English Language

Vocabulary and Synonyms

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Vocabulary and synonyms are essential components of English language sections across competitive exams. This topic tests word associations, context meanings, and precise vocabulary skills. Regular practice helps test takers score higher in SSC, banking, and railway recruitment tests.

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Vocabulary and Synonyms Questions

Multiple choice

Directions: Each of the following items consists of a sentence followed by four words or group of words. Select the synonym of the word (occurring in the sentence in capital letters) as per the context.

Due to his inability to bring the country out of financial TURMOIL, the finance minister was removed.

  1. Agitation

  2. Confusion

  3. Anxiety

  4. Trouble

  5. .
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

This is the correct option. ‘Trouble’ here implies financial difficulties or problems.

Multiple choice

Directions: Each of the following items consists of a sentence followed by four words or group of words. Select the synonym of the word (occurring in the sentence in capital letters) as per the context.

The self-styled religious leader was charged with SEDITION when he directed his followers to rise against the government.

  1. Insurgency

  2. Dissent

  3. Revolution

  4. Treason

  5. .
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

This is the correct option. ‘Treason’ is the crime of betraying one's country, especially by attempting to kill or overthrow the sovereign or government.

Multiple choice

Directions: Each of the following items consists of a sentence followed by four words or group of words. Select the synonym of the word (occurring in the sentence in capital letters) as per the context.

Due to DEARTH of evidence, the corrupt official escaped the charges.

  1. Absence

  2. Default

  3. Insufficiency

  4. Plenty

  5. .
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

This is the correct option. ‘Insufficiency’ implies the quality or state of not being sufficient.

Multiple choice

Directions: Each of the following items consists of a sentence followed by four words or group of words. Select the synonym of the word (occurring in the sentence in capital letters) as per the context.

The INEPT police officials missed the obvious clues to the murder and failed to implicate the culprit.

  1. Incompetent

  2. Bungling

  3. Ungraceful

  4. Dexterous

  5. .
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

This is the correct option. ‘Incompetent’ implies someone not having or showing the necessary skills to do something successfully.

Multiple choice

Directions: Each of the following items consists of a sentence followed by four words or group of words. Select the antonym of the word (occurring in the sentence in capital letters) as per the context.

The interviewer asked me to articulate my POTENTIAL contributions to the company.

  1. Actual

  2. Helpless

  3. Unreasonable

  4. Senseless

  5. .
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

This is the correct option. 'Actual' is something that is existing in reality and not potential, possible, simulated, or false

Multiple choice

Directions: Each of the following items consists of a sentence followed by four words or group of words. Select the antonym of the word (occurring in the sentence in capital letters) as per the context.

There is a huge DISPARITY between the crime rates in the urban cities and the crime rates in the rural areas.

  1. Stagnation

  2. Sucess

  3. Similarity

  4. Clarity

  5. .
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

This is the correct option. 'Similarity' implies a quality or state of having something in common.

Multiple choice

Directions: Choose the synonym to the keyword.

Sully

  1. Foppish

  2. Besmirch

  3. Dulcet

  4. Dissipate

  5. Grovel
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Sully means to damage the purity or integrity of, or to defile. Besmirch is a synonym meaning to damage the reputation of someone or something in the opinion of others.

Multiple choice

Directions: The sentence below has two blanks. Beneath the sentence are five sets of words. Choose the set of words that, when inserted in the sentence, best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.

Tempers ran high among the old timers, who _________ the young mayor and his ______ city council.

  1. despised, bewitching

  2. applauded, elite

  3. resented, revolutionary

  4. forgave, activist

  5. feared, indolent
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

The old timers are angry and a very close look at the two blanks makes it obvious that they are annoyed because of the ways of the young mayor. So the best suited answer is (3).