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Marks 1

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If ‘→’ denotes increasing order of intensity, then the meaning of the words
[smile → giggle → laugh] is analogous to [disapprove → _______ → chide].
Which one of the given options is appropriate to fill the blank?

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He did not manage to fix the car himself, so he _______ in the garage.
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Planting : Seed :: Raising : _____

(By word meaning) 

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Direction: Fill in the blank spaces in the given sentence selecting an appropriate set of words from the following options-

Writing too many things on the ______ while teaching could make the students get ______.

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After playing _________ hours of tennis, I am feeling _________ tired to walk back.
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GATE ME 2022 Set 1 General Aptitude - Verbal Ability Question 5 English

A block with a trapezoidal cross-section is placed over a block with rectangular cross section as shown above.

Which one of the following is the correct drawing of the view of the 3D object as viewed in the direction indicated by an arrow in the above figure?

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Jofra Archer, the England fast bowler, is _____ than accurate.
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The minister avoided any mention of the issue of women’s reservation in the private in the private sector. He was accused of _______ the issue.
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_________ I permitted him to leave, I wouldn’t have had any problem with him being absent, _____ I?
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John Thomas, an _______________ writer, passed away in 2018.
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If IMHO = JNIP; IDK =JEL: and SO =TP, then IDC = ____.
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Once the team of analysis identify the problem, we _____ in a better position to comment on the issue.

Which one of the following choices CANNOT fill the given blank?
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A final examination is the _____ of a series of evaluations that a student has to go through.
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Are there enough seats here? There are _______ people here than I expected.
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“The dress _________ her so well that they all immediately _________ her on her appearance.”

The words that best fill the blanks in the above sentence are
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“The judge’s standing in the legal community, though shaken by false allegations of wrongdoing, remained _________.”

The word that best fills the blank in the above sentence is
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17
Find the missing group of letters in the following series:

BC, FGH, LMNO, _____
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18
The perimeters of a circle, a square and an equilateral triangle are equal. Which one of the following statements is true?
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“Her _______ should not be confused with miserliness; she is ever willing to assist those in need.”

The word that best fills the blank in the above sentence is
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“Going by the _________ that many hands make light work, the school _______ involved all the students in the task.”

The words that best fill the blanks in the above sentence are
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Marks 2

1

In the given text, the blanks are numbered (i)–(iv). Select the best match for all the blanks.

Prof. P __(i)__ merely a man who narrated funny stories. __(ii)__ in his blackest moments he was capable of self-deprecating humor.

Prof. Q __(iii)__ a man who hardly narrated funny stories.__(iv)__ in his blackest moments was he able to find humor.

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2

Which one of the sentence sequences in the given options creates a coherent narrative?

(i) I could not bring myself to knock.

(ii) There was a murmur of unfamiliar voices coming from the big drawing room and the door was firmly shut.

(iii) The passage was dark for a bit, but then it suddenly opened into a bright kitchen.

(iv) I decided I would rather wander down the passage.

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Crowd funding deals with mobilisation of funds for a project from a large number of people, who would be willing to invest smaller amounts through web-based platforms in the project.
Based on the above paragraph, which of the following is correct about crowd funding?
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Congo was named by Europeans. Congo’s dictator Mobuto later changed the name of the country and the river to Zaire with the objective of Africanising names of persons and spaces. However, the name Zaire was a Portuguese alternation of Nzadi o Nzere, a local African term meaning 'River that swallows Rivers'. Zaire was the Portuguese name for the Congo river in the 16th and 17th centuries.

Which one of the following statements can be inferred from the paragraph above?
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Under a certain legal system, prisoners are allowed to make one statement. If their statement turns out to be true then they are hanged. If the statement turns out to be false then they are shot. One prisoner made a statement and the judge had no option but to set him free. Which one of the following could be that statement?
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X is an online provider. By offering unlimited and exclusive online content at attractive prices for a loyalty membership, X is almost forcing its customers towards its loyalty membership. If its loyalty membership continues to grow at its current rate, within the next eight years more households will be watching X than cable television.

Which one of the following statements can be inferred from the above paragraph?
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While teaching a creative writing class in India, I was surprised at receiving stories from the students that were all set in distant places: in the American West with cowboys and in Manhattan penthouses with clinking ice cubes. This was, till an eminent Caribbean writer gave the writers in the once-colonised countries the confidence to see the shabby lives around them as worthy of being “told”

The writer of this passage is surprised by the creative writing assignments of his students, because______.
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Consider the following three statements:

(i) Some roses are red.

(ii) All red flowers fade quickly.

(iii) Some roses fade quickly.

Which of the following statements can be logically inferred from the above statements?
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