Directions for questions 11 to 15:

Directions for questions 11 to 15: Each sentence in this part has one or two missing elements, as indicated by a series of dashes. Following the sentence, you will see lettered words or sets of words. Choose the word or set of words that best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.

  

11. An investigation that is ___ can occasionally yield now facts, even notable ones but typically the appearance of such facts is the result of a search in a definite direction.

             A.    timely     B. unguided    C. consistent    D. uncomplicated

12. The Muses are _____ deities: they avenge themselves without mercy on those who weary of their charms.

              A. rueful     B. ingenuous     C. solicitous     D. vindictive 

13. although Johnson’s and Judith’s initial fascination with the fortunes of those jockeying for power in the law firm ____ after a few months, the two paid sufficient attention  to determine who their lunch partners should be.

            A.   revived    B. emerged    C. intensified    D. flagged

14. The results of the experiments performed by Elizabeth Hazen and Rachel Brown were not only ____ because these results challenged old assumptions but also because they called the _______________ methodology    into Question.

           A. provocative___ prevailing     B. predictable ____ contemporary    C. inconclusive ___ traditional    D. intriguing _____ projected.

15. How could words, confined as they individually are to certain _____ meanings specified in a dictionary, eventually come, when combined in groups, to create obscuified and actually to prevent thought from being___?

           A. indefinite ___ articulated    B. conventional ____ conceivable    C. precise _____ communicable     D. archaic_____ expressed 

Sentence Completion HE- 01

 

11.       B   The blank will be opposite in meaning to “a search in definite direction”. The apt option is “unguided.”

12.       D      What is the best adjective for those who avenge without mercy? “Vindictive”.

13.       D         Because of the opening “Although”, their fascination in the beginning was much more than their interest in the end (in the end, they just “paid sufficient attention”) so, their fascination “flagged”.

14.        A      Which is an adjective for something that challenges old assumptions? “Provocative “is the only one here that fits.

15.         C    What kinds of meanings are defined in a dictionary? In one word precise. This decides the correct answer.