NET, IAS, State-SET (KSET, WBSET, MPSET, etc.), GATE, CUET, Olympiads etc.: Sentence Completion Questions (Practice_Test 8 of 31)
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- Through the 19th Century, the classics of Western Civilization were considered to be the ________ of wisdom and culture, and an ________ person-by definition-knew them well.
- foundation-average
- epitome-uneducated
- cornerstone-obtuse
- font-ecclesiastical
- repository-educated
- In this biography we are given a glimpse of young man ________ pursuing the path of poet despite ________ and rejection slips.
- doggedly-disappointment
- tirelessly-encouragement
- sporadically-awards
- successfully-acclaim
- unsuccessfully-failure
- All European countries are seeking to diminish the check upon individual ________ which state examinations with their ________ growth have bought in their train.
- rights-liberating
- liberties-empowering
- spontaneity-tyrannous
- foibles-inevitable
- creativity-soporific
- In keeping with his own ________ in international diplomacy, Churchill proposed a personal meeting of heads of government, but the effort was doomed to failure, as the temper of times was ________.
- ideas-pluralistic
- predilections-inimical
- aversions-hostile
- impulses-amicable
- maxims-salacious
- The wall and floor decorations created by Indian housewives are usually ________, remaining hours, days, or at most, weeks before being worn off by human activity or weather and replaced by new ________.
- perennial-drawings
- ephemeral-designs
- trivial-purchases
- impermanent-furnishings
- innovative-pictures
- The subtle shades of meaning, and still subtler echoes of association, make language an instrument which scarcely anything short of genius can wield with ________ and ________.
- confidence-aloofness
- definiteness-certainty
- sincerity-hope
- conservatism-alacrity
- eloquence-ruthlessness