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Verbal Section : Sentence Completions

21. The gypsy girl, decked out in - finery, and with her disheveled hair streaming over shoulders, was indeed a - sight.
    1. verdant - wistful
    2. sartorial - flagrant
    3. specious - poignant
    4. tawdry - bizarre
    5. opulent - debonair

    Answer: D

22. Yellow fever, the disease that killed 4,000 Philadelphians in 1793, and so - Memphis, Tennessee, that the city lost its charter, has reappeared after nearly two decades in - in the western hemisphere.
    1. disabled - quarantine
    2. decimated - abeyance
    3. terrorized - contention
    4. ravaged - secret
    5. coupled - quiescence

    Answer: B

23. The painting was larger than it appeared to be, for hanging in a darkened recess of the chapel, it was - by the perspective.
    1. embellished
    2. improved
    3. jeopardised
    4. aggrandized
    5. diminished

    Answer: E

24. We have in America - speech that is neither American, Oxford English, nor English but a - of all three.
    1. motley - miracle
    2. nasal - blend
    3. feigned - patchwork
    4. mangled - medley
    5. hybrid - combination

    Answer: E

25. Old beliefs die hard, even when jobs become - the long - standing fear that unemployment could return at a moments notice -
    1. protected - subsided
    2. vacant - perished
    3. available - receded
    4. plentiful - persisted
    5. easier - charged

    Answer: D

26. Clearly refuting sceptics, researches have - not only that gravitational radiation exists but that it also does exactly what the theory - it should do.
    1. supposed - asserted
    2. voubted -warranted
    3. assumed - deduced
    4. demonstrated - predicted
    5. estimated - accepted

    Answer: D

27. The Neolatonists' conception of a deity, in which perfection was measured by abundant fecundity, was contradicted by that of the Aristotelians, in which perfection was displayed in the - of creation.
    1. variety
    2. economy
    3. profusion
    4. clarity
    5. precision.

    Answer: B

28. It is a great - to be able to transfer useful genes with as little extra gene material as possible, because the donor's genome may contain, in addition to desirable genes, many genes with - effects.
    1. Disappointment - superfluous
    2. Convenience - exquisite
    3. Advantage - deleterious
    4. Accomplishment - profound
    5. Misfortune - unpredictable.

    Answer: C

29. While admitting that the risks incurred by use of the insecticide were not - the manufacturer's spokesperson argued that effective - were simply not available.
    1. indeterminable - safeguards
    2. unusual - alternatives
    3. inconsequential - substitutes
    4. proven - antidotes
    5. increasing - procedures.

    Answer: C

30. Human reaction to the realm of though is often as strong as that to sensible presences; our higher moral life is based on the fact that - sensations actually present may have a weaker influence on our action than do ideas of - facts.
    1. emotional - impersonal
    2. familiar - symbolic
    3. disturbing - ordinary
    4. material - remote
    5. defenitive - controvoisial.

    Answer: D