NET, IAS, State-SET (KSET, WBSET, MPSET, etc.), GATE, CUET, Olympiads etc.: Sentence Completion Questions (Practice_Test 18 of 31)
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- Literary criticism has in recent years become increasingly ________; it is almost impossible for the non-literary person to understand its analyses.
- abstruse
- accessible
- colloquial
- wide-ranging
- professional
- The alchemists, though they are often supposed to have been ________ or confidence tricksters, were actually skilful technologists.
- empiricists
- polemicists
- pragmatists
- theorists
- charlatans
- Bullock carts and hand pumps seem ________ in a village whose skyline is dominated by telephone cables and satellite dishes.
- anachronisms
- exigencies
- diversions
- provocations
- portents
- A ________ child, she was soon bored in class; she already knew more mathematics than her junior school teachers.
- obdurate
- querulous
- precocious
- recalcitrant
- contemporary
- Stuart reveled in ________; he would never seek ________ until all possibilities for debate had been exhausted.
- altercation-clarification
- polemics-conciliation
- ambiguities-consolation
- asceticism-indulgence
- digressions-direction
- Turner claimed to paint what he saw; yet no painter ever departed further from close ________ or took more ________ with subjects.
- imitation-liberties
- observation-care
- definition-vagaries
- imagination-pains
- resemblance-trouble