NET, IAS, State-SET (KSET, WBSET, MPSET, etc.), GATE, CUET, Olympiads etc.: Sentence Completion Questions (Practice_Test 1 of 31)

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  1. Today Wegener՚s theory is ________; however, he died an outsider treated with ________ by the scientific establishment.
    1. unsupported-approval
    2. dismissed-contempt
    3. accepted-approbation
    4. unchallenged-disdain
    5. unrivalled-reverence
  2. The revolution in art has not lost its steam; it ________ on as fiercely as ever.
    1. trudges
    2. meanders
    3. edges
    4. ambles
    5. rages
  3. Each occupation has its own ________; bankers, lawyers and computer professionals, for example, all use among themselves language which outsiders have difficulty following:
    1. merits
    2. disadvantages
    3. rewards
    4. jargon
    5. problems
  4. ________ by nature, Jones spoke very little even to his own family members.
    1. garrulous
    2. equivocal
    3. taciturn
    4. arrogant
    5. gregarious
  5. Biological clocks are of such ________ adaptive value to living organisms, that we would expect most organisms to ________ them.
    1. clear-avoid
    2. meager-evolve
    3. significant-eschew
    4. obvious-possess
    5. ambivalent-develop
  6. The peasants were the least ________ of all people, bound by tradition and ________ by superstitions.
    1. free-fettered
    2. enfranchised-rejected
    3. enthralled-tied
    4. pinioned-limited
    5. conventional-encumbered