Verbal Ability (Mixed)

Verbal

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Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: In the following question, an idiomatic expression is given with four possible meanings. Find out the correct meaning of the idiomatic expression. If you do not find any correct answer, mark (5) as your answer.

Wear one’s heart on one’s sleeve.

  1. To show one’s feelings
  2. To be most intimate
  3. To love passionately
  4. To do the right thing
  5. None of these
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the word from the given options that does not belong to the group.

  1. Concise
  2. Laconic
  3. Family
  4. Cogent
  5. marked
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the word from the given options that does not belong to the group.

  1. Profitable
  2. Useful
  3. Advantageous
  4. Unreliable
  5. Durable
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the word from the given options that does not belong to the group.

  1. Individuality
  2. Novelty
  3. Originality
  4. Complexity
  5. Creativity
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the word from the given options that does not belong to the group.

  1. Admirably
  2. Primarily
  3. Advertantly
  4. Reluctantly
  5. Adapted
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the word from the given options that does not belong to the group.

  1. Jettison
  2. Delimit
  3. Augment
  4. Fortify
  5. Explore
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the word from the given options that does not belong to the group.

  1. Depressed
  2. Confined
  3. Alluded
  4. Compelled
  5. Adapted
Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the word from the given options that does not belong to the group.

  1. Illuminating
  2. Damaging
  3. Confusing
  4. Critical
  5. Unreliable
Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the word from the given options that does not belong to the group.

  1. Compelling
  2. Associating
  3. Contrasting
  4. Describing
  5. Advocating
Question 10 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the word from the given options that does not belong to the group.

  1. Comparison
  2. Analysis
  3. Agreement
  4. Elaboration
  5. Acquaintance
Question 11 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the word from the given options that does not belong to the group.

  1. Projected
  2. Sustained
  3. Prolonged
  4. Prolific
  5. Attributed
Question 12 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the best option to fill in the blanks.

Vision is usually ________ most effectively when many different ________ are used.

  1. developed, manifestations
  2. adapted, organisations
  3. communicated, vehicles
  4. exhibited, forms
  5. described, thought
Question 13 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the best option to fill in the blanks.

People who have been through difficult, painful and not very ________ change efforts often end up ________ both pessimistic and angry conclusions.

  1. successful, drawing
  2. meaningful, projecting
  3. reliable, evolving
  4. strong, following
  5. challenging, lamenting
Question 14 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the best option to fill in the blanks.

It would be impossible for us to continue living in this world if each of us _______ exactly what fate had in ________ for him.

  1. follow, plan
  2. appreciate, strategy
  3. design, anticipation
  4. visualise, hidden
  5. knew, store
Question 15 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the best option to fill in the blanks.

The human mind is never ______; it advances or it _______.

  1. absolute, diminishes
  2. dynamic, stop
  3. perfect, disintegrates
  4. stationary, retrogrades
  5. happy, decomposes
Question 16 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Fill the gaps with the most appropriate option that makes the sentence meaningful.

If misery is the effect of ill fortune, it ought to be pitied, if of _______, to be _______.

  1. virtue, criticised
  2. calamity, reverenced
  3. virtue, protected
  4. vice, reverenced
  5. virtue, criticised
Question 17 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the best option to fill in the blanks.

It is the ________ of selfishness for men who fully ________ in their own case the great advantage of good education, to deny these advantages to women.

  1. parody, demand
  2. height, appreciate
  3. height, assimilate
  4. degree, appreciate
  5. level, advance
Question 18 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: In the following question an idiomatic expression is given with four possible meanings. Find out the correct meaning of the idiomatic expression. If you do not find any correct answer mark (5) as your answer.

To catch a Tartar

  1. To catch a dangerous person
  2. To deal with a person who is more than one's match
  3. To trap a wanted criminal with greater difficulty
  4. To live carefully & cautiously
Question 19 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the best option to fill in the blanks.

The learner should be _______ to take a small first step, one that will provide immediate success and ______ learning.

  1. encouraged, reinforce
  2. forced, organise
  3. directed, reorganise
  4. cautioned, reinforce
  5. encouraged, acknowledge
Question 20 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the best option to fill in the blanks.

His death _____ many tributes than have been paid at the ________ of any other human being in history.

  1. brought, passing
  2. directed, helm
  3. delivered, description
  4. invited, living
  5. acknowledged, perpetuation
Question 21 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: In the following question an idiomatic expression is given with four possible meanings. Find out the correct meaning of the idiomatic expression. If you do not find any correct answer mark (5) as your answer.

In the blues

  1. Having many blue things
  2. Being colourful
  3. Behave like a lord
  4. Melancholy and low-spirited
Question 22 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the best option to fill in the blanks.

Only with executive ________ can the organisation concentrate its energies on _________ competitive advantage over time.

  1. position, embarking
  2. deployment, directing
  3. contingent, fabricating
  4. commitment, sustaining
  5. satisfaction, moulding
Question 23 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the best option to fill in the blanks.

All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are ________ of the restless ________ of perseverance.

  1. manifestations, pronouncement
  2. projections, component
  3. instances, force
  4. proofs, humanity
  5. visions, future
Question 24 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: In the following question an idiomatic expression is given with four possible meanings. Find out the correct meaning of the idiomatic expression. If you do not find any correct answer mark (5) as your answer.

To play fast and loose

  1. To be narrow minded
  2. To play a good game
  3. To act in an unreliable way
  4. To defeat a person

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