Direction (Qs.1 to 10): There are two different sentences with a blank space in each question. Choose the word from the given options which fits into both the blanks appropriately adding a proper and logical meaning to the sentences.
Question No : 1
(I) Jenny had a special _____, Bill Giannini, who visited each week and took her out for lunch as she became more limited at home.
(II) The secret _____ of former president had her prison sentence cut by two years in a retrial.
(1) Parlance
(2) Highly
(3) Automated
(4) Confidante
(5) Ineluctably
Question No : 2
(I) In the last century the same conflicts led to the First World War and continued to be a bone of _____ throughout the Second.
(II) With his team in _____ for a Champions League place, he has been one of the best performing English centre-backs anywhere.
(1) Vacillating
(2) Contention
(3) Inchoate
(4) Inarticulate
(5) Growing
Question No : 3
(I) Business Insider consulted with leading career experts to find the most important _____ rules for a collaborative workspace.
(II) _____ is way more than just which fork and knife to pick to pick up.”
(1) Embrace
(2) Occasion
(3) Reluctant
(4) Entrust
(5) Etiquette
Question No : 4
(I) The Afghan Taliban has spoken of its plans to _____“bilateral relations” with countries around the world.
(II) Government has reaffirmed its commitment to _____ strong ties with the private sector in order to create employment and reduce poverty.
(1) Sodality
(2) Forge
(3) Cabal
(4) Disappointed
(5) Gadfly
Question No : 5
(I) He managed to _____ them both by forming an alliance of parties dominated by the country’s ethnic Malay Muslim majority.
(II) Boda boda motorcyclists are accused of inconveniencing pedestrians by using sidewalks to _____ traffic congestion.
(1) Depress
(2) Surprised
(3) Outmanoeuvre
(4) Shocked
(5) Ceased
Question No : 6
(I) The German health minister has described the coronavirus as a worldwide _____, putting pressure on the laggard WHO to do the same.
(II) Given the globalized spread of the disease, the term _____ is beginning to circulate among officials and the news media.
(1) Depletion
(2) Pandemic
(3) Cooperation
(4) Completion
(5) Tolerant
Question No : 7
(I) Students and their parents should not panic but take _____ measures.
(II) While the research is taking place, the Department of Health is reiterating its _____ advice on the use of mobile phones.
(1) Wary
(2) Precautionary
(3) Inarticulate
(4) Domineering
(5) Responsive
Question No : 8
(I) Officials said that the individuals had underlying medical problems that could have made them particularly _____ to the virus.
(II) Older people are more _____ to extremes of heat and cold because of impaired thermoregulation.
(1) Dangerous
(2) Tricky
(3) Procrastinate
(4) Assembled
(5) Susceptible
Question No : 9
(I) India’s economic slowdown has been _____ long and steep.
(II) There’s a _____ low percentage of women who think these types of calls constitute harassment.
(1) Assimilated
(2) Poured
(3) Disconcertingly
(4) Joyfully
(5) Civilizing
Question No : 10
(2) Confluence (I) The Army in its 2021 fiscal year budget request has asked for a sharp reduction in funding for its _____ wheeled vehicles.
(II) The Ottawa Police Service's _____ unit made the first ever appearance by a Canadian team at an invitation-only international SWATcompetition.
(1) Tactical
(2) Confluence
(3) Bantered
(4) Credible
(5) Malleable