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In each of the following sentences, there is a blank space. Below each such sentence, there are five options with one word each. Fill up the blank with the word that makes the sentence grammatically and contextually correct.

Question : 11

The police successfully ____________ the party’s bid to lay seize to the Pragati Bhavan by detaining 163 people.

a) Foiled

b) Widened

c) Complete

d) Accomplish

e) Failed

Answer: (a)

Meaning: Foiled - make something unsuccessful.

With the sentence seeming to have attained something successfully, words in basic form of Verb (Complete, Accomplish) don’t pair. Also, “a party’s bid” can’t be widened and failed. The correct answer is “Foiled”.

Question : 12

I will ________them for saving me from the agonies of old age.

a) fire

b) beat

c) thank

d) admonish

e) shout

Answer: (c)

Question : 13

When I was speaking to Rani over the phone suddenly we were ________

a) hung up

b) run out

c) broken down

d) cut off

Answer: (d)

Question : 14

The song in the play cannot be deleted as it is ________ to the story

a) intervened

b) innate

c) exacting

d) integral

Answer: (d)

Question : 15

It is ____________to suggest that in 2050, a century after the end of colonial rule, Asia will account for more than half of world income and will be home to more than half the people on earth.

a) Plausible

b) Vicious

c) Metaphor

d) Impetus

e) Visceral

Answer: (a)

Meaning: Plausible - Seeming possible, Vicious - able to dispose of pain, Metaphor - to regard something of something else, Impetus - something that happens quickly, Visceral - obtained through intuition

The writer is making an assumption for something to happen in 2050. Plausible means same i.e. to see a possibility and fits to be placed in the blank.

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