Verbal Section Most Important Questions and Answers Part 2
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11. That the Third Battalion՚s fifty percent casually rate transformed its assault on Hill 306 from a brilliant stratagem into a debacle does not - eyewitness reports of its commander՚s extra-ordinary - in deploying his forces.
(a) invalidate - brutality
(b) gainsay - cleverness
(c) underscore - ineptitude
(d) justify - rapidity
(e) corroborate -determination
Ans: (b)
12. No longer - by the belief that the world around us was expressly designed for humanity, many people try to find intellectual - for that lost certainty in astrology and in mysticism.
(a) satisfied - reasons
(b) reassured - justifications
(c) restricted - parallels
(d) sustained - substitutes
(e) hampered - equivalents
Ans: (d)
13. In eighth-century Japan, people who - wasteland were rewarded with official ranks as part of an effort to overcome the shortage of - fields.
(a) cultivated - domestic
(b) located - desirable
(c) conserved – forested
(d) reclaimed - arable
(e) irrigated - accessible.
Ans: (d)
14. Clearly refuting sceptics, researchers have - not only that gravitational radiation exists but that it also does exactly what the theory- it should do.
(a) assumed - deducted
(b) estimated - accepted
(c) supposed - asserted
(d) doubted - warranted
(e) demonstrated - predicted.
Ans: (e)
15. Melodramas, which presented stark oppositions between innocence and criminality, virtue and corruption, good and evil, were popular precisely because they offered the audience a world - of -
(a) deprived - polarity
(b) full - circumstantiality
(c) bereft - theatricality
(d) devoid - neutrality
(e) composed - adversity.
Ans: (d)
16. Sponsors of the bill were-because there was no opposition to it within the legislative, until after the measure had been signed into law.
(a) well-intentioned
(b) persistent
(c) detained
(d) unreliable
(e) relieved.
Ans: (b)
17. Ecology, like economics, concerns itself with the movement of valuable - through a complex network of producers and consumers.
(a) nutrients
(b) dividends
(c) communications
(d) artifacts
(e) commodities.
Ans: (c)
18. Having fully embraced the belief that government by persuasion is preferable to government by - the leaders of the movement have recently - most of their previous statements supporting totalitarianism.
(a) proclamation - codified
(b) coercion - repudiated
(c) participation - moderated
(d) intimidation - issued
(e) demonstration - deliberated.
Ans: (b)
19. It would be difficult for one so - to be led to believe that all men are equal and that we must disregard race, colour and creed.
(a) tolerant
(b) democratic
(c) broadminded
(d) emotional
(e) Intolerant.
Ans: (e)
20. Many philosophers agree that the verbal aggression of profanity in certain radical newspapers is not - or childish, but an assault on - essential to the revolutionary՚s purpose.
(a) insolent - sociability
(b) trivial - decorum
(c) belligerent - fallibility
(d) serious - propriety
(e) Deliberate - affectation.
Ans: (b)
21. The - tones of the flute succeeded in - his tense nerves.
(a) rhapsodic - minimizing
(b) blatant - enhancing
(c) hovendous - calming
(d) vibrant - portraying
(e) mellifluous - soothing.
Ans: (e)