SET 5

1. The play violates several ........... on sexuality. 12. The ......... of easy profits was too much for them.
A) trends B) disciplines A) revulsion B) detest
C) tattoos D) taboos C) aversion D) temptation
E) tactics E) dislike
2. Don’t expect to get a reply of more than three- 13. He has kept a ........... hold on party leadership.
four words, he is very ........... A) irresolute B) compliant
A) jovial B) cordial C) amenable D) tenacious
C) talkative D) taciturn E) acquiescent
E) amiable 14. I listened to his .............. words, and started to
3. There was a ........ agreement between the two feel better.
that they won’t interfere in each other’s affair. A) rude B) humiliating
A) explicit B) palpable C) vulgar D) tender
C) tacit D) lucent E) rough
E) 15. It is necessary to understand the .......... of
4. We are failing to ........... the key issues. Hinduism to see where this custom originated.
A) abstain B) dodge A) futility B) vainness
C) neglect D) tackle C) tenets D) apathy
E) give up E) asininity
5. The courts were irredeemably ......... by past 16. I have made ........... plans to take a trip to Udaipur
association with the military. in November.
A) elevated B) exalted A) mandatory B) obligatory
C) exhilarated D) tainted C) enforced D) tentative
E) inflated E) compulsory
6. I could see at once that the lock had been ......... 17. The deal drew a .......... response from shareholders.
with. A) overwhelming B) astonishing
A) darned B) mended C) enthusiastic D) sparkling
C) rectified D) tampered E) tepid
E) renewed 18. During his ......... as dean, he had a real influence
7. We need ......... evidence if we’re going to take on the students.
legal action. A) tenure B) epoch
A) abstract B) evasive C) canon D) standard
C) tangible D) nonsensical E) touchstone
8. I caught a ........... glimpse of the sparkling blue 19. Many ........... patients would prefer to end their
sea through the trees. days at home.
A) disgusting B) repellent A) trivial B) trifling
C) nauseating D) obnoxious C) slight D) terminal
E) tantalizing E) tiny
9. The scandal has severely ......... their reputation. 20. They have plenty of money now, but they still tend
A) adorned B) bedecked to be .............
C) tarnished D) enhanced A) lavish B) abundant
E) embellished C) thrifty D) effluent
10. With their plans now in ............., they gave up. E) opulent
A) progress B) momentum 21. His business ........... in the years before the war.
C) tatters D) thrust A) ceased B) withered
E) impetus C) shrunk D) thrived
11. We had to listen to all the ......... details of his E) receded
operation. 22. He made his way slowly through the ...........
A) tedious B) excitin A) fragment B) throng
C) eventful D) stimulating C) fraction D) hunk
E) E) scrap
23. His ambition to be a painter was ........... by poor C) bluntness D) treason
eyesight. E) rectitude
A) overjoyed B) delighted 35. Rumours of ......... and conspiracy began to
C) charmed D) thwarted circulate in the Queen’s court.
E) thrilled A) loyalty B) devotion
24. ........... children need careful handling to build up C) treachery D) harmony
their confidence. E) honesty
A) brave B) confident 36. Before the days of automation, they used to .........
C) unabashed D) timid grapes to make wine.
E) valiant A) thread B) tread
25. I would tell my grandmother about all the crazy C) trade D) treat
things I’d been doing and she would just smile E) trap
.............. 37. He suffers from a brain disorder that can ........ off
A) bigotedly B) fanatically convulsive fits.
C) tolerantly D) antipathetically A) sprout B) conceived
E) C) germinate D) push
26. The church played an important role in ........... the E) trigger
Communist order in Poland. 38. This result represents a personal ......... for the party
A) increasing B) escalating leader.
C) elevating D) toppling A) crash B) collapse
E) ascending C) crumble D) triumph
27. If you have a sudden loss of cabin pressure at 20 E) hurtle
000 feet, passengers will become ........ and then 39. I know it sounds ......., but I’m worried about it.
lose consciousness. A) severe B) brutal
A) vigorous B) vital C) trivial D) vicious
C) torpid D) dynamic E) ferocious
E) vibrant 40. His mother was ......... him along by the hand.
