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Directions: Pick out the most effective word from the given words to fill in the blank to make the sentence meaningfully complete.

The soldiers were instructed to ______ restraint and handle the situation peacefully.

  1. exercise

  2. control

  3. prevent

  4. enforce

  5. remain

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Restraint is the act of holding something back. 'Exercise restrain' is to hold something back e.g. If you exercise restraint over your emotions, you won't burst out into tears in public. Here, soldiers were asked to put a check on their activities and handle the situation peacefully.

Directions: Pick out the most effective word from the given words to fill in the blank to make the sentence meaningfully complete.

Since one cannot read every book, one should be content with making a _______ selection.

  1. normal

  2. standard

  3. sample

  4. moderate

  5. judicious

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Correct Option: E
Explanation:

The sentence implies that you have to make a clever or wise selection of books to read, as you can not read all the books. Judicious means using or showing judgement and making a wise choice.

Directions: Pick the most effective word from the given words to fill in the blank to make the sentence meaningfully complete.

Some people _______ themselves into believing that they are indispensable to the organization they work for.

  1. keep

  2. fool

  3. force

  4. delude

  5. denigrate

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Delude means to to mislead the mind or judgment of; deceive. It fits here in the context. so, it is the correct answer.

Directions: Pick out the most effective word from the given words to fill in the blank to make the sentence meaningfully complete.

He is too ______ to be deceived easily.

  1. strong

  2. modern

  3. kind

  4. honest

  5. intelligent

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Correct Option: E
Explanation:

Deception happens because  of lack of intelligence. So, it is correct word to be used here.

Directions: Pick out the most effective word from the given words to fill in the blank to make the sentence meaningfully complete.

The improvement made by changes in the system, was ______ and did not warrant the large expenses.

  1. large

  2. small

  3. minute

  4. marginal

  5. uncertain

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Here, "did not warrant the large expenses" shows that improvement is minimal. Marginal means minimal or insignificant. So, it is correct.

Directions: Pick out the most effective word from the given words to fill in the blank to make the sentence meaningfully complete.

How do you expect that country to progress, when its government is corrupt, ______ and still largely feudal?

  1. devalued

  2. dwindling

  3. despotic

  4. demeaning

  5. demobilised

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Here, the question is put in a negative tone and "largely feudal" also gives the sense of the same. So, despotic is the correct answer which means autocratic; tyrannical.

Directions: Pick out the most effective word from the given words to fill in the blank to make the sentence meaningfully complete.

Even at the risk of economic loss, he ________ refused to take the beaten track.

  1. repeatedly

  2. often

  3. regularly

  4. continuously

  5. steadfastly

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Correct Option: E
Explanation:

steadfastly means  firmly fixed in place or position. So, it fits here the best.  

Directions: Pick out the most effective word from the given words to fill in the blank to make the sentence meaningfully complete.

Two of the fugitives managed to remain free, by adeptly avoiding the ______ of the police.

  1. torture

  2. pursuit

  3. discovery

  4. following

  5. repression

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

pursuit is correct as they remain free and did not get caught.

Directions: Pick out the most effective word from the given words to fill in the blank to make the sentence meaningfully complete.

The truck was _______ the traffic and the policeman asked the driver to move off.

  1. failing

  2. obstructing

  3. obviating

  4. hiding

  5. disturbing

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Truck must have been blocking the traffic, so the policeman told the drivers to move off. So, obstructing is the correct word to use here.

Directions: Pick out the most effective word from the given words to fill in the blank to make the sentence meaningfully complete.

His interest in the study of human behaviour is indeed very ________.

  1. strong

  2. large

  3. broad

  4. vast

  5. assertive

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Correct Option: E
Explanation:

Behaviour which enables a person to act in his or her own best interest, to stand up for herself or himself. we call Assertive Behaviour. Other words do not make any sense.

Directions: Pick out the most effective word from the given words to fill in the blank to make the sentence meaningfully complete.

The villagers _____ the death of their leader by keeping all the shops closed.

  1. announced

  2. protested

  3. mourned

  4. consoled

  5. avenged

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

The correct option is 3. Option 1 is announced which does not have any relation with the second part of the sentence. The Second and fifth options have negative tones which is not reflected in keeping the shops closed. Option 4 means comforting which again is not related to keeping shops closed. So, option 3, meaning to express sorrow, is shown in the gesture of keeping the shops closed, is the correct option.

Directions: Pick out the most effective word from the given words to fill in the blank to make the sentence meaningfully complete.

These medicines are ______ for curing cold.

