Questions
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An employment advertisement should ______ the number of vacancies.
- provide
- specify
- contain
- declare
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Dowry is no longer permitted by law even in _______ marriages.
- natural
- conventional
- love
- polygamous
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Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson is considered to be the greatest biography _____ written.
- not
- without
- ever
- never
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Contemporary economic development differs ______ from the Industrial Revolution of the 19th century.
- usually
- specially
- literally
- markedly
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The good products are often ______ alot.
- bury
- inters
- sold
- exhume
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More men adore the sun rising than the sun _______.
- shining
- setting
- darkening
- brazening
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We were brought up in a village and my grandfather was a simple _______ and quite illiterate.
- pheasant
- peasant
- pleasant
- man
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Children below the age of 12 can be tried only by the ______ Court.
- supreme
- high
- district
- juvenile
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It is time that professors came down from their _____ towers and studied the real needs of the students.
- gold
- silver
- clock
- isolated
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Everyone was _______ by surprise when the announced her plan to marry that boy.
- moved
- shaken
- taken
- deadened
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Women should be paid the same as men when they do the same job, for surely, what is sauce for the _______ is sauce for the _______.
- goose, gander
- cock, hen
- fox, vixen
- duck, doe
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The bloodbath that _____ the assassination is now part of history.
- ensued
- led
- dissipated
- anticipated
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Our ______ lived in caves and used crude implements.
- ancients
- ancestors
- antecedents
- antipodes
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His bad driving almost _____ an accident.
- created
- caused
- resulted
- made
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Known as a devout and serious person; she also has a ____ sense of humour.
- better
- plentiful
- quick
- good
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Ravi was always _____ of the good fortune of others.
- miserable
- irritable
- greedy
- envious
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The victim tried to tell us what had happened but his ____ were not audible.
- assailants
- sounds
- letters
- words
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Continuous unemployment has induced in the people a kind of ______ which is most depressing.
- laziness
- encouragement
- satisfaction
- anger
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I am sorry that I have been unable to find a suitable vacancy for you. The _____ is that most of the vacancies require technical qualification that you do not possess.
- difficulty
- trouble
- atmosphere
- offer
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My very thoughts were like the _____ rustle of dead leaves.
- lively
- funny
- welcome
- ghostly
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Two of the fugitives managed to remain free by adeptly avoiding the _______ of the police.
- pursuit
- discovery
- following
- expression
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Survival of mankind itself is in danger due to _____ of atomic weapons.
- perpetuation
- regularisation
- provocation
- proliferation
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The writer, like a spider, _____ a web; the creatures caught in the web have no substance, no reality.
- spins
- catches
- writes
- compiles
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______ my knowledge, Mr. Ashok has a prejudice ______ foreigners.
- In, for
- As, towards
- For, at
- To, against
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The police _______ him of stealing a car.
- charged into
- warned
- accused
- threatened