28. She stopped, struggling with the ......... of emotions A) kicking B) cuddling
she had unleashed. C) caressing D) tugging
A) restraint B) command E) tucking
C) torrent D) moderation 41. The sea was too .......... for us to be able to take
E) check the boat out.
29. I was nearly ........... to death by the crowd. A) serene B) quiet
A) amplified B) freed C) calm D) tranquil
C) dispersed D) trampled E) turbulent
E) untied 42. The university had been in .......... over anti-war
30. She stared at the ......... surface of the water. protests.
A) inebriated B) agitated A) concord B) harmony
C) disturbed D) tranquil C) turmoil D) unity
E) violent E) unison
31. The best films are those which ......... national or 43. After years of obeying her own husband’s mother,
cultural barriers. she felt that she was now entitled to ........... her
A) trail B) surrender daughter-in-law.
C) submit D) transcend A) love B) worship
E) fall behind C) venerate D) trannize
32. A glass of whisky has only a ........ warming effect. E) liberate
A) permanent B) enduring 44. He claims he just wants to help Lisa but I suspect
C) transient D) eternal he has an .............motive.
E) undying A) excellent B) brilliant
33. Some of the most disturbed children had witnessed C) ulterior D) superior
really ........ things, such as rape and murder. E) inferior
A) elated B) happy 45. The message was clear and ..........: get out of town.
C) ecstatic D) euphoric A) perplexing B) mysterious
E) traumatic C) unambiguous D) indistinct
34. They were charged with ............ and sentenced E) blurry
to death. 46. I had an ........ feeling that I was being followed.
A) candour B) fidelity A) apparent B) unfortunate
 C) uncanny D) urgent C) unforgiving D) undermining
E) imperative) E) underplaying
47. He was ............ removed from the list of members, 59. The protesters tried to ............ a banner.
for gross misconduct. A) conceal B) ravish
A) formally B) happily C) liberate D) bewitch
C) ambiguously D) hesitantly E) unfurl
E) unceremoniously 60. Religious fanatics have formed an .......... alliance
48. You would find him a bit ............, but his heart is with right wing groups.
in the right place. A) affable B) congenia
A) polite B) stupid C) unholy D) amiable
C) formal D) courteous E) obliging
E) uncouth 61. There have been complaints about her ...........
49. The joke did not obscure the ............. seriousness behaviour.
of her point. A) yielding B) moderate
A) redundant B) surplus C) compliant D) unruly
C) underlying D) amusing E) amenable
E) underlying 62. The new law will give ......... landlords an easy
50. He is jealous and trying to .......... my achievement. way of getting rid of people.
A) discard B) underplay A) generous B) munificent
C) understand D) overrate C) bountiful D) unscrupulous
E) praise E) charitable
51. The directors of the company refused to .......... 63. The documentary went through all the graphic
such a risky venture. details of the operation in ............ detail.
A) undertake B) announce A) unsparing B) eloquent
C) declare D) credit C) lucid D) incisive
E) proclaim E)
52. Such a high increase will impose an ........ burden 64. He found no one to support his largely ........ views.
on the local tax payer. A) fantastic B) untenable
A) admirable B) excellent C) plausible D) brainless
C) outstanding D) undue E) dim-witted
E) impossible 65. The discovery will help scientists .......... the secrets
53. The remains were unearthed last year by of the Ice Age.
archaeologists. A) celebrate B) commemorate
A) B) C) honour D) unravel
C) D) E) venerate
E) 66. The government’s attempts to crush serious popular
54. We are confronted with the .............. nature of ......... led to civil war.
human motivation. A) contentment B) gratification
A) unfortunate B) unforgiving C) unrest D) understanding
C) unimportant D) unfathomable E) indulgence
E) understanding 67. This is a case of ............. interference in the
55. The church has been ............ in its condemnation internal affairs of another country.
of the violence. A) enthralling B) beguiling
A) solitary B) unequivocal C) undermining D) unwarranted
C) omnipotent D) swarming E) extravagant
E) huddle 68. Korea is ........ in its demands for a new treaty.
