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Rules

Proactive Approach:

• Begin by reading and comprehending the sentence to understand its context and meaning.
• Formulate a guess or prediction based on the context provided in the sentence.
• Relate your guess to the available options to identify the most fitting answer that aligns well with your prediction.

Reactive Approach:

• Start by reading the sentence to comprehend its message.
• Directly review the given options, employing the elimination technique to narrow down potential answers.
• Use hints within the sentence, such as tone, parts of speech, or indicative words, to guide your choice.

Look for signpost words that might help determine the correct answer:

• Supporting Words: Words that convey a similar context across different parts of the sentence.
• Contrasting Words: Words that express opposing contexts across different parts of the sentence.

Familiarize yourself with root words (Latin or Greek) to aid in understanding vocabulary and word relationships. Apply basic grammar clues and rules to eliminate incorrect options and deduce the most suitable answer. Utilize the elimination technique to rule out improbable choices. Consider employing the strategy of working backward, especially in questions with multiple blanks, to assist in finding the correct answer.

Solved Example

Example 1: As a result of the _________ storm, some homes were shattered.
(a) Severe
(b) Facile
(c) Temperate
(d) Amenable
Ans: (a)
Here the answer is ‘severe’ because due to severe storms houses were shattered.

Example 2: Deepika is a __________ with boundless energy.
(a) Slurping
(b) Improve
(c) Gloomy
(d) Dynamo
Ans: (d)
A dynamo is a person who is exceptionally energetic.

Example 3: As he listened to the accident report, his attitude was ________.
(a) Jocular
(b) Somber
(c) Opportune
(d) None
Ans: (b)
Somber is defined as having or expressing a great sense of seriousness and melancholy. 

Example 4: The accident left him with ________ and a perforated eardrum.
(a) Bruises
(b) Grunt
(c) Silence
(d) Exaggerate
Ans: (a)
A bruise is a discoloured region of skin on the body caused by an injury.

Example 5: The waiters'________________ insolence enraged him, so he hurled his serviette to the floor and marched out of the restaurant.
(a) Meticulous
(b) Amusing
(c) Surly
(d) None
Ans: (c)
Surly means irritable and hostile.

Example 6: Ankita kept ________ to me that she hoped she'd take it easy on the drink.
(a) Playing
(b) Sighs
(c) Storages
(d) Whispering
Ans: (d)
Whispering refers to speaking quietly with one's breath rather than one's throat, especially for the sake of privacy.

Example 7: In a whirlpool of ______ water and howling wind, the Shade raised its arms and vanished.
(a) Extreme
(b) Churning
(c) Fluctuation
(d) None
Ans: (b)
Churning is to move or induce to move vigorously (in relation to a liquid).

Example 8: Although the tiger is a lonely species, the lion, its cousin, is a ______ animal.:
(a) Solitary
(b) Social
(c) Loud
(d) Isolated
Ans: (b)
The answer is something that contrasts with “lonely,” i.e Social.

Example 9: The busy, ______ fabric of the clown’s tie matched his oversized jacket, which was equally atrocious.
(a) Mottled
(b) Bleak
(c) Credible
(d) Malleable
Ans: (a)
Here, the comparison form of sentence is used which compares the oversized jacket with the clown’s tie and both of them were atrocious (of a very poor quality). Now, since the description of the tie says ‘busy’ it means that it was filled with colours which takes the word ‘mottled’ meaning blotched or spotted with different colors or Shades.

Example 10: To settle the dispute, the local residents elected the senior most member of the society to serve as a(n) ___________.
(a) Maverick
(b) Dystopia
(c) Arbiter
(d) Martyr
Ans: (c)
Here we see that ‘to settle the dispute’ is the action that is being referred to. So we need a word to describe a person who helps to settle disputes, hence we choose ‘arbiter’- a person with power to decide a dispute.

Example 11: When Manisha started her documentary of the __________ slums, she was immediately ______ by groups of children begging for food.
(a) Affluent, bedraggled
(b) Impoverished, accosted
(c) Redundant, infiltrated
(d) Slaughtered, rebuked
Ans: (b)
Here, we take the reference of ‘slums’ and children begging for food’. Since we know that there is a shortage of food means that the slum was impoverished (not have enough resources’) For the second blank, accosted means to approach and address (someone) boldly or aggressively. This means that the children approached manisha boldly and begged for food because they were impoverished.

Example 12: Journalists cannot wait to ________ the president with questions about his policies.
(a) Ensconce
(b) Relegate
(c) Besiege
(d) Solicit
Ans: (c)
In the sentence above it says that journalists wanted to ask a lot of questions to the President and they couldn't wait for it. This means that they besieged him with questions. To besiege means to approach with an excessive number of requests or questions.

Example 13: Teachers should not only be learned but also ______; students should feel comfortable approaching them with questions or problems.
(a) Wheedling
(b) Patronizing
(c) Laconic
(d) Affable
Ans: (d)
The word that we need in the blank should define the second clause where students feel comfortable approaching the teachers, this describes that the teacher’s quality should be friendly and warm. So Affable is the word that we need in this sentence.

Example 14: ______________ did not improve his test scores at all.
(a) Pulling an all-nighter
(b) Sailing into the sunset
(c) Getting priorities jumbled
(d) Becoming a multitasker
Ans: (a)
Here, Pulling an all-nighter means being awake all night. Here the person studied all night and still couldn’t score well.

Example 15: The jingling of bells and the__________ adorable decorations at every corner of the city indicates the _________ of Christmas Eve.
(a) Impeccably, onset
(b) Maudlin, retreat
(c) Munificent, zenith
(d) Improvident, arrival
Ans: (a)
Impeccably means to be perfect and adorable. Since the decoration of Christmas is being referred to here, so, we use Impeccable. Onset means the arrival of something.