English: Fill in the Blanks – Set 51

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

1. The __ succession from mother to son is related to the very __ of the Congress.
   A) inexorable, fatuity
   B) certain, inanity
   C) inevitable, nature
   D) fatal, exteriority
   E) None of these
   
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      Option C 
2. The real challenge for Mr. Gandhi is not winning the Congress leadership, but positioning himself as a __ in the way of the Modi__.
   A) pulp, colossus
   B) squishy, artic
   C) stagger, lorry
   D) rock, juggernaut
   E) None of these
   
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      Option D 
3. What he projected as a stand in keeping with public opinion came across as an __act by a __ against a Prime Minister beholden to him for staying in power.
   A) servile, liege
   B) arrogant, dynast
   C) lowly, diva
   D) meekest, prince
   E) None of these
   
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      Option B 
4. Although Manson was __ of first-degree murder in 1971, he escaped capital punishment after California __ the death penalty a year later.
   A) exonerated, correct
   B) released, bearable
   C) convicted, outlawed
   D) reproachable, seemly
   E) None of these
   
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      Option C 
5. Rather than the liberal counterculture movement of the 1960s, his __ philosophy bears a disturbing resemblance in some respects with the far-right or alt-right brand of neo-fascism that has __ in certain pockets of U.S. politics recently.
   A) dogmatic, musahroomed
   B) biased, declined
   C) obstinate, dwindled
   D) bigoted, mushroomed
   E) None of these
   
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      Option D 
6. He too spoke of “race war” and __ up alt-right materials online, indulging in the very same __ race-ramblings that Manson did.
   A) wrapped, trivial
   B) batted, nonchalant
   C) lapped, apocalyptic
   D) licked, insignificant
   E) None of these
   
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      Option C 
7. The legacy of Manson should serve, if anything, as a __ reminder to liberal America that the pillars on which their __ democracy was built must never be taken for granted.
   A) mordant, empiricist
   B) piquant, mechanist
   C) acute, mixed
   D) poignant, pluralist
   E) None of these
   
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      Option D 
8. Our nation must confront the __ facts of its history rather than glorious versions of an __ past.
   A) desirable, grand
   B) beneficial, magnificient
   C) difficult, regal
   D) inconvenient, imperial
   E) None of these
   
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      Option D 
9. It’s an __ and uniquely British perspective, which achieves the seemingly impossible – casting Britain’s empire as a great moral achievement, and its collapse as an act of casual __, without any hint at the irreconcilability of the two.
   A) ingenious, generosity
   B) fatuous, frugality
   C) idiotic, atrocity
   D) dense, cupidity
   E) None of these
   
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      Option A 
10. There are the centuries of state-sanctioned criminal activity: the remarkable __ by supposed heroes such as Francis Drake, one of the most __ pirates in history, and Robert Clive, who pillaged Bengal to great personal gain.
    A) despoliation, reputed
    B) looting, notorious
    C) plunder, creditable
    D) rifling, famous
    E) None of these
    
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       Option B 

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