56. She .......... the letter and read it yet again. A) despondent B) undermining
A) tossed B) delivered C) undertaking D) unyielding
C) sent D) unfolded E) insecure
E) rejected 69. We expect an increase in demand when the
57. We reserve the right to alter the timetable in the economic ............ eventually comes.
event of ............. circumstances. A) depression B) deflation
A) predicted B) tangible C) upturn D) dilemma
C) amiable D) unforeseen E) crash
E) substantial 70. She could see the utter ........ of trying to protest.
58. I wonder what makes a man so ............ and hard. A) significance B) consequence
A) suspicious B) dubious C) corollary D) futility
 E) future 83. At a stroke she could make things ........ into thin
71. He has repeatedly ......... the government to do air.
something about this. A) flutter B) generate
A) provoked B) protested C) engender D) varnish
C) urged D) neglected E) vanish
E) derelict 84. He wants the job purely for reasons of ......... and
72. She’s very ............ about why she wants the job - ambition.
she’d earn a lot more money. A) charity B) sanity
A) angry B) gorgeous C) vanity D) clarity
C) upfront D) hilarious E) chastity
E) dazzling 85. The stories are about saints ............... dragons and
73. A glass of wine in the evening helps me to .......... freeing captive maidens.
after work. A) adoring B) admiring
A) tighten B) stiffen C) vanquishing D) venerating
C) rigid D) unwind E) veneering
E) stormy 86. She found the film .............; still she sat through it
74. Three judges .......... upheld the sentence. so as not to offend her boyfriend.
A) unknowingly B) accidently A) thrilling B) enchanting
C) innocently D) unanimously C) realistic D) vapid
D) mistakenly E) exciting
75. The pages were covered in his ........... scribblings. 87. He has been a .......... critique of the government
A) pictorial B) cinematic policies.
C) unintelligible D) unified A) indifferent B) apathetic
E) amalgamated C) lethargic D) languid
76. Meals are better taken sitting on an ............ chair, E) vehement
not slumped in front of the television. 88. Gandhi became an object of widespread veneration
A) arm B) upright because of his ............ struggle for freedom and
C) unused D) elastic equality.
E) A) ludicrous B) farcical
77. I dismissed the story as ............... speculation. C) absurd D) unceasing
A) factual B) authentic E) transitory
C) unfounded D) realistic 89. He sought .............. against those who had
E) credible humiliated his country.
78. She had a ............. expression on her face. A) mercy B) clemency
A) edible B) comestible C) lenience D) merriment
C) vacuous D) succulent E) vengeance
E) nutritive 90. In the case of an adverse ............., the company
79. I have a ......... recollection of meeting him when I could lose millions.
was a child. A) opulence B) verdict
A) vague B) fatigue C) habitat D) locale
C) fragile D) fake E) law
E) forged 91. He is one of the eminent .............. poets who have
80. The fire-fighters made ......... efforts to save them, been translated into all the major European
but were beaten back by the flames. languages.
A) gobbling B) stingy A) amphibious B) abominable
C) acquisitive D) valiant C) vendor D) corporal
E) grudging E) vernacular
81. The research findings do not ......... the claims made 92. He’s a ............ actor who has played a wide variety
by the manufacturer. of parts.
A) violate B) validate A) corporeal B) gluttonous
C) regulate D) habituate C) vulgar D) versatile
E) redress E) vicious
82. Police condemned the damage as an act of mindless 93. Once the company is commercially ..........., we
.................. should be able to invest more.
A) fascism B) vandalism A) standoffish B) swindle
C) fanaticism D) extremism C) hoax D) viable
E) radicalism E) prank
94. He used his inheritance to indulge his vices of C) vivacious D) vicarious
drinking and gambling. E) victorious
A) virtues B) merits 106. He gave a very ...........and often shocking account
C) eminence D) vices of his time in prison.
E) nobility A) uremic B) murky
95. There is no hospital in the immediate ........... C) vivid D) muddy
A) probability B) possibility E) squalid
C) viability D) vicinity 107. A .............. opponent of gay rights, he is well-
E) vanity known for his right-wing views.
96. The committee was particularly ........... in its A) feeble B) timorous
criticism of the management. C) vociferous D) nervous
A) essential B) fundamental E) hesitant
C) foreseeable D) vicious 108. It seemed that nothing could fill the aching black
E) indispensible ........... left by Rachel’s death.
