Sentence Completion
Exam Duration: 45 Mins Total Questions : 30
Choose the option that completes the sentence most meaningfully and appropriately.
Since some employees shirk work, they are .............. at times by their bosses.
- (a)
appreciated
- (b)
ignored
- (c)
promoted
- (d)
admonished
Choose the option that completes the sentence most meaningfully and appropriately.
The new induction in the team was just a .......... Therefore, the organization decided not to give him responsibility for some time.
- (a)
boy
- (b)
youth
- (c)
graduate
- (d)
neophyte
Choose the option that completes the sentence most meaningfully and appropriately.
The course introduced recently is quite .......... irt takes care of almost all the needs of learner at this stage.
- (a)
cheap
- (b)
comprehensive
- (c)
exclusive
- (d)
fast
Choose the option that completes the sentence most meaningfully and appropriately.
The peasants and workers are the deprived lot with gaunt and weak body: their ............. condition can be attributed to their low income.
- (a)
diseased
- (b)
emaciated
- (c)
rural
- (d)
neglected
Choose the option that completes the sentence most meaningfully and appropriately.
The roads are overcrowded in the morning hours when everybody goes to their office. Similarly, they remain ...... in the evening hours when the office goers rush back to their homes.
- (a)
congested
- (b)
connected
- (c)
deserted
- (d)
rough
Choose the option that completes the sentence most meaningfully and appropriately.
England progressed much in the 18th and 19th centures; all the same it could not provide ........ t its women folk until the beginning of the 20th century.
- (a)
comfort
- (b)
enfranchisement
- (c)
status
- (d)
entertainment
Choose the option that completes the sentence most meaningfully and appropriately.
A minor ........ on the road some times culminates into bllody bloodbath.
- (a)
alteration
- (b)
altercation
- (c)
friendship
- (d)
relationship
Choose the option that completes the sentnce most meaningfully and appropriately.
The debater at the court of Vikramaditya had some ...... arguments in his ..... which he used very rarely. He used them only when he found his opponent too strong to defeat with his usual set of arguments.
- (a)
magnificent . wallet
- (b)
awkward .. mind
- (c)
unusual .. box
- (d)
invincible .... repertoire
Choose the option that completes the sentnce most meaningfully and appropriately.
People in ancient Greece were so ... with war and .... of life that they preferred to kill their handicapped children at birth.
- (a)
fraught ........... uncertainties
- (b)
busy ..... heartlessness
- (c)
o0bsessed . frightened
- (d)
preoccupied .... easiness.
Choose the option that completes the sentnce most meaningfully and appropriately.
Soon after the ...... Second World War many movements of art and literature stated making .... of life their main subject,
- (a)
great .... meaninglessness
- (b)
destructive . strength
- (c)
devastating ... futility
- (d)
unprecedented . prediction
Choose the option that completes the sentnce most meaningfully and appropriately.
Although the condition of the town is quite bad in regard to the ... condition of the buildings and roads the property prices are quite ........
- (a)
dilapidated ... exorbitant
- (b)
deplorable ... commendable
- (c)
exalted ... low
- (d)
critical .. reasonable
Choose the option that completes the sentnce most meaningfully and appropriately.
Despite the lofty claims made by the Games Committee, the progress in the preparations for organizing the games is quite ...... and ....... doubt on its success.
- (a)
satisfactoy ... erase
- (b)
high ... raises
- (c)
unsatisfactory .. raise
- (d)
delayed .. impose
Choose the option that completes the sentnce most meaningfully and appropriately.
In order to ..... the sense of sight he made it his rule to walk in the street with downcast eyes, .... neither to right nor to left and never behind him.
- (a)
gravity .. glancing
- (b)
satisfy .... moving
- (c)
deprive .. tiliting
- (d)
mortify .. glancing
Choose the option that completes the sentnce most meaningfully and appropriately.
He read the ......... but there was no poetry. Then he read the verses .... but they were no poetry. Finally, he read the flyleaf from the bottom to the top but he found no poetry.
- (a)
verses .... backwards
- (b)
flyleaf ... more
- (c)
words ... reverse
- (d)
book ... forwards
Choose the option that completes the sentnce most meaningfully and appropriately.
