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Sentence Completions - iv

Name: Sentence Completions - iv
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  1. No hero of ancient or modern times can surpass the Indian with his lofty contempt of death and the - with which he sustained the cruelest coffliction.

    1. guide

    2. assent

    3. reverence

    4. fortitude

    5. concern

    Ans :D

  2. The hostess attempted to - a romantic atmosphere that would bring the two young people together in -

    1. expand - fealty

    2. present - collusion

    3. simulate - conflict

    4. introduce - cacophony

    5. contrive - matrimony

    Ans :E

  3. Employers who retire people who are willing and able to continue working should realize that - age is not an effective - in determining whether an individual is capable of working.

    1. intellectual - criterion

    2. Chronological - criterion

    3. Physical - barrier

    4. deteriorating - value

    5. chronological - factor

    Ans :B

  4. As the sun rose, the morning mists were borne away on the - like strands of -

    1. whirlwind - flotsam

    2. wind - cactus

    3. morass - tundra

    4. zephyr - gossamer

    5. holocaust - taffeta

    Ans :D

  5. The playwright was known not for his original ideas that had been propounded by others.

    1. rejection

    2. consideration

    3. invention

    4. reiteration

    5. plagiarism

    Ans :E

  6. The gypsy girl, decked out in - finery, and with her disheveled hair streaming over shoulders, was indeed a - sight.

    1. verdant - wistful

    2. sartorial - flagrant

    3. specious - poignant

    4. tawdry - bizarre

    5. opulent - debonair

    Ans :D

  7. Yellow fever, the disease that killed 4,000 Philadelphians in 1793, and so - Memphis, Tennessee, that the city lost its charter, has reappeared after nearly two decades in - in the western hemisphere.

    1. disabled - quarantine

    2. decimated - abeyance

    3. terrorized - contention

    4. ravaged - secret

    5. coupled - quiescence

    Ans :B

  8. The painting was larger than it appeared to be, for hanging in a darkened recess of the chapel, it was - by the perspective.

    1. embellished

    2. improved

    3. jeopardised

    4. aggrandized

    5. diminished

    Ans :E

  9. We have in America - speech that is neither American, Oxford English, nor English but a - of all three.

    1. motley - miracle

    2. nasal - blend

    3. feigned - patchwork

    4. mangled - medley

    5. hybrid - combination

    Ans :E

  10. Old beliefs die hard, even when jobs become - the long - standing fear that unemployment could return at a moments notice -

    1. protected - subsided

    2. vacant - perished

    3. available - receded

    4. plentiful - persisted

    5. easier - charged

    Ans :D



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