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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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