Competitive Exams: Sentence Completion Questions (Practice_Test 12 of 31)
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- It will be hard to ________ Leonid now that you have so ________ him.
- pacify-soothed
- mollify-incensed
- antagonize-irritated
- anger-ruffled
- subdue-subjugated
- The lectures on quantum physics were invariably ________; the lecturer ________ his ill-prepared material in a manner guaranteed to send even the most ardent student to sleep.
- stimulating-delivered
- pedestrian-enthused about
- soporific-droned
- scintillating-intoned
- arcane-marshaled
- Edward was understandably upset that he had lost the position, but he was ________ by the conviction that he had done nothing to ________ the dismissal.
- consoled-merit
- warmed-avoid
- comforted-mar
- miffed-delay
- saddened-earn
- Alpha ________ to counteract her negative feelings, but only succeeded in ________ them.
- tried-allaying
- hoped-mitigating
- desired-ameliorating
- hesitated-deprecating
- endeavoured-intensifying
- She was roundly condemned for her ________; she betrayed the woman to whom she owed her success.
- truculence
- perfidy
- serendipity
- pragmatism
- discernment
- The progress of disease is ________; it spreads stealthily without any symptoms in the early stages.
- dramatic
- acute
- blatant
- insidious
- inexorable