Test of Essential Academic Skills - Sentence Completion

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

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.

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

His brilliant prose style is sometimes_______by his lapses into_______respecting and pretentious languages.

The study crowds and groups is more than_______in an age characterized by interdependence and action.