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551.

India's attitude towards China has all along been pusillanimous.

A. enerous
B. owardly
C. ubversive
D. estrained
Answer» C. ubversive
552.

They tolerated him though they disliked his craven behaviour.

A. illy
B. owardly
C. ndecent
D. ean
Answer» C. ndecent
553.

The speech was filled with rigmarole.

A. onsense
B. etails
C. uotes
D. xamples
Answer» B. etails
554.

The most common type of colour blindness involves inability to tell red from green.

A. rove
B. etect
C. istinguish
D. xtract
Answer» D. xtract
555.

The poetic art of Keats reached consummation at the end of his poetic career.

A. ailure
B. eterioration
C. ompletion
D. rivolty
Answer» D. rivolty
556.

Social reformers and thinkers abominate every type of discrimination and injustice practised anywhere in the world.

A. radicate
B. etest
C. ondemn
D. iolate
Answer» C. ondemn
557.

The problem is tedious to tackle.

A. asy
B. ifficult
C. iring
D. roublesome
Answer» D. roublesome
558.

Catching snakes can be hazardous for people untrained in the art.

A. angerous
B. ifficult
C. armful
D. ricky
Answer» B. ifficult
559.

Power went to her head and she could not stand even minor criticism.

A. ppreciate
B. igest
C. ccept
D. ear
Answer» E.
560.

Ant is believed to be the most industrious creature.

A. ensible
B. iligent
C. uccessful
D. unctual
Answer» C. uccessful
561.

The guests were offended by his uncouth manners.

A. asteful
B. irty
C. ndesirable
D. ngracious
Answer» E.
562.

She overruled her son's demand of a motorbike.

A. eglected
B. isallowed
C. gnored
D. ulfilled
Answer» C. gnored
563.

The oppressive weather made the work difficult for them.

A. urbulent
B. isappointing
C. nbearable
D. old
Answer» D. old
564.

He had a catastrophic defeat.

A. mprobable
B. isastrous
C. evolutionary
D. essimistic
Answer» C. evolutionary
565.

Science has revealed the mysteries of nature to man.

A. eleased
B. isclosed
C. pened
D. leared
Answer» C. pened
566.

When the editor refused to publish my first article, I was totally disheartened.

A. ispleased
B. iscouraged
C. issatisfied
D. isturbed
Answer» C. issatisfied
567.

He was not able to unearth his secret to the last.

A. uppress
B. iscover
C. isclose
D. ecode
Answer» C. isclose
568.

Please sound the Principal about the reaction of the students.

A. upport
B. iscuss
C. ell
D. aution
Answer» E.
569.

During his stay in Canada, he had quite a few frustrating experiences.

A. isappointing
B. nthusiasm
C. umiliating
D. epulsive
Answer» B. nthusiasm
570.

He could not tolerate his friend rejoicing in his ignominy.

A. efeat
B. ishonour
C. isery
D. ictory
Answer» C. isery
571.

The employee was ousted from the office

A. ushed
B. hrust
C. orced
D. xpelled
Answer» E.
572.

Defection is quite common in our present day political life.

A. esertion
B. isobedience
C. isloyalty
D. ndiscipline
Answer» B. isobedience
573.

He did not continue for long with his murky intentions.

A. ishonest
B. ull
C. azy
D. minous
Answer» D. minous
574.

On the stage of this world, the drama of life is transitory as well as traumatic.

A. ransitional
B. ull
C. leeting
D. ainful
Answer» D. ainful
575.

He cast a cursory glance over the papers before signing them.

A. hort
B. ager
C. nquisitive
D. urried
Answer» E.
576.

We didn't believe in his statement, but subsequent events proved that he was right.

A. ater
B. arlier
C. any
D. ew
Answer» B. arlier
577.

He listened to my request with indifference.

A. aution
B. ispleasure
C. oncern
D. isinterest
Answer» E.
578.

The eyewitness testimony was incontrovertible.

A. nquestionable
B. isputable
C. nacceptable
D. ebatable
Answer» B. isputable
579.

The growing disparity between the rich and the poor has been a cause of global concern.

A. imilar
B. iversity
C. egregation
D. nequality
Answer» E.
580.

The wail of the call to prayer floated over the darkened streets.

A. umped
B. eap
C. overed
D. oaked
Answer» D. oaked
581.

He has travelled all over the continent by hitchhiking most of the time.

A. lying
B. riving
C. orking
D. ift
Answer» E.
582.

The cyclone had blown some of the cars on to funny places.

A. umorous
B. ranky
C. rregular
D. dd
Answer» B. ranky
583.

Drinking is a vice which ultimately ruins a person.

A. abit
B. rime
C. in
D. vil
Answer» E.
584.

We must not take his facetious remark very seriously.

A. musing
B. ritical
C. asual
D. lippant
Answer» E.
585.

There has been considerable furore both within Parliament and without about the proposed hike in tele-communication tariff.

A. pposition
B. riticism
C. proar
D. isagreement
Answer» D. isagreement
586.

Lack of occupation is not necessarily revealed by manifest idleness.

A. cquired
B. eflected
C. bvious
D. nfected
Answer» D. nfected
587.

He was a very docile person and thus a favourite of his neighbours.

A. rritated
B. bedient
C. isturbed
D. ooled
Answer» C. isturbed
588.

Work that does not engage a person will never seem rewarding, no matter how lucrative it becomes.

A. romising
B. asy
C. omfortable
D. rofitable
Answer» E.
589.

Long illness has mascerated his body so much so that he is reduced to flesh and bones.

A. ffected
B. often
C. evastated
D. asted
Answer» C. evastated
590.

He has saved money because his wife is frugal.

A. trict
B. conomic
C. conomical
D. iserly
Answer» D. iserly
591.

Malice is a feeling that we should always avoid.

A. nvy
B. ruelty
C. pite
D. atred
Answer» E.
592.

A stray dog kept whimpering all night.

A. arking
B. rying
C. hining
D. obbing
Answer» D. obbing
593.

One could see the maginitude of tragedy in the limpid eyes of the earthquake victims.

A. gly
B. rying
C. et
D. ranslucent
Answer» E.
594.

He is very discreet while deciding such matters.

A. bstinate
B. unning
C. rudent
D. rustworthy
Answer» D. rustworthy
595.

The attitude of the Western countries towards the Third World countries is rather callous to say the least.

A. nfeeling
B. ursed
C. nkind
D. assive
Answer» B. ursed
596.

Slangs in a language are usually ephemeral in nature.

A. ransient
B. ustomary
C. ecessary
D. bvious
Answer» B. ustomary
597.

A rupture in the relationship of the two brothers is quite apparent.

A. ap
B. amage
C. reak
D. reach
Answer» E.
598.

How beautiful! This is really something to ponder over.

A. ing
B. ance
C. hink
D. onder
Answer» D. onder
599.

The fetid mound of waste near the town was a major cause of the epidemic.

A. oomed
B. angerous
C. tinking
D. tagnant
Answer» D. tagnant
600.

He was adjudged as the best orator of the college.

A. ritic
B. ebater
C. inger
D. peaker
Answer» E.