Directions(1-15): Each question below has one/two blanks, each blank indicating that something has been omitted. Find out which option can be used to fill up the blanks in the sentence in the same sequence to make it meaning complete.
Q1. Idleness squanders what _________ in a previous generation has won.
(a) laziness
(b) indolence
(c) resourcefulness
(d) industry
(e) work
Q2. That charming girl was the _________ of all eyes.
(a) target
(b) aim
(c) cynosure
(d) doggerel
(e) ambition
Q3. Any political leader who allows nepotism to flourish should be subject, to _________.
(a) autopsy
(b) stringency
(c) stricture
(d) punishment
(e) condemnation
Q4. His attitude to his boss was _________ and caused a good deal of repulsion.
(a) refulgent
(b) arrogant
(c) hybrid
(d) sycophantic
(e) aggressive
Q5. His _________ way of life seemed inconsistent with his professions of virtue.
(a) equable
(b) tremulous
(c) squeamish
(d) compromising
(e) dissolute
Q6. The influence of the environment on man is revealed by an _________ study.
(a) anthropological
(b) ecological
(c) epigraphic
(d) numismatic
(e) ecumenical
Q7. She had a terrible night caused by an _________ during her sleep.
(a) incubus
(b) debility
(c) obsession
(d) delusion
(e) hypochondria
Q8. The admiration some leaders earn is _________ by their _________ instinct for hitting the frontlines in newspapers.
(a) developed, uncanny
(b) generated, feeble
(c) engendered, unerring
(d) evolved, aggressive
(e) conceded, provocative
Q9. India for the present, is deeply _________ in economic difficulties, but the Government has taken a pledge to set everything right within five years.
(a) saturated
(b) engrossed
(c) swamped
(d) vexed
(e) ruined
Q10. Knowledge is like a deep well fed by _________ springs, and you mind is the little bucket that you drop in it.
(a) immortal
(b) inexhaustible
(c) eternal
(d) perennial
(e) sterling
Q11. True health and true success go together for they are inseparably _________ in the thought realm.
(a) tied up
(b) bound up
(c) intertwined
(d) interrelated
(e) interspersed
Q12. I do not think you will gain anything by insulting and _________ the man you do not agree with.
(a) defaming
(b) depicting
(c) charging
(d) revamping
(e) enervating
Q13. The Indian _________ have discovered a way to boost the yield per acre of different _________ of wheat.
(a) agronomists, varieties
(b) economists, kinds
(c) anthropologists, sorts
(d) phrenologists, layers
(e) agroanalysts, vistas
Q14. The opposition parties allege that prices of essential commodities are _________ like a runaway balloon.
(a) flying
(b) reviving
(c) leaping
(d) soaring
(e) shooting
Q15. With the realization, we have found our-selves left with ____________ moral values and little ethical ___________.
(a) extreme, judgment
(b) fundamental, scruples
(c) incidental, standards
(d) obsolete, direction
(e) stereotyped, perspective
English Quiz For NIACL AO Mains 2024 Exa...
