English: Fill in the Blanks — Set 30

Directions: Pick out the most appropriate pair of words to complete the given sentences.

  1. A _______Gorkhaland movement and subsequent state crackdown have _______life with violent uncertainty.
    A) resurgent,  infused
    B) dormant, imbued
    C) reincarnated, blended
    D) resurrecting, incorporated
    E) revitalising, bewed
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      Option A
  2. Sport can often be cruel but the ________in the Indian camp towards the last overs shouldn’t ______the spectacular month that preceded the match.
    A) dismal, mar
    B) calmness, mar
    C) panic, mar
    D) assurance, mar
    E) confidence,  mar
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      Option  C
    Explanation:
    mar -spoil, ruin, impair;
  3. A month into the ongoing Doklam ______between Indian and Chinese troops at the tri-junction with Bhutan, Beijing continues to hold a hardline_______.
    A) agreement, position
    B) convival, mark
    C) actuality, attitude
    D) standoff, stance
    E) aversion, outlook
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      Option D
  4. In a report released by Subramanian Swamy in London, the NCHT ________this ___________to a “colonial conspiracy”.
    A) blamed,  stand
    B) imputed, idea
    C) highlight, initiative
    D) legalize, move
    E) ascribed, initiative
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      Option E
    Explanation:
    ascribe -attribute, assign, credit  
  5. Dayananda Saraswati, the founder of the Arya Samaj, was the first Hindu reformer who______ to ________the Vedic caste system by endowing this varnavyavastha with meritocratic dimensions.
    A) adhered, propound
    B) endeavoured, rehabilitate
    C) persisted, refurbish
    D) adhered, blighted
    E) endeavored, propound
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      Option B
  6. These elections follow a proportional representation system based on the single ________vote, ______the general elections to the Lok Sabha.
    A) assignable, unlike
    B) movable, unlike
    C) transferable, unlike
    D) negotiable, unlike
    E) alienable, unlike
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      Option C
  7. The Congress party’s protest on the introduction of NOTA draws from __________about _________up sufficient votes to have its nominee Ahmed Patel elected to the Rajya Sabha.
    A) anxiety, mopping
    B) confidence, drawing
    C) distressed, mopping
    D) trouble, drawing
    E) agitation, mopping
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      Option A
    Explanation:
    mop up – to clean up something
  8. The civil service ____itself on being able to deliver the crazy and impossible, if ministers so_____.
    A) brags, cancelled
    B) conceits, decreed
    C) vanities, allowed
    D) crows, vested
    E) prides, ordain
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      Option E
    Explanation:
    ordain – order (something) officially.
  9. Rulers of Khurda were traditionally the ________of Jagannath Temple and ruled as the ______of lord Jagannath on earth.
    A) guards, deputy
    B) custodians, deputy
    C) prisoners, deputy
    D) devotees, deputy
    E) guardians, deputy
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      Option B
  10. The state forest department reports that it is __________with calls and messages regarding ________by feral dogs and the situation is going from bad to worse.
    A) flooded, pillage
    B) engulfed,  predation
    C) washed,  pillage
    D) inundated,  predation
    E) guided, pillage
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      Option D
    Explanation:
    inundate – overwhelm, overpower, overburden
    predation -the action of attacking or plundering.

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      1. utsav pateriya

        hii simran improve ur vocabulary and pharsal verbs because pharsal verbs plays an imortant role in fill in the blanks section and always neglect the option and improve prepositional pharses.

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