Directions (1-5): In the following questions a sentence is given with a blank in it. Following each sentence five words are provided. Choose the appropriate word that can fill the given blank to make the sentence both grammatically and contextually correct.
Q1. Insurance industry looks to update risk models as climate risks ______________.
(a) Defame
(b) Ruin
(c) Escalate
(d) Vindicate
(e) Occupation
Q2. A major trade _________ is brewing over the export of Canadian softwood lumber to the United States.
(a) Remove
(b) Dispute
(c) Expel
(d) Rendition
(e) Yielding
Q3. Achieving an even skin tone is another ___________beauty process that many of us could do without.
(a) Restrained
(b) Encouraged
(c) Shocking
(d) Vanquished
(e) Protracted
Q4. Her position seemed ever more __________ by the minute, and it was clear that I would have to rescue her.
(a) Precarious
(b) Conjecture
(c) Competent
(d) Unable
(e) Substantiate
Q5. With secession, Philadelphia’s unionists believed that the very foundation of their prosperity as a class had been placed in _________.
(a) Confused
(b) Reconciliation
(c) Estranged
(d) Jeopardy
(e) Muddle
Solutions:
S1. Ans. (c)
Sol. Escalate can fill the given blank to make the sentence both grammatically and contextually correct.
S2. Ans. (b)
Sol. Dispute can fill the given blank to make the sentence both grammatically and contextually correct.
S3. Ans. (e)
Sol. Protracted can fill the given blank to make the sentence both grammatically and contextually correct.
S4. Ans. (a)
Sol. Precarious can fill the given blank to make the sentence both grammatically and contextually correct.
S5. Ans. (d)
Sol. Jeopardy can fill the given blank to make the sentence both grammatically and contextually correct.
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