Questions
Directions: Fill in the given blank space with the most appropriate option.
Some people do not change with age. Their ______ sense of humour remains even if they grow old.
- tart
- truculent
- acerbic
- vinegarish
- vinegary
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Soldiers of units about to be sent abroad for missions, often had to be made up with drafts from other units, a process which had a ____________ impact on morale.
- mortiferous
- flagitious
- boorish
- deleterious
- anodyne
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The orator thought that his ___________ would make him sound smart, but he was jeered by the crowd once he started.
- verbiage
- saturnine
- lachrymose
- grandiloquence
- verbosity
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The American _____________ in athletics is threatened with other small countries like Jamaica excelling.
- vainglory
- contumacious
- rife
- philippic
- hegemony
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Today it is a desolate spot. It is believed to be haunted by ghosts and ________________ beasts.
- mawkish
- prurient
- vile
- feral
- perfidious
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Being _______________, the Govt at the helm is facing problems with the coalition partners.
- inchoate
- mellow
- desultory
- vagrant
- complaisance
Directions: Fill in the given blank space with the most appropriate option.
The _________ catastrophe ruined thousands of homes and rendered many more without food and shelter.
- execrable
- preternatural
- nefarious
- ineffable
- prosaic
Directions: Fill in the given blank space with the most appropriate option.
Did I invite you out here to listen to your _______ rambling. Just keep quiet!
- doggerel
- maudlin
- encomium
- jejune
- pragmatic
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If the bank takes possession of his factory, it will be very difficult for him to get out of the ____________.
- vexation
- mess
- abatement
- slump
- quagmire
Directions: Fill in the given blank space with the most appropriate option.
The youngsters are generally fascinated by the ____________ lives of the high and mighty.
- licentious
- austere
- bawdy
- tenuous
- ribald
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His ___________ to help the poor is praiseworthy. He does so because he himself has seen poverty very closely.
- alacrity
- loyalty
- zest
- ferment
- gumption
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As with other politicians, he also has the same brazen _____________ in trying to ignore unanswerable scandals.
- effrontery
- insouciant
- aplomb
- enjoinder
- tenacity
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After the rains, the smell of mud and the primeval smell of __________ earth is very sweet.
- feral
- fecund
- fetid
- impervious
- spiffy
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The arrival of two bands at the wedding created a _______________, with each of the party trying to prove themselves.
- blithe
- cacophony
- blunderbuss
- histrionic
- clinker
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He is a clean man. There is nothing to support the _________, which is often spread by the opposition.
- feckless
- garrulity
- vituperation
- animadversion
- calumny