Verbal Section : Sentence Completions

11. That the Third Battalion's fifty percent casually rate transformed its assault on Hill 306 from a brilliant stratagem into a debacle does not - eyewitness reports of its commander's extra-ordinary - in deploying his forces.
    
    
    
    1. invalidate - brutality
       
    2. gainsay - cleverness
       
    3. underscore - ineptitude
       
    4. justify - rapidity
       
    5. corroborate -determination
       
    
    

    Ans : B
    
    

12. No longer - by the belief that the world around us was expressly designed for humanity, many people try to find intellectual - for that lost certainty in astrology and in mysticism.
    
    
    
    1. satisfied - reasons
       
    2. reassured - justifications
       
    3. restricted - parallels
       
    4. sustained - substitutes
       
    5. hampered - equivalents
       
    
    

    Ans : D
    
    

13. In eighth-century Japan, people who - wasteland were rewarded with official ranks as part of an effort to overcome the shortage of - fields.
    
    
    
    1. cultivated - domestic
       
    2. located - desirable
       
    3. conserved - forested
       
    4. reclaimed - arable
       
    5. irrigated - accessible.
       
    
    

    Ans :D
    
    

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

    Ans :E
    
    

15. Melodramas, which presented stark oppositions between innocence and criminality, virtue and corruption, good and evil, were popular precisely because they offered the audience a world - of -
    
    
    
    1. deprived - polarity
       
    2. full - circumstantiality
       
    3. bereft - theatricality
       
    4. devoid - neutrality
       
    5. composed - adversity.
       
    
    

    Ans :D
    
    

16. Sponsors of the bill were-because there was no opposition to it within the legislative, until after the measure had been signed into law.
    
    
    
    1. well-intentioned
       
    2. persistent
       
    3. detained
       
    4. unreliable
       
    5. relieved.
       
    
    

    Ans :B
    
    

17. Ecology, like economics, concerns itself with the movement of valuable - through a complex network of producers and consumers.
    
    
    
    1. nutrients
       
    2. dividends
       
    3. communications
       
    4. artifacts
       
    5. commodities.
       
    
    

    Ans :C
    
    

18. Having fully embraced the belief that government by persuasion is preferable to government by - the leaders of the movement have recently - most of their previous statements supporting totalitarianism.
    
    
    
    1. proclamation - codified
       
    2. coercion - repudiated
       
    3. participation - moderated
       
    4. intimidation - issued
       
    5. demonstration - deliberated.
       
    
    

    Ans :B
    
    

19. It would be difficult for one so - to be led to believe that all men are equal and that we must disregard race, color and creed.
    
    
    
    1. tolerant
       
    2. democratic
       
    3. broadminded
       
    4. emotional
       
    5. intolerant.
       
    
    

    Ans :E
    
    

20. Many philosophers agree that the verbal aggression of profanity in certain redical newspapers is not - or childish, but an assault on - essential to the revolutionary's purpose.
    
    
    
    1. insolent - sociability
       
    2. trivial - decorum
       
    3. belligerent - fallibility
       
    4. serious - propriety
       
    5. deliberate - affectation.
       
    
    

    Ans :B