NET, IAS, State-SET (KSET, WBSET, MPSET, etc.), GATE, CUET, Olympiads etc.: Sentence Completion Questions (Practice_Test 23 of 31)
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- You might as well try to ________ an angry cobra, as to ________ the sergeant when he is in one of his moods.
- divert-question
- condone-soothe
- capture-arouse
- placate-pacify
- taunt-enrage
- In the days of last owner, the stately home was run on a ________ scale; no guest left without remarking on the quality and profusion of food and drink.
- lavish
- military
- reduced
- ornate
- modest
- At that time, it was easy for unscrupulous politicians to ________ poor laborers to attack other workers who came from other states; however, these outbreaks of ________ declined as the economy improved.
- persuade-expansiveness
- incite-xenophobia
- assist-rebellion
- pay-philanthropy
- suborn-inequity
- Scientists have not been entirely successful in ________ fears that genetically modified crops pose a threat to consumers, although the issue does not seem as ________ as it once was.
- mitigating-simple
- arousing-polemical
- allaying-contentious
- generating-frightening
- subsuming-relevant
- The philosopher, divorced from reality, spent his time pondering the infinite, and left the ________ matters of food and clothing to his more ________ wife.
- quotidian-erudite
- urgent-energetic
- numinous-worldly
- pressing-alert
- mundane-prosaic