Questions
Directions: For the word given below, a contextual usage is provided. Pick the word from the alternatives that is most inappropriate for using in the given sentence.
DECIMATE : If this epidemic is not arrested, it will decimate the cattle.
- Wipe off
- Decipher
- Annihilate
- Destroy
- Eradicate
Directions: For the word given below, a contextual usage is provided. Pick the word from the alternatives that is most inappropriate for using in the given sentence.
DISPARAGE : Some sections of our society take pleasure in disparaging anything and everything that comes in their way.
- Discredit
- Undulate
- Underrate
- Belittle
- Criticise
EFFACE : Government all over the world vows to efface poverty and inequality from the face of the Earth.
For each of the words below, a contextual usage is provided. Pick the word from the alternatives that is the most inappropriate for using in the given sentence.
- Erase
- Eradicate
- Obliterate
- Score out
- Obscure
DEXTEROUS : A dexterous employee adds value to the organisation to which he belongs.
For each of the words below, a contextual usage is provided. Pick the word from the alternatives that is the most inappropriate for using in the given sentence.
- Adroit
- Deft
- Nimble
- Diabolic
- Agile
This poetry is not _________, it is more likely to appeal to the international audience.
The sentence below has one blank, choose the option that best fits the blank.
- familiar
- democratic
- technical
- provincial
- cosmopolitan
As opposed to the age of radio or recordings, the age ________ by print , fiction gained its greatest ascendancy.
The sentence below has one blank, choose the option that best fits the blank.
- demolished
- denigrated
- emphasised
- derogated
- dominated
DOLE
For the following questions, mark your answer as the option, which best illustrates the given capitalised word.
- She received Bharat Ratna for the great service in the field of arts.
- The beggars lined up in front of the temple.
- Rich man handed out a one rupee note to beggar.
- The nation rallied to help the quake-affected people.
- Much of Vikram's energy was exhausted in journalism.
When one is given to flippancy and frivolousness,one indulges in ___________.
The sentence below has one blank, choose the option that best fits the blank.
- immolation
- enjoyment
- dereliction
- levity
- delinquency
FURTIVE
For the following questions, mark your answer as the option, which best illustrates the given capitalised word.
- Despite several warnings, they drove recklessly.
- He kept darting secret glances in her direction.
- Dreams are dramatisation of situations existing in patient's world.
- A sudden change came over him, and he grew lively and out going.
- He was poor and hardworking, eager to improve himself.
FOREBODE
For the following questions, mark your answer as the option, which best illustrates the given capitalised word.
- The cutting of trees is harmful for the enviroment.
- Nostradamus predicted the second world war centuries before it actually took place.
- The caterpillar metamorphoses into a butterfly.
- President Louis, who suffered from alzheimer's was dignosed for the same, way before he actually had that disease.
- Scanty rainfalls has made many water resources shrink.
Directions: Select the alternative that exhibits a similar relationship as shown by the capitalised question pair.
DROUGHT : FAMINE
- Poverty : Plenty
- Drip : Leak
- Training : Skill
- Emanate : Hail
- Troop : Flock
Directions: Select the alternative that exhibits a similar relationship as shown by the capitalised question pair.
DISGUISE : IDENTIFICATION
- Equivocation : Ambiguity
- Facade : Decoration
- Forgery : Wealth
- Camouflage : Detection
- Prevarication : Fabrication
Directions: Select the alternative that exhibits a similar relationship as shown by the capitalised question pair.
ENDOW : INCOME
- Emit : Signal
- Property : Relation
- Divisor : Dividend
- Endorse : Approval
- Push : Pull
Directions: Select the alternative that exhibits a similar relationship as shown by the capitalised question pair.
SERVANT : MASTER
- Seller : Buyer
- Good : Bad
- Push : Pull
- Single : Married
- Expostulation : Objection
The instinctive ability to do something well is called _________.
The sentence below has one blank, choose the option that best fits the blank.
- flair
- foible
- flare
- fleck
- erupt