English Usage Test 51
English Usage Test - Free english verbal ability test for entrance examinations like mba entrance, gre, sat, gmat, toefl preparation and practice tests
Questions
Directions: Select the odd one out.
- Quip
- Node
- Seam
- Joint
Directions: Select the odd one out.
- Exult
- Facetious
- Flippant
- Jocular
Directions: Select the odd one out.
- Soggy
- Succulent
- Lurid
- Hop
Directions: Select the odd one out.
- Debris
- Surge
- Rummage
- Scrap
Directions: Select the odd one out.
- Osculation
- Peck
- Poniard
- Smacker
Directions: Fill in the blanks.
I do know that ______ does not have very much to do with possessions, power or fame, at least in the ______ sense.
- altruism, verbatim
- capitalistic, literal
- happiness, material
- psychology, true
Directions: Fill in the blanks.
I ______ the possibilities, and then quickly work on whatever can turn those possibilities into _________.
- acquire, philosophy
- reject, creed
- scrutinize, requirement
- scrutinize, reality
Directions: Fill in the blanks.
The creative minority is ______which is composed of people who keep the spark of hope and ______ in the middle of despair and ambiguity.
- negligible, development
- existing, pessimism
- few, progressive
- affirmative, optimism
Directions: Choose the option that best replaces the underlined portion.
He is a comic, a mimic, an iconoclast and a practical jokester who is no respecter of age, position or previous condition of servitude in the big leagues.
- mimicry in the courts of law
- sycophancy in the corridors of power
- liturgy in the pawnshops
- reindemnification in the upper crust
Directions: Fill in the blanks.
The ______of these medical staffs is even more admirable when you consider that we live in a time when ______act of healing can easily be turned into personal profit.
- attitude, medical
- dedication, benevolent
- aptitude, opportunistic
- vocation, efficient
Directions: Choose the option that best replaces the underlined portion.
We are indurated to thinking, without too much of a shudder, of atomizing some city of a million men, women and children on the other side of the globe.
- compelled to believe
- hardened into believing without shocks
- exonerated beneath contempt
- scratched up front
Directions: Choose the option that best replaces the underlined portion.
In spite of wish to see the movie, I yield to the relax and languorous feeling that overcome me.
- layoff
- repose
- interlude
- lassitude
Directions: Choose the option that best replaces the underlined portion.
Knowing that I didn't have permission to take the car, I had twinges of guilt as I drove out the drive way.
- had a veracity to stand by
- had screams to loaf about
- had something to write home about
- was feeling conscience-smitten
Directions: Select the option which goes with all four works in the question.
storage, blooded, war, cream
- chill
- blue
- layer
- none of these
Directions: Choose the option that best replaces the underlined portion.
It would have taken a long time to get permission to build a new house but fortunately my father knew the chairman of the planning committee and that helped to oil the wheels a bit.
- make a hash
- hail up curtains
- make things easier
- ghettoise the positions
Directions: Select the option which goes with all four works in the question.
toss, flip, metal, money
- dice
- coin
- fly
- gold
Directions: Select the option which goes with all four works in the question.
gold, silver, bar, market
- bullion
- money
- cash
- cow
Directions: Choose the option that best replaces the underlined portion.
He has always been interested in a career in medicine but a strong dissuasion from his girlfriend has set him to harbour a design for management.
- smear the nest
- cuddle up to
- determine upon
- buy off
Directions: Select the option which goes with all four works in the question.
flee, move, moon, light
- flow
- flay
- float
- flit
Directions: Select the option which goes with all four works in the question.
terra, scum, soil, salt
- earth
- star
- moon
- sun
Directions: In the following question, four statements are provided. These statements form a coherent paragraph when properly arranged. Select the alternative representing the proper and logical sequencing of these statements.
A. This was the big scene, still the big scene.
B. The second act climax of the drama of the electrical disturbance over a lake in America had not changed.
C. It was like the revival of an old melodrama that I had seen long ago as a child.
D. One afternoon while we were at the lake, a thunderstorm came.
- ABCD
- BACD
- DCBA
- DABC
Directions: In the following question, four statements are provided. These statements form a coherent paragraph when properly arranged. Select the alternative representing the proper and logical sequencing of these statements.
A. She enjoyed the film but also appreciated that I brought her, though dead tired.
B. Even though I have never had a single holiday, we have a good family life.
C. Once there is that kind of understanding, there is no family problem.
D. I was tired and fell asleep during the movie.
- DCAB
- DACB
- ABCD
- CABD
Directions: In the following question, four statements are provided. These statements form a coherent paragraph when properly arranged. Select the alternative representing the proper and logical sequencing of these statements.
A. You possess the power of positive thinking, so you should always begin things affirmatively.
B. A society that appreciates creativity and productivity will never fail.
C. By doing so, you will lead the way.
D. History is led by creative thinkers and creative people.
- ABCD
- DCAB
- DBAC
- BCAD
Directions: In the following question, four statements are provided. These statements form a coherent paragraph when properly arranged. Select the alternative representing the proper and logical sequencing of these statements.
A. Head into tomorrow together with faith and love.
B. People are made to live together and no one lives alone.
C. Do not become polluted by egotism and personal greed.
D. Think of the group before yourself and the public good before personal profit.
- DBAC
- BDCA
- ABCD
- CBAD
- ABCD
- DABC
- CBDA
- BDCA