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The sentences given with blanks are to be filled with an appropriate word(s). Four alternatives are suggested for each question. For each question, choose the correct alternative and click the button corresponding to it.

Mount Everest has earned the _____ distinction of being the world's highest garbage dump.

A) marked B) disgusting
C) dubious D) dismal
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) dubious

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In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the word similar in meaning to the word given.

Litter

A) Trash B) Order
C) Possess D) System
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Trash

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In the following question, the sentence given with blank to be filled in with an appropriate word. Select the correct alternative out of the four and indicate it by selecting the appropriate option.

 

Repetition bred a sense of _____________ with the characters.

 

A) familiarity B) familiar
C) familiarly D) familiarise
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) familiarity

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In the following question, a sentence has been given in Direct/Indirect speech. Out of the four alternatives suggested, select the one which best expresses the same sentence in Indirect/Direct speech.

 

They said to me, "We will help your team if you sign on this document."

A) They said to me that they would help my team if I signed on that document. B) They said to me that they will help my team if I signed on this document.
C) They said to me that they would be helping my team if I signed on that document. D) They said to me that they will help my team if I sign on this document.
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) They said to me that they would help my team if I signed on that document.

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In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the word opposite in meaning to the word given.

Dominate

A) Surrender B) Prevail
C) Dictate D) Command
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Surrender

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In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the word similar in meaning to the word given.
Scuttle

A) Solitary B) Superficial
C) Soothing D) Brazier
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) Brazier

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In the following passage, some of the words have been left out. Read the passage carefully and select the correct answer for the given blank out of the four alternatives.


Fraternity, then, was meant to complement civil rights, _______________ to destroy them. The _____________________ framers did not use this symbolic term for a court to come along 66 years _________________, and ______________________ it for the purposes of subordinating individual rights to some mythic notion of community harmony, entirely submerging the individual _______________ the society.


_______________ to destroy them.

A) neither B) nor
C) no D) not
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) not

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In the following passage, some of the words have been left out. Read the passage carefully and select the correct answer for the given blank out of the four alternatives.


But what does this enthusiasm for voting actually _____________? One popular theory ____________ that poor people __________ because they are intimidated into doing so. Intimidation occurs for sure but why then, voters in places where there is no intimidation do so? Another theory is that people vote in return for _____________. But recent research across India _________ that those who spend the most do not always win elections and voters do not feel any obligation to vote for those handing out freebies. In fact, they often accept the goodies from allparties but vote for only one.


But what does this enthusiasm for voting actually _____________?

A) answer B) signify
C) ponder D) suppose
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) signify

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