Vocabulary in Context - 4 (Text Completion)

Directions: Complete the given sentence with the appropriate word from the options given below:

The president elect was hounded by group of a _____ lobbyists and others hoping to gain favour with his administration.

Directions: Complete the given sentence with the appropriate word from the options given below:

Despite all the negative events in his life, he felt _____ forces must be at work.

Directions: Fill the gap with the most appropriate word from the options given below.

As far as the professional ______________ is concerned, each man is out for his own personal ______________.

Directions: Fill the gap with the most appropriate word from the options given below.

When he was accused of being a ____________, he retorted he was not a __________.

Directions: Fill the gap with the most appropriate word from the options given below.

I can vouch for his honesty; I have always found him _____________.

Directions: Fill the gap with the most appropriate word from the options given below.

Industrial leaders are worried lest new inventions make their plants unprofitable to operate; they therefore wish to protect themselves against possible _________.

Directions: Fill the gap with the most appropriate word from the options given below.

Because he is ____________, we cannot predict what course he will follow at any moment.

Directions: Fill in the blank.

Confronted by such a _________ of conflicting testimony, the jury was convinced that some of the witnesses must be guilty of perjury.

Directions: Fill in the blank.

The _________ of the apartment was unbelievable; it was difficult to realize that men could live in such filth.

Directions: Fill in the blanks.

Strindberg's plays are marked by his _________; he felt modern woman needed to _________ man and invalidate his masculinity.

Directions: Fill in the blanks.

It is not _________ to _________ a mother on the beauty of her plain child; it is merely common sense.

Directions: Select the option that fills in the blanks most suitably (in the same order).

This ________ balance of payment must be seen along with an equally ________ problem of deficits in the government's own budget.

Directions: Select the option that fills in the blanks most suitably (in the same order).

The product of a ___________ religious home, he often found _________ in prayer.

Directions: Select the option that fills in the blanks most suitably (in the same order).

Unruly people may become _________ because they are treated with _______ by those around them.