“A _________ investigation can sometimes yield new facts, but typically organized ones are more successful.”

The word that best fills the blank in the above sentence is

The man who is now Municipal Commissioner worked as ____________________.

Find the odd one in the following group of words

mock, deride, praise, jeer

Nobody knows how the Indian cricket team is going to cope with the difficult and seamer-friendly wickets in Australia.

Choose the option which is closest in meaning to the underlined phrase in the above sentence.