English Questions – Fill in the Blanks for RRB PO & IBPS PO – 128

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1. Certainly, strategic engagement of a conflict-ridden region can never be a______________affair yet the balancing of these contradictions can throw up______________surprises.
   1) immediate, lingering
   2) straightforward ,unanticipated
   3) strenuous, synthesis
   4) instant, pooling
   5) arduous, squaring
   
   Answer & Explanation

   Answer – 2)
   Explanation: straightforward ,unanticipated
   straightforward –  uncomplicated and easy to do or understand.
   unanticipated – not expected or predicted.
   
   
2. The U.S. has had a deeply______________love-hate relationship with Pakistan since the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan in 1979 through to 2001, and______________.
   1) laborious, formal
   2) instantaneous, thereupon
   3) precipitous, eventually
   4) onerous, subsequently
   5) puzzling , thereafter
   
   Answer & Explanation

   Answer – 5)
   Explanation: puzzling , thereafter
   puzzling – causing one to be puzzled; perplexing.
   thereafter – after that time.
   
   
3. While being on the same side of the reigning hegemon is smart statecraft, a failure to cater for______________futures would be______________.
   1) alternative, shortsighted
   2) burdensome, lengthen
   3) precipitate, prolonged
   4) feasibility, protracted
   5) practicability, overlong
   
   Answer & Explanation

   Answer – 1)
   Explanation: alternative, shortsighted
   alternative – (of one or more things) available as another possibility or choice.
   shortsighted – having short sight.
   
   
4. Another______________is the lack of rise in wages commensurate with the growth in employment,______________prices and consumption.
   1) attainability, prevailing
   2) abrupt, distinguish
   3) gruelling, affiliating
   4) instance, impacting
   5) grinding, stiff
   
   Answer & Explanation

   Answer – 4)
   Explanation: instance, impacting
   instance – an example or single occurrence of something.
   impacting –  come into forcible contact with another object.
   
   
5. The current government has chosen to show little______________for the common man as it has repeatedly______________indirect taxes on the sale of petrol and diesel.
   1) rapid, inflexible
   2) achievability, diligent
   3) exhausting, induced
   4) concern , increased
   5) inelastic,  aroused
   
   Answer & Explanation

   Answer – 4)
   Explanation: concern , increased
   concern – relate to; be about.
   increased – become or make greater in size, amount, or degree.
   
   
6. He managed to protect the common man from the pain of______________by introducing the mechanism of petrobonds to finance the deficit______________by oil marketing companies.
   1) swift, provoke
   2) potentiality, exposed
   3) tiring, suffered
   5) fatiguing,  sustained
   4) hyperinflation, incurred
   
   Answer & Explanation

   Answer – 4)
   Explanation: hyperinflation, incurred
   hyperinflation –  monetary inflation occurring at a very high rate.
   incurred – become subject to (something unwelcome or unpleasant) as a result of one’s own behaviour or actions.
   
   
7. The present government is loud, solitary, and acts with a______________force object, adopting a take-no-prisoners approach, lacking even a______________of empathy for the common man.
   1) blunt ,modicum
   2) wearying, fierce
   3) wearisome, intense
   4) conceivability, agonizing
   5) probability, excruciating
   
   Answer & Explanation

   Answer – 1)
   Explanation: blunt ,modicum
   blunt – become subject to (something unwelcome or unpleasant) as a result of one’s own behaviour or actions.
   modicum –  (of a cutting implement) not having a sharp edge or point.
   
   
8. Let not the sound of what we would like to hear from Washington______________our attention from the strategic realities of the______________.
   1) distract ,neighbourhood
   2) opportunity, piercing
   3) fusing, elementary
   4) coalescence, pushover
   5) coalition, exercise
   
   Answer & Explanation

   Answer – 1)
   Explanation: distract ,neighbourhood
   distract – prevent (someone) from concentrating on something.
   neighbourhood – a district or community within a town or city.
   
   
9. The______________of this relationship needs to be properly understood by India when fashioning its own______________.
   1) indispensability ,response
   2) mingling, acute
   3) meld, stabbing
   4) integration, stinging
   5) concoction, manageable
   
   Answer & Explanation

   Answer – 1)
   Explanation: indispensability ,response
   indispensability – absolutely necessary, essential, or requisite: an indispensable member of the staff.
   response – a verbal or written answer.
   
   
10. Shorn of the______________and the feel-good melodrama, something every government in New Delhi has a strong liking for, a cold, closer look at the U.S. policy towards Southern Asia shows several inherent______________.
    1) conjunction, exquisite
    2) fusion, severe
    3) rhetoric, contradictions
    4) amalgamation, doddle
    5) blend, straightforward
    
    Answer & Explanation

    Answer – 3)
    Explanation: rhetoric, contradictions
    rhetoric – the art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing, especially the exploitation of figures of speech and other compositional techniques.
    contradictions – a combination of statements, ideas, or features which are opposed to one another.