List of top Verbal and Logical Ability Questions on Fill in the Blanks

Read the following statement carefully.
___________like a fake can be a sign of___________, and clinging too tightly to what feels like one’s authentic self can ________that growth.
Fill in the blanks meaningfully, in the above statement, from the following options

Read the following statement carefully and fill up the blanks from the given options. As _________evolved and eventually moved to cities, close proximity ____________how we viewed and assessed each_________.

When I ask people to name three recently implemented technologies that most impact our world today, they usually propose the computers, the Internet and the laser. All three were unplanned, ___________, and_____________ upon their discovery and remained __________ well after their initial use. Which of the following options will BEST fill up the above blanks meaningfully?

The moment we no longer have a free press, anything can happen. What makes it _____ for a totalitarian or any other dictatorship to rule is that _____ are not informed; how can you have an opinion if you are not informed? If everybody always lies to you, the ________ is not that you believe the lies, but rather that nobody believes anything any longer. This is because lies, by their very nature, have to be changed, and a lying government has ________ to rewrite its own history. Which of the following options will BEST fill up the above blanks meaningfully?

Read the following statement:
While start-ups have__________ reach, _____ they introduce ________ products, they open-up ________markets.
Fill in the blanks meaningfully, in the above statement, from the following options.

Carefully read the paragraph below:
A map is a useful metaphor for our brain when talking about __ because at its most basic level our brain__ to be our atlas of sorts, a system of routes __ to navigate us toward just one destination: staying alive!
From the options below, choose the set that MOST appropriately fills up the blanks.

Carefully read the paragraph below:
__, medicine has been operated by trial and error, in other words,___. We know by now that there can be entirely___ connections between symptoms and treatment, and some medications succeed in medical trials for mere random reasons.
From the options below, choose the one that MOST appropriately fills up the blanks.

Choose the option that would fill in the blanks meaningfully in the sentence(s) below:
______ the importance of ‘horizontal stratification’ ______ higher education is widely acknowledged, ______ attention has been applied to horizontal stratification ______ compulsory schooling.

Carefully read the following paragraph:
Who could resist the idea of remembering everything they wanted to, without trying? Learning would be made easy, exams a ______ and you would never forget where you left your keys. And memory-related disorders like Alzheimer’s would have met their match. So, it is of little surprise that scientists have turned their attention to ways of ______ human memory using techniques that ______, supplement or even mimic parts of the brain. The immediate goal is to treat memory disorders, but the idea of a memory ______ for everyday life is gaining ground.
Fill in the blanks in the above paragraph, with the best option from among the following:

Please study the paragraph given below:
In 1942, the French writer Albert Camus composed an essay, ‘The Myth of Sisyphus’. It draws on the Greek fable of a man condemned to roll a rock up a mountain only to have it roll back down under its own weight, a ______ that lasts for eternity. Camus argues that this image ______ the human condition in a world where we can no longer make sense of events; but instead of committing suicide, we should ______ ourselves to this ‘elusive feeling of absurdity’ and bear it as best we can. In this sense, Sisyphus is the ideal hero.
Consider the following words:
1. surrender
2. choice
3. symbolises
4. quandary
5. attune
6. option
7. reconcile
8. depicts
Which of the following options is the most appropriate sequence that best fits the blanks in the above paragraph?

Carefully read the following paragraph:
The Lannisters had ______ gold than the Tyrells until the Lannister army sacked Highgarden and took the Tyrell fortune to pay back the Iron Bank. On the other hand, the Northern army has ______ than 10,000 men and therefore, Jon needs to bend the knee to Daenerys. What happens in the story next is dependent on George R. Martin, the writer of the series. For ______, he has not written anything further and we hope George R. Martin will get around to finishing the book _______. But as it happens, ________, book releases are delayed.
Fill in the blanks meaningfully, in the above paragraph, from the following options.

Carefully read the following statement:
The payoff from ____ in education is so ____ and ____ that it is almost ____ as a predictor of economic change over a five to ten year period.
Fill in the blanks meaningfully, in the above statement, from the following options.

Carefully read the following statement:
Though he thought of himself as a/an ___ person, his boss's abusive behaviour made him talk back. However, as he engaged in a/an ___ with his boss, all he got in response was a/an ___, which only filled him with ____
Fill in the blanks meaningfully, in the above statement, from the following options:

Read the four sentences given below: i. He is the most ________ of the speakers to address us today.
ii. The belief in ________ justice is the essence of his talk.
iii. This hall would have been full but for the ________ rain.
iv. Many in the audience have achieved ________ in their respective fields.
Which of the following sequence of words would most appropriately fit the blanks?

Not wanting to present an unwanted optimistic picture in the board meeting, the CEO estimated the sales growth ____________________. The option that will best fill the blank in the above sentence would be:

The head ________________ was annoyed to see a ____________ in the soup. The option that would best fill the blanks in the above sentence would be:

It ____________________ not look like a great deal today, but back then it was a coup: no man before ________________ to import tea directly into Ireland. The option that will best fill the blanks in the above sentences would be:

Travelling is my hobby. Today in the Himalayas, as I drag my feet through the __________, I cannot but think of the same time last year when I was negotiating the thick __________ of the Ganges delta or for that matter the time I spent with my children __________ about in the waters of the Arabian Sea. The option that best fills the blanks in the above sentence would be:

There is much difficulty __________ getting __________ this place and it is not possible to reach __________ without the grace of the lord. The option that best fills the blanks in the above sentence would be:

The author has ____________ his composition to the best of his ____________; yet listen to it with a sympathetic ____________, O ____________ souls, and judge it. The option that best fills the blanks in the above sentence would be:

__________ you have a doubt, why not go and verify? I shall be waiting in the shade __________ this banyan tree till you come back __________ me. The option that best fills the blanks in the above sentence would be:

Directions: Fill in the blanks with the words that best fit the meaning of the sentence as a whole.
If a nation is unable to come to ______ on interpreting its own past, it will be unable to ______ its national interests.

Directions: Fill in the blanks with the words that best fit the meaning of the sentence as a whole.
The school headmaster maintained that he could _______ minor lies but could not pardon such _______ lie.

Directions: Fill in the blanks with the words that best fit the meaning of the sentence as a whole.
Indian policies should ________ on social justice and on inclusive growth and development, which in the long term will provide greater ________ for all its people.

Directions: Fill in the blanks with the words that best fit the meaning of the sentence as a whole.
Globalization ______ both prosperity and ______.