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 apostrophe mark punctuation english

Choose the option that best corrects the underlined word:
I dont like the Impressionist style of painting.

  1. do'nt

  2. dont'

  3. don't

  4. NO CHANGE
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Apostrophe can be used to show that a letter or letter(s) is missing from a word. It can be used to omit the letter or letter(s).  In the given sentence, 'dont' used is not correct. Here, apostrophe should be used to replace the letter 'o', and the two words (do and not) can be joined to make one word i.e don't. Thus, option C is correct. 

Multiple choice story and its elements writing english

Which of the following does not help create a setting with an 'angry' mood?

  1. Soft music

  2. Fire

  3. strong winds

  4. thunder and lightning
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Angry mood is always associated with fire, rage gushes of winds, thunder lightning and an unsettling or unstable setting. Option B,C and D provide the angry mood but option A is associated with calm, peaceful, serene mood . Therefore option A is the correct answer.

Multiple choice story and its elements writing english

A _________ character is well developed and has a complex personality which may at times be contradictory. 

  1. protagonist

  2. flat

  3. static

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

A round character will be well developed and have multiple facets to their personality. Like real people, they're complicated, and sometimes their desires and motivations are contradictory. Therefore, Option D is the correct answer. 

Whereas option C is the character which doesn't undergoes any change or transform; Option B is the uncomplicated character and does not undergo such change; option A is the main or leading character.

Multiple choice story and its elements writing english

Which of the following does not help create a setting which conveys a 'disgusted' mood?

  1. Dirty dishes in the sink

  2. soiled bathroom floor

  3. stains on the carpet

  4. polished mantlepiece
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Disgusted mood suggests something to be spoiled, dirty or stained. Option A,B and C provides the disgusted mood but option suggest a polished ,clean and likeable mood which does not help create a setting conveying a disgusted mood. Therefore option D is the correct answer.

Multiple choice

Bang! Pow! Sizzle! are examples of - 

  1. synonyms

  2. prefix

  3. loud noises

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

Onomatopoeia refers to words that phonetically imitate, resemble, or suggest the sound that they describe.

Multiple choice

What word best describes our sun?

  1. HUUUGE

  2. Average

  3. Small

  4. Cool guy with sunglasses
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

The sun is classified as a G-type main-sequence star, often referred to as a yellow dwarf. In the context of the vast variety of stars in the universe, it is considered an average star in terms of size and luminosity.

Multiple choice

"That’s an ill phrase"

  1. Shakespeare

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

This line appears in Shakespeare's play Hamlet, spoken by Hamlet to Ophelia.

Multiple choice

Who said:Big words ANGER ME!

  1. Grug

  2. Anger

  3. Cronk

  4. Fix it Felix
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Grug, the father in The Croods, says this because he is suspicious of new ideas and complex language.

Multiple choice

"You can't handle the truth!"

  1. Terms of Endearment

  2. A Few Good Men

  3. Anger Management
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

The line 'You can't handle the truth!' is spoken by Colonel Jessup in the 1992 courtroom drama A Few Good Men. It is a famous scene involving a heated cross-examination.