Question
Fill in the blank with the most appropriate word.
A good novelist should be ______ to appeal to the readers' sentiments.Solution
pretentious: trying to appear more serious or important than you really are Perspicacious:having a ready insight into and understanding of things. precarious :not safe or certain; dangerous preposterous :silly; ridiculous; not to be taken seriously According to the meaning Perspicacious suited the most to the blank.
In which of the following battles were the French completely defeated by the English?
According to Mahatma Gandhi's 'Hind Swaraj' (1909), British rule in India was established _____.
The 'Dandi March' was associated with which movement?
Who amongst the following was related to the ‘Blue Water policy' which aimed to make European power as the master of the Indian Ocean?
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1. Warren Hastings founde...
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1. He was the chief of the Sukerchakia misl.
2. He moder...
Consider the following statements:
1. Captain William Hawkins was contemporary of Jahangir
2. King James I sent Sir Thomas Roe as an am...
A graduate of Fergusson college he was one of the recipients of Shyamji Krishnavarma’s fellowship. He was deeply inspired by the ideas of Mazzini and ...
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1. They lacked coherent ideologies and political perspect...
Consider the following statements with reference to the Portuguese rule in India:
1. Portugese was the first European power who started slave t...
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