Fill in the Blanks - VI

Each sentence below has one or two blanks, each blank indicates that something has been omitted. Beneath the sentence there are four alternatives. Choose the alternative that best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole

Ques 1. The ......... tactics of the party drove the community ........ and all hell broke loose.
(a) dilatory, berserk
(b) timely, crazy
(c) opportune, wild
(d) apposite, excited
Ques 2. The female members of the group later.......... and went on to become divas.
(a) joined
(b) distended
(c) distorted
(d) disbanded
Ques 3. The chief........ him of his administrative powers and ............ him to the Bahamas.
(a) invested, shipped
(b) augmented, deported
(c) incremented, sent
(d) divested, deported
Ques 4. The valley was winding with the faint camp-fires of the scattered.......... .
(a) twigs
(b) schools
(c) coteries
(d) contingents
Ques 5. The Republicans thought Adams a far-seeing statesman and a/an.........politician.
(a) bacchanalian
(b) neurotic
(c) aphasic
(d) astute

Ques 6. They feared that they might....... develop the.........raiding activity of the tribe into regular operation.
(a) abruptly, spontaneous
(b) incidentally, resplendent
(c) knowingly, spurious
(d) inadvertently, spurious
Ques 7. Her sister, of whose..........and delicacy she was sure her opinion could never be shaken, was the talk of the town now.
(a) turpitude
(b) rectitude
(c) loose morals
(d) wickedness
Ques 8. She denounced the fiendish pronouncements of the General as the........schemes of ..........and power-crazy radical.
(a) spurious, lenient
(b) radical, beguiled
(c) loose, morals
(d) beneficial, high-strung
Ques 9. Already............tensions between the ethnic group and the refugees were..........last week after fresh riots broke out.
(a) reducing, toned down
(b) low, sparked off
(c) attenuated, driven away
(d) escalating, aggravated
Ques 10. The spirit of the New year Eve’s celebrations was...........by the downpour of rains, much to their.............. .
(a) aggravated, delight
(b) fired up, joy
(c) dampened, chagrin
(d) blown out, valour

Answers :
(1) (a), (2) (d), (3) (d), (4) (d), (5) (d),
(6) (d), (7) (b), (8) (b), (9) (d), (10) (c).