Direction for questions 124 to 130: In the following questions, select the most appropriate word from the given alternatives.
124. Gasoline is a known ______ , but we still it to keep our cars in motion.
(A) Elixir
(B) Carcinogen
(C) Endeavour
(D) Calligraphy
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125. He believed that poverty was ineradic and that no social legislation could be i than ______
(A) Palliative
(B) Symbiotic
(C) Ramification
(D) Deciduous
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126. He hated his father so intensely that he ______ committed
(A) Concatenation
(B) Viscosity
(C) Matricide
(D) Parricide
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127. Her ______ manner embarrassed others at the party.
(A) Sapid
(B) Tractable
(C) Paranoid
(D) Gauche
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128. Her status in the hat shop was that of a mere ______
(A) Minim
(B) Menial
(C) Mellinery
(D) Expedition
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129. My ability to inspire others is my best ______
(A) Acumen
(B) Attribute
(C) Feasible
(D) Coherence
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130. Doing well in college is of the ______ concern to me, so I spend several hours studying each day.
(A) Most
(B) Parallel
(C) Utmost
(D) Magnitude
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131. Which of the following dramatists does not belong to the group called “University Wits”?
(A) George Peele
(B) Thomas Lodge
(C) John Webster
(D) Thomas Nash
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132. Which of the following does not belong to the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood ?
(A) Swinburne
(B) Rossetti
(C) Miliais
(D) Hunt
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133. The phrase “dissociation of sensibility” was used by Eliot in –
(A) Tradition and The Individual Talent
(B) The Metaphysical Poets
(C) Dante
(D) Baudelaire
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134. The phrase “Art for Art’s Sake” was introduced by—
(A) Baudelaire
(B) Mallarme
(C) Gautier
(D) Wilde
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135. The Waste Land was published in
(A) 1911
(B) 1917
(C) 1922
(D) 1924
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136. Who wrote Troilus and Criseyde
(A) Shakespeare
(B) Chaucer
(C) Homer
(D) Dryden
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137. “The grizzly bear is huge and wild”. This line is in-
(A) Dactyllic meter
(B) lambic meter
(C) Dactyllic with iambic variation
(D) lambic with dactylic variation
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138. Venus and Adonis is a poem written by—
(A) Keats
(B) Jonson
(C) Shakespeare
(D) Heywood
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139. Who wrote ‘The Cocktail Party’?
(A) Pinter
(B) Eliot
(C) Greene
(D) Galsworthy
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140. Belinda is a character in
(A) Absalom and Achitophel
(B) Paradise Lost
(C) The Rape of The Lock
(D) The Beggar’s Opera
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