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Fill in the Blanks

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All Contextual Vocabulary 2563 Prepositional Usage 2021 Tense and Aspect 1751 Determiners 1005 Phrasal Verbs 949 Confusable Vocabulary 908 Pronoun Antecedent 867 Subject-Verb Agreement 735 Collocations 654 Idiomatic Expressions 627 Conjunctions and Connectors 557 Modals 390

Fill in the Blanks Questions

Multiple choice

Directions: Choose the option that fills up all the blanks. A. Due to lack of evidence, the court __________ him. B. Mahesh was __________ in the multiple murder case. C. On reaching home the ___________ patient was beyond himself with joy. D. The police rearrested the person earlier _________ by the court.

  1. discharged

  2. indicted

  3. acquitted

  4. released

  5. accused
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

'Indicted' and 'accused' are easily ruled out because use of these words would make the sentences A & D self-contradictory. An accused may be acquitted or released but not a patient.

Multiple choice

Directions: Choose the option that fills up all the blanks. A. _____ the ingredients up into a smooth paste. B. They are trying to _____ up support for their candidate. C. I can easily _____ you up some scrambled eggs. D. Their opponents had the _____ hand and it was useless to resist.

  1. blend

  2. stir

  3. whip

  4. bully

  5. tone
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

You can tone up your muscles, your voice or even your spirits, but not the ingredients or eggs or some support. 'Blend' and 'stir' will make no sense in context of D. 'Bully can apply to B and D but not to A and C. 'Whip', on the other hand, could be used to mean beat, stir, raise or force.

Multiple choice

Directions: Choose the option that fills up all the blanks. A. _____ a bunch of untrained recruits into an efficient fighting force. B. _____ the pieces of the broken axle. C. Some metals _____ better than others.
D. They won the argument by sheer _____ of unity.

  1. weld

  2. tweak

  3. join

  4. strengthen

  5. fuse
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

'Weld' can appropriately be used for joining people or things, though the word 'join' itself does not make coherent sense in the context of the given usages, except in B.  'Fuse' is even ungrammatical in context of application D.

Multiple choice

Directions: Choose the option that fills up all the blanks. A. She blew out the candles in one _____
B. She stubbed out the cigarette after the first _____ C. There was a _____ of steam from the engine before it stopped. D. The man's face did _____ up with rage.

  1. puff

  2. whiff

  3. breath

  4. blast

  5. gale
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

'Gale' and 'blast' are very strong currents of wind etc, which do not have a proper application among those given. 'Whiff' and 'breath' might apply in case of A & B, but cannot be linked with ejection of steam or with face. 'Puff' is used not only in the case of inhalation or exhalation, but also a gust as of steam or swell as with rage.

Multiple choice

Directions: Choose the option that fills up all the blanks. A. You must not try to ___________ the windfalls for others. B. Never __________ the fate; it is not your prerogative. C. He will __________ the competitors at the slightest pretext. D. ____________ the lack of effort, not the lack of means.

  1. share

  2. beget

  3. deride

  4. bemoan

  5. envy
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

'Envy' cannot be legitimately applied, except perhaps to A. 'Share' and 'beget' will be inappropriate in any of the given contexts. 'Bemoan' (lament) makes better sense in all the given contexts than does 'deride' (mock or put down).

Multiple choice

Directions: Choose the appropriate option and complete the sentence.

The stock market is probably ____________. And the way the market has been shooting up says a lot about investor confidence.

  1. the best barometer to assess the sentiment of the public

  2. an ideal indication of the health of public sentiment

  3. the least imperfect mechanism for judging the quantity of the sentiment of the public

  4. the best indicator of public sentiment

  5. the only real test of the public sentiment
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

(2) and (3) are syntactically incorrect. (5) is extreme. Between (1) and (4), the latter is more direct.

Multiple choice

Directions: Choose the option that fills up all the blanks. A. Just try to provide the _______ of the whole lecture. B. The _______ of the matter is that the police were uninterested. C. This soft-drink contains fruit _______ also. D. This analysis involves the _______ of the concepts.

  1. crux

  2. juice

  3. essence

  4. basics

  5. extract
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

'Juice' and 'extract' apply only to C. On the other hand, 'basics' and 'crux' do not apply to C. But essence could be a summary or distilled extract.

Multiple choice

Directions: Choose the option that fills up all the blanks. A. The manager was ________ off the task of placating the warring factions of the trade union. B. Soon after the debacle, he was ________ off all his powers and was forced to go on a prolonged leave. C. The government has ________ several PSUs of the unnecessary flab. D. ________ of his authority, he was useless.

  1. shorn

  2. stripped

  3. put

  4. signed

  5. kicked
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

A person cannot be 'shorn' or 'put off' his tasks or powers/authority. Also, 'sign off' is done by a person, not to a person. But a person can be stripped off his task/power and authority and the government can also strip flab (sagging fat or excess) off an enterprise.

Multiple choice

Directions: Choose the option that fills up all the blanks.

A. He is exceptionally _____. B. The room had a very _____ appearance. C. Your ________ replies were music to his ears. D. In a cosmopolitan society, you cannot afford to be ________ and witless.

  1. dumb

  2. mournful

  3. intelligent

  4. drab

  5. grave
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Only living beings can be intelligent (not room). Also, intelligence cannot be a negative trait to be clubbed with 'witless'. Nor can 'mournful' be. 'Mournful' replies cannot be music to the listener's ears, though in a way, dumb replies can be music to the ears of a rival.