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This quiz consists of questions from various Banking
entrance exams held during the last few years. Leave your answers/ responses in
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Directions (Q. 1-10):  In each of the following sentences, there are
one or two blank spaces. Below each sentence, five words/pairs of words are
given. Find out which word/pair of words can fill up the blanks in the same
sequence to make it meaningfully complete.

1.  The account
of the crime given by the accused was ______ and ______

1. dependable, uncognizable

2. fictitious, unreliable

3. false, appreciable

4. complete, imaginary

5. exaggerated, unpardonable

2.  Problems of
the country can only be aggravated by ________ and ________ citizens.

1. careful, unscrupulous

2. extraordinary, uncompromising

3. dedicated, patriotic

4. selfish, irresponsible

5. independent, practical

3.  If you
kindly bear ________ me for sometime, I shall ________the whole issue.

1. out, understand

2. on, solve

3. for, know

4. with, clarify

5. at, inform

4.  The WHO has
________ the government for taking prompt _______ action.

1.  lauded,
preventive

2.  criticize,
obligatory

3.  blamed,
ineffective

4.  appreciated,
hectic

5.  admired,
unreasonable

5.  Though the
hospital is extremely rich, the conditions there are________ and _______.

1.  equal, rich

2.  appalling,
poor

3.  admirable,
comfortable

4.  extreme,
conducive

5.  frequent,
tolerable

6.  Nine members
have ________ about the decision, but the tenth one views it _________.

1.  solution,
critically

2.  consensus,
similarly

3. 
disagreement, collectively

4.  grievance,
grudgingly

5.  agreement,
differently

7.  Vision is
usually ________ most effectively when many different _______ are used.

1.  developed,
manifestations

2.  adapted,
organizations

3. 
communicated, vehicles

4.  exhibited,
forms

5.  described,
thought

8.  People who
have been through difficult, painful and not very _______ change efforts often
end up _________ both pessimistic and angry conclusions.

1.  harmful,
drawing

2.  meaningful,
projecting

3.  reliable,
evolving

4.  strong,
following

5.  challenging,
lamenting

9.  If misery is
the effect of ill-fortune, it ought to be pitied; if of ________ to be
__________.

1.  virtue,
criticized

2.  calamity,
reverenced

3.  virtue,
protected

4.  vice,
reverenced

5.  virtue,
reverenced

10.  It is the
_________ of selfishness of men, who fully ________ in their own case the great
advantages of good education, to deny these advantages to women.

1.  parody,
demand

2.  height,
appreciate

3.  height,
assimilate

4.  degree,
appreciate

5.  level,
advance

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Answers 

1(2)    2(4)    3(4)   
4(1)    5(2)      6(5)    
7(1)      8(2)     9(1)     
10(2)