Verbal Ability Test Questions - Sentence Completion - Set 1

1)   The ________ teacher made the seventh class students stand in their desks for the rest of the class when they answered a question_________

a. conventional
b. enthusiastic
c. eccentric
d. avuncular
e. respected
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: eccentric

Explanation:
The students have done something wrong that why they are punished by the teacher. The possible choices are A and C in the second blank. The right choice is C as there must be an adverb following a verb.

2)   Yasmin enjoyed eating both meat and vegetable when considered herself a (n) __________

a. carnivore
b. vegetarian
c. gluttonous
d. omnivore
e. hungry
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: omnivore

Explanation:
Omnivore eats both meat and vegetable.

3)   Shahid and his subordinates regard ______ as a (n) ________ for the year 2000

a. millennium
b. imprecation
c. bruit
d. euphoria
e. volition
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: millennium

Explanation:
A misnomer is a term which suggests an interpretation that is known to be untrue. A moniker (or monicker) is a pseudonym which one gives to oneself. A bellwether is any entity in a given arena that serves to create or influence trends or to presage future happenings. A malapropism is the incorrect use of a word by substituting a similar-sounding word with different meaning usually with comic effect. The year 2000 indicates the millinum and it cab a misnomer. Therefore the right choice is A.

4)   After a large Friday dinner Salmas family was _________

a. satiated
b. argumentative
c. restless
d. assisuous
e. esurient
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: satiated

Explanation:
Satiated means to satisfy to the full sate. The right answer choice is A

5)   The factorys automated equipment obviates some job functions and so layoffs are now__________.

a. unlikely
b. illusory
c. expected
d. theoretical
e. facetious
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: expected

Explanation:
The ultimate objective to install automated equipments is to have more outcomes. The right choice is C.

6)   The _______ soldier ____ at the idea he was to go to battle

a. luckless - rejoiced
b. youthful - retired
c. unwilling - recoiled
d. frail - relapsed
e. vigorous - rebelled
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: unwilling - recoiled

Explanation:
An unwilling soldier would recoil at the idea of going to battle.

7)   __________ with the responsibility to oversee the small children she felt _______

a. Charged - irresponsible
b. Happy - fulfilled
c. Relieved - burdened
d. Secure - uneasy
e. Strapped - liberated
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Happy - fulfilled

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!

8)   The people believed there was a (n) _____ level of pollution in the water until the mayor ______ it

a. innocuous - challenged
b. unhealthy - confirmed
c. harmless - encouraged
d. contagious - overruled
e. dangerous - surcharged
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: innocuous - challenged

Explanation:
Until this sentence implies a shift in that belief that there was an innocuous (harmless) level of pollution at the point that it was challenged by authority.

9)   The ________ philosopher easily _______ the central question and quietly dismissed it as unimportant.

a. profound - overlooked
b. particular - accepted
c. kindly - amused
d. sly - isolated
e. revered - antagonized
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: sly - isolated

Explanation:
A sly philosopher could easily isolate the central question.

10)   In many cases the formerly ________ origins of disease have now been identified though modern scientific techniques.

a. insightful
b. mysterious
c. cruel
d. notable
e. useful
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: mysterious

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!

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