Study on the flyISEE UpperVerbal ReasoningSentence Completion — single-word
Verbal Reasoning
A Sentence Completion — single-word question gives one sentence with a blank and four words to fill it.
Somewhere in the sentence sits a clue that fixes the meaning, such as a cause, a contrast word like although, or a phrase that restates the missing idea. Reading for that clue first, and predicting a word before looking at the choices, keeps attractive but wrong options from steering the answer.
For example, in a sentence saying a speech was so ___ that it ended almost as soon as it began, the blank calls for a word like concise. Choices are usually the same part of speech, so meaning, not grammar, decides.
Pick an answer to see whether it is right — nothing is saved, and nothing needs an account.
Question 1Mid
Because the alibi depended on a train that had stopped running years earlier, the detective found it .
Answer: B — untenable
The impossible train schedule causes the alibi to collapse; untenable means not able to be defended.
Question 2Mid
The poet’s description is , turning the ordinary alley into a place of mystery.
Answer: D — evocative
A description that turns an ordinary alley into a place of mystery is evocative. Unadorned, satirical, or technical language would not create that sense of mystery.
Question 3Easier
The scholar’s notes were so that, decades later, another researcher could trace every quotation to its exact source and page.
Answer: B — meticulous
“Meticulous” means careful and precise: the notes let another researcher locate every quotation’s exact source and page. Careless, scattered, and thin do not fit this thorough attention to detail.
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