buncertainty … fortuitous
  3. Cprecision … consistent
  4. Dobjectivity … anomalous
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Answer: A — ambiguity … reproducible

Holding clay and temperature constant reduces ambiguity about what caused the color differences. Further trials establish reproducibility when the differences recur.

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