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English Questions: Fill in the Blanks Set – 62

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  1. This year’s was a campaign that__________the idea of the innately decent and wise aam aadmi, at least in the aggregate.
    1) demolished
    2) completed
    3) connected
    4) perceptual
    5) revealed
    Answer – 1)
    Explanation : demolished

  2. He fractured the Republican Party whose nomination he had secured in a_________primary.
    1) abridge
    2) contracting
    3) deflating
    4) slenderize
    5) bruising
    Answer – 5)
    Explanation : bruising

  3. Nothing mattered because he was convinced that he had tapped into a deep vein of__________running through U.S. society that would propel him to the White House.
    1) waveless
    2) pastoral
    3) resentment
    4) pacific
    5) tranquil
    Answer – 3)
    Explanation : resentment

  4. He was an unlikely candidate for the middle-aged, worried, white American male, scared of and__________for the future.
    1) prepared
    2) unprepared
    3) deliberate
    4) rehearsed
    5) unnamed
    Answer – 2) 
    Explanation : unprepared 

  5. He was guessing (and rightly, as it turns out) that this would serve to energise and cement his support base. Mr. Trump is not the first politician to take_________to populism.
    1) restraint
    2) compulsion
    3) necessity
    4) recourse
    5) constraint
    Answer – 4)
    Explanation : recourse 

  6. In his fight for the Democratic nomination, Senator Bernie Sanders also took recourse to populism, of a__________kind.
    1) ambiguous
    2) different
    3) alike
    4) resembling
    5) correspondent
    Answer – 2)
    Explanation :   different

  7. He too wanted to restore American democracy but by increasing_________through progressive economic tax reform that would impact the rich.
    1) hindrance
    2) misfortune
    3) instigate
    4) welfare
    5) disadvantage
    Answer – 4)
    Explanation : welfare

  8. There is talk of targeting black money, but the denomination of notes has nothing to do with the__________of black money, which is not held in hoards of notes but is a circulation of unrecorded and undeclared incomes.
    1) skedaddle
    2) ricochet
    3) existence
    4) carom
    5) prance
    Answer – 3)
    Explanation : existence  

  9. Retailers cannot sell the goods since customers do not have money to buy them, and they can provide goods on credit to customers only up to a point since they need to pay their suppliers and cannot_________enough new notes to do so.
    1) obtain
    2) forfeit
    3) sacrifice
    4) forsake
    5) sacrifice
    Answer – 1)
    Explanation : obtain

  10. With the severe loss of purchasing power, the country is being driven into an artificially created_________and the level of economic activity is declining.
    1) advanced
    2) recession
    3) casualty
    4) difficulty
    5) factual
    Answer – 2)
    Explanation : recession