Sentence Completion Concept 2
Sentence Completion Concept 2 (Moderate)
Questions
Directions: Select the appropriate choice that fills the blank(s) in the sentence in the most meaningful manner.
In most developing countries, research and development efforts are _________ by their absence.
- obvious
- conspicuous
- clear
- minimised
- defined
Directions: Select the appropriate choice that fills the blank(s) in the sentence in the most meaningful manner.
_________ in the holy man's assertion that women should not recite the Vedas is the cultural assumption that women are inferior to men.
- Implicit
- Covert
- Potential
- Latent
Directions: Select the appropriate choice that fills the blank(s) in the sentence in the most meaningful manner.
When somebody talks or acts _________, we say he is mentally _________.
- logically, upset
- consistently, unbalanced
- peculiarly, perfect
- illogically, deranged
- madly, advanced
Directions: Select the appropriate choice that fills the blank(s) in the sentence in the most meaningful manner.
His irresponsible and _________ behaviour invited _________ observations on his mental ability.
- childlike, favourable
- childish, adverse
- puerile, positive
- careless, glowing
- adult, adulatory
Directions: Select the appropriate choice that fills the blank(s) in the sentence in the most meaningful manner.
Modern historians view history as an integrated _________ of cause and effect affecting the lives of the people as a whole, and not as a sequence of _________ events concerning royalty alone.
- continuum, discreet
- continuation, discrete
- continuation, discreet
- continuum, discrete
- continuance, discreet
Directions: Select the appropriate choice that fills the blank(s) in the sentence in the most meaningful manner.
If some wrong has been _________ by the grandfather some reparation from a grandson is _________.
- predicted, poetic justice
- perpetrated, in order
- inflicted, amiss
- extracted, justified
- exacted, called for
Directions: Select the appropriate choice that fills the blank(s) in the sentence in the most meaningful manner.
The workers were _________ because the government issued a patently unfair award that _________ the tribunal's award.
- incensed, controverted
- excited, improved upon
- ensnared, agreed with
- empowered, mitigated
Directions: Select the appropriate choice that fills the blank(s) in the sentence in the most meaningful manner.
The two M.P.s were _________ criticised because neither spoke _________ against the government's wishy-washy attitude to racial discrimination.
- both, genuinely
- healthy, anything
- fairly, falsely
- severely, firmly
Directions: Select the appropriate choice that fills the blank(s) in the sentence in the most meaningful manner.
The new Chief Minister is not interested in _________ or revenge but has only pity and _________ for even the rivals.
- audacity, alienation
- retribution, compassion
- generosity, correctness
- castigation, wonder
- avenge, piety
Directions: Select the appropriate choice that fills the blank(s) in the sentence in the most meaningful manner.
A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he _________ off more than he can _________.
- throws, eat
- bites, swallow
- bites, chew
- gulps, digest
- tears, digest
Directions: Select the appropriate choice that fills the blank(s) in the sentence in the most meaningful manner.
'' means only a ' shade of distinction'.
- Paradox, fine
- Vindication, forceful
- Nuance, subtle
- Prevarication, clever
Directions: Select the appropriate choice that fills the blank(s) in the sentence in the most meaningful manner.
Her reforms _________ her many admirers in the West, but they failed miserably in _________ the hardships of her people.
- repelled, overcoming
- fascinated, implicating
- impaired, isolating
- won, alleviating
- impressed, meeting
Directions: Select the appropriate choice that fills the blank(s) in the sentence in the most meaningful manner.
Human history is largely a record of faltering _________, of complacent surrender to _________.
- ego, enemies
- achievement, historians
- effort, circumstance
- steps, self
- attempt, God
Directions: Select the appropriate choice that fills the blank(s) in the sentence in the most meaningful manner.
The _________ with which the guard spotted the fire led to his _________ by his superiors.
- hesitation, promotion
- celerity, removal
- audacity, advancement
- alacrity, commendation
- avidity, demotion
Directions: Select the appropriate choice that fills the blank(s) in the sentence in the most meaningful manner.
The _________ of the agreement led to _________ results.
- infraction, detrimental
- refraction, beneficial
- insurrection, violent
- predilection, disastrous
- extraction, sentimental
Directions: Select the appropriate choice that fills the blank(s) in the sentence in the most meaningful manner.
The _________ appointment of the teacher by the Principal was frowned upon by many in the School Council.
- ad hoc
- ad infinitum
- ad lib
- ad nauseum
- ad hominem
Directions: Select the appropriate choice that fills the blank(s) in the sentence in the most meaningful manner.
Politics in academic affairs and institutions _________ educationists and teachers, who consider their calling noble.
- appals
- amuses
- dissuades
- isolates
- persuades
Directions: Select the appropriate choice that fills the blank(s) in the sentence in the most meaningful manner.
People who hold very orthodox opinions are sometimes _________ from society.
- impelled
- ostracized
- repealed
- repelled
- honoured
Directions: Select the appropriate choice that fills the blank(s) in the sentence in the most meaningful manner.
It was a _________ worth celebrating with a bonfire.
- carnage
- carnival
- blitzkrieg
- bonanza
- disaster