Parts of Speech
Questions that require students to identify what parts of speech each word in a cluster belongs to often appears in competitive exams. This test covers that type of questions.
Questions
Choose the set of words in which all are adjectives.
- Dispatch, epistemology, stubborn, wayward
- Disobedient, supine, untoward, verisimilar
- Venal, maleficence, penance, porous
- Analysis, tertiary, incumbency, auditory
- Abate, abjure, renounce, blandishment
Choose the set of words in which all are verbs.
- Discernment, perceptiveness, encomium, Inveigle
- Coax, cajole, wheedle, entice
- Runic, mysterious, irate, anachronistic
- Chronic, churlishness, demagogue, effrontery
- Prelate, precipitate, delegate, accretion
Choose the set of words in which all are adjectives.
- Audacity, idyll, interregnum, nugatory
- Minatory, ossified, plumb, quintessential
- Futile, sinecure, anodized, electroplated
- Dexterity, extant, impugned, probity
- Upright; honesty, raconteur, solicitous
Choose the set of words in which all are adjectives.
- Factious, factitious, facets, factions
- Avaricious, extirpate, halcyon, maudlin
- Refulgent, subliminal, irritable, pompous
- Testiness, irritability, vituperate, whittle
- Colander, cumbersome, diaphanous, transparent
Choose the set of words in which all are verbs.
- Penchant, inclination; predilection, rarefaction
- Repine, fret, stipulate, rarefy
- Habituated, recondite, feint, inured
- Diaphanous, transparent, mettlesome, damp
- Venal, maleficence, impede, gall
Choose the set of words in which all are nouns.
- Obscure, stygian, contiguous, adjacent
- Touting, virtuosity, contiguity, puissance
- Volubility, propriety, talkativeness, caret
- Ellipsis, extirpation, gaffe, hortatory
- Opprobrious, recumbent, ambidextrous, culpability
Choose the cluster in which all the words are nouns.
- Analysis, paralysis, proximity, pertinent
- Egoistic, inculcate, impertinence, emergence
- Imaginary, cumulative, additive, exemplary
- Delegate, protestant, incumbent, proponent
- Empyrean, amendment, emendation, apparition
Identify the cluster in which all words are verbs.
- Aphoristic, canonical, orthodox, commensurate
- Amalgamate, consolidate, exemplify, coerce
- Dissolute, prodigal, millinery, natty
- Dapper, Occluded, obscured, blocked
- Sidereal, avaricious, penance, stupidity
Indetify the set of words in which all are conjunctions.
- Because of, therefore, in addition, when
- Whereas, consequently, hence, since
- In spite of, due to, nevertheless, that
- Although, that, for, as
- Whether, if, because of, although
In which set can each word be used as a noun, adjective and verb?
- Counter, light, pat, clear
- Delegate, defeat, temporary, tertiary
- Chronic, incumbency, parent, proponent
- Topic, alacrity, android, auditory
- Low, clean, delegate, irate
Identify the set of words in which all are prepositions.
- Here, hence, near, without
- Despite, opposite, into, away
- Because, because of, since, notwithstanding
- Whereas, for, until, there
- Against, besides, except, beneath
Choose the set of words in which all are nouns.
- Cardinal, deliberate, equivocal, feckless
- Equivocation, delicacy, initiative, imperturbability
- Imperturbable, tawdry, augury, equivocate
- Boycott, glib, slick, Incise
- Incisive, moralistic, ostracism, shunning
Identify the set of words in which all are adverbs?
- Now, afterwards, towards, boldly
- Deadly, pleasantly, soon, daily
- Tomorrow, notwithstanding, everywhere, even
- Though, until, in spite of, whether
- Enough, unpleasant, far, late