Competitive Exams: Sentence Completion Questions (Practice_Test 11 of 31)
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- The crew of air balloon ________ the sand bags to help the balloon rise over the hill.
- capsized
- jettisoned
- salvaged
- augmented
- enumerated
- We were not fooled by his ________ arguments; his plan was obviously ________.
- cogent-brilliant
- hackneyed-banal
- convoluted-labyrinthine
- specious-untenable
- lucid-intelligible
- Hawkins is ________ in his field; no other contemporary scientist commands the same respect.
- disparaged
- ignominious
- obsolete
- anachronistic
- preeminent
- The model paraded in front of celebrities with ________; it was impossible to tell that this was her first assignment.
- panache
- opprobrium
- shame
- trepidation
- terror
- The term lead pencil is a ________; pencils are filled with graphite not lead.
- misnomer
- misdemeanor
- peccadillo
- euphemism
- metaphor
- The ________ weather forced us to stay indoors.
- enticing
- glorious
- restorative
- inclement
- congenial