NET, IAS, State-SET (KSET, WBSET, MPSET, etc.), GATE, CUET, Olympiads etc.: Sentence Completion Questions (Practice_Test 13 of 31)
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- The candidate ________ when asked why he had left his last job; he did not want to admit that he had been ________.
- demurred-promoted
- confided-banned
- dissembled-dismissed
- rejoiced-wrong
- hesitated-lauded
- Tennyson was a well-loved poet; no other poet since has been so ________.
- lionized
- attacked
- decried
- poetical
- abhorred
- The parliamentary session degenerated into ________ with politicians hurling ________ at each other and refusing to come to order.
- mayhem-banter
- disarray-pleasantries
- tranquillity-invectives
- chaos-aphorisms
- anarchy-insults
- The admiral ________ his order to attack when he saw the white flag raised by the enemy sailors; he was relieved that he could bring an end to the ________.
- reiterated-hostilities
- countermanded-fighting
- commandeered-truce
- renounced-hiatus
- confirmed-aggression
- In a fit of ________ she threw out the valuable statue simply because it had belonged to her ex-husband.
- pique
- goodwill
- contrition
- pedantry
- prudence
- Many 17th century buildings that are still in existence have been so ________ by successive owners that the original layout is no longer ________.
- preserved-visible
- modified-apparent
- decimated-enshrouded
- salvaged-required
- neglected-appropriate