Double Fill up’s For SBI PO SET – 12

1. Camille Pissarro, eldest of France’s great impressionist __________ that included Monet, Manet, Rennoir and Degas, was both the movement’s ________ and its saint.

(a) cabal, doyen

(b) sodality, gadfly

(c) entity, defector

(d) hierarchy, patriarch

(e) brotherhood, demon

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(d) hierarchy, patriarch

2. The westerlies normally cross the United States at altitudes from 10,000 to 50,000 feet along the Canadian border, acting as a _______ to Arctic winds and giving the Middle Atlantic States relatively _______ winters.

(a) counterpart, unsettled

(b) propellant, mild

(c) counterpart, unsettled

(d) buffer, temperate

(e) deterrent, cold

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  (d) buffer, temperate

3. But even Mr. Moses, one of the most _________ public servants of our time, is at a loss to convey in words the size, the imaginative engineering ______ that built this contribution to the welfare of family and industry.

(a) tongue-tied, miracle

(b) dedicated, oppositeness

(c) unappreciated, technique

(d) public-spirited, skill

(e) articulate, ingenuity

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 (e) articulate, ingenuity

4. Among the younger people there are complaints that the sight of ex-Nazis flourishing recommends __________ youth, that it instills, instead of needed moral values, the dubious percept that _______is the best policy.

(a) precepts, intolerance

(b) desperation, dishonesty

(c) emulation, honesty

(d) cynicism, expediency

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(d) cynicism, expediency

5. Even as ________ machines free men from drudgery, they ____ displace men from jobs.

(a) automated, simultaneously

(b) robot like, unwillingly

(c) animated, ineluctably

(d) accelerated, seemingly

(e) antiquate, understandably

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(a) automated, simultaneously

6. To cross the Rubicon means to take a final _______ step which may have dangerous ______.

(a) hazardous, precedent

(b) unwarranted, potentialities

(c) inconsequential, concomitants

(d) well-considered, implications

(e) irrevocable, consequences

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 (e) irrevocable, consequences

7. Though the Oxford English Dictionary is undoubtedly the greatest dictionary ever ______ it is designed for scholars and research workers rather than for the _______ dictionary user.

(a) assembled, assiduous

(b) demonstrated, amateur

(c) projected, omniscient

(d) published, professional

(e) compiled, casual

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(e) compiled, casual

8. For nearly a century the ______ travelers cheque has been the nearest thing to an internationals currency yet devised by man, and has guided generations of Americans and other tourists through the ______ of foreign exchange.

(a) useful, excesses

(b) surreptitious, complexities

(c) plausible, maze

(d) sacrosanct, fluctuations

(e) ubiquitous, labyrinth

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 (e) ubiquitous, labyrinth

9. If it were true that enduring lessons are learned from ________ errors, Broadway would be the repository of ______ theatrical wisdom.

(a) accidental, occult

(b) egregious, sublime

(c) dubious, profound

(d) dramatic, lasting

(e) stupid, attenuated

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(b) egregious, sublime

10. After careful thought I bought for my daughter a combination ________ with little shiny stones that could even be mistaken for diamonds.

(a) presented

(b) looked

(c) hid

(d) decorated

(e) put

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(d) decorated