English (Sentence Completion – 3)

 

 

1:            New concerns about growing religious tension in Kashmir were ____ this week between Hindus and Muslims.

A.      Dispersed

B.      Fueled

C.      Invalidated

D.      Restrained

 

2:            Wasim was so good at Mathematics that his friends considered him to be a ____.

A.      Prodigy

B.      Prodigal

C.      Primeval

D.      Profligate

 

3:            The majority report issued by the committee was completely ____, extolling in great details the plan’s strength but failing to mention at all its shortcomings.

A.      Skewed

B.      Unbiased

C.      One-sided

D.      Comprehensive

 

4:            I decided to sell a piece of land when I was offered a more ____ price.

A.      True

B.      Realistic

C.      Exact

D.      Correct

 

5:            The enemy paid a large sum as ____.

A.      Punishment

B.      Reward

C.      Re-situation

D.      Compensation

 

6:            Despite the mixture’s ____ nature, we found that by lowering its temperature in the laboratory we could reduce its tendency to vaporize.

A.      Homogenous

B.      Resilient

C.      Volatile

D.      Acerbic

 

7:            Many boys were ____ at street corners for the coffee bar to open.

A.      Hanging upon

B.      Hanging about

C.      Hanging back

D.      Hanging on

 

8:            His monotonous voice acted like ____ and his audience was soon asleep.

A.      An emetic

B.      An anesthetic

C.       A sedative

D.      A purgative

 

9:            My finger is still ____ where I caught it in the door yesterday.

A.      Sore

B.      Wounded

C.      Injured

D.      Bruised

 

10:          The flood water pushed against the river wall and ____ from a sudden break made by it.

A.      Ran out

B.      Surged up

C.      Gushed out

D.      Flowed

 

11:          Measurement is, like any other human endeavor, a complex activity, subject to error, not always used ____, and frequently misinterpreted and misunderstood.

A.      Properly

B.      Innovatively

C.      Mistakenly

D.      Systematically

 

12:          Non-violence is the law of saints as violence is the law of the ____.

A.      Coward

B.      Foolish

C.      Brute

D.      Ignorant

 

13:          His injury was very painful but not incapacitating and he managed to ____ the game in spite of it.

A.      Interrupt

B.      Concede

C.      Abandon

D.      Finish

 

14:          They have some difficulty ____ all the employees, especially the smaller ones to confirm ____ the adopted scale of wages.

A.      Getting, to

B.      In getting, upon

C.      To get, over

D.      To getting , with

 

15:          This contract was ____; it was not valid now.

A.      Nullified

B.      Annulled

C.      Invalid

D.      Cancelled

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