General Aptitude - Sentence Completion
Exam Duration: 45 Mins Total Questions : 30
Choose the option that completes the sentence most meaningfully and appropriately.
He was so stubborn and ........ that the parents gave up the hope of his reformation.
- (a)
intractable
- (b)
innocent
- (c)
intuitive
- (d)
unorganized
Choose the option that completes the sentence most meaningfully and appropriately.
Although many people don't like the jobs they do they remain stuck to them for ............. reasons.
- (a)
inexplicit
- (b)
ulterior
- (c)
pecuniary
- (d)
internal
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.
Colonialism is not appreciable in any way;nonetheless is does some .......... wotk for its own sake that helps the colonized country later on.
- (a)
constrctive
- (b)
destructive
- (c)
instructive
- (d)
unneccessary
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.
They chose her president - indeed, she is the ........... person for the post.
- (a)
inappropriate
- (b)
unwanted
- (c)
liked
- (d)
appropriate
Choose the option that completes the sentnce most meaningfully and appropriately.
In the old system of education when they used to say 'spare the rod and spoil the child', they tried to motivate students by ............ and forgot that it brought ......... and killed enquiry and exploration.
- (a)
punishing .... satisfaction.
- (b)
forcing ... learning
- (c)
inspiring ... following
- (d)
intimidation ........ conformity
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.
He was taciturn and ...... and the idea to listening to others was quite ..... to him.
- (a)
succinct... exciting
- (b)
egomaniac ....... repugnant
- (c)
prolix ..... appealing
- (d)
anti-social ... repulsive
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.
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 most appropriate option to fill in the blank.
I cannot honestly number myself among the pious and I have frequently had the experience of being .... among the unhloy.
- (a)
regenerated
- (b)
deteriorated
- (c)
complied
- (d)
consigned
Choose the most appropriate option to fill in the blank.
Lack of .... is basic of good teamwork, but our ability to work with others depends on our....
- (a)
rigidity, compatibility
- (b)
dogmatism, motivation
- (c)
professionalism, vulnerability
- (d)
positivism, flexibility
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 editorail ... the way that journalism has lately been failing inits mission.
- (a)
expresses
- (b)
encounters
- (c)
degrades
- (d)
deplores
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.
The room was filled with a ............. selection of furniture.
- (a)
random
- (b)
scattered
- (c)
polished
- (d)
designed
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.
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.
This paper intends to .......... fearlessly all a forms of corruption and falsehood in public life.
- (a)
present
- (b)
unveil
- (c)
uncover
- (d)
expose
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.
In his usual ..... manner, he had insured himself against this type of loss.
- (a)
raucously
- (b)
ravishingly
- (c)
rapaciously
- (d)
ravenously
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.
The best punctuation is that of which the reader is least conscious for when punctuation or lack of it ......... it self, it is usually because it .......
- (a)
conceals, recedes
- (b)
enjoins, fails
- (c)
obtrudes, offends
- (d)
effaces, counts
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.
A growing number of these expert professionlas .... having to train foreigners as the students end up ...... the teachers who have to then unhappily contend with no jobs at all or new jobs with drastically reduced pay packets.
- (a)
welcome, assisting
- (b)
resist, challenging
- (c)
resent, replacing
- (d)
are, supplanting