Contextual Clues - 1 (Gapped Sentences)
Practice using contextual clues to complete gapped sentences with appropriate words
Questions
Directions: Fill in the blanks with appropriate words.
Due to _______ rainfall this year, they had to _______ cuts in water supply.
- scanty, lift
- regular, fasten
- sufficient, resort to
- inadequate, impose
Directions: Fill in the blanks with appropriate words.
After the present tax holiday period _______, the power cost to users may become _______.
- starts, unreasonable
- sets, perishable
- ends, more
- enhances, negligible
Directions: Fill in the blanks with appropriate words.
History is a storehouse of the _______ of the past and with its help, we can understand the present and _______ the future.
- symptoms, organise
- wisdom, foresee
- analysis, establish
- culture, civilise
Directions: Fill in the blanks with appropriate words.
A good teacher-student relationship helps create _______ and peaceful atmosphere where there is no room for any _______ of educational activity.
- harmonious, interruption
- pleasant, development
- quiet, confusion
- cordial, education
Directions: Fill in the blanks with appropriate words.
His _______ speech has seriously _______ the young minds.
- daring, delighted
- maiden, flattered
- humorous, damaged
- irresponsible, misled
Directions: Fill in the blanks with appropriate words.
A close _______ of the bill shows that the provisions are _______ and there is a need to add certain crucial elements to them.
- examination, sufficient
- observation, helpful
- scrutiny, inadequate
- file, numerous
Directions: Fill in the blanks with appropriate words.
Communication is the art of _______ ideas and the science of _______ messages.
- seeking, deriving
- searching, flashing
- developing, spreading
- expressing, transmitting
Directions: Fill in the blanks with appropriate words.
The _________ of the early morning light _______ the room, making it larger and cosier at once.
- brilliance, grind
- harshness, transfigured
- glare, destroyed
- softness, transformed
Directions: Fill in the blanks with appropriate words.
In the event of a _______ or even scanty rainfall season, July remains the _______ month in most of India.
- normal, wettest
- heavy, wet
- average, damped
- usual, drenched
Directions: Fill in the blanks with appropriate words.
Wars are _______ in a culture of _______ fed by the will to power.
- alarming, bloodshed
- prone, chaos
- welcomed, danger
- inevitable, violence