Questions
Directions: Choose the alternative that explains the given idiomatic expression.
A snake in the grass
- Secret or hidden enemy
- Unforeseen happening
- Unrecognisable danger
- Unreliable person
Directions: Choose the alternative that explains the given idiomatic expression.
To be born with a silver spoon in one's mouth
- Born in luxury
- Born prematurely
- Born with defects
- Born untimely
Directions: Select the most appropriate meaning for the given Latin expression.
Mea culpa
- Through God’s grace
- Through my thought
- Through my fault
- Through thy feet
Directions: Select the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the underlined idiom/phrase.
He visits his native place once in a blue moon.
- Seldom
- Always
- Very often
- Never
Directions: Select the word/phrase that is antonymous to the word given in bold letters.
ASCETICISM
- Condemnation
- Craving
- Indulgence
- Assessment
- sympathy
Directions: Select the word/phrase that is antonymous to the word given in bold letters.
ALPHABETICAL
- Numerical
- Seriatim
- Haphazard
- Iota
- pictorial
Directions: Select the option that spells the word correctly.
- Recuiment
- Recruitment
- Recurment
- Recriument
Directions: Choose the correct meaning of the given word.
Rococo
- Supposed
- Calm
- Ornate
- Dress
Directions: Mark the most suitable option to fill in the blanks.
The judge ____ him prevailed ______ the father and he sentenced his son ____ death.
- upon, onto, for
- on, at, in
- at, in, into
- in, upon, to
Directions: Select the option that spells the word correctly.
- Relisaion
- Ralisation
- Realsion
- Realisation
Directions: Choose the correct meaning of the given word.
Rife
- Abuse
- Opposite
- Current
- Bump
Directions: Choose the correct option to fill in the blank.
I drew the blind so that I ______ what was taking place in the street.
- could have seen
- would not see
- see
- would be
Directions: Mark the most suitable option to fill in the blanks.
The light ___________ out while we ___________ drinks in the hotel.
- went, were having
- had gone, had been having
- has gone, have
- was gone, had
Directions: Select the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the underlined idiom/phrase.
At last he made a clean breast of his involvement in the affair.
- He denied his involvement.
- He confessed his involvement.
- He challenged the authorities to prove his involvement.
- He promised to cooperate if he is given a fair treatment.
Directions: Choose the correct option to fill in the blank.
He went away before I _______ him the whole story.
- can tell
- could tell
- would have told
- can told