Directions: Pick out the most appropriate pair of words to complete the given sentences.
Q1. Noteworthy is the___ in the demand for industrial robots, at an annual rate of 9% since 2011, making the upgradation of human skills ___upon corporations and governments alike.
A) dispatch, beseeching
B) expedition, beg
C) acceleration, imperative
D) deferral, conjure
E) Hinderance, mendicant
Answer & Explanation Option C
Explanation:
acceleration= increase in speed/rate; imperative = of vital importance
Expedition = promptness; dispatch = deal quickly
Q2. The growth in international migration by as much as 50% since 1990 and the rise of xenophobia in many parts of the world ___the dangers from the lopsided ___of the current phase of globalisation.
A) cloud, lam
B) obscure, orbited
C) dupe, voyage
D) illustrate, trajectory
E) rebut, trach
Answer & Explanation Option D
Explanation:
illustrate = explains with example; trajectory = path followed by an object
Q3. On Tuesday, the constitutional vision, under siege for much of India’s journey as a democratic republic, came within a ___of ___at the hands of the Supreme Court.
A) barber, destruction
B) whisker, destruction
C) editor, destruction
D) floffer, destruction
E) fisker, destruction
Answer & Explanation Option B
Explanation:
whisker = very small amount; destruction = breaking up
Q4. Had the Chief Justice managed to ___one other judge to sign on to his judgment, we would have found ourselves living under a Constitution that sanctions the complete ___of the individual to the claims of her religious community.
A) arouse, plunge
B) manage, inundation
C) prohibit, dive
D) stifle, settling
E) persuade, submergence
Answer & Explanation Option E
Explanation:
persuade = induce to do something through reasoning or argument; submergence = to sink or plunge under water or beneath the surface of any enveloping medium.
Q5. By holding that the 1937 Act ___all Muslim personal law, Justice Nariman ___the need for reconsidering this longstanding position, even as he doubted its correctness in a brief, illuminating paragraph.
A) enciphered, precluded
B) redacted, demanded
C) codified, obviated
D) systemized, asked
E) scripted, involved
Answer & Explanation Option C
Explanation:
codified = arrange into a systematic order; obviate = remove a need or difficulty
Q6. Not only did the ___opinion privilege community claims over individual constitutional rights, it also ___the freedom of religion with personal law, thereby advancing a position where religion could become the arbiter of individuals’ civil status and civil rights.
A) protesting, related
B) according, unionized
C) acceding, combined
D) accommodative, fluxed
E) dissenting, conflated
Answer & Explanation Option E
Explanation:
dissenting = hold or express opinions that are at variance with those commonly held; conflated = combine into one
Q7. I believe it is important to try to ___the logic of the minute from other perspectives as well, without thereby excusing its ___power claims and the cunning of British imperial politics.
A) fasten, egregious
B) contract, egregious
C) snarl, egregious
D) unravel, egregious
E) puzzle, egregious
Answer & Explanation Option D
Explanation:
unravel = investigate and explain; egregious = outstandingly bad
Q8. Nepal-India relations have been ___for decades, but the two Modi visits did not help ___them.
A) glassy, fix
B) propionate, correct
C) justified, mend
D) adhered, restore
E) uneven, repair
Answer Option E
Q9. The government must cease to be a ___litigant, and ___power should be made use to reduce the grievance of the future litigant.
A) necessary, immense
B) compulsive, executive
C) important, terrific
D) logical,terrible
E) ideal, amazing
Answer Option B
Q10. NLP had a lot of laudable ___ and there was nothing to disagree___.
A) commitments, to
B) comments, for
C) assertions, off
D) statements, with
E) declarations, of
Answer & Explanation Option D
Explanation:
statements = clear expression of sth;