Verbal Section : Sentence Completions

41. No hero of ancient or modern times can surpass the Indian with his lofty contempt of death and the - with which he sustained the cruelest coffliction.
    
    
    
    1. guide
       
    2. assent
       
    3. reverence
       
    4. fortitude
       
    5. concern
       
    
    

    Ans :D
    
    

42. The hostess attempted to - a romantic atmosphere that would bring the two young people together in -
    
    
    
    1. expand - fealty
       
    2. present - collusion
       
    3. simulate - conflict
       
    4. introduce - cacophony
       
    5. contrive - matrimony
       
    
    

    Ans :E
    
    

43. Employers who retire people who are willing and able to continue working should realize that - age is not an effective - in determining whether an individual is capable of working.
    
    
    
    1. intellectual - criterion
       
    2. Chronological - criterion
       
    3. Physical - barrier
       
    4. deteriorating - value
       
    5. chronological - factor
       
    
    

    Ans :B
    
    

44. As the sun rose, the morning mists were borne away on the - like strands of -
    
    
    
    1. whirlwind - flotsam
       
    2. wind - cactus
       
    3. morass - tundra
       
    4. zephyr - gossamer
       
    5. holocaust - taffeta
       
    
    

    Ans :D
    
    

45. The playwright was known not for his original ideas that had been propounded by others.
    
    
    
    1. rejection
       
    2. consideration
       
    3. invention
       
    4. reiteration
       
    5. plagiarism
       
    
    

    Ans :E
    
    

46. 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
       
    
    

    Ans :D
    
    

47. 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
       
    
    

    Ans :B
    
    

48. 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
       
    
    

    Ans :E
    
    

49. 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
       
    
    

    Ans :E
    
    

50. 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
       
    
    

    Ans :D