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Directions: The following question has a sentence or a paragraph with one italicized and underlined word that does not make sense. Choose the most appropriate replacement for that word from the options given below the sentence/ paragraph.
They damned themselves to the chronic anxiety of a mountie, fearing exposure, when they took upon themselves the roles of enlightened leaders, knowing fully well that their knowledge rested on nothing but haze.
- sophist
- recluse
- con man
- cynic
Directions: The following question has a sentence or a paragraph with one italicized and underlined word that does not make sense. Choose the most appropriate replacement for that word from the options given below the sentence/ paragraph.
To live by the work of intellect, to stand on nothing but the merit of one's ideas and to rely on nothing but objective pother, is a task that only a man on the conceptual level of psycho-epistemology can fulfill.
- hypothesis
- deceit
- appraisal
- axioms
- truth
Directions: The following question has a sentence or a paragraph with one italicized and underlined word that does not make sense. Choose the most appropriate replacement for that word from the options given below the sentence/ paragraph.
To tone up the system, unctuous regulations and norms have been put in place and an exercise is also on to alter the structural and organisational factors which have affected the performance of banks and financial institutions.
- rigid
- prudential
- transient
- financial
Directions: The following question has a sentence or a paragraph with one italicized and underlined word that does not make sense. Choose the most appropriate replacement for that word from the options given below the sentence/ paragraph.
They could not tell why dread seemed to be vanishing from people's voices and from the streets, nor why an enormous barmy was suddenly sweeping the world.
- philosophy
- exultation
- global perspective
- piety
- fear psychosis
Directions: The following question has a sentence or a paragraph with one italicized and underlined word that does not make sense. Choose the most appropriate replacement for that word from the options given below the sentence/ paragraph.
The jovians, or their predominant majority, remained centuries behind their time: scoffing at the 'vulgarity' of commercial pursuits, still seeking the favour of noble protectors, and, simultaneously, blaming them for all the poverty inherited from the centuries.
- demagogues
- pedagogues
- oligarchs
- intellectuals
Directions: The following question has a sentence or a paragraph with one italicized and underlined word that does not make sense. Choose the most appropriate replacement for that word from the options given below the sentence/ paragraph.
You have to go out garroting up data from people's memories. You can then slice it and dice it to see what is really working and what isn't.
- scraping
- scouring
- touching
- burnishing
- licking
Directions: The following question has a sentence or a paragraph with one italicized and underlined word that does not make sense. Choose the most appropriate replacement for that word from the options given below the sentence/ paragraph.
Focusing on applications and the effective and efficient implementation of the programme will move the companies closer to Arthurian integration of e-learning into their organization's performance management and other key processes.
- botched
- gross
- seamless
- universal
- wholesome
Directions: The following question has a sentence or a paragraph with one italicized and underlined word that does not make sense. Choose the most appropriate replacement for that word from the options given below the sentence/ paragraph.
The onus for validating a claim lies prima facie on the shoulders of the one who makes it. And so it is with marking the words or actions of others. Jugums are sometimes so stigmatizing that making them effectively forecloses all possibility of rational discourse.
- ironies
- innuendos
- nuances
- judgments
- lampoonings
Directions: The following question has a sentence or a paragraph with one italicized and underlined word that does not make sense. Choose the most appropriate replacement for that word from the options given below the sentence/ paragraph.
The physical universe is an expression of consciousness of the Creative Principle that manifests itself as energy, inextricably interconnected and an exact persiflage of the whole infinite universe. Despite the illusory perception of separateness that we experience, our minds remain connected to the whole universe at all times.
- delineation
- explanation
- rendition
- metaphrase
- variant
Directions: The following question has a sentence or a paragraph with one italicized and underlined word that does not make sense. Choose the most appropriate replacement for that word from the options given below the sentence/ paragraph.
The link is needed to ensure that the skills learned in training are detruded, developed, and reinforced further on the job, and that people are held accountable for their own performances.
- remodeled
- shuffled
- interchanged
- metamorphosed
- calibrated
Directions: The following question has a sentence or a paragraph with one italicized and underlined word that does not make sense. Choose the most appropriate replacement for that word from the options given below the sentence/ paragraph.
We should champion dietary habits that make scientific sense and help the populace to obtain a decent diet by selecting from the recrudescence of calories that lie in wait to trap us.
- wilderness
- welter
- precincts
- puddle
- foliage
Directions: The following question has a sentence or a paragraph with one italicized and underlined word that does not make sense. Choose the most appropriate replacement for that word from the options given below the sentence/ paragraph.
Am I supposed to turn my head away and avoid confronting the movement? But I have not lost my mind here, I have not given up on my professional ethics and I am not indulging in Vaudeville. I know simply that this phenomenon is wrong and someone needs to stand up and say so.
- vulgarity
- utopianism
- transgression
- heresy
- recklessness
Directions: The following question has a sentence or a paragraph with one italicized and underlined word that does not make sense. Choose the most appropriate replacement for that word from the options given below the sentence/ paragraph.
By harnessing the strengths of the Information Technology highway, and sharing resources, the institute will be in a position to offer new cucurbitaceae of learning experiences to the trainees that will concentrate not only on the intricate nuances of the concept, but also make clear the power and fascination of cutting-edge technology.
- genealogy
- gambits
- paradigms
- foibles
- comports
Directions: The following question has a sentence or a paragraph with one italicized and underlined word that does not make sense. Choose the most appropriate replacement for that word from the options given below the sentence/ paragraph.
Piety is not a religious issue; it's the ability to foppish at the simple beauty that exists in the simpler things of life, without breaking it down into cold, hard facts and equations as the technological bent of our mind dictates.
- revel
- regale
- bewilder
- fascinate
- marvel
Directions: The following question has a sentence or a paragraph with one italicized and underlined word that does not make sense. Choose the most appropriate replacement for that word from the options given below the sentence/ paragraph.
That is the theme running through the trend discussion; a theme easily summed up in one word: excrescence. It is increasingly being used in harmony with other management tools, providing managers with a unified view of all financial, customer and employee concerns.
- obsolescence
- concurrence
- adherence
- convergence
- confluence
Directions: Select the option that fills in the blank most suitably.
Because folk art is neither completely rejected nor accepted as an art form by art historians, their final evaluations of it necessarily remain __________.
- arbitrary
- deterministic
- orthodox
- ignominious
- equivocal
Directions: Select the option that fills in the blanks most suitably in the same order.
The principle of equality should not imply a leveling down, but should be sensitive to the __________ of human needs and to the __________ means that may be required for their satisfaction.
- universality … verifiable
- imprudence … intrepid
- plurality … diverse
- inequity … atavistic
Directions: Select the option that fills in the blanks most suitably in the same order.
The forex reserves may fall in a few months with the ____________ of the Resurgent India bonds, but for the present the govt is __________ the global confidence in macro-economic management.
- redemption, savoring
- leveraging, besieging
- aggression, encountering
- None of these
Directions: Select the option that fills in the blanks most suitably in the same order.
India has many __________ issues: turf battles between ministers; and __________ implementation of various products throughout the country.
- pending, vested
- vexatious, tardy
- up to date, upward
- outstanding, speedy
Directions: Select the option that fills in the blanks most suitably in the same order.
The wedding photographs showed her to be a beautiful young woman with a __________ nose, __________ eyes and a long __________ neck.
- pug, large, tapering
- chiseled, almond, slender
- sharp, rounded, parched
- shapely, ambiguous, snarled
- raised, doe, swiveled