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Correct Usage of Word Test 1
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    Directions: In the following questions, a sentence is given with five words marked as (A), (B), (C), (D) & (E). These words are may or may not be placed at their places. Four options with different arrangements of these words are given. Mark the option with the correct arrangement as the answer. If no change is required, mark 'No rearrangement required' as your answer.

    A survey of the present landscape is both daunting and forging(A). The global retreat of democracies, the pursuit(B) of the ethical imperative to an obsessive relegation(C) of raw power as an end in itself, a crisis of institutional legitimacy, and the challenge of depressing(D) a political consensus needed for hard but necessary decisions interrogate the proclaimed(E) assumptions of democratic resilience.

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    Directions: In the following questions, a sentence is given with five words marked as (A), (B), (C), (D) & (E). These words are may or may not be placed at their places. Four options with different arrangements of these words are given. Mark the option with the correct arrangement as the answer. If no change is required, mark 'No rearrangement required' as your answer.

    Ethical explorations often begin with wrong(A) injury. Something simply feels emotional(B), and you ask yourself whether you are missing an information(C) bit of important(D) or the right perspective(E).

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    Directions: In the following questions, a sentence is given with five words marked as (A), (B), (C), (D) & (E). These words are may or may not be placed at their places. Four options with different arrangements of these words are given. Mark the option with the correct arrangement as the answer. If no change is required, mark 'No rearrangement required' as your answer.

    A significant(A) development in the right to information campaign has largely gone unnoticed(B). The resurrection of the right to know is momentous(C) considering that we are increasingly witnessing(D) an unfortunate denial of information while forgetting the right to know(E).

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    Directions: In the following questions, a sentence is given with five words marked as (A), (B), (C), (D) & (E). These words are may or may not be placed at their places. Four options with different arrangements of these words are given. Mark the option with the correct arrangement as the answer. If no change is required, mark 'No rearrangement required' as your answer.

    The pandemic began plunged(A) around the world just a few months ago. Yet, it has wiped(B) the global economy into its deepest economic contraction since the Great Depression of the 1930s. Trillions of dollars of economic output have been spreading(C) out most countries will take years to confronting(D) to pre-coronavirus levels, and billions of people are return (E) a shrunken future.

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    Directions: In the following questions, a sentence is given with five words marked as (A), (B), (C), (D) & (E). These words are may or may not be placed at their places. Four options with different arrangements of these words are given. Mark the option with the correct arrangement as the answer. If no change is required, mark 'No rearrangement required' as your answer.

    A Devastating(A) world, shaken out of its comfort by a pandemic whose mocks(B) reach tormented(C) humanity’s collective capacity to future(D), yearns for answers about our common prevail(E)

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    In the following question, a sentence is given with certain words in bold. Choose the pair/s of such words which need to be interchanged so as to make the sentence grammatically correct and meaningful. 

    With the virus running (A) riot across the Americas and (B) forecasts in Africa the downside risks (C) outweigh the others, the treasury (D) surging (E) eschew the traditional approach of (F) charting a middle path through upside and downside risks.

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    In the following question, a sentence is given with certain words in bold. Choose the pair/s of such words which need to be interchanged so as to make the sentence grammatically correct and meaningful. 

    As Europeans, the Austrian locals firmly stood by the (A) humanist ideals of equality, freedom, and (B) democracy, which have contributed to the peace and (C) affluence of their country after World War II but these ideals also require that locals and immigrants are treated as equals, without any special (D) ethnicity afforded to either group on the basis of their (E) privileges.

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    In the following question, a sentence is given with certain words in bold. Choose the pair/s of such words which need to be interchanged so as to make the sentence grammatically correct and meaningful. 

    Huawei official in Canada on a U.S. (A) ceasefire further risked (B) disrupting the (C) tentative (D) request, showing how (E) fragile the deal is and how easily the situation could return to a war (F) footing.

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    Below a word is given followed by three sentences that consist of that word. Identify the sentence/s which best expresses the meaning of the word. Choose Option 5 (None of these) if the word is not suitable in any of the sentences.

    MYSTIQUE

    A) John of the Cross Carmelite friar and priest of converso origin, is a major figure of the Spanish Counter-Reformation, a mystique and Roman Catholic saint.
    B) As an artist committed to the mystique, Bowie doesn’t share much about their upbringing.
    C) Cold and white, this Midwestern state plays a unique role in the mystique of presidential campaigns

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    Below a word is given followed by three sentences that consist of that word. Identify the sentence/s which best expresses the meaning of the word. Choose Option 5 (None of these) if the word is not suitable in any of the sentences.

    QUIRK

    A) Even its specifications and test-track results might tend to mislead you, as might individual quirks of its very strong character.
    B) These particles are much, much lighter than quirks and pass through the cosmos ethereally, rarely stopping to interact with anything at all.
    C) Hugh Dancy’s a delightful addition to the cast, but giving his legal associate a photographic memory feels like one quirk too many.

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    Below a word is given followed by three sentences that consist of that word. Identify the sentence/s which best expresses the meaning of the word. Choose Option 5 (None of these) if the word is not suitable in any of the sentences.

    REVEL

    A) You can embrace your inner flower child with a hippy costume, or revel in the excesses of 80s fashion.
    B) Fashion mavens and novices alike can all revel in the bliss of paying much less than full price for glamorous bags.
    C) The majority resolved to revel in practice the traditions left them by their fathers, which they had departed from during the period of opulence.

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    Below a word is given followed by three sentences that consist of that word. Identify the sentence/s which best expresses the meaning of the word. Choose Option 5 (None of these) if the word is not suitable in any of the sentences.

    ROGUE

    A) He's also the rogue, the one who won't be bound by tradition; the one who breaks the rules and brings chaos and unpredictability to the world.
    B) Ferric oxide is employed as a pigment, as jeweler's rogue, and for polishing metals.
    C) Sometimes small groups go rogue, and end up running around populated areas hurting or killing innocents.

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    Below a word is given followed by three sentences that consist of that word. Identify the sentence/s which best expresses the meaning of the word. Choose Option 5 (None of these) if the word is not suitable in any of the sentences.

    ADJURE

    A) Congress is adjured by the Fourteenth Amendment to enforce it against the states.
    B) The suspicious nobles were solemnly adjured to trust themselves to hIs keeping, under promise of forgiveness.
    C) Having no grounds for opposing the royal title to the wardship of the heiress, they adjured English law and became Irish chieftains.

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    Below a word is given followed by three sentences that consist of that word. Identify the sentence/s which best expresses the meaning of the word. Choose Option 5 (None of these) if the word is not suitable in any of the sentences.

    PERSPICACIOUS

    A) What secured the nomination were two things: the movie’s extraordinary quality and the perspicacious marketing department at Netflix’s documentary division.
    B) The president began his Monday by scrutinizing his national security briefing, filling its margins with perspicacious questions and observations.
    C) Believing that poetry need not be as perspicacious as prose, he writes poems that are intentionally ambiguous.

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    Below a word is given followed by three sentences that consist of that word. Identify the sentence/s which best expresses the meaning of the word. Choose Option 5 (None of these) if the word is not suitable in any of the sentences.

    BRUIT

    A) The news of the impending marriage was bruited abroad.
    B) You should not resort to bruit force to solve a problem.
    C) A film that captures the thunderous fury of medieval warfare and the bruit of a thousand clashing swords

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