The dictator of that country was a monster of wickedness, insatiable in his ________ for blood and plunder.
- (a)idea
- (b)vision
- (c)lust
- (d)intention
Correct — C, 'lust'. 'Insatiable' means impossible to satisfy, so it needs a noun of craving after it — an appetite that can never be filled. 'Lust' names exactly that kind of hunger, and a lust for blood and plunder matches the portrait of a monster of wickedness.
- (a)idea — An idea is a thought, and thoughts are not described as impossible to satisfy.
- (b)vision — A vision is something imagined or foreseen; it carries no sense of a craving that could go unmet.
- (d)intention — An intention is a settled plan, either carried out or not, so it cannot go endlessly unfulfilled the way an appetite can.
'Insatiable' selects the noun it modifies — only a word for hunger, thirst or desire can follow it comfortably.
The trick is to read the adjective before the blank rather than the blank on its own. Once 'insatiable' is taken seriously, the three cold and neutral nouns fall away together, and the one word for raw appetite is left.
- 'Insatiable' means incapable of being satisfied.
- 'Lust' means an overwhelming craving and is not confined to the sexual sense.
- The words 'monster of wickedness' set a strongly negative register for the whole sentence.
- Choosing 'intention', which fits the grammar but not the adjective.
- Rejecting 'lust' because only its narrow sexual sense comes to mind.
Asked as a selecting-words item — pick the noun that fits the blank.
No directly related past PYQ was found.
- practice — not a real PYQ
She had an ________ appetite for detective novels.
- (a)insatiable
- (b)inevitable
- (c)insufferable
- (d)insensible
Answer(a) insatiable — it means impossible to satisfy.
- practice — not a real PYQ
His ________ for power destroyed every friendship he had.
- (a)vision
- (b)idea
- (c)lust
- (d)notion
Answer(c) lust — 'lust' names an overpowering craving.