1 |
The chief guest's speech was so ______ that I was all ears |
Intricate
Interminable
Interesting
Indeterminate
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2 |
Unscrupulous operators are running a ______ racket in illegal international telephone calls |
Fruitful
Prosperous
Rich
Flourishing
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3 |
We must ______ to authority |
Bend
Surrender
Subque
Submit
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4 |
The twins are so alike that I cannot ______ one from the other |
Discern
Tell
Say
Notice
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5 |
Mr. Shahid has gone to his native village with the ______ of starting an adult school |
Suggestion
Presumption
Opinion
Intention
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6 |
Students who have secured more than ninety percent marks are ______ for this scholarship |
Worthy
Legible
Eligible
Permitted
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7 |
The whole plot was ______ well managed |
Perfectly
Nicely
Exquisitely
Happened
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8 |
The police ______ the mob |
Disbanded
Dispersed
Drove
Scattered
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9 |
Find the ______ that accompany these cartoons |
Captions
Topics
Headlines
Titles
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10 |
The Chairman treated the employees to a ______ lunch at an expensive hotel |
Precious
Sumptuous
Thriving
Stupendous
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11 |
This is the ______ chosen for the shopping complex to be built next year |
Area
Locality
Site
Sight
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12 |
Mumtaz ______ two minutes and thirty seconds to take the first place in the women's 800 m race |
ransss
Used
Timed
Clocked
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13 |
The important information was given by the convict while ______ before the court |
Addressing
Explaining
Deposing
Expressing
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14 |
The fact is so ______ that no one ever succeeded even in defining it. |
Elusive
Slanderous
Morbid
Fragmentary
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15 |
His life consists of ______ of drinking punctuated by periods of drunken sleep |
Barrels
Bouts
Bowls
Pints
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16 |
Traffic speed limits are set at a level that achieves some balance between the danger of _______ speed and the desire of most people to travel as quickly as possible |
Marginal
Normal
Prudent
Excessive
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17 |
The sugar dissolved in water ______; finally all that remained was an almost _______ residue on the bottom of the glass |
Quickly .... Lumpy
Immediately ..... Fragrant
Gradually ..... Imperceptible
Subsequently .... Glassy
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18 |
We need more men of culture and enlightenment; we have too many ______ among us |
Visionaries
Philistines
Philosophers
Students
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19 |
Because Pasha stubbornly continued to believe in the, power of Vitamin C to cure cancer despite much evidence to the contrary, his colleagues felt he had lost is scientific ______ |
Tenacity
Daring
Objectivity
Apparatus
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20 |
They fired upon the enemy from behind trees, walls, and any other ______ points could find |
Conspicuous
Definitive
Vantage
Exposed
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