1. The domestic and foreign policies of a nation state with a long ...... and continuous historical tradition like India have a certain ...... about them.

2. Due to ...... rainfall this year, there will be ...... cut in water supply.

3. Nothing is so ...... to a nation as an extreme of self partiality, and the total want of ...... of what others will naturally hope or fear.

4. There is no ...... the fact that a man of knowledge ...... great power.

5. Gandhiji was not enamoured ...... the economic progress made by the modem West and did not ...... the Western nations to be more civilised.

6. The impact of Western culture on India was the impact of a ...... society, of a modern consciousness on a ...... society wedded to medieval habits of thought.

7. Instead of ...... prove your worth by ...... something.

8. Among the younger people there are complaints that the sight of ex-Nazis fluorishing recommends ...... to youth, that it instills, instead of needed moral values, the dubious precept that ...... is the best policy.

9. Fear is one of those ...... which frequently ...... us to inaction.

10. The security forces fired at the ...... who was armed to the ......