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Verbal Ability Test - Sentence Completion 4

In the following questions sentences are given with blanks to be filled in with an appropriate word. Four alternatives are suggested for each question. Choose the best alternative.

1. The planning committee's deliberations went on all night, but still they failed to reach a -------------.

a) Consensus
b) Discussion
c) Plan
d) Approval

2. As he entered, he couldn’t miss the --------------- tension in the room.

a) Intangible
b) Palpable
c) Physical
d) Certain

3. She said that she would like to --------------- her car for the latest model.

a) Trade in
b) Trade of
c) Trade out
d) Trade

4. She -------------- herself on her older sister.

a) Acted
b) Modeled
c) Copied
d) Emulated

5. I am eager for her to receive an education that will ----------------- her for a career in business.

a) Suit
b) Fit
c) Attach
d) Attract

6. He ------------------ scorn and odium for his actions.

a) incurred
b) Involved
c) Experienced
d) None of those

7. I think it's rather ----------------- that they haven't replied to your letter.

a) Helpful
b) Suitable
c) Ominous
d) Promising

8. The --------------- is on her to make the first move.

a) Onus
b) Decision
c) Right
d) Brunt

9. The speaker -------------------- the audience with his dramatic tale.

a) mesmerized
b) caught
c) influenced
d) attracted

10. He -------------- some recently published statistics to prove his point.

a) Referred
b) Alluded
c) Quoted
d) Told

11. Now that the new CEO has assumed office, a ---------------- reorganization of the company is very much on the cards.

a) Rational
b) Popular
c) Radical
d) Singular

12. After she retired she had plenty of time on her hands and took up sketching as a ------------------.

a) Recreation
b) Pleasure
c) Joy
d) Labour

13. --------------- arguments to the contrary, she remained rigid in her stand.

a) in spite
b) despite
c) though
d) even as

14. They ----------------- whatever they could from the wreckage.

a) Rendered
b) Removed
c) Salvaged
d) Escaped

15. I knew he was lying, but still I didn’t dare to ---------------- him.

a) Gainsay
b) Refuse
c) Accept
d) None of these

16. I am not quite sure if he is genuinely unwell. I think he is ------------- a migraine to avoid the exam.

a) coping
b) acting
c) shamming
d) pretending

17. After she married against her parents’ wishes, she was ----------------- by all her family and friends.

a) Excluded
b) Included
c) Ostracized
d) Accepted

18. Chocolates are the real ----------------- of most people who want to lose weight.

a) Friends
b) Nemesis
c) Solution
d) Problem

19. During his speech, he made a/an ----------------- to the lateness of the hour.

a) Transparent
b) Oblique
c) Opaque
d) None of these

20. It only requires a modicum of common sense to understand that the whole plan is a ----------------

a) Sham
b) Betrayal
c) Forgery
d) Fraud

21. The director agreed to remove the ----------------- material from the play after the public raised an outcry.

a) Offensive
b) Unnecessary
c) Detailed
d) Odious

22. The Union Ministry has decided that patrols will be increased along the border to ---------------------- smugglers.

a) Prevent
b) Interdict
c) Avoid
d) Disable

23. After much persuasion he --------------- to our views.

a) Came out
b) Came round
c) Came after
d) Came off

24. The police ---------------- the robbers and arrested them.

a) Broke off
b) Broke upon
c) Broke after
d) Broke out

25. On my way to the market I --------------- with an old friend.

a) Fell in
b) Fell off
c) Fell back
d) Fell through

Answers

1. Consensus
2. Palpable
3. Trade in
4. Modeled
5. Fit
6. incurred
7. Ominous
8. Onus
9. mesmerized
10. Quoted
11. Radical
12. Recreation
13. despite
14. Salvaged
15. Gainsay
16. shamming
17. Ostracized
18. Nemesis
19. Oblique
20. Sham
21. Offensive
22. Interdict
23. Came round
24. Broke upon
25. Fell in