PREPARATORY QUESTIONS

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PREPARATORY SET-75 (THREE FILLER)

Direction (Qs.1 to 5): In each of the following paragraph, there are three words omitted. Below each sentence(s), there are five options and each option consists of three words which can fill the blanks respectively to make the sentence(s) grammatically and contextually correct. Find the most appropriate set of words that fit into the blanks contextually. If none of the given sets of words fill the blanks appropriately mark option (5) i.e., ‘none of these’ as your answer choice.

Question No : 1

His easy _____ grows with his party’s success. The shadow chancellor is intellectually assured among top economists, politically _____ and laser-focused on victory. You might say shining is not too difficult when few frontbenchers are well known and fewer _____ star quality.

(1) Recluse, perpetual, scrounge

(2) Credence, astute, emanate

(3) Torrent, ineffectual, saunter

(4) Artifice, furtive, ramble

(5) Crony, stalthy, meander

Question No : 2

Often involving _____ press statements, _____ declarations of progress and _____handshakes, official talks feel deeply undramatic.

(1) Anodyne, vacuous, orchestrated

(2) Fore, unceasing, mauled

(3) Capsized, furtive, spawned

(4) Furtive, nefarious, zapped

(5) Iniquitous, surreptitious, ambled

Question No : 3

Some great journalists _____ boldly into war zones. Peter did that occasionally, but his _____ was to _____ fearlessly across minefields of ideas.

(1) Abstain, destitution, ramble

(2) Censure, conjecture, berate

(3) Pacify, hubbub, anoint

(4) Venture, forte, stride

(5) Dissipate, surmise, appease

Question No : 4

Authors might _____ that negative book reviews can _____ their self-esteem, but readers themselves can also feel sliced and _____. Unfortunately, these often are self-inflicted wounds.

(1) Obviate, mitigate, brazen

(2) Countermand, belie, garbled,

(3) Imbibe, avow, fraught

(4) Carp, lacerate, diced

(5) Enthrall, stymie, didactic

Question No : 5

In the past decade, whatever most _____ the Turks say, or the Russians—do in the region has been accompanied by media _____ and _____ debate about what they are up to.

(1) Dichotomies, dotage, median

(2) Tussles, pariah, migrant

(3) Denouements, outcast, modest

(4) Recluses, insensibility, momentous

(5) Outsiders, fanfare, raucous