97. The organization is ever ........... for threats to the A) torrent B) flood
habitats of birds. C) void D) light
A) virulent B) vibrant E) night
C) vital D) vigilant 109. Exporting the product was difficult due to a
E) vituperative ............. exchange rate.
98. They conducted a ............ campaign against tax A) unshaken B) insecure
fraud. C) constant D) volatile
A) vivid B) wimping E) hostile
C) whipping D) vigorous 110. Her ............ silk dress billowed out behind her.
E) voracious A) vigorous B) voluminous
99. They were ............. by the press as ‘international C) voracious D) vulnerable
terrorists’. E) vociferous
A) contaminated B) stained 111. The hospital has asked various........... organizations
C) vilified D) victimized to help raise money for the new operating theatre.
E) prosecuted A) begrudging B) unwilling
100. The investigation .............. her complaint about the C) reluctant D) voluntary
newspaper. E) voluptuary
A) denigrated B) demonstrated 112. She is a............. reader of Latin American
C) distracted D) vindicated literature.
E) belittled A) herbaceous B) voracious
101. The technology has enabled development of an C) cereous D) hilarious
online ............. library. E) uproarious
A) physical B) textual 113. She made a ............ never to speak to him again.
C) public D) private A) wow B) vow
E) virtual C) view D) woe
102. Unmarried women were expected to live modest, E) awe
............. lives. 114. The sudden resignation of the financial director put
A) virtual B) vicious the company in a very ............... position.
C) vivacious D) vicarious A) reputed B) protected
E) virtuous C) secured D) unsusceptible
103. We are witnessing racism of a ............ that we E) vulnerable
haven’t seen in Europe since the 1940s. 115. This is a highly ............ situation from which riots
A) virtuous B) wholesome might develop.
C) virulence D) exemplary A) intact B) reliable
E) salubrious C) calm D) volatile
104. Bean sprouts contain many of the vitamins that E) unruffled
are .......... for health. 116. We could just hear the distant ........... of a siren.
A) redundant B) expendable A) music B) melody
C) dispensable D) causeless C) tune D) symphony
E) vital E) wail
105. He brought along his wife, a ............ blonde, some 117. He has agreed to ......... his rights to the money.
twenty years his junior. A) fight B) quarrel
A) primeval B) primal C) waive D) donate
 E) bestow A) detest B) disgust
118. They stood by helplessly in the face of the ............. C) zest D) aversion
destruction of their villages. E) abhor
A) glazing B) glittering 131. Even though she became rich and famous, the
C) splendid D) wanton impact of her ........... childhood remained
E) stupid throughout her life.
119. Any chance of a drink? This ........... traveller is A) vigorous B) vivacious
about to collapse from thirst. C) splendid D) wretched
A) fervent B) zealous E) effervescent
C) eager D) weary 132. The project is expected to ........... good returns in
E) vigorous future.
120. It’s a ........... and wonderful island full of weird A) shield B) yield
and wonderful things to do. C) guard D) prevent
A) dreary B) lacklustre E) thwart
C) tame D) docile 133. I am just waiting for the rain to ......... so that I can
E) weired head back home.
121. The child’s parents pandered to his every ......... A) incite B) advance
A) whim B) need C) prolong D) abate
C) want D) requirement E) extend
E) necessity 134. The majority of the population live in ......... poverty.
122. He still ........... enormous influence within the party. A) effluent B) affluent
A) deplete B) wield C) luxurious D) abject
C) yield D) welled E) abnormal
E) yelled 135. I think you are utterly selfish and your behaviour
123. She switched on the light, ............ at the sudden has been ................
brightness. A) courteous B) chivalrous
A) expanding B) roaring C) gracious D) abominable
C) yelling D) wincing E) considerate
E) screaming 136. She .......... from boarding school with her boyfriend.
124. They threatened to ......... their support from the A) accommodated B) abided
government. C) endured D) absconded
A) withdraw B) whip up E) appeared
C) rampart D) stay 137. The report ........ her of all blame for the accident.
E) remain A) absolved B) dissolved
125. The vase ............ and then crashed to the ground. C) resolved D) enslaved
A) straightened B) flattene E) absconded
C) wobbled D) knotted 138. She was completely ............ in the task, so I didn’t
E) trodden feel like disturbing her.
