Sentence Completion
Exam Duration: 45 Mins Total Questions : 30
Choose the option that completes the sentence most meaningfully and appropriately.
The new gadget was quite .................. iin addition to being safe and convenient.
- (a)
expensaive
- (b)
rough
- (c)
ordinary
- (d)
economical
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
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The army vehicles, weapons and uniform are the colour of leaves of plants in order to ................. them so that the enemy cannot spot them easily.
- (a)
decorate
- (b)
adorn
- (c)
camouflage
- (d)
beautify
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 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.
People gathered in hope of lietening to a fine oratory. Quite the opposite they laft the ground ............
- (a)
satified
- (b)
surprised
- (c)
disappointed
- (d)
comfused
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
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People were charmed by his ........ appearance and .......... deportment.
- (a)
ugly ....... haughty
- (b)
cute ......... rude
- (c)
handsome ......... dignified
- (d)
shabby ..... snobbish
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
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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
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The ...... as well as the non-residents of the locality were happy that at last there was some ...... leader who could go out of the way against the local populace.
- (a)
natices... useful
- (b)
residents . unrealistic
- (c)
immigrants . daring
- (d)
dmiciles .. populist
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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
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The women in India were kept under ... until the new laws u=in free India ensured their ..... from the tentacles of an orthodox society.
- (a)
impression...education
- (b)
subjugation .... emancipation
- (c)
shackles ... exculpation
- (d)
pressure ... release
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He continued to report the outside world that there was no food shortage on Animal; Farm. Nvertheless, towards the end of January it became obvious that it would be neccessary to ...... some grain from somewhere and let the outside world ... the truth.
- (a)
cook .... hide
- (b)
sell ...ignore
- (c)
protect ... prevent
- (d)
procure .... know
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That night two places in the same compund glittered with lights. One absorbed in intense love, ........ and erotica; the other in ........., devotion and sparkle of love
- (a)
hatred ... scorn
- (b)
seduction ... submssion
- (c)
seclusion ... resignation
- (d)
blame... fame
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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.
This was worse than before the youth grew crimson and ..... his fist, with very appearance of meditated .........
- (a)
closed ... welcome
- (b)
opened ... aggression
- (c)
clenched ... assault
- (d)
raised .. attack
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Initially the new entrant found his job .... but as he explored it and did more and more new things he soon started considering it a ..... close to his heart.
- (a)
interesting .... burden
- (b)
uniinteresting ... burden
- (c)
exciting .. job
- (d)
insipid .. assignment
Choose the most appropriate option to fill in the blank.
The fear.... with feeling incompetent is the fear of neing humiliated, embarrassed and .......... .
- (a)
endowed, criticied
- (b)
afflicated, downtrodden
- (c)
consistent, damaged
- (d)
imbued, exposed
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 room was filled with a ............. selection of furniture.
- (a)
random
- (b)
scattered
- (c)
polished
- (d)
designed
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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.
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.
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