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In these questions, two sentences (I) and (II) are given. Each sentence has a blank in it. Against each five options are suggested. Out of these, only one fits at both the places in the context of each sentence. Mark that option as your answer.

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I. The area under our eyes in connected to our kidneys, so any .......... change in the dark circles indicates dehydration or accumulating toxins.
II. Many Indian adults are struggling with weight, thus indulging in weight loss programmes that require .......... changes in their current lifestyle.

A. drastic

B. frequent

C. ambiguous

D. severe

Correct Answer :

A. drastic


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I had already published a novel and it was an unexpected success. I thought my ___________ .

A. days were up

B. chances were good

C. lady luck was happy

D. fortune was made

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By the middle of the 19th Century, the urban population of England _________ the rural population.

A. have exceed

B. exceeded

C. was to exceeds

D. exceeds

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The two brothers look so_____ that it is difficult to tell one from the other.

A. identical

B. same

C. similar

D. resembling

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The petitioner had ______ an immediate stay form the court on allotment of the Hats ________ of investigation into the alleged irregularities.

A. asked file process

B. sought, completion

C. propagated, finish

D. demanded, course

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I had not expected to meet him; it was quite an ______ meeting.

A. organised

B. intentional

C. undesirable

D. accidental

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To ___time, please go___ foot and not by bus.

A. spend, with

B. kill, towards

C. utilise, on

D. gain, on

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Although he is ___________ person, he occasionally loses his ___________

A. quiet, power

B. cheerful, grief

C. balanced, temper

D. thoughtful, Anxiety

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It is time to ________ ongoing programmes and ______ new horizons.

A. value, choose

B. speculate, experiment

C. reject, consider

D. assess, seek

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The manners and ___________ of the nouveau riche is a recurrent ___________ in the literature.

A. style, motif

B. morals, story

C. wealth, theme

D. morals, theme

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As navigators, calendar makers, and other _________ of the night sky accumulated evidence to the contrary, ancient astronomers were forced to __________ that certain bodies might move in circles about points, which in turn moved in circles about the earth.

A. scrutinizers, believe

B. observers, agree

C. scrutinizers, suggest

D. observers, concede

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It will take some time for many South Koreans to ___________ the conflicting images of North Korea, let alone to___________ what to make of their northern cousins.

A. reconcile, decide

B. understand, clarify

C. make out, decide

D. reconcile, understand

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Few countries can____India in variety, colour and richness of dance-forms.

A. rival

B. depict

C. parallel

D. fight

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The head ____ was annoyed to see a ____ in the soup.
The option that would best fill the blanks in the above sentence would be:

A. chief, house fly

B. chef, housefly

C. chief, house-fly

D. chef, house fly

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The journey may be made by sea or___by road.

A. alternately

B. alteringly

C. conversely

D. alternatively

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The varsitys poll process for ___________ of new candidates has ___________ poor response with only ten thousand applications being received till date.

A. entrusting, seen

B. registration, evoked

C. entrance, made

D. admission, made

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The window of our room ____ he rear.

A. overlooks

B. opens

C. opposes

D. adjoins

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Ill take ______now as I have anothers appointment some where else.

A. departure

B. my leave

C. permission

D. leave from work

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If you were found guilty of exceeding the speed limit, you ______ to pay a fine.

A. would have

B. would had

C. will have

D. have

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Although ___________ is not a very desirable feeling we need a certain amount of it to ___________ well.

A. anxiety, exist

B. grief, enjoy

C. pain, bestow

D. impatience, preach

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I had a vague _________ that the lady originally belonged to Scotland.

A. notion

B. expression

C. imagination

D. theory

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He was ______ pertaining his innocence.

A. stridently

B. harshly

C. confidently

D. quickly

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It is the role of the state to ____ crime and protect people and property. If the state is unable to prevent a crime it falls upon the state to __ the victim.

A. prevent-support

B. preventing-encourage

C. prevent-supporting

D. forbid-discourage

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Rajeev was upset because he _____________ forgotten his best friends birthday?

A. have

B. shall

C. will

D. had

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The Chairman will come here at 5 p.m. to_____ a lecture.

A. attain

B. speak

C. talk

D. deliver

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Infant mortality rate in China has____ from 200 per thousand to 14 per thousand.

A. retarded

B. declined

C. contracted

D. minimised

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When we call others dogmatic, what we really object to is ___________ .

A. their giving the dog a bad name

B. their holding dogmas that are different from our own

C. the extremism that goes along with it

D. the subversion of whatever they actually believe in concomitantly

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Jacob was a rich old man who lived_____ alone in a huge house because his children did not care about him.

A. only

B. all

C. more

D. too

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The speaker did not properly use the time as he went on_______ on one point alone.

A. devoting

B. deliberating

C. diluting

D. distributing

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A controversial issue was_____ by a member of the Opposition in the Assembly, but there was no time to discuss it.

A. risen

B. raised

C. arose

D. aroused

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Nordisk have recently ___________ a product called Glucometer.

A. started

B. commissioned

C. launched

D. begun