126. The dog ........... free of his grasp and ran off. A) diffused B) disseminated
A) resided B) dwelled C) absorbed D) abided
C) wriggled D) settled E) attracted
E) resolved 139. The workers were protesting against the ..........
127. He repressed his ............. for a quiet life. working conditions in the factory.
A) earnings B) yearnings A) amusing B) hygienic
C) earrings D) herrings C) sanitized D) abysmal
E) hearings E) disinfected
128. He refused to .............. to public pressure. 140. The Planning Committee has finally............ to
A) wailed B) veiled growing pressure.
C) yield D) wiled A) acceded B) accused
E) healed C) ascended D) aided
129. He was a zealous reformer, utterly devoted to E) added
rooting out corruption. 141. When talks did occur, they tended to accentuate
A) stained B) hoax differences between the two groups.
C) contaminated D) blemished A) accelerate B) animate
E) zealous C) accentuate D) allocate
130. Last month’s victory has given him a renewed E) associate
............ for the game.
142. Four restaurants have been awarded the highest E) bedrock
.......... of a three-star rating. 154. He was completely ............... by her beauty.
A) accused B) accustomed A) bewildered B) baffled
C) attacked D) accolade C) embarrassed D) befuddled
E) articulated E) beguiled
143. They signed a trade........ with the Americans. 155. Stop ............ yourself - your work is highly valued.
A) union B) organisation A) flattering B) praisin
C) record D) accord C) gratifying D) belittling
E) discord E) admiring
144. Local authorities should be publicly ............ to the 156. It sets a ............... for future improvements.
communities they serve. A) milestone B) landmark
A) applicable B) accusable C) waypost D) milepost
C) accountable D) accordable E) benchmark
E) attainable 157. You can not propose to a woman in.................
145. He’s badly .............. with a skin disorder. A) assuagement B) braveness
A) collected B) afflicted C) bereavement D) amenity
C) addicted D) arrested E) complacency
E) abducted 158. The writer turned down the knighthood .............
146. Leaving her parents in a sanatorium was the most upon him as a protest against his country’s
.............. decision of her young life. participation in the latest war.
A) antagonistic B) aggressive A) thrust B) imposed
C) agonizing D) adamant C) plunged D) bestowed
E) arrogant E) burdened
147. Every day the schoolchildren pledge an oath of 159. Clouds rolled in and the lake took on a ............
................ to their country. and sombre appearance.
A) apathy B) treachery A) pleasant B) lovely
C) allegiance D) arrogance C) exquisite D) bleak
E) callousness E) delicate
148. Are we doing enough to............. poverty in these 160. The government has published a .............. for an
countries? integrated transport system.
A) accelerate B) advance A) book B) file
C) stimulate D) alleviate C) record D) blueprint
E) expedite E) text
149. Whatever is happening in the office, she always 161. They need to do something to ............. the
remains aloof. tarnished image.
A) absent B) missing A) damage B) begrime
C) away D) aloof C) blemish D) bolster
E) vanished E) befoul
150. The side-effects of the treatment can be ............ 162. The stranger ............ a gun at me and demanded
to some extent. my purse and ornaments.
A) extravagant B) squandering A) beguiled B) brandished
C) luxurious D) ameliorated C) enticed D) engrossed
E) immoderate E) enthralled
151. Keeping noise levels low is the ........... of airport 163. ........... claims of injury by workers are costing
administration. companies thousands of pounds.
A) aid B) fortune A) boaster B) magus
C) bane D) advantage C) bogus D) monstrous
E) benefit E) atrocious
152. When I returned office after a week of illness, there 164. He was legally ............ to report them to the
was a .............. of paperwork to catch up on. authorities.
A) reduction B) decline A) bond B) bound
C) diminution D) subtraction C) chained D) astound
E) backlog E) adhered
153. The poor suburbs traditionally formed the .............. 165. Such actions constitute a ........ of confidentiality.
of the party’s support. A) breech B) breach
A) bedside B) bedrabble C) beach, D) bead
C) bedraggle D) bedribble E) beat
166. As you get older your bones become increasingly C) speculation D) mortification
.............. E) chores
A) little B) beetle 178. This is a very sensitive case requiring extreme
C) brittle D) subtle .......................
