Sentence Fillers-Test 1

The disappearance is bad enough but to replace it with fake news, and/or flaky analysis,___.

i. Is shameful
ii. is deplorable
iii. Is atrocious

An ill-informed remedy can ___ a patient‘s illness, not make her get well.

i. only aggravate
ii. merely appease
iii. only mitigate

— let alone close  examination, the IFPRI hunger index is not a hunger index at all; it is
an index about child mortality, and stunting, and wasting, and undernourishment of children.
i. on a cursory
ii. on a hurry
iii. on a straw

. ___ , and detailed research, has shown that too many calories — obesity — is a major problem
in the US, not under-nutrition.
i. informal induction
ii. random experimentalism
iii. casual empiricism

The committee was formed in June — in the backdrop of ___ in some of India‘s storied
corporate houses and firms with promoters or founders and professional managers ranged
against each other in a battle for control, raising uncomfortable issues relating to transparency
and accountability and the role of independent directors.
i. public skirmishes
ii. public encounters
iii. public tussles

Under Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Japan has attempted ___ its asset managers to be more
forceful and to publicly disclose the voting records for each investee company through a
Stewardship Code and Corporate Governance Code.
i. to dissuade
ii. to fix
iii. to nudge

The U.S. concluded that Iran had recovered from the Stuxnet ___ and was barely months away
from producing enough highly enriched uranium to produce a nuclear device.
i. disaster
ii. fiasco
iii. debacle

U.S. sanctions relief was ___ because of a multiplicity of sanctions (relating to nuclear and
missile activities, human rights violations and terrorism) which also had extra-territorial
application.
i. more convoluted
ii. more simple
iii. more tangled

The scheme would imply ___ of the JCPOA, something that would attract a veto by both
Russia and China were it to be taken up in the UNSC.
i. an inappropriate adjustment

ii. an implicit renegotiation
iii. an indirect realignation

Relations between Mr. Trump and Senator Corker have deteriorated with Mr. Trump blaming
Mr. Corker for ___and Mr. Corker comparing the White House to an adult day care centre.
i. the terrible allocation
ii. the horrendous deal
iii. the subjugation aprobation

For the brick workers‘ union I was researching, __ out of the bureaucracy had become their
bread and butter.
i. enticing favours
ii. coaxing benefits
iii. cajoling gains

Even if the Dalits take__ , it is under a less stringent section of the law that permits bail.
i. enlightenment of the abnegation
ii. realization of the violation
iii. cognisance of the offence

__ on health, needs intensive research, on how air pollution affects not just the lungs, but
different organs of the body.
i. Gauging its precise impact
ii. estimating its scrupulous influence
iii. appraising its actual hokum

As the urgency for putting in place effective solutions gathers momentum, it is __ options in the
local context, particularly since resources are always limited.
i. unfussy to need
ii. critical to prioritise
iii. trivial to triage

The climate question presents __ for India‘s development paradigm.
i. a leapfrog era
ii. a capriole epoch

iii. a bound date

The record in this sphere will naturally be evaluated against India‘s Paris Agreement pledge to
use a __ for clean production and levies on fuel to maintain a balance.
i. blend of dampers
ii. combination of incentives
iii. association of checks

Hariri‘s shock resignation as Lebanon‘s Prime Minister has not just __ into another spell of
political instability but also reignited regional tensions between Saudi Arabia and Iran.
i. dashed the country
ii. plunged the country
iii. emersed the country

His continued absence has __ that he was forced by the Saudis to resign and is being held in
Riyadh against his will at a time when the kingdom is turning up the heat on Hezbollah and Iran.
i. stimulated venture
ii. instigated prediction
iii. triggered speculation

Lebanon‘s leaders, who will recall the horrors of the 1975-1990 civil war, should forge at least
a __ and ask regional powers to stay out of the country‘s domestic politics.
i. Similarity of harmony
ii. semblance of unity
iii. Resemblance of oneness

The Chief Justice, as the head of the judiciary, determines the roster is __ in public significance
to the critical role of the Chief Justice as the embodiment of moral authority of the entire judicial
system.
i. a platitude that pales
ii. an inanity that faints
iii. A profoundness that blanches

The recently-concluded 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China was a/an
_______political theatre which showcased President Xi Jinping‘s primacy, his vision and his
status as the helmsman of the party and the nation.
i. evidently improvised
ii. intricately choreographed
iii. labyrinthinely mimed

Mr. Xi has become the only leader after Mao to have his ___ ideological contribution written
into the party charter while in office.
i. anonymous
ii. unidentified
iii. eponymous

In his speech, Mr. Xi spoke of China as a ―strong country‖ or ―great power‖ as many as 30
times, ____ about the country‘s great power ambitions.
i. jettisoning the earlier coyness
ii. disposing the subsequent assurance
iii. chucking the previous modesty

By broadening banking services to unbanked and/or underbanked people, bank managers can
not only take early advantage of _____potential of customers and create a ‗lock-in‘ effect but
also aid an inclusive development agenda while allocating resources into more productive areas.
i. endeavoring the untouched
ii. exploiting the untapped
iii. maneuvering the pristine

The government ___ the criticism made in Parliament when the law was being debated.
i. haughtily rejected
ii. proudly incorporated
iii. uppishly disclaimed