Sentence Completion Online Test

The word ‘sullen’ fits in best as it means’ silent, bad-tempered, gloomy.

As a matter of rule, who should suffer? The guilty?. But the word “despite” points to the contrary. Hence, innocence.

The sentence gives a condition, so the principle clause will use ‘would’ not ‘will’.

Go for the second blank first. What is sarcasm? It is saying the opposite of what you mean. One gets sarcastic in order to mock or insult others. A girl whom you have treated with such “pinching sarcasm” will never be friendly or sympathetic to you in future. You have thus alienated her. Those who are thus “pinchingly sarcastic” have a vitriolic tongue. That is, their words are full of hatred and anger.

If something changes or becomes true in the course of time, it has so become over a long period of time.

‘Peruse’ means to read. A perusal (reading) of “Solzhenitsyn’s works” will “bring home to him” (make him understand) the truth about “Freedom” in Russia — that freedom is only nominal; it is, in fact, “restrictive”.

Learning can be made very efficient if it is delivered in the form of fun - games or interesting exercises. Drudgery means hard monotonous routine work. Clearly it makes the Learning less efficient.

‘Magnum’ means ‘big’ (or great). Opus means ‘work’. Combining the two, we get ‘magnum opus’ which means great work. ‘Magnum opus’ is used only in the sense of “a great literary or artistic work”.

If you ‘tie down’ someone, you restrict his freedom in some way.

The word “ransom” gives us the clue. A ransom is the money ($10,000) that has to be paid to the kidnapper (here, “servant”) so that he will set free the person kidnapped (here, the “five-year-old boy”).