E) vittles A) recklessness B) indiscretion
167. While still at school she was clearly a ........ genius. C) circumspection D) solicitude
A) fragile B) buoyant E)
C) canny D) budding 179. She could barely make herself heard above the
E) diminishing ............. of the rain.
168. The relatively ........... housing market has kept A) glamour B) clamour
consumers confident enough to spend. C) commotion D) discord
A) bayonet B) buoyant E) turmoil
C) energetic D) ostentatious 180. His lawyers appealed for ............. on the grounds
E) flamboyant of ill health.
169. The company hopes to .............. from the A) punishment B) ruthlessness
burgeoning communications industry. C) strictness D) clemency
A) benediction B) misfortune E) severity
C) obstruction D) hindrance 181. He had a large cigar ......... between his teeth.
E) benefit A) secured B) clamped
170. The ship was .......... apart and its crew blasted to C) clogged D) clinked
pieces. E) composed
A) stormed B) ruptured 182. They clinked glasses and drank each other’s
C) burst D) juncture health.
E) blew A) broke B) collided
171. The competition entries were of such high ........... C) collapsed D) clamped
that judging them was very difficult. E) struck
A) calibre B) cannibal 183. The wheels got clogged up with mud.
C) collaboration D) collision A) collided B) plugged
E) commission C) choked D) clogged
172. A dozen men walked by, dressed in army .............. E) burdened
and holding automatic weapons. 184. They are studying the links between cognitive and
A) ambushment B) deception linguistic development in young children.
C) concealment D) camouflage A) subjective B) intellectual
E) buoyancy C) cognitive D) collaborative
173. Her opponent proved to be more ........... than she’d E) experimental
thought. 185. It is thought that they worked in ............... with
A) suspicious B) deliberate the terrorist network.
C) canny D) vivid A) deceit B) collusion
E) crafty C) collision D) commission
174. The victim described how the army marched into E) coherence
the village and the.............. followed. 186. He wasn’t always successful, but he made a
A) garbage B) carnal ............... effort.
C) carnage D) baggage A) canny B) shrewd
E) armistice C) commendable D) prudent
175. His paintings depict lively scenes of peasants E) compatible
.................. in crowded taverns. 187. I heard a ............. upstairs and went to see what
A) carousing B) publicizing was happening.
C) brandishing D) ransoming A) collision B) combustion
E) enthralling C) convulsion D) commotion
176. Male ............ was rife in the medical profession in E) promotion
those days. 188. He was filled with overwhelming love and ..............
A) fanaticism B) jingoism for his wife.
C) chauvinism D) bellicism A) commotion B) compassion
E) enthusiuasm C) combustion D) consideration
177. She let her husband manage the money while she E) compression
handled other household ................ 189. This software may not be ............ with older
A) mores B) tribulation operating systems.
 A) compatible B) commutable
C) computable D) consolable
E) conformable
190. The council was criticized for its ............. attitude
to child protection.
A) complicated B) complacent
C) consolable D) compulsive
E) compatible
191. There are serious penalties for failure to ............
with the regulations.
A) compel B) conceive
C) compile D) complain
E) comply
192. The book offers advice and help for ............ eaters.
A) complex B) compulsive
C) compulsory D) implosive
E) delusive
193. He was not prepared to .......... that he had acted
illegally.
A) conceive B) conceal
C) concede D) contradict
E) collide
194. It is difficult to ....... of a society without money.
A) conceal B) concede
C) connive D) conceive
E) conserve
195. She could not ............. how anyone could endanger
human life in that way.
A) compose B) compile
C) comprehend D) compliment
E) concern
196. She looked remarkably........... throughout the
funeral.
A) compiled B) compressed
C) concurrent D) composed
E) compassed
197. Her two dramas are being shown ............ by rival
television stations.
A) comparably B) concurrently
C) conceivably D) commendably
E) continuously
198. She is polite and ........... towards her employees.
A) confederate B) consecrate
C) considerate D) venerate
E) complacent
199. Mary’s red hair always made her ........... at school.
A) considerate B) compulsive
C) suspicious D) conspicuous
E) auspices
200. The government has placed tight ........... on
spending this year.
A) compulsion B) repression
C) restraints D) constraints
E)