Practice Test Set 3 (Sentence Completion)

1. About fifty workers were declared _____ by the factory management.

   1. adulatory
   2. avid
   3. rhetorical
   4. redundant

2. He flew into a _____ when I would not lend him any money.

   1. overt
   2. sporadic
   3. furtive
   4. fury

3. We were _____ by the result.

   1. surprise
   2. surprised
   3. surprising
   4. to surprise of

4. We have _____ trust in you.

   1. perfect
   2. entire
   3. imperative
   4. absolute

5. It is difficult to take sides with either party because both of the combatants are so ________ to ________.

   1. indifferent . . . evasion
   2. reluctant . . . compromise
   3. hostile . . . interference
   4. impenetrable . . . rhetoric
   5. averse . . . expectation

6. The writing is awkward, even ________, but the novel has nonetheless attracted a large ________.

   1. felicitous . . . following
   2. grotesque . . . vacuity
   3. elegant . . . repertoire
   4. graceful . . . audience
   5. ungainly . . . readership

7. His ______ capacity for food was abnormal.

   1. venal
   2. venial
   3. voracious
   4. veracious

8. Face _____ with courage.

   1. misery
   2. poverty
   3. adversity
   4. affliction

9. So many servants attended _____ him during his illness.

   1. only how
   2. with
   3. at
   4. upon

10. He worked _____ for ten year to make the project successful.

    1. deliberately
    2. assiduously
    3. ingenuously
    4. deliriously

11. The war has seriously _____ attempts to achieve peace.

    1. impaired
    2. attenuated
    3. enfeebled
    4. declined

12. A highly ________ player, the champion will snarl at himself and rage at the umpire with no ________ whatsoever.

    1. reticent . . . reason
    2. demonstrative . . . provocation
    3. recusant . . . excuse
    4. obstreperous . . . corroboration
    5. emotional . . . antagonism

13. His knowledge of the subject is _____.

    1. expensive
    2. extensive
    3. spacious
    4. spatial

14. The controversy is likely to create _____ between the two rival.

    1. doubt
    2. amity
    3. bitterness
    4. revenge

15. Unlike most historians, an anthropologist may not share the conventional ________ that the written word is more ________ than a tale told by a campfire.

    1. belief . . . prolix
    2. assumption . . . authentic
    3. idea . . . incredible
    4. tenet . . . specious
    5. canon . . . interesting

16. Wasim was so good at Mathematics that his friends considered him to be a _____.

    1. prodigy
    2. prodigal
    3. primeval
    4. profligate

17. This disease is _____ do not sit near him.

    1. contagious
    2. contiguous
    3. infectious
    4. touchy

18. _____ is a person who produces works of art, especially painting.

    1. beautician
    2. writer
    3. artistic
    4. artisan

19. She ________ for Karachi three days ago

    1. left
    2. is leaving
    3. had left
    4. will leave

20. It is _____ to steal.

    1. sinful
    2. corrupt
    3. immoral
    4. wicked

21. He said that there was no going back because his decision was _____.

    1. palatable
    2. peremptory
    3. premeditated
    4. revolutionary

22. Neither the officer nor the clerks _____ absent.

    1. was
    2. were
    3. have been
    4. are

23. In the hot sun the surface of the road seems wet, but that is only an _____.

    1. illusion
    2. allusion
    3. delusion
    4. conclusion

24. He never _____ and never will do such a work.

    1. has
    2. has done
    3. had done
    4. is done

25. Churchill was cordial to Beria when they first met, but that was the last show of ________ between them.

    1. charity
    2. enmity
    3. amiability
    4. pathology
    5. austerity

Answers

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