Directions: Each question has a sentence with two blanks followed by four pairs of words as choices. From the choices, select the pair of words that can best complete the given sentence.
Explanation: The first blank can take any of the given words, so let's look at the second blank. The word in the blank contrasts (but) with taking risks. So carefully is the best word here (he played carefully but had to keep taking risks).
Directions: There are two gaps in each of the following sentences. From the pairs of words given, choose the one that fills the gaps most appropriately. The first word in the pair should fill the first gap.
Explanation:
The sentence says that the cold war worsened that general sense of nervousness about real life calamitous events like earthquakes and tidal waves. The words exacerbated and cataclysmic fit into the blanks.
exacerbated – worsened, intensified.
cataclysmic – destructive, disastrous, calamitous.
The remaining words are not suitable to the context.
exaggerated – over stated
tragic – disastrous
Hence it is ruled out.
intensified seems to be suitable but mysterious (enigmatic) is not suitable.
Hence it is also ruled out.
Exasperated means – angry, disgruntied, enraged.
catastrophic – has the same meaning as cataclysmic.
Directions: There are two gaps in each of the following sentences. From the pairs of words given, choose the one that fills the gaps most appropriately. The first word in the pair should fill the first gap.
Explanation:
Apprehension – (a doubt)
Bubbling – (effervescing)
i.e., in the developing nations of Asia and Latin America there is (a doubt) apprehension about how Bush would respond to the financial crises that are always (effervescing) bubbling below the surface.
Among the remaining choices the pairs of words are not suitable to the context.
Directions: Four statements with blanks have been given. These statements are followed by four alternatives. Choose the one that fits into the set of statements the maximum number of times.
Explanation: The clue here is sentence B – we never say ‘tragedy case’ or ‘calamity case’, and accident does not fit in the other sentences. ‘Disaster case’, however, is common usage, and disaster can be sensed and can strike.
Directions: Four statements with blanks have been given. These statements are followed by four alternatives. Choose the one that fits into the set of statements the maximum number of times.
Explanation: State here means all of these things: the nation or country (in A and D), the condition if affairs (in B), and to testify or assert (in C).