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Verbal Section : Sentence Completions

Directions:

Each sentence below has one or two blanks. Each blank shows that something has been omitted. Under each sentence five words are given as choice. Choose the one correct word for each blank that best fits the meaning of the sentences as a whole.

1. Having no sense of moral obligation, shipler was as little subject to the - of conscience after he acted as he was motivated by its - before he acted.
   1. balm - eloquence
   2. qualms - atonement
   3. reproaches - prompting's
   4. rewards - chastisement
   5. ridicule - allure

   Answer: C

2. Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and -
   1. goes to work
   2. stays cool
   3. embarrasses its user
   4. communicates
   5. puts its foot down

   Answer: B

3. Famous among job seekers for its - , the company, quite apart from generous salaries, bestowed on its executives annual bonuses and such - as low - interest home mortgages and company cars.
   1. largesse - perquisites
   2. altruism - credits
   3. magnanimity - reparations
   4. discernment - prerogatives
   5. inventiveness - benefits

   Answer: A

4. Moving and parked, the automobile devours urban land, leaving the buildings as mere - of habitable space in a sea of dangerous and ugly traffic
   1. asylums
   2. remnants
   3. blocks
   4. mountains
   5. islands

   Answer: E

5. We never believed that he would resort to - in order to achieve his goal; we always regarded him as a - man.
   1. charm - insincere
   2. necromancy - pietistic
   3. logic - honorable
   4. prestidigitation - articulate
   5. subterfuge - honest

   Answer: E

6. The Sociologist responded to the charge that her new theory was - by pointing out that it did not in fact contradict accepted sociological principles.
   1. unproven
   2. banal
   3. superficial
   4. complex
   5. heretical

   Answer: E

7. He was so - by the interplay of the colors that varied in brilliance and pattern as the music rose and fell, that he asked the price of the device.
   1. overwrought
   2. penalized
   3. repelled
   4. inteugued
   5. penalized

   Answer: D

8. The absence of a sense of outrage and grief at national tragedy is an - of moral responsibility.
   1. intervention
   2. energising
   3. abdication
   4. administration
   5. actuation.

   Answer: C

9. In an effort to - its operations, the corporation announced it was acquiring a - company in a different type of manufacturing.
   1. diversify - subsidiary
   2. adumberate - solvent
   3. multiply - protracted
   4. intensify - fluctuating
   5. establish - sequential.

   Answer: A

10. Samuel Clemens chose the - Mark Twain as a result of his knowledge of river boat piloting.
    1. mountebank
    2. protagonist
    3. misanthrope
    4. hallucination
    5. pseudonym.

    Answer: E