Filling of blanks in sentences with appropriate words - Online Test
Q1. Direction: Each sentence below has two blanks, each blank indicating that something has been omitted. Choose the words that best fit the meaning of the sentence as a whole.
Foreign policy analysts, who thought New Delhi had for long been ______ to Tamil Nadu’s _______ pressure, it as an ‘excellent diplomacy’ though Tamil diaspora organisations said they were disappointed with India.
Answer : Option E
Explaination / Solution:
Succumb means to surrender or give in.
Defer means to postpone. One can only ‘give in’ to pressure but cannot defer or delay it.
Hail means to originate.
Prescribed means to advise.
Named here refers to add a formal tag to something.
Q2. Direction: A sentence with two blanks is given, each blank indicating that something has been omitted. Choose the words that best fit the meaning of the sentence as a whole.
Only royalty could wear expensive clothing. Other classes were _____ form clothing themselves with materials that were _____ with the aristocracy.
Answer : Option A
Explaination / Solution:
‘Debarred’ means prohibit. “Only” justifies the exclusiveness of the expensive clothing for royalty. Thus, others were prohibited to wear clothing that were ‘associated’ to royals i.e. aristocrats.
Q3. Direction: Two statements with blanks have been given. These statements are followed by five alternatives. Choose the one which fits into the set of statements.
A) Bringing the web to this _______region is no small feat, with communities scattered over thousands of square kilometres.
B) Someone who’s socially______ is likely to be lonely, and vice versa, but that’s not completely the case.
B) Someone who’s socially______ is likely to be lonely, and vice versa, but that’s not completely the case.
Answer : Option A
Explaination / Solution:
the term “isolated” fits the both the statements. In statement ‘A ’Isolated is associated with huge distance. In statement ‘B’ isolation is related to someone who is detached from the society. So option ‘A’ is an apt answer.
