Competitive Exams: 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