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It is being called a “mass molestation”. With all the (1) and collective menace that the phrase conveys, the (2) facts of the events of New Year’s-eve in downtown Bengaluru once again hold a mirror up to Indian society. Thousands of revellers had gathered in and around Mahatma Gandhi Road and Brigade Road to ring in 2017, as is something of a tradition in the city. But, according to reports that subsequently (3) , a large number of women were sexually (4) around midnight. While no complaint had been filed, Bengaluru police have taken up an investigation based on the reports of women being groped and physically attacked. Another incident, reportedly also of the early hours of January 1, has come graphically into the public domain, with CCTV footage showing a woman being grabbed as she makes her way home in a (5) street before she pulls herself free and escapes. This is unconnected to the so-called “mass molestation”, but (6) the horror of the night in Bengaluru. In an aftermath that has echoed with Karnataka Home Minister G. Parameshwara’s effort to blame the violence on “western culture”, it is easy to understand why no women came forth, at least initially, to register an offence. All too depressingly and (7) , the Minister has closed the (8) to show how state and society fail to ensure the safety of women.
Mr. Parameshwara’s insinuation that for women to wear “western” dress and be out and about having a good time is to invite sexual harassment, ironically, explains the (9) of women to register offences. For, to do so is to very often court an accusatory glare, and be made to answer why they were out in a lonely street, after dark, in a place (10) with “boys” — or put simply, why they did not know better.

  1. 1) allurer
    2) selfishness
    3) rigid
    4) smoothie
    5) creepiness
    Answer – 5)
    Explanation : creepiness

  2. 1) complete
    2) privilege
    3) finished
    4) sketchy
    5) detailed
    Answer – 4)
    Explanation : sketchy

  3. 1) consent
    2) assent
    3) emerged
    4) permitted
    5) sufferance
    Answer – 3)
    Explanation : emerged

  4. 1) shelter
    2) assaulted
    3) shield
    4) sustain
    5) defend
    Answer – 2)
    Explanation : assaulted

  5. 1) residential
    2) alfresco

    3) extramural

    4) outermost
    5) exterior

    Answer – 1)
    Explanation : residential

  6. 1) opeque
    2) take away
    3) reinforces
    4) subtract
    5) derived
    Answer – 3)
    Explanation : reinforces

  7. 1) aleatory
    2) freakish
    3) episodic
    4) predictably
    5) capricious
    Answer – 4)
    Explanation : predictably

  8. 1) tracing
    2) edge
    3) contour
    4) silhouette
    5) loop
    Answer – 5)
    Explanation : loop – a shape produced by a curve that bends round and crosses itself.

  9. 1) reluctance
    2) liking
    3) fondness
    4) courier
    5) sympathy
    Answer – 1)
    Explanation : reluctance

  10. 1) wanting
    2) perpetuating
    3) teeming
    4) empty
    5) lacking
    Answer – 3)
    Explanation : teeming – be full of or swarming with. (भरा हुआ)