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The Usage of Essential

Word Power
in
Sentence Completion
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1. MCQ: Philosophical essays are often _______ for
students:

A. Abnegate
B. Abstruse
C. Accrue
D. Aboriginal
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2. MCQ: I am impressed by her business ________:

A. Acquiesce
B. Actuary
C. Acumen
D. Addled
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3. MCQ: They accepted the offer with __________.

A. Admonition
B. Adroitness
C. Affinity
D. Alacrity
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4. MCQ: I wanted to _______ his fears regarding
the journey.

A. Allay
B. Amazon
C. Ameliorate
D. Analogue
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5. MCQ: Most of the stories about him are _______.

A. Aneurysm
B. Angina
C. Apocryphal
D. Akimbo
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6. MCQ: The ________ of the terrorists in the late
hours made them alert.

A. Apprehension
B. Aquifer
C. Arcane
D. Aria
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7. MCQ: The committee will need time to _____ this
report.

A. Artifice
B. Askance
C. Aspersion
D. Assimilate
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8. MCQ: Memory can _____ through lack of use.

A. Attire
B. Atrophy
C. Audacious
D. Avid
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9. MCQ: Many parents may ______ at the idea of
paying Rs. 2000 for a pair of shoes.

A. Balk (Baulk)
B. Barbaric
C. Batter
D. Bauble
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10. MCQ: He wants to _____ his entire estate to his
daughter.

A. Beguile
B. Belated
C. Benediction
D. Bequeath
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11. MCQ: Their mother often ______ them for
making a mess.

A. Berate
B. Bifurcate
C. Blathering
D. Bowdlerize
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12. MCQ: The cars lightweight ______ is made
from aluminum sheets.

A. Catacomb
B. Chassis
C. Catharsis
D. Chastise
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13. MCQ: I shall ______ with the losers on their
defeat.

A. Cobble
B. Coercive
C. Comatose
D. Commiserate
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14. MCQ: They new system will be ______ with
existing equipment.

A. Compatible
B. Commute
C. Complacent
D. Conciliatory
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15. MCQ: I decided to _______ a meeting between
the two of them.

A. Congruent
B. Contrive
C. Copacetic (Copasetic)
D. Contiguous
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16. MCQ: I was greeted with a show of _______.

A. Coquerty
B. Cordiality
C. Corollary
D. Cosset
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17. MCQ: She is suffering from chronic
muscle_______.

A. Debunk
B. Decelerate
C. Decry
D. Debility
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18. MCQ: He got rich by _______ means.

A. Deferential
B. Devious
C. Desiccate
D. Demure
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19. MCQ: He was hoping for some lively political
______at the meeting.

A. Discrepancy
B. Discombobulate
C. Discourse
D. Diligence
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20. MCQ: She will definitely _____ to his offer of
help.

A. Disdain
B. Dissent
C. Disingenuous
D. Dissonance
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21. MCQ: The police refused to_____ the identity of
the suspect.

A. Dote
B. Droll
C. Dulcet
D. Divulge
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22. MCQ: Her tears did not ______ great sympathy
from her audience.

A. Empathy
B. Elicit
C. Effervescent
D. Duplicitous
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23. MCQ: She hopes to ______her sisters sporting
achievements.

A. Encomium
B. Encumber
C. Eschew
D. Emulate
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24. MCQ: He had managed to ______ himself from
most of his official duties.

A. Extricate
B. Extrinsic
C. Fait accompli
D. Extemporaneous
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25. MCQ: Her husband was a charming, but lazy
and_______ man

A. Felicitous
B. Feckless
C. Filigree
D. Fateful
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26. MCQ: They _____ all worldly possessions.

A. Flaunt
B. Flibbertigibbet
C. Galvanize
D. Forswear
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27. MCQ: The new trainees are still very ________.

A. Gaudy
B. Guise
C. Green
D. Glib
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28. MCQ: After a five month _____ the talks
resumed.

A. Illicit
B. Hiatus
C. Hone
D. Impediment
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29. MCQ: The Debate seems to have lost much of its
initial _______.

A. Impending
B. Imprecation
C. Inanity
D. Impetus
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30. MCQ: They spent an _____ amount of time and
money on the production.

A. Inordinate
B. Innocuous
C. Infraction
D. Inherent
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31. MCQ: He loves to lead an ________life.

A. Irrefutable
B. Itinerant
C. Intrinsic
D. Inscrutable
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32. MCQ: Mr. Ali was in a very _______ mood at the
party.

A. Jitney
B. Jeopardy
C. Jejune
D. Jocular
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33. MCQ: The disease was cured with ______ use of
antibiotics.

A. Judicious
B. Juncture
C. Juxtapose
D. Kismet
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34. MCQ: He is suffering from ________ pain.

A. Laconic
B. Lemming
C. Largess
D. Lacerating
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35. MCQ: Those children have a huge reserve of
_____ talent.

A. Lien
B. Liturgy
C. Latent
D. Magnanimous
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36. MCQ: Sometimes we have to accept _______
jobs for our existence.

A. Menial
B. Medley
C. Malevolence
D. Manifestation
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37. MCQ: I was under the _____ that the course
was for complete beginners.

A. Monotheism
B. Mitigation
C. Misapprehension
D. Moot
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38. MCQ: Designs are available in a ______ of
colours.

A. Mountebank
B. Myriad
C. Mlange
D. Nibelung
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39. MCQ: Everyone is worried about the ____ state
of the economy.

A. Parlous
B. Pampas
C. Permeate
D. Perspicacious
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40. MCQ: His _____ temperament helps him a lot in
his profession.

A. Picayune
B. Phlegmatic
C. Potable
D. Predatory
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41. MCQ: Laser discs can store _______ amounts of
information.

A. Procure
B. Prolific
C. Prodigious
D. Proponent
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42. MCQ: Nobody could enter his shop because of
the ______ smell of rotten meat.

A. Queasy
B. Quintile
C. Reactionary
D. Putrid
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43. MCQ: As a result of his grave mistake, his boss
will definitely _______ him to the role of assistant.

A. Relegate
B. Renege
C. Reclusive
D. Roil
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44. MCQ: They always _____ the decision of buying
such a large house.

A. Satiate
B. Rue
C. Scam
D. Scrutinize
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45. MCQ: He injures his hand when he tried to
_____ the brick.

A. Swivel
B. Sunder
C. Tai
D. Taxidermy
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46. MCQ: Painting can be very _____ in
psychological diseases.

A. Torpid
B. Totem
C. Triolgy
D. Therapeutic
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47. MCQ: Many scientists tried to ______ lead into
gold.

A. Trundle
B. Trepidation
C. Transmute
D. Triage
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48. MCQ: I had an ______ feeling I was being
watched.

A. Uncanny
B. Undulating
C. Urbane
D. Unmitigated
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49. MCQ: ______ People deserve respect because
they are old, important and wise.

A. Venomous
B. Verve
C. Virgo
D. Venerable
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50. MCQ: She gave me a _______smile.

A. Wheedle
B. Vertex
C. Wan
D. Yin and Young
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51. MCQ: The older child has a reputation for
______ trouble in high school, but he calmed down
in college.
A. Mortifying
B. Appeasing
C. Curtailing
D. Instigating
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52. MCQ: The professor got in trouble for making
______ remarks about the Dean of faculty.

A. Benign
B. Pejorative
C. Pensive
D. Blithe
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53. MCQ: My uncle has never been to an art
museum; in fact, when it comes to matters of art,
my uncle is a real________.
A. Patrician
B. Philistine
C. Martyr
D. Hedonist