Sentence Completion
Vocabulary test requiring students to select the most appropriate word to complete sentences meaningfully
Questions
Directions: Pick out the most effective word from the given words to fill in the blank to make the sentence meaningfully complete.
The soldiers were instructed to ______ restraint and handle the situation peacefully.
- exercise
- control
- prevent
- enforce
- remain
Directions: Pick out the most effective word from the given words to fill in the blank to make the sentence meaningfully complete.
Since one cannot read every book, one should be content with making a _______ selection.
- normal
- standard
- sample
- moderate
- judicious
Directions: Pick the most effective word from the given words to fill in the blank to make the sentence meaningfully complete.
Some people _______ themselves into believing that they are indispensable to the organization they work for.
- keep
- fool
- force
- delude
- denigrate
Directions: Pick out the most effective word from the given words to fill in the blank to make the sentence meaningfully complete.
He is too ______ to be deceived easily.
- strong
- modern
- kind
- honest
- intelligent
Directions: Pick out the most effective word from the given words to fill in the blank to make the sentence meaningfully complete.
The improvement made by changes in the system, was ______ and did not warrant the large expenses.
- large
- small
- minute
- marginal
- uncertain
Directions: Pick out the most effective word from the given words to fill in the blank to make the sentence meaningfully complete.
How do you expect that country to progress, when its government is corrupt, ______ and still largely feudal?
- devalued
- dwindling
- despotic
- demeaning
- demobilised
Directions: Pick out the most effective word from the given words to fill in the blank to make the sentence meaningfully complete.
Even at the risk of economic loss, he ________ refused to take the beaten track.
- repeatedly
- often
- regularly
- continuously
- steadfastly
Directions: Pick out the most effective word from the given words to fill in the blank to make the sentence meaningfully complete.
Two of the fugitives managed to remain free, by adeptly avoiding the ______ of the police.
- torture
- pursuit
- discovery
- following
- repression
Directions: Pick out the most effective word from the given words to fill in the blank to make the sentence meaningfully complete.
The truck was _______ the traffic and the policeman asked the driver to move off.
- failing
- obstructing
- obviating
- hiding
- disturbing
Directions: Pick out the most effective word from the given words to fill in the blank to make the sentence meaningfully complete.
The villagers _____ the death of their leader by keeping all the shops closed.
- announced
- protested
- mourned
- consoled
- avenged
Directions: Pick out the most effective word from the given words to fill in the blank to make the sentence meaningfully complete.
These medicines are ______ for curing cold.
- proper
- real
- effective
- capable
- powerful
Directions: Pick out the most effective word from the given words to fill in the blank to make the sentence meaningfully complete.
The speaker did not properly use the time as he went on ______ on one point alone.
- dilating
- devoting
- deliberating
- diluting
- distributing
Directions: Pick out the most effective word from the given words to fill in the blank to make the sentence meaningfully complete.
It was the help he got from his friends which _______ him through the tragedy.
- helped
- boosted
- perked
- supported
- sustained
Directions: Pick out the most effective word from the given words to fill in the blank to make the sentence meaningfully complete.
You must ______ your career with all seriousness.
- direct
- complete
- follow
- manage
- pursue
Directions: Pick out the most effective word from the given words to fill in the blank to make the sentence meaningfully complete.
It was ______ hot that day and the cable suffered the brunt of the heat.
- treacherously
- acceptably
- unfailingly
- unbelievably
- uncompromisingly
Directions: Pick out the most effective word from the given words to fill in the blank to make the sentence meaningfully complete.
The good are often ______ with their bones.
- kept
- covered
- exhumed
- interred
- fleshed
Directions: Pick out the most effective word from the given words to fill in the blank to make the sentence meaningfully complete.
Even in today’s modern society, people _____ God to bring rains.
- provoke
- evoke
- appeal
- propitiate
- superimpose
Directions: Pick out the most effective word from the given words to fill in the blank to make the sentence meaningfully complete.
I requested you to _____ your crime.
- apologies
- agree
- confess
- pardon
- submit
Directions: Pick out the most effective word from the given words to fill in the blank to make the sentence meaningfully complete.
It is not fair to cast _____ on honest and innocent people.
- aspiration
- aspersions
- inspiration
- adulation
- fawning
Directions: Pick out the most effective word from the given words to fill in the blank to make the sentence meaningfully complete.
His logic _____ everyone, including the experts.
- teased
- defied
- surprised
- confounded
- overwhelmed
Directions: Pick out the most effective word from the given words to fill in the blank to make the sentence meaningfully complete.
The prisoner was released on _______, for good behaviour.
- probation
- bail
- parole
- grounds
- guarantee
Directions: Pick out the most effective word from the given words to fill in the blank to make the sentence meaningfully complete.
There has been a _______ lack of efficiency in all the crucial areas of the working of Public Sector Undertakings.
- positive
- surprising
- conspicuous
- stimulative
- insignificant
Directions: Pick out the most effective word from the given words to fill in the blank to make the sentence meaningfully complete.
Ravi’s behaviour is worthy of ______ by all the youngsters.
- trial
- emulation
- following
- exploration
- experiment
Directions: Pick out the most effective word from the given words to fill in the blank to make the sentence meaningfully complete.
On his sudden demise, my emotions were so complicated that it was _____ how I felt.
- unreasonable
- impossible
- intolerable
- unimaginable
- inexplicable