Fill in the blanks with suitable words - 12

Directions: Each of the following sentences has a blank space and four words are given below. Click on the word you consider most APPROPRIATE. You can change the option as many times as you like.

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1. The Election Commission on Saturday ______ that the Assembly elections in five States will be held from November 12 to December 7.

  1. pronounced
  2. announced
  3. promulgated
  4. issued

2. The victims were fruit vendors and they were going in an auto when they _______ an accident on the way.

  1. met with
  2. ran into
  3. experienced
  4. heard

3. Scores of villagers are _______ a sit-in protest against the construction of a new underpass.

  1. performing
  2. sitting
  3. staging
  4. standing

4. It is common for patients to stop _______ medicine as soon as they start feeling better.

  1. eating
  2. gulping
  3. swallowing
  4. taking

5. A four-year-old girl got a new lease of life after doctors at a hospital ________ a cancerous tumour from one of her kidneys.

  1. rejuvenated
  2. removed
  3. displaced
  4. replaced

6. ________ forests prevent erosion.

  1. Lean
  2. Dense
  3. Sparse
  4. Tidy


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7. Three people were arrested and an illegal arms unit was _______ by the police in a raid.

  1. revealed
  2. searched
  3. discovered
  4. busted

8. A woman got into the car and _______ .

  1. drove off
  2. broke down
  3. rode in
  4. drove in

9. The lecture was not very interesting. In fact I______ in the middle of it.

  1. showed off
  2. put off
  3. dozed off
  4. plugged off

10. The cops _______ murder by kin.

  1. suspect
  2. afford
  3. manage
  4. administer