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Directions: Choose the option which best replaces the underlined word in the given sentence.

The doctor said plainly and without sophistry what the malady was.

  1. candor

  2. confidence

  3. subterfuge

  4. truthfulness

  5. vigilant


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Correct;the word means ' deceit '. This is the word in the context that the doctor said plainly and without deceiving.

Directions: Choose the option which best replaces the underlined word in the given sentence.

The investigator went to the sinner's grave and stood at the foot of it looking very curiously.

  1. reprobate's

  2. criminal's

  3. witness's

  4. thief's

  5. prosecutor's


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Correct;the word means 'a sinner who is predestined to damnation.'

Directions: Choose the option which best replaces the underlined word in the given sentence.

Israel is passing through a period of organizational strife these days.

  1. blatant

  2. fraternal

  3. civil

  4. internecine

  5. external


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Correct; the word means 'relating to conflict within a group or organization'. 

Directions: Choose the option which best replaces the underlined word in the given sentence.

The movements of the suspicious thieves were circumscribed

  1. restricted within limits

  2. surrounded

  3. enveloped

  4. encompassed

  5. encircled


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Correct.

Directions: Choose the option which best replaces the underlined word in the given sentence.

He delivered a jeremiad to a crowd at the church.

  1. ballad

  2. lyric

  3. elegy

  4. sermon

  5. tale of woe


Correct Option: E
Explanation:

Correct;the word means' a list of woes'.

Directions: Choose the option which best replaces the underlined part in the given sentence.

The world recession has made all the countries chew the cud after all.

  1. face a dilemma

  2. think deeply

  3. think irrationally

  4. face humiliation

  5. go in a cocoon


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Correct;the given phrase means 'think deeply'.

Directions: Choose the option which best replaces the underlined part in the given sentence.

Some people feel that capital punishment is a well deserved punishment that satisfies our sense of justice.

  1. reprisal

  2. requital

  3. chastisement

  4. retribution

  5. prerogative


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Correct; retribution is well deserved for the criminal.

Directions: Choose the option which best replaces the underlined word in the given sentence.

The venture capitalists were able to sell their stock for a nice return before the shares dived.

  1. boomed

  2. plummeted

  3. traded

  4. boomeranged

  5. escalated


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Correct; that is the reason that the capitalists made a profit.

Directions: Choose the option which best replaces the underlined word in the given sentence.

The Watergate atrocity simply looks like a vicious retaliation for successful military operations undertaken by the Kenyan troops.

  1. atonement

  2. indemnity

  3. reprisal

  4. reward

  5. requital


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Correct; the word means 'to take revenge'.

Directions: Choose the option which best replaces the underlined word in the given sentence.

Cross border terrorism has blocked the peace negotiations between the two nations.

  1. prevaricated

  2. equivocated

  3. stalled

  4. hamstrung

  5. scrubbed


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Correct ; the word means 'blocked or delayed'.

Directions: Choose the option which best replaces the underlined word in the given sentence.

Peace talks between the two nations snapped even before they started.

  1. broke up

  2. broke down

  3. broke away

  4. broke into

  5. broke out


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Correct; the word 'snap' means 'break down' .

Directions: Choose the option which best replaces the underlined word in the given sentence.

The media have been exhorting us to be aware our consumer rights.

  1. ordering

  2. strongly urging

  3. advising

  4. propagating

  5. preaching


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Correct ; this is the right meaning of the word.

Directions: Choose the option which best replaces the underlined part in the given sentence.

Since the US troops withdrawal from Iraq, that country has deteriorated continuously into sectarian violence.

  1. veered

  2. wilted

  3. escalated

  4. penetrated

  5. spiralled


Correct Option: E
Explanation:

Correct; the word means ' deteriorating rapidly'.

Directions: Choose the option which best replaces the underlined word in the given sentence.

Some of the stockholders are threatening to scuttle the deal.

  1. postpone

  2. destroy

  3. go haywire

  4. auction

  5. deliberately abandon


Correct Option: E
Explanation:

Correct; this is the correct meaning of the underlined word.

Directions: Choose the option which best replaces the underlined part in the given sentence.

For all the knowledge on the need for road safety, the issue has not spread through the public consciousness.

  1. permeated

  2. impregnated

  3. transfused

  4. metastasized

  5. fraught


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Correct; this is the right word which means ' spread throughout'

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