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- Such laws confer extraordinary discretionary powers on the executive to____________persons without bail for a period that may extend to one year and courts tend to review them on the touchstone of strict____________to the prescribed procedure.
1) detach, garnishment
2) emancipate, dictate
3) manumit, enactment
4) detain, adherence
5) reasonable, edictAnswer – 4)
Explanation: detain, adherence
detain – keep (someone) from proceeding by holding them back or making claims on their attention.
adherence – attachment or commitment to a person, cause, or belief. - Several States have a law popularly known as the ‘Goondas Act’ aimed at____________the dangerous activities of specified kinds of____________.
1) redeem, rescue
2) embarrass, covenant
3) shackle, bylaw
4) restrictive, behest
5) preventing, offendersAnswer – 5)
Explanation: preventing, offenders
offenders – a person who commits an illegal act. - It struck down the detention of a man who had allegedly sold____________chilli seeds in Telangana, holding that the grounds of____________were extraneous to the Act.
1) unlimited, clemency
2) unbind, absolution
3) spurious, detention
4) unhook, acquittal
5) authentic, turnoutAnswer – 3)
Explanation: spurious, detention
spurious – not being what it purports to be; false or fake.
detention – the action of detaining someone or the state of being detained in official custody. - Therefore, it claimed, there was no option but to____________the preventive detention law to ____________society from the person’s evil deeds.
1) invoke, insulate
2) unchain, relevant
3) counterclaim, pertinent
4) genuine, integral
5) elucidation, essentialAnswer – 1)
Explanation: invoke, insulate
invoke – call on (a deity or spirit) in prayer, as a witness, or for inspiration.
insulate – protect (something) by interposing material that prevents the loss of heat or the intrusion of sound. - The Goondas Act is meant to be invoked against____________offenders, but in practice it is often used for a host of____________reasons.
1) parting shot, appropriate
2) habitual, extraneous
3) crack, heedlessness
4) comeback, scorn
5) antiphon, slightAnswer – 2)
Explanation: habitual, extraneous
extraneous – irrelevant or unrelated to the subject being dealt with. - Those who authorise such preventive detention for flimsy reasons should understand that____________of crime needs an efficient system of investigation and trial, and not____________laws.
1) acknowledgment,
2) prevention, draconian
3) echo, oversight
4) interpretation,
5) plea, nonconcurrentAnswer – 2)
Explanation: prevention, draconian
draconian – (of laws or their application) excessively harsh and severe. - However, while the EU and India have a clear____________in many areas, a dependable alliance can only come from a____________worldview.
1) aberration, divergent
2) alteration, disagreeing,,
3) divagation, disregardance
4) convergence, concurrent
5) unconcern, inconsiderationAnswer – 4)
Explanation: convergence, concurrent
convergence – the process or state of converging.
concurrent – existing, happening, or done at the same time. - Standing at a crossroads few had expected at this stage, India will have to consider its options carefully as it decides which____________to forge as the U.S.____________traditional ties in favour of transactionalism.
1) alterity, laxness
2) coalitions, overturns
3) crotch, disdain
4) distinction, delinquency
5) diversity, inadvertenceAnswer – 2)
Explanation: coalitions, overturns
coalitions – a temporary alliance for combined action, especially of political parties forming a government.
overturns – tip (something) over so that it is on its side or upside down. - States and sections of industry want a____________of rates finalised earlier for products cashew from biogas, fertilizers and tractors to agarbathis, human hair and____________.
1) disparity, thoughtlessness
2) otherness, inattention
3) dissimilitude, divergency
4) ranging, review
5) mutation, disagreeingAnswer – 4)
Explanation: ranging, review
ranging – vary or extend between specified limits.
review – a formal assessment of something with the intention of instituting change if necessary. - Not surprisingly, the whole system of agricultural marketing has led farmers to feel____________, and it was only a matter of time before they____________themselves to protest.
1) organised, cheated
2) deflection, digression
3) discrepancy, laxity
4) deviation, dissemblance
5) detour, dissimilarityAnswer – 1)
Explanation: organised, cheated
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