  1. proper

  2. real

  3. effective

  4. capable

  5. powerful

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Effective for curing cold; adequate to accomplish a purpose; producing the intended or expected result (curing cold)

Directions: Pick out the most effective word from the given words to fill in the blank to make the sentence meaningfully complete.

The speaker did not properly use the time as he went on ______ on one point alone.

  1. dilating

  2. devoting

  3. deliberating

  4. diluting

  5. distributing

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

It means kept talking leisurely on a point. So, it is correct.

Directions: Pick out the most effective word from the given words to fill in the blank to make the sentence meaningfully complete.

It was the help he got from his friends which _______ him through the tragedy.

  1. helped

  2. boosted

  3. perked

  4. supported

  5. sustained

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Correct Option: E
Explanation:

sustained means to kept him going which fits here well.

Directions: Pick out the most effective word from the given words to fill in the blank to make the sentence meaningfully complete.

You must ______ your career with all seriousness.

  1. direct

  2. complete

  3. follow

  4. manage

  5. pursue

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Correct Option: E
Explanation:

Career is pursued;. to strive to gain.

Directions: Pick out the most effective word from the given words to fill in the blank to make the sentence meaningfully complete.

It was ______ hot that day and the cable suffered the brunt of the heat.

  1. treacherously

  2. acceptably

  3. unfailingly

  4. unbelievably

  5. uncompromisingly

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Here, 'unbelievably' means incredibly. So, it is correct. Other words do not make any sense here.

Directions: Pick out the most effective word from the given words to fill in the blank to make the sentence meaningfully complete.

The good are often ______ with their bones.

  1. kept

  2. covered

  3. exhumed

  4. interred

  5. fleshed

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:

The good are often interred (to put into the earth) with their bones.

Directions: Pick out the most effective word from the given words to fill in the blank to make the sentence meaningfully complete.

Even in today’s modern society, people _____ God to bring rains.

  1. provoke

  2. evoke

  3. appeal

  4. propitiate

  5. superimpose

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

evoke means to call up (esp. Gods and Spirits)

Directions: Pick out the most effective word from the given words to fill in the blank to make the sentence meaningfully complete.

I requested you to _____ your crime.

  1. apologies

  2. agree

  3. confess

  4. pardon

  5. submit

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

confess : to acknowledge or avow (a fault, crime, misdeed, weakness, etc.) by way of revelation.

Directions: Pick out the most effective word from the given words to fill in the blank to make the sentence meaningfully complete.

It is not fair to cast _____ on honest and innocent people.

  1. aspiration

  2. aspersions

  3. inspiration

  4. adulation

  5. fawning

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Cast aspersions means to make damaging or derogatory remark or criticism. So, it is correct as it is not fair for the honest people; they do not deserve this.

Directions: Pick out the most effective word from the given words to fill in the blank to make the sentence meaningfully complete.

His logic _____ everyone, including the experts.

  1. teased

  2. defied

  3. surprised

  4. confounded

  5. overwhelmed

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Here, surprised is simply correct as logic is used in positive sense which is clear from the use of "even the experts". So, it is not something negative that would defy or confound.

Directions: Pick out the most effective word from the given words to fill in the blank to make the sentence meaningfully complete.

The prisoner was released on _______, for good behaviour.

  1. probation

  2. bail

  3. parole

  4. grounds

  5. guarantee

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

it is the conditional release of a person from prison prior to the end of the maximum sentence imposed. As, it is clear from the word "prisoner" , bail could not be given here.

Directions: Pick out the most effective word from the given words to fill in the blank to make the sentence meaningfully complete.

There has been a _______ lack of efficiency in all the crucial areas of the working of Public Sector Undertakings.

  1. positive

  2. surprising

  3. conspicuous

  4. stimulative

  5. insignificant

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

conspicuous means It is easily seen. Other words would not make any sense here. 

Directions: Pick out the most effective word from the given words to fill in the blank to make the sentence meaningfully complete.

Ravi’s behaviour is worthy of ______ by all the youngsters.

  1. trial

  2. emulation

  3. following

  4. exploration

  5. experiment

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Here, emulations means act of imitating. The key word is 'worthy'. It means Ravi's behaviour is good. So, it can be imitated or emulated. Other options do not fit the context.

Directions: Pick out the most effective word from the given words to fill in the blank to make the sentence meaningfully complete.

On his sudden demise, my emotions were so complicated that it was _____ how I felt.

  1. unreasonable

  2. impossible

  3. intolerable

  4. unimaginable

  5. inexplicable

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Correct Option: E
Explanation:

inexplicable: emotions were so complicated that they were incapable of being accounted for or explained.  

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