On the one hand the father claimed to be ..... and rational; on thye other hand he believed in all sorts of .........
- (a)
skeptical... superstitution
- (b)
intelligent ... stories
- (c)
neutral ... favouitism
- (d)
mature .... immaturity
Choose the option that completes the sentnce most meaningfully and appropriately.
The terrible disease a Mumbai doctore had ....... and declared the ....... demise of the eminent leader.
- (a)
announced .... eminent
- (b)
treated .. suspected
- (c)
suspected ... unlikely
- (d)
diagnosed ... iminent
Choose the most appropriate option to fill in the blank.
I am not easily ... by pressures that would interfere with accomplishing the goals of my unit. I stick with my ... .
- (a)
pessimistic, views
- (b)
swayed, convictions
- (c)
discouraged, achievements
- (d)
empowered, organization
Choose the most appropriate option to fill in the blank.
The old place was dingy and ... but it was still serene.
- (a)
gracious
- (b)
beautiful
- (c)
flourishing
- (d)
dilapidated
Choose the most appropriate option to fill in the blank.
After shouting lustily during the cricket match between India and Pakistan, he gfound that his voice had become .....
- (a)
coarse
- (b)
hard
- (c)
hoarse
- (d)
audible
Choose the most appropriate option to fill in the blank.
He found the .......... of his factory job difficult to bear
- (a)
monopoly
- (b)
malpratice
- (c)
magnanimity
- (d)
monotony
Choose the most appropriate option to fill in the blank.
To reach the agreement, each side had to ....... by giving up some of its demands.
- (a)
compliment
- (b)
compromise
- (c)
compensate
- (d)
comply
Choose the most appropriate option to fill in the blank.
People in our office are so ............. that the work never gets done in time.
- (a)
energetic
- (b)
lethargic
- (c)
reflective
- (d)
enthusiastic
Choose the most appropriate option to fill in the blank.
The rabbit ......... a few shreds from the lettuce leaf but was clearly not hungry.
- (a)
chewed
- (b)
gobbles
- (c)
gnawed
- (d)
nibbled
Choose the most appropriate option to fill in the blank.
A person who is extremely careful in spending is called ..........
- (a)
parsimonious
- (b)
parochial
- (c)
paranoid
- (d)
parasitic
Choose the most appropriate option to fill in the blank.
The law prohibits a person from felling a sandalwood tree even if it grows on one's own land, without prior permission from the government. As poor people cannot deal with the Governent, this legal provision leads to a rip-roaring business for ....... who care neither for the ........ nor for the trees.
- (a)
obstrudes, offends
- (b)
conceal, recedes
- (c)
enjoins, fails
- (d)
effaces, counts
Choose the most appropriate option to fill in the blank.
The argument that the need for a looser fiscal policy to ....... demand outweights the need to ........... budget deficits is persuasive.
- (a)
assess minimise
- (b)
stimulate control
- (c)
outstrip, eliminate
- (d)
restrain, conceal
Choose the most appropriate option to fill in the blank.
This simplified ............. to the decision-making process is a must read for anyone ..... important real estate, personal, or professional decisions.
- (a)
primer, maximising
- (b)
introduction, under
- (c)
tract, enacting
- (d)
guide, facing
Choose the most appropriate option to fill in the blank.
Their avhievement in the field of literature is described as ......: sometimes it is even called ..........
- (a)
siginificant, paltry
- (b)
insignificant, influential
- (c)
magnificent, irresponsible
- (d)
unimportant, trivial
Choose the most appropriate option to fill in the blank.
Companies that try to improve employees performane by .............. rewards encourage negative kinds of behaviour instead of ........ a genuine interest in doing the work well.
- (a)
conferring, discrediting
- (b)
bestowing, discouraging
- (c)
giving, seeking
- (d)
withholding fostering
Choose the most appropriate option to fill in the blank.
We need to help each other to survive. It is only through such ...... cooperation that difficullties can be overcome.
- (a)
contradictory
- (b)
forced
- (c)
antagonistic
- (d)
mutual