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Sentence Completion

Description: Questions asking students to fill in the blanks with an appropriate word are common in all kinds of competitive examinations. Here is a collection of such questions.
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Directions: Choose the appropriate word from the options given below and fill in the blank.

The helpful onlooker was badly injured when she tried to ______ to end the quarrel.

  1. intimidate

  2. intervene

  3. interfere

  4. intrude


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Intimidate means to overpower with a forceful personality. We usually 'intervene' or 'mediate' between disputing groups or people.

Directions: Choose the appropriate word from the options given below and fill in the blank.

That she was ________ was obvious not from her polite conversation, but also from the discreet display of the beautiful paintings in her room.

  1. crude

  2. sophisticated

  3. chaste

  4. mad


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

'Polite conversation' and 'beautiful paintings' point out to someone who is sophisticated.

Directions: Choose the appropriate word from the options given below and fill in the blank.

We were brought up in a village and our grandfather was a simple _______ and quite illiterate.

  1. knight

  2. squire

  3. pleasant

  4. peasant


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Knight and squire are royal titles wheras a peasant is a farmer.

Directions: Choose the appropriate word from the options given below and fill in the blank.

Most of today's workaholics are real cases of _________.

  1. experts

  2. wreck

  3. burnouts

  4. frustration


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Burnouts means emotional and physical exhaustion due to excessive workload.

Directions: Choose the appropriate word from the options given below and fill in the blank.

In the present fluid political situation, you never ________ what is going to happen.

  1. know

  2. face

  3. notice

  4. realize


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Know is used when we talk about something we have in our brains as information,(I know your name, He knows where to find me, realize means to 'understand'.

Directions: Choose the appropriate word from the options given below and fill in the blank.

After a ______ of several months the runaway boy turned up.

  1. passage

  2. interval

  3. lapse

  4. break


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

In this context, the correct word to be used is 'lapse' which means gap.

Directions: Choose the appropriate word from the options given below and fill in the blank.

And why did the police suspect you? It just does not make any _____ to me.

  1. point

  2. reason

  3. sense

  4. truth


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

The sentence implies that the action occured is not normal which is not understandable by the normal mind. Sense is the knowledge or thinking process that a normal mind possesses. Reason involves a lot more thinking.

Directions: Choose the appropriate word from the options given below and fill in the blank.

Charles' marriage _________ Diana was much talked about.

  1. to

  2. between

  3. with

  4. of


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

We can say 'Charles is married to Diana' but with the noun 'marriage' the option is 'with'.

Directions: Choose the appropriate word from the options given below and fill in the blank.

Mrs. and Mr.Malhotra are always seen ________ with each other about money.

  1. discussing

  2. shouting

  3. speaking

  4. arguing


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

It can be 'argueing with each other' or 'discussing money with each other'. We 'shout at' and 'speak to each other'.

Directions: Choose the appropriate word from the options given below and fill in the blank.

He did not make a single _______ to any controversial matter in his speech.

  1. allusion

  2. illusion

  3. elision

  4. elucidation


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Allusion means a casual reference to something. 

Directions: Choose the appropriate word from the options given below and fill in the blank.

A fool's tongue is _______ enough to cut his own throat.

  1. sharp

  2. long

  3. quick

  4. loud


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

A fool's tongue is sharp enough to cut his own throat.

Directions: Choose the appropriate word from the options given below and fill in the blank.

The public sector employees demanded pay parity ________ their counterparts in the Central Government.

  1. like

  2. as

  3. towards

  4. with


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

The sentence suggests 'they demanded quality with their counterparts'.

Directions: Choose the appropriate word from the options given below and fill in the blank.

Brevity is the soul of ________.

  1. imagination

  2. eloquence

  3. wit

  4. mankind


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

The phrase is 'Brevity is the soul of wit'.

Directions: Choose the appropriate word from the options given below and fill in the blank.

At present, all over the world, moral standards ________ to have fallen.

  1. look

  2. appear

  3. intend

  4. started


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

The word can be 'seem' or 'appear'.

Directions: Choose the appropriate word from the options given below and fill in the blank.

________ the match was declared over by the umpire, the players cheered each other and went for lunch.

  1. As soon as

  2. As far as

  3. As long as

  4. As fast as


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

'As soon as' implies 'immediately after'.

Directions: Choose the appropriate word from the options given below and fill in the blank.

Keats is the saddest example of a fine spirit hounded to death by ________ criticism.

  1. honest

  2. agreeable

  3. savage

  4. impartial


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

As he was hounded to death, the crticism was defenitely 'harsh' or 'hard'. Savage is the closest word.

Directions: Choose the appropriate word from the options given below and fill in the blank.

The insects are a great nuisance ________ us.

  1. with

  2. for

  3. to

  4. upon


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

'To us'

Directions: Choose the appropriate word from the options given below and fill in the blank.

The ________ nature of your order left us no time to make the usual enquires.

  1. important

  2. urgent

  3. plain

  4. trivial


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

The phrase 'left us no time to make the usual enquiries' suggests that the nature of the order was critical or urgent.

Directions: Choose the appropriate word from the options given below and fill in the blank.

The thermal station _______ so much smoke that no tree has survived in its neighbourhood.

  1. emits

  2. emitted

  3. burns

  4. consumes


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

The word should be synonymous with 'produces'.

Directions: Choose the appropriate word from the options given below and fill in the blank.

The Spanish regarded him as an ________ and called him a villain.

  1. apostle

  2. imposter

  3. archer

  4. informer


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Imposter is the synonym of 'villian'.

Directions: Choose the appropriate word from the options given below and fill in the blank.

All the workers complained that the price of food had increased, so their ________ of living had fallen.

  1. existence

  2. desire

  3. method

  4. standard


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Its either 'standard of living had fallen' or 'desire to live'. 

Directions: Choose the appropriate word from the options given below and fill in the blank.

Joseph was taken to the police station because he was drunk and ________.

  1. vomiting

  2. talking

  3. misbehaving

  4. nasty


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Vomiting, talking and being nasty does not take one to the police station, 'misbehaving does'.

Directions: Choose the appropriate word from the options given below and fill in the blank.

At times when she was in the right mood, she would _______ a sense of humour which no one could match.

  1. replay

  2. display

  3. show

  4. provoke


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

The correct word should be 'display'.

Directions: Choose the appropriate word from the options given below and fill in the blank.

Your case is so unique that I am not getting any ______ to support it.

  1. reason

  2. help

  3. happening

  4. precedent


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Precedent means a similar occurence in the past. 

Directions: Choose the appropriate word from the options given below and fill in the blank.

The postman could not __________ the registered letter because he found no one at home.

  1. give

  2. deposit

  3. deliver

  4. hand over


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Postman 'delivers' letters and packages.

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