TCS NQT Sentence Completion Quiz 1

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Answer - trick, superstitious

As the sentence talks about destroying or causing harm to someone's peace which can be done by tricking the innocent people so we can go with Option C to deliver sensible and complete meaning of the sentence.



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The subject of the sentence is 'challenges' and for the first blank we need a word that states how challenges must be dealt with, and the word we choose is 'overcome' because overcoming challenge shows bravery and courage.

Next we see that 'overcoming challenge' has a positive effect and that effect is that the country's true capacity of an economic integration can be realized. Hence we use 'potential'.



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Answer: Tongue.

Having a sharp tongue means 'a tendency to say very critical things to people.' Since the sentence says that he gets into trouble if he isn't careful, it means that he needs think before he speaks.



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Answer - At

'At' is a preposition of location that is used to specify the point where an object or person is at the moment. It indicates an exact position of an object.

Since the sentence specifies where they had lunch 'Chinese restaurant', we use 'at'



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Key words: no rationale. The blank must take a word that opposes this theme of rationality.

Answer - Intuition

Here, Intuition means the feeling or understanding that makes you believe or know that something is true without being able to explain why.


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Key words: clearly, speaking English.

The sentence is negative so it should be 'at a disadvantage' which means to be in an unfavourable position relative to someone or something else. Here the person cannot speak english clearly so we use 'at' to show the position of his in terms of fluency.


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Key words: for support. Both the blanks must take positive and strong words.

Since we are appreciating the quality of acting and stating that we do not need strong words or dialogues to emphasize the theme of the silent movies, the blanks will take positive words.

Thus the answer should be - Extraordinary...mesmerizing



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Keywords: help them to mingle with. A positive word must fill the first blank because it says that sports for the visually challenged helps them to increase their confidence. Hence, we use 'boost' and then it says specifies as to where it boosts their confidence, i.e. in the mainstream of society.



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Every minister must be made accountable to the public for his/her acts of omission and commission.

Accountable means to be responsible for one’s decisions or actions.Here it means that every minister who works for the public must be answerable and accountable for his actions to the public.

Menacing means threatening.
Acceptable and approachable do not fit the context.



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Suresh is a smooth operator who can dupe even the not so gullible.

The key part of the sentence is the expression ‘even the not so gullible’, which indicates that a person who cannot be influenced easily will get under Suresh's influence very smoothly. So, Suresh is very good at influencing people.


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