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Directions In questions below there are two statements with each statement consisting of two blanks ...........

English Language (IBPS RRB PO) Fill in the blanks

Directions: In questions below, there are two statements, with each statement consisting of two blanks. You have to choose the option which provides the correct set of words that fits both the blanks in both the statements appropriately and in the same order making them meaningful and grammatically correct.

Both the French political writer Alexis de Tocqueville and the Jedi master Yoda were unusually __________. While De Tocqueville predicted that the debate over slavery would tear the Union apart, Yoda, an unusually _________ observer of human nature- predicted that Anakin would become Darth Vader

The judge was much too ___________ to be taken in by such an argument. It was not that difficult ________ Ellen’s motive for killing her husband - the million dollar life insurance policy.

insightful, astute

penetrating, knowing

canny, lackadaisical

perspicacious, discerning

unperceptive, unheeding

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Explanation:

Option D fits in with the context. The various meanings are:
Perspicacious: adjective - having keen mental perception and understanding:
Sentence: He knew him to be nervous, on the one hand, and perspicacious on the other.
Discerning: adjective - showing good or outstanding judgment and understanding.
Sentence: He is incapable of discerning right from wrong.
Astute: adjective - clever; cunning; ingenious; shrewd.
Sentence: His astute detente diplomacy with the Soviet Union, trying to make the world a safer place, gets high marks.
Penetrating: adjective - acute; discerning.
Sentence: His brown eyes were penetrating yet peaceful, and he immediately disarmed my nervousness with his gentleness.
Canny: adjective - careful; cautious; prudent.
Sentence: But he was a canny political operator, far less ideological and more coldly pragmatic than proponents liked to admit.
Option D is hence the correct answer.

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