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These Questions are fairly hard enough —difficulty level hard.

1.A,F

If you read the full sentence, you will get sense of the sentence. Our prediction is to "STOP" the unending leaks of radioactive materials from the devastated plant.
Contain means restrain (Tricky one!)

2. A,D

Clue is the word "vulnerable' , so, prediction should be "not good". Worrisome and troublesome matches that.

3.C,D

The pivot word is "Although", So, some people think they are doing great job, others think they are not; so others would likely to doubt them. Questioned and Grilled are synonyms and matches our prediction.

4.C,D

Trigger word is "BUT", Cancer causing agents are in above safety level, but expert think they are not harmful enough. SO Trivial and Inconsequential matches that.

5.A,D

This is so long, but wait, you don't have to jump in the forest to get sense of this blank. "BOTH" is clue as well as "critic says desperation", we can predict that it was needed. Need and Necessity matches.

6.B, F

Fishes are killed, so decline of fishes are visible. COMPELLING means convincing, it works here. And Undeniable means : That cant be disagreed, it works too.

7.A,C

This is tricky one.   Exemplar and Exacting works here..

8.C,D

This is twisty, be careful for pivot word - Although, Hardly. WE can predict that scientist are hardly Unmistakable . INFALLIBLE and FAIL-SAFE works that.

9.A,C

Most trickiest one so far; answer choices are so tempting. Convincing, Warranted, Pragmatic all works here, but Convincing and Warranted are most synonymous. And mind it, thoroughly doesn't work grammatically..

10.B, F

Easy one! Clue is excessive; Fulsome means excessive too, Extraneous too.