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  1. He reached an agreement with the union through negotiations and thus was able to _____ a possible strike.
    (A) prevent
    (B) avert
    (C) deflect
    (D) oppose
    (E) confront
    (F) revert
  2. A.
    D and E
    B.
    A and B
    C.
    A and C
    D.
    C and F
    E.
    E and F

  3. Most adults think that children who have behavioural problems can be disciplined with _____ punishment.
    (A) corporal
    (B) physical
    (C) corporeal
    (D) verbal
    (E) psychological
    (F) mild
  4. A.
    B and E
    B.
    D and F
    C.
    A and C
    D.
    A and B
    E.
    B and E

  5. Human nature is full of contradictions: there is so much pose in the sincere, baseness in the noble and goodness in the _____.
    (A) reprobate
    (B) incorrigible
    (C) primitive
    (D) superficial
    (E) unoriginal
    (F) Inactive
  6. A.
    A and B
    B.
    B and C
    C.
    C and D
    D.
    D and E
    E.
    E and F

  7. The desire for _____ is one of the most deeply related instincts of a civilized man.
    (A) revilement
    (B) euphoria
    (C) euphony
    (D) approval
    (E) approbation
    (F) umbrage
  8. A.
    A and F
    B.
    B and E
    C.
    D and E
    D.
    C and D
    E.
    B and C

  9. Communities should be self-reliant but this self-reliance does not mean _____ because the need to trade results in the interdependence of communities.
    (A) secrecy
    (B) isolation
    (C) lankiness
    (D) barrenness
    (E) seclusion
    (F) solitude
  10. A.
    A and C
    B.
    B and E
    C.
    D and F
    D.
    C and E
    E.
    A and B

  11. Secularism on the one hand, can be seen as a positive freedom to hold any or no religious faith and on the other hand, it imposes _____ that prohibits the state from taking certain legal actions.
    (A) anathema
    (B) taboo
    (C) maledictions
    (D) limitations
    (E) restrictions
    (F) censure
  12. A.
    A and B
    B.
    A and C
    C.
    C and F
    D.
    D and E
    E.
    B and F

  13. One is always considered a/an _____ in any foreign country, irrespective of the number of years he has lived there.
    (A) amateur
    (B) threat
    (C) alien
    (D) menace
    (E) outsider
    (F) ally
  14. A.
    A and F
    B.
    B and D
    C.
    C and E
    D.
    E and F
    E.
    B and C

  15. Some writers believe that poetry can bring about _____ changes in a person's way of thinking and behaviour as does a well-reasoned social or political treatise.
    (A) radical
    (B) extrimsic
    (C) moderate
    (D) acquired
    (E) fundamental
    (F) natural
  16. A.
    B and C
    B.
    A and B
    C.
    C and E
    D.
    D and F
    E.
    A and E

  17. She went ahead with dogged determination, _____by the adversities which came her way and ultimately emerged successful.
    (A) over-awed
    (B) unintimidated
    (C) dismayed
    (D) undaunted
    (E) unalarmed
    (F) incapacitated
  18. A.
    A and C
    B.
    B and C
    C.
    E and F
    D.
    B and C
    E.
    B and E

  19. Jane was a hard core feminist and a/an _____ campaigner for women's issues.
    (A) indefatigable
    (B) relentless
    (C) irregular
    (D) indifferent
    (E) sluggish
    (F) fallacious
  20. A.
    A and B
    B.
    B and D
    C.
    C and F
    D.
    E and F
    E.
    C and E