Pick out the most effective word(s) from the given words to fill in the blank to make the sentence meaningfully complete.
In a little-publicised deal, Pepsi, Cola has ...... the entire soft drink market in Afghanistan.
Answer: D
Correct answer: captured
Capture the market is the established business idiom for taking it over.
Occupied and conquered belong to territory, and swallowed would be used of taking over a company, not a market.
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He ...... in wearing the old fashioned coat in spite of his wife's disapproval.
Answer: B
Correct answer: persists
Persist in means to keep doing something despite opposition, which is what the disapproval establishes.
Insists takes on, and desists and resists both mean stopping or opposing - the opposite of what he does.
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She ...... a brief appearance at the end of party.
Answer: B
Correct answer: Put in
Put in an appearance is a fixed phrase meaning to attend briefly.
Put on is to wear or to stage, put up is to lodge or to raise, and put across is to communicate.
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Life is to death as pleasure is to ......
Answer: D
Correct answer: Pain
The analogy pairs opposites: death is the opposite of life, so the fourth term must be the opposite of pleasure.
Suffering and anguish are close, but pain is the exact counterpart of pleasure; poverty is the opposite of wealth, not of pleasure.
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This, partly, explains how the Mehta family has been able to ...... its lavish lifestyle in recent times, despite the fact that all its assets have been ......
Answer: D
Keep up means to Maintain a required pace or level. Here we are talking about longer period of time.Afford means to Have the financial means to do something or buy something. It means one may do something now but in future he may not be able to do.So option D fits well.
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The machine is difficult to build ...... easy to maintain.
Answer: A
Correct answer: But
The two halves contradict each other - hard to build, easy to maintain - and but is the connective for a contrast.
And would join them as though they agreed, for would make one the reason for the other, and it is not a conjunction.
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If you work beyond your capacity, you will naturally feel ......
Answer: B
Correct answer: Tired
Working beyond one's capacity produces fatigue, and tired is the plain word for it.
Drowsy is sleepy, giddy is dizzy, and confident is not a consequence of overwork.
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If you persists in telling lies to me I shall sue you ...... slander.
Answer: C
Correct answer: For
One sues a person for the wrong done: sue for slander, sue for damages.
No other preposition follows sue in naming the offence.
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His father-in-law ...... him up in business.
Answer: C
Correct answer: Set
Set someone up in business is the fixed phrase for establishing them in it.
Put up means to lodge, build up to develop gradually, and made up has no such sense.
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...... works of reference are as valuable as the Encyclopaedia Britannica.
Answer: B
Correct answer: Few
Few without an article means hardly any, which is the point: almost nothing matches the Britannica.
A few would mean some, reversing the sense; the few points to a definite group already known; fewer is a comparative with nothing to compare.
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