Questions

In the following passage, some of the words have been left out. Read the passage carefully and select the correct answer for the given blank out of the four alternatives.

We get sleepy and wake up, become hungry and thirsty at certain hours, ____________ force of habit. We form the habit of liking a certain chair, or nook, or corner, or path, or desk, and __________ seek this to the exclusion of all others. We ______________ use a particular pitch of voice and type of enunciation in speaking, and this becomes one of our characteristic marks; or we _________ the habit of using barbarisms or solecisms of language in __________, and these cling to us and become an inseparable part of us later in life.

at certain hours, ____________ force of habit.

In each of the questions, four alternatives are given for the Idiom/Phrase. Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the Idiom/Phrase and click the button corresponding to it.

To clip one's wings

Who discovered Fullerene (an allotrope of carbon)?

Stainless steel was invented by

Akbar (1556–1605 AD) was the ruler of which dynasty?

Name the character in Mahabharat who was blessed with the 'divine vision' to see the Mahabharata battle and explain it scene by scene to the blind king Dhritarashtra.

Acceleration due to gravity on a planet decreases with ______.

While releasing the arrow from a stretched bow, the PE of the bow is converted into?