General Aptitude - Sentence Completion
Exam Duration: 45 Mins Total Questions : 30
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
We have to tolerate each other's little .......
- (a)
virtues
- (b)
characters
- (c)
foibles
- (d)
qualities
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.
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