IBPS SO | LIC AAO | ENGLISH QUIZ - 10

Directions for questions 1-10: In the following passage, there are ten blanks, each of which has been numbered. These numbers are printed below the passage and against each, five words are suggested. Select the one that fits the bank appropriately.

The Law Commission of India has taken a ___1___ step by declaring that the ___2___ of the death penalty must become a goal for India. It has recommended, for a start, the ___3___ of the death penalty for all crimes except terrorism-related offences and those that amount to waging war against the state. The Commission’s report on the death penalty declares ___4___ to be a myth, based on extensive research. It makes a clean break with the ‘rarest of the rare’ principle that was laid down in Bachan Singh vs State of Punjab (1980): that judgment noted that the application of the death penalty would remain ___5___ and judge-centric and hence would be constitutionally unsustainable. It has attempted to raise the level of discourse on the death penalty by observing that opposition to it amounts to objecting to the taking of lives, and not to all punishment as a concept. ___6___ justice is important, it notes, but it must not descend to the level of ___7___, as numerous Supreme Court decisions that refer to “the conscience of the people” seem to indicate. It has sought a return to the notions of ___8___ and reformative justice, and urged a change in tenor, in such a manner that victims are not made to think that the death penalty is the only, best or ultimate form of punishment. Most ___9___, it has placed the death penalty in the context of India’s flawed criminal justice system, noting that even safeguards such as the right to appeal and mercy petitions do not provide foolproof protection from ___10___ of justice, given the uneven and error-prone application of relief.

Question 1
insignificant
novel
historic
redundant
trivial

Question 2
validation
abolition
instigation
commencement
restoration

Question 3
scrapping
searching
harmonise
favoured
scratching

Question 4
declaration
determination
denouncement
degradation
deterrence

Question 5
consistent
arbitrary
accidental
random
bias

Question 6
aiding
assisting
rewarding
retributive
complimenting

Question 7
apathy
vengeance
vicissitude
empathy
sympathy

Question 8
detrimental
restorative
prejudicial
malicious
pernicious

Question 9
crucially
banally
ideally
commonly
mundanely

Question 10
dogmatism
miscarriage
certitude
conviction
confidence

# Answers
1. historic
2. abolition
3. scrapping
4. deterrence
5. arbitrary
6. retributive
7. vengeance
8. restorative
9. crucially 
10. miscarriage