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Verbal Ability (Mixed)

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Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Out of the four given alternatives, choose the correct meaning of the following Idiom/expression.

At someone's beck and call

  1. To busy oneself
  2. To advance one's position
  3. To always be ready to do things for people or obey things to please them
  4. To act together in harmony
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Out of the four given alternatives, choose the correct meaning of the following Idiom/expression.

To tread on the heels of

  1. To follow close behind
  2. To follow the example of another
  3. To disagree with the conduct of another
  4. To run away
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Out of the four alternatives given below, choose the one which is opposite in meaning to the given word.

PANIC

  1. Alarm
  2. Indifference
  3. Serenity
  4. Cautiousness
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Out of the four given alternatives, choose the correct meaning of the following Idiom/expression.

To have full hands

  1. To be fully occupied
  2. To be rich
  3. To be in lot of troubles
  4. To lead an easy life
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Out of the four given alternatives, choose the correct meaning of the following Idiom/expression.

A greenhorn

  1. An envious lady
  2. A trainee
  3. An inexperienced man
  4. A soft- hearted man
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Out of the four alternatives given below, choose the one which is opposite in meaning to the given word.

DESTINY

  1. Vulnerability
  2. Chance
  3. Self-dependence
  4. Fate
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Out of the four alternatives given below, choose the one which is opposite in meaning to the given word.

CHIDE

  1. Praise
  2. Fear
  3. Criticize
  4. Flatter
Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Out of the four alternatives given below, choose the one which is opposite in meaning to the given word.

OSTENTATIOUS

  1. Awkward
  2. Bankrupt
  3. Ignorant
  4. Unpretentious
Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Out of the four alternatives given below, choose the one which is opposite in meaning to the given word.

KNACK

  1. Dullness
  2. Balance
  3. Talent
  4. Dexterity
Question 10 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the word which best expresses the meaning of the underlined italicised part of the sentence.

Vanity is often noticeable in a great leader.

  1. Desirable
  2. Admirable
  3. Remarkable
  4. Visible
Question 11 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the word which best expresses the meaning of the underlined italicised part of the sentence.

The rapacious plunderers did not spare even the people living in the slums.

  1. Warlike
  2. Barbarous
  3. Avaricious
  4. Nomadic
Question 12 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Out of the four given alternatives, choose the correct meaning of the following Idiom/expression.

To break the ice

  1. To start quarreling
  2. To end the hostility
  3. To start a conversation
  4. To end up partnership
Question 13 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the word which best expresses the meaning of the underlined italicised part of the sentence.

This is blatant injustice done to him.

  1. Conceited
  2. Contorted
  3. Openly hostile
  4. Too obvious
Question 14 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the word which best expresses the meaning of the underlined italicised part of the sentence.

AIDS is a fatal disease.

  1. Curable
  2. Infectious
  3. Contagious
  4. Killer
Question 15 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the word which best expresses the meaning of the underlined italicised part of the sentence.

All his documents were confiscated.

  1. Cancelled
  2. Seized
  3. Forfeited
  4. Destroyed
Question 16 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Fill in the blank with the suitable word from the alternatives given below.

I prefer death ________ disgrace.

  1. to
  2. for
  3. of
  4. None of these
Question 17 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Fill in the blank with the suitable word from the alternatives given below.

Let us hope __________ the best.

  1. of
  2. to
  3. for
  4. at
Question 18 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Fill in the blank with the suitable word from the alternatives given below.

I am surprised _________ his action.

  1. of
  2. to
  3. at
  4. on
Question 19 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Fill in the blanks with the suitable words from the alternatives given below.

He is waiting ________ you ______ the railway station.

  1. at, for
  2. for, at
  3. for, on
  4. on, for
Question 20 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Fill in the blank with the suitable word from the alternatives given below.

Pay attention _______ what I say.

