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Vocabulary in Context - 1

Description: Vocabulary in Context
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Directions: Fill in the given blank space with the most appropriate option.

As a _________________ of riots, the minority population left the town.

  1. backwash

  2. corollary

  3. conclusion

  4. product

  5. culmination


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

This is the correct answer because backwash is the consequential effect of an event or action, especially unpleasant or unsettling ones.

Directions: Fill in the given blank space with the most appropriate option.

Your _________ ways will have you expelled indefinitely, if you persist in your ways of insulting the teachers.

  1. adumbrate

  2. ascetic

  3. aberrant

  4. assiduous

  5. dissonant


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

This is the correct answer because aberrant means deviating from what is normal or accepted.

Directions: Fill in the given blank space with the most appropriate option.

This should have been a thriller, but instead is totally ________.

  1. brusque

  2. myriad

  3. jaded

  4. cynical

  5. banal


Correct Option: E
Explanation:

Banal is something boringly ordinary and lacking in originality. This is the correct word in this context.

Directions: Fill in the given blank space with the most appropriate option.

Besides being a good actress, she deserves more ____________ for being a gem of a person.

  1. plaudits

  2. boos

  3. obdurates

  4. paeans

  5. churls


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

To receive plaudit is to receive a round of applause. This is a correct option.

Directions: Fill in the given blank space with the most appropriate option.

People forced the new government to __________ all the draconian laws made by the older regime.

  1. rescind

  2. reinstate

  3. promulgate

  4. stupefy

  5. venerate


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

To rescind is defined as to cancel or make something void. This is the correct answer as Govt. has to cancel all laws.

Directions: Fill in the given blank space with the most appropriate option.

The revolutionary ideologist was arrested and tortured into falsely confessing ___________ and executed.

  1. heresy

  2. chasm

  3. brook

  4. hegemony

  5. ensconce


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

This is the correct answer. Heresy is any opinion opposed to official or established views or doctrines.

Directions: Fill in the given blank space with the most appropriate option.

The _______ refugees at the relief camps were given peanuts in the name of grants.

  1. emancipated

  2. emaciated

  3. lean

  4. sinewy

  5. wiry


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

This is the correct answer as an emaciated person is extremely thin, especially because of starvation or illness and in this sentence this word fits the refugees.

Directions: Fill in the given blank space with the most appropriate option.

He pretended to _______ the cause of the Republicans, but he played his cards so subtly as to make himself the duke de facto if not de jure.

  1. niggle

  2. espouse

  3. glean

  4. excerpt

  5. stimulate


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

This is the correct answer as to espouse is to adopt or support something as a belief or cause

Directions: Fill in the given blank space with the most appropriate option.

Her __________ manner and her advocacy of the cause, though always sincere, were vehement to the point of recklessness.

  1. poignant

  2. agonizing

  3. excruciating

  4. gauche

  5. brusque


Correct Option: E
Explanation:

A brusque manner is abrupt and curt in manner or speech or someone discourteously blunt. This is the correct choice.

Directions: Fill in the given blank space with the most appropriate option.

The changes in the policies by the new head of state were at once agreed upon by the __________ bureaucrats and the council of ministers.

  1. legerdemain

  2. reticent

  3. diffident

  4. assertive

  5. obsequious


Correct Option: E
Explanation:

An obsequious person shows too great a willingness to serve or obey. This is the correct option.

Directions: Fill in the given blank space with the most appropriate option.

The media is keeping a cautious approach to _________ the communal riots which happened last year.

  1. pioneer

  2. broach

  3. cajole

  4. wheedle

  5. guile


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

To broach is defined as to cautiously bring up a sensitive or controversial topic. This is the correct option.

Directions: Fill in the given blank space with the most appropriate option.

If you want to write prose, you can infuse words with your own vision without becoming __________.

  1. lance

  2. ectopic

  3. enteric

  4. esoteric

  5. acrid


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

This is the correct answer. Something esoteric is beyond the understanding or knowledge of most people.

Directions: Fill in the given blank space with the most appropriate option.

Looking at the weather picture, the weathermen __________ very heavy rainfall in the coastal areas.

  1. herald

  2. portend

  3. precursor

  4. extol

  5. harangue


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Portend is defined as to be a warning or signal of something. This is the correct option.

Directions: Fill in the given blank space with the most appropriate option.

After the victory, the media lavished _________ on the winners and hurled abuses on the losers.

  1. adulation

  2. glorification

  3. veneration

  4. condescension

  5. polemic


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

This is the correct answer as adulation means excessive flattery or admiration.

Directions: Fill in the given blank space with the most appropriate option.

The paintings by this artist have been always a work of flamboyant and flawed ____________, which remain as seditious and confronting as ever.

  1. polemic

  2. billow

  3. harangue

  4. bilk

  5. hiatus


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

This is the correct answer as polemic means a controversy, debate or dispute.

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