Verbal Ability (Mixed)

English Vocabulary-A Multiple Choice Type Test Helpful for mba(cat/mat) Students for Clearing Competitive Examinations in English Vocabulary

25 Questions Published

Questions

Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Fill in the blank spaces with the best choice from the given options.

Many americans believe that individual initative epitomized the 1890's, they see the enterpreneur as the______ of that age.

  1. caricature
  2. salvation
  3. throwback
  4. personification
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Pick the option that is farthest in meaning.

Effrontery

  1. Reticence
  2. Restitution
  3. Respite
  4. Resentment
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: In the following question, mark your answer as the option which is different from all other question words in some manner.

  1. Nonchalance
  2. Imperturbabilty
  3. Sangfroid
  4. Fickleness
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: In the following question substitute the given sentence or phrase with the most suitable word from the given options.

The killing of one's mother is termed____

  1. suicide
  2. uxoricide
  3. matricide
  4. regicide
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Pick the word from the options that is most inappropriate in the given context.

Hoodwink : Many companies hoodwink tax authorities by showing false accounts, but they get ensnared in their own nets.

  1. bamboozle
  2. hassle
  3. swindle
  4. deceive
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: In the following question substitute the given sentence or phrase with the most suitable word from the given options.

to bring in opposition to an order previously given, thereby annulling the letter, is to_____

  1. contraband
  2. countermand
  3. counterfeit
  4. contradict
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Pick the word from the options that is most inappropriate in the given context.

Lassitude : Anarchy can be curbed if the lassitude of the law-enforcing authorities is put to en end.

  1. stupor
  2. lethargy
  3. verve
  4. acedia
Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Fill in the blank spaces with the best choice from the given options.

Because they had various meanings in nineteenth-century biological thought, mechanism and vitalism ought not to be considered _______ terms: thus, I find the recent instance that the terms had the same definition entirely_____

  1. univocal, erroneous
  2. problematic, anachronistic
  3. intractable, obtuse
  4. congruent, suspect
Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: In the following question, mark your answer as the option that represents a relationship similar to the one exhibited by the given question pair of words.

Damp : Vibration

  1. Drench : Moisture
  2. Concentrate :Extraction
  3. Boil : Liquid
  4. Stanch : Flow
Question 10 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Pick the option that is farthest in meaning.

Effulgent

  1. Excursionary
  2. Ingress
  3. Tenebrous
  4. Divulgence
Question 11 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Fill in the blank spaces with the best choice from the given options.

Neither the ideas of philosophers nor the practice of ordinary people can, by themselves, _____ reality: what in fact changes reality and kindles revolution is the _____ of the two.

  1. constitute, divergence
  2. affect, aim
  3. transform, interplay
  4. preserve, conjuction
Question 12 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: In the following question, mark your answer as the option which is different from all other question words in some manner.

  1. Spiel
  2. Sales
  3. Product
  4. Sot
Question 13 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: In the following question mark as your answer the option that represents a relationship with the third word that is opposite to the one exhibited by the first pair of words.

history : annalist::language

  1. polyglot
  2. linguist
  3. philologist
  4. none of these
Question 14 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: In the following question, mark your answer as the option that represents a relationship similar to the one exhibited by the given question pair of words.

abraded : friction

  1. refined : distillate
  2. anodized : metal
  3. diluted : gas
  4. vaporized : heat
Question 15 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: In the following question mark as your answer the option that represents a relationship with the third word that is same as the one exhibited by the first pair of words.

Agnostic : Theist :: Ambiguous

  1. explicit
  2. Unequivocative
  3. Polysemantic
  4. Clear
Question 16 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: In the following question mark as your answer the option that represents a relationship with the third word that is opposite to the one exhibited by the first pair of words.

Germane : Impertinent :: Obvious:

  1. Recondite
  2. Clamorous
  3. Arcane
  4. Inexplicable
Question 17 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: In the following question mark as your answer the option that represents a relationship with the third word that is opposite to the one exhibited by the first pair of words.

Philistine : Cultured :: Precocious:

  1. Mature
  2. Clever
  3. Intelligent
  4. Doltish
Question 18 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Pick the word from the options that is most inappropriate in the given context.

Opprobrium : any country that attacks its neighbour courts international approbrium.

  1. disgrace
  2. infamy
  3. oratorio
  4. ignominy
Question 19 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: In the following question, mark your answer as the option, which best illustrates the given question word.

Defection

  1. I moved up from the back bench to the front one so I could hear the professor well.
  2. The leader decided to withdraw his party's support for the coalition government.
  3. Mamta decided to switch parties-from the Pseudo-Secularists to the Communists.
  4. India feels that the non-aligned movement has lost its relevance in today's unipolar world.
Question 20 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: In the following question, mark your answer as the option that represents a relationship similar to the one exhibited by the given question pair of words.

quarry : stone

  1. fell : timber
  2. dredge : canal
  3. assay : gold
  4. bale : hay
Question 21 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: In the following question, mark your answer as the option which is different from all other question words in some manner.

  1. Significant
  2. Momentous
  3. Miraculous
  4. Grave
Question 22 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: In the following question, mark your answer as the option, which best illustrates the given question word.

Impasse

  1. The road was closed for repairs.
  2. The bill was hotly debated in parliament.
  3. She stuck to her guns and he to his own and neither was prepared for a compromise.
  4. The dog and the cat fought with each other for a small piece of bread.
Question 23 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: In the following question substitute the given sentence or phrase with the most suitable word from the given options.

The state of uneasiness or mental discomfort is called_____

  1. dyscrasia
  2. dysfunction
  3. dyslexia
  4. dysphoria
Question 24 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: In the following question, mark your answer as the option, which best illustrates the given question word.

carnage

  1. Every minute, hundred people commit suicide.
  2. The militants slaughtered everyone in the dark of the night.
  3. I mistakenly stepped on an anthill and caused panic to hundreds of innocent creatures.
  4. The boat sank and so did the fifty people aboard it.
Question 25 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Pick the option that is farthest in meaning.

pandemonium

  1. solitude
  2. quite
  3. order
  4. all of the above