  1. to
  2. of
  3. for
  4. at
Question 21 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

'Pre-industrial' means

Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow:

Our awareness of time has reached such a pitch of intensity that we suffer acutely whenever our travels take us in to some corner of the world where people are not interested in minute and seconds. The unpunctuality of the Orient, for example, is appalling to those who come freshly from a land of fixed meal-time and regular train service. For a modern American Englishman waiting is a psychological torture. An Indian accept the blank hours with resignation even with satisfaction. He has not lost the fine part of doing  nothing. Our notion of time as a collection of minutes, each of which must be filled with some business or amusement, wholly alien to the Oriental, just as it was wholly alien to the Greek. For the man who lives in a pre-industrial world, time moves at a slow and easy pace ; he does not care about each minute, for the good reason that he has not been made conscious of the existence of minutes.
  1. before the Industrial Revolution
  2. after the Industrial Revolution
  3. before there was a portfolio for industry in India
  4. before watches started being manufactured on a large scale
Question 22 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The opposite word for 'pre' is

Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow:

Our awareness of time has reached such a pitch of intensity that we suffer acutely whenever our travels take us in to some corner of the world where people are not interested in minute and seconds. The unpunctuality of the Orient, for example, is appalling to those who come freshly from a land of fixed meal-time and regular train service. For a modern American Englishman waiting is a psychological torture. An Indian accept the blank hours with resignation even with satisfaction. He has not lost the fine part of doing  nothing. Our notion of time as a collection of minutes, each of which must be filled with some business or amusement, wholly alien to the Oriental, just as it was wholly alien to the Greek. For the man who lives in a pre-industrial world, time moves at a slow and easy pace ; he does not care about each minute, for the good reason that he has not been made conscious of the existence of minutes.
  1. post
  2. past
  3. future
  4. late
Question 23 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Read the passage and answer the question.
Why do we suffer acutely?

Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow:

Our awareness of time has reached such a pitch of intensity that we suffer acutely whenever our travels take us in to some corner of the world where people are not interested in minute and seconds. The unpunctuality of the Orient, for example, is appalling to those who come freshly from a land of fixed meal-time and regular train service. For a modern American Englishman waiting is a psychological torture. An Indian accept the blank hours with resignation even with satisfaction. He has not lost the fine part of doing  nothing. Our notion of time as a collection of minutes, each of which must be filled with some business or amusement, wholly alien to the Oriental, just as it was wholly alien to the Greek. For the man who lives in a pre-industrial world, time moves at a slow and easy pace ; he does not care about each minute, for the good reason that he has not been made conscious of the existence of minutes.
  1. In the company of people conscious of time.
  2. Among the people careless of time.
  3. On account of our much awareness of time.
  4. On account of the unpunctuality of the Orient.
Question 24 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The word 'appalling' means

Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow:

Our awareness of time has reached such a pitch of intensity that we suffer acutely whenever our travels take us in to some corner of the world where people are not interested in minute and seconds. The unpunctuality of the Orient, for example, is appalling to those who come freshly from a land of fixed meal-time and regular train service. For a modern American Englishman waiting is a psychological torture. An Indian accept the blank hours with resignation even with satisfaction. He has not lost the fine part of doing  nothing. Our notion of time as a collection of minutes, each of which must be filled with some business or amusement, wholly alien to the Oriental, just as it was wholly alien to the Greek. For the man who lives in a pre-industrial world, time moves at a slow and easy pace ; he does not care about each minute, for the good reason that he has not been made conscious of the existence of minutes.
  1. pitiable
  2. praiseworthy
  3. hateful
  4. horrible
Question 25 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Read the passage and answer the question.
How does an Indian accept blank hours?

Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow:

Our awareness of time has reached such a pitch of intensity that we suffer acutely whenever our travels take us in to some corner of the world where people are not interested in minute and seconds. The unpunctuality of the Orient, for example, is appalling to those who come freshly from a land of fixed meal-time and regular train service. For a modern American Englishman waiting is a psychological torture. An Indian accept the blank hours with resignation even with satisfaction. He has not lost the fine part of doing  nothing. Our notion of time as a collection of minutes, each of which must be filled with some business or amusement, wholly alien to the Oriental, just as it was wholly alien to the Greek. For the man who lives in a pre-industrial world, time moves at a slow and easy pace ; he does not care about each minute, for the good reason that he has not been made conscious of the existence of minutes.
  1. Happily
  2. With ease
  3. Unhappily
  4. Uneasily
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