General Aptitude - 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.
Athough the industrialist appeared to be boisterous after his meeting with the workers, all his measures later ......... on him.
- (a)
bounced
- (b)
boomeranged
- (c)
succeeded
- (d)
worked well
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.
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.
When depression comes, logically the prices should fall for lack of buyers; but they actually .......... in the months following depression.
- (a)
reduced
- (b)
fell
- (c)
depreciated
- (d)
escalated
Choose the option that completes the sentence most meaningfully and appropriately.
Educatrion polished her to become cicilized ........ and impressive.
- (a)
eloquent
- (b)
ambiguous
- (c)
hyper corrective
- (d)
insentive
Choose the option that completes the sentnce most meaningfully and appropriately.
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.
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.
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
Choose the option that completes the sentnce most meaningfully and appropriately.
The ... that man is the slave of his circumstances makes rather lethargic and ...... to cahllenges of life.
- (a)
creed .... devoted
- (b)
idea .. animated
- (c)
argument ... dedicated
- (d)
belief . listless
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.
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.
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
Choose the option that completes the sentnce most meaningfully and appropriately.
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 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.
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.
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.
He has ... sense of words. Threefore, the sentences he constructs are always ... with rich meaning
- (a)
profound, pregnant
- (b)
distinguished, loaded
- (c)
terrific, tempated
- (d)
meaningfu, full
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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