Question No : 1

India has _____ more and more popular in Afghanistan, not only because of its soft power, but also by _____ infrastructure, including hospitals, roads and dams, and contributing to the _____ of a democratic nation-state (through the training of civil servants, students in Indian universities and promotion of its elected governments — as evident from the support New Delhi gave to Hamid Karzai and Ashraf Ghani).

(1) vexatious, setting up, fabric

(2) become, set up, glaringly

(3) vexatious, set up, glaringly

(4) become, setting up, fabric

(5) None of these

Question No : 2

Revenue raised through this route, which should be ring-fenced lest it is _____ away, can be then _____ back _____ roads, ports, airports, etc. At the current juncture, this would compensate for the inability of the private sector to fund infrastructure.

(1) vetted, ploughed, into

(2) vetted, ploughed, in

(3) squandered, expeditiously, in

(4) squandered, ploughed, into

(5) None of these

Question No : 3

For India to become a block chain _____, it needs to urgently train its workers in block chain _____ and development, or run the risk of having its momentum _____ out.

(1) trendsetter, literacy, fizzle

(2) grotesque, literacy, fizzle

(3) grotesque, literacy, sanctity

(4) trendsetter, tantamount, sanctity

(5) None of these

Question No : 4

This, it is hoped, would be _____ _____ pension and sovereign funds who are looking for a fixed income stream with limited _____ risk.

(1) circuitous, by, execution

(2) circuitous, with, ulterior

(3) lapped up, by, execution

(4) lapped up, with, ulterior

(5) None of these

Question No : 5

While the current government’s claims of _____ such positive changes through its flagship campaigns like the Swatch Bharat Mission (SBM) and/or the Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao (BBBP), might find some _____ in the statistics of the ubiquitous _____ coverage of these programmes, the beneficiary-level evidences of impact are highly contentious.

(1) nudging, veracity, spatial

(2) stricture, subdued, spatial

(3) nudging, veracity, travesty

(4) stricture, subdued, travesty

(5) None of these

Question No : 6

Sony Interactive Entertainment will _____ new plans to use energy-efficient technology to introduce a new power-suspend mode in its next generation of PlayStation consoles. Cloud gaming service Google Stadia, which is expected to be launched in November, will not only produce a new _____ game development guide but also fund research into how “green nudges” can be incorporated _____ game play, the release states.

(1) perennial, meddle, in

(2) unveil, sustainable, in

(3) unveil, sustainable, into

(4) perennial, meddle, into

(5) None of these

Question No : 7

Given the broken state _____, underground groups _____ taking matters into their own hands over the years, _____ to protect the honour and dignity of women and children, particularly minor girls.

(1) incommodious, have, obtrude

(2) incommodious, have been, ostensibly

(3) apparatus, have, obtrude

(4) apparatus, have been, ostensibly

(5) None of these

Question No : 8

Avni Doshi’s _____ novel, Girl In White Cotton, is woven around a well-worn theme: a daughter grappling _____ her ageing mother’s mortality. The dynamics of their relationship—as you may expect—are defined by complicated bonds of affection. Antara, the narrator, has grown up in Pune, in circumstances that were _____, even traumatic, for her middle-class family.

(1) debut, with, unsavoury

(2) diabolical, to, inflame

(3) debut, with, inflame

(4) diabolical, to, unsavoury

(5) None of these

Question No : 9

The infinite and its avatars—the _____, the unbounded, the immeasurable—have always occasioned intellectual horror. The Pythagoreans dreamed that all things have an _____ logos (reason, proportion, ratio). The ancients claimed that the philosopher Hippasus drowned at sea, a _____ of the Chaos from which Hesiod taught that all things spring, following his discovery of irrational magnitudes.

(1) incommensurable, inkling, grasp

(2) mutiny, articulable, vestige

(3) mutiny, inkling, grasp

(4) incommensurable, articulable, vestige

(5) None of these

Question No : 10

She shows how Big Tech did not simply spring Athena-like from the brain of Steve Jobs, but rather took shape out of the _____ and possibilities of the Cold War, the particular culture of Northern California, and the economic debates of the 1970s and 1980s. What comes through most powerfully in her _____ are the wild social hopes once projected _____ to computers.

(1) ameliorate, nascent, for

(2) dilemmas, narrative, on

(3) ameliorate, nascent, on

(4) dilemmas, nascent, for

(5) None of these