Sentence Completion Practice Set – 9
Directions: Pick out the most effective word from the given words from the given words to fill in the blank to made the sentence meaningfully complete
- Although it is two years since this book was first published its Indian edition has just been ………….
(1) Sold
(2) Started
(3) Published
(4) Launching
(5) Marketed
Ans:- (4) Launching
- Even in today’s modern society, people …………. god to bring rains.
(1) Provoke
(2) Evoke
(3) Appeal
(4) Propitiate
(5) Superimpose
Ans:- (2) Evoke
- The good is often ……………. With their bones.
(1) Buried
(2) Covered
(3) Exhumed
(4) Interred
(5) Fleshed
Ans:- (4) Interred
- Sachin was to reach that afternoon but was ……….. up at Delhi for some personal work.
(1) Kept
(2) Held
(3) Delayed
(4) Stayed
(5) Detained
Ans:- (2) Held
- I do not think the evidence you have heard ………… your opinion.
(1) Promote
(2) Accuses
(3) Commits
(4) Warrants
(5) Convinces
Ans:- (5) Convinces
- He …….. his shoes till they shone.
(1) Brushed
(2) Scrubbed
(3) Shined
(4) Polished
(5) Wiped
Ans:- (5) Wiped
- He knew that social evils were only …………… of deeper maladies.
(1) Cause
(2) Indication
(3) Part
(4) Consequences
(5) Manifestations
Ans:- (5) Manifestations
- It was …………. Hot that day and the cable suffered the brunt of the heat.
(1) Treacherously
(2) Acceptably
(3) Unfailingly
(4) Unbelievably
(5) Uncompromisingly
Ans:- (4) Unbelievably
- Unlike most rulers in that ………………. Age, Akbar believed religious tolerance.
(1) Ancient
(2) Historical
(3) Feudal
(4) Bigoted
(5) Aristocratic
Ans:- (2) Historical
- He is so ………………. Of his own idea that he will not entertain any suggestion from others.
(1) Hopeful
(2) Enchanted
(3) Enamoured
(4) Jealous
(5) Possessed
Ans:- (3) Enamoured
