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51
An issue of the highest sensitivity, which required the greatest finesse and delicacy, was handled in the most slapdash manner.
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Answer: Option C
Solution:
Carefulness : making sure of avoiding potential danger, mishap, or harm; cautious.
Attention : notice taken of someone or something; the regarding of someone or something as interesting or important.
Tact : skill and sensitivity in dealing with others or with difficult issues.
Action : the fact or process of doing something, typically to achieve an aim.
Finesse : great subtlety and tact in handling or manipulating people or difficult situations.

Synonym of Finesse is Tact
52
True religion does not require one to proselytise through guile or force.
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Answer: Option A
Solution:
Convert : be able to change from one form to another.
Attack : take aggressive military action against (a place or enemy forces) with weapons or armed force.
Hypnotyise : produce a state of hypnosis in (someone).
Translate : express the sense of (words or text) in another language.
Proselytise : convert or attempt to convert (someone) from one religion, belief, or opinion to another.

Synonym of Proselytise is Convert
53
Of all the indignities man has suffered at the hands of man, slavery is perhaps the most degrading.
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Answer: Option A
Solution:
Insult : speak to or treat with disrespect or scornful abuse.
Atrocities : an extremely wicked or cruel act, typically one involving physical violence or injury.
Evils : profound immorality and wickedness, especially when regarded as a supernatural force.
Dangers : the possibility of suffering harm or injury.
Indignities : treatment or circumstances that cause one to feel shame or to lose one's dignity.

Synonym of Indignities is Insult
54
Nobody has yet seen the peregrination of heavenly beings on earth.
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Answer: Option C
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Visit : go to see and spend time with (someone) socially.
Arrival : the action or process of arriving.
Travelling : make a journey, typically of some length.
Casting : an object made by pouring molten metal or other material into a mould.
Peregrination : a journey, especially a long or meandering one.

Synonym of Peregrination is Travelling
55
He was the most disputatious student I ever had.
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Answer: Option B
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Scandalous : causing general public outrage by a perceived offence against morality or law.
Argumentative : given to arguing.
Uncertain : not able to be relied on; not known or definite.
Opinionated : characterized by conceited assertiveness and dogmatism.
Disputatious : fond of having heated arguments.

Synonym of Disputatious is Argumentative
56
The notice said that the meeting would begin precisely at 9.00 a.m.
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Answer: Option C
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Concisely : in a way that is brief but comprehensive.
Approximately : used to show that something is almost, but not completely, accurate or exact; roughly.
Exactly : used to emphasize the accuracy of a figure or description.
Inaccurately : in an incorrect or inexact manner.
Precisely : in exact terms; without vagueness.

Synonym of Precisely is Exactly
57
That was the time when there was a hunger for foreign knowledge and foreign thought
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Answer: Option B
Solution:
Wish : feel or express a strong desire or hope for something that cannot or probably will not happen.
Appetite : a natural desire to satisfy a bodily need, especially for food.
Undesired : (especially of an act or consequence) not wanted or desired.
Generosity :: the quality of being kind and generous.
Hunger : a feeling of discomfort or weakness caused by lack of food, coupled with the desire to eat.

Synonym of Hunger is Appetite
58
Ashish did not admit his mistake in the beginning.
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Answer: Option C
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Commit : perpetrate or carry out (a mistake, crime, or immoral act).
Apologize : express regret for something that one has done wrong.
Accept : receive as adequate, valid, or suitable.
Realise : become fully aware of (something) as a fact; understand clearly.
Admit : accept as valid.

Synonym of Admit is Accept
59
That young man is quite sanguine about the result of his competitive examination.
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Answer: Option A
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Optimistic : hopeful and confident about the future.
Anxious : feeling or showing worry, nervousness, or unease about something with an uncertain outcome.
Depressed : (of a person) in a state of unhappiness or despondency.
Pessimistic : tending to see the worst aspect of things or believe that the worst will happen.
Sanguine : optimistic or positive, especially in an apparently bad or difficult situation.

Synonym of Sanguine is Optimistic
60
The young leader was reluctant to shoulder the responsibilities of the ministerial office.
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Answer: Option C
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Eager : strongly wanting to do or have something.
Anxious : feeling or showing worry, nervousness, or unease about something with an uncertain outcome.
Unwilling : not ready, eager, or prepared to do something.
Wanting : lacking in a required or necessary quality.
Reluctant : unwilling and hesitant; disinclined.

Synonym of Reluctant is Unwilling