NET, IAS, State-SET (KSET, WBSET, MPSET, etc.), GATE, CUET, Olympiads etc.: Sentence Completion Questions (Practice_Test 10 of 31)
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- I cannot conclude this preface without ________ that an early and untimely death should have prevented Persius from giving a more finished appearance to his works.
- rejoicing
- lamenting
- affirming
- commenting
- mentioning
- Before his marriage the Duke had led an austere existence and now regarded the affectionate, somewhat ________ behavior of his young wife as simply ________.
- restrained-despicable
- childish-elevating
- playful-sublime
- frivolous-puerile
- unpleasant-delightful
- Alpha ________ that human beings inherit a tendency to feel an affinity and awe for other living things, in the same way that we are ________ to be inquisitive or to protect our young at all costs.
- argues-encouraged
- maintains-trained
- contends-predisposed
- fears-taught
- demurs-genetically programmed
- The pond was a place of reek and corruption, of ________ smells and of oxygen-starved fish breathing through laboring gills.
- fragrant
- evocative
- dolorous
- resonant
- fetid
- There have been great ________ since his time, but few others have felt so strongly the ________ of human existence.
- pessimists-futility
- skeptics-exaltation
- heretics-sagacity
- optimists-tremulousness
- cynics-joy
- While war has never been absent from the ________ of man, there have been periods in History which appear remarkably ________.
- archives-ambivalent
- posterity-serene
- mind-desultory
- annals-pacific
- life-belligerent