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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

What is the comparative of IMPORTANT?

  1. Importantier

  2. More important

  3. Importanter

  4. Impotent
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

For long adjectives like 'important', the comparative is formed by adding 'more' before the word.

Multiple choice

What is the comparative of HAPPY?

  1. Happyer

  2. Hapier

  3. Happier

  4. More happy
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

The comparative form of a one-syllable adjective ending in a consonant-vowel-consonant pattern involves doubling the final consonant and adding -er. Happy ends in -y, which changes to -i before adding -er.

Multiple choice

What is a Superlative?

  1. A superhero

  2. An adjective which describes extreme weather

  3. An adjective which describes height

  4. An adjectives which describes the most extreme example
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

A superlative adjective describes the most extreme example of a quality among three or more items. It indicates the highest or lowest degree of the adjective.

Multiple choice techniques of style reading comprehension english

Identify the literary device in the following passage:

He had meant the best in the world, and been treated like a dog, like a
very dog. She would be sorry someday, maybe when it was too late. Ah, if
he could only die TEMPORARILY!

  1. Alliteration

  2. Pathos

  3. Parable

  4. Satire
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

The given lines appeal to the emotions of the reader and evoke sympathy. This is usually done by employing pathos. So, the correct answer is option B.

Multiple choice techniques of style reading comprehension english

Identify the literary device in the following sentence:

   They crowded very close about him, with their hands always on him in a careful, caressing grip, as though all the while feeling him make sure he was there. It was like men handling a fish which is still alive and may jump back into the water.

  1. Metaphor

  2. Allusion

  3. Analogy

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

Analogy is a comparison between one thing and another, typically for the purpose of explanation or clarification. Here, "men handling a fish which is still alive and may jump back into the water" is an analogy - it provides a vivid imagery that makes it clear to the reader exactly how the crowd sorrounded him. So, the answer here is option C.

Multiple choice zoology reproduction in animals different modes of reproduction sexual and asexual reproduction lifespan, reproduction and variation

Greek word sexus means

  1. Disjunction

  2. Disintegration

  3. Union

  4. Both A and B
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Greek word sexus means union. It is used in biology in terms of fusion of gametes in plants and animals. The male gametes is known as sperm and the female is known as ovum. Sexual reproduction is the reproduction which is caused by the fusion of gametes. The male and female gametes fuses to form zygote. 

So, the correct answer is option C.

Multiple choice inferences from the text reading comprehension english

Select the option that is closest in meaning to the given sentence:
"They built a statue of him lest people should forget what he had done."

  1. They built a statue of him so that people would not forget what he had done.

  2. They built a statue of him because people wouldn't forget what he had done.

  3. As people would forget what he had done one day, they built a statue of him.

  4. Believing that it was necessary for people not to forget what he had done, they had a statue of him built.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Option A is the only sentence that captures the meaning of the given sentence and presents it in a clear, concise manner without adding any further errors. The other choices are incorrect because they either carry grammatical errors or change the meaning of the given sentence. Option A is the answer.

Multiple choice political science women change the world social aspects of gender and women's education position of women and major social evils women empowerment

__________ means a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing.

  1. Stereotype

  2. Unconventional

  3. Original

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

A stereotype is a belief or set of beliefs that are fixed and usually wrong, in a manner that it generalizes a certain subject or object for which the stereotype is used. For instance, the idea boys don't cry, is a stereotype that fixes a certain idea of holding back tears to each and every boy, irrespective of their personal characteristics. It is a fixed belief that the society has set up for an entire community of boys, disregarding their characteristics.

Multiple choice political science women change the world social aspects of gender and women's education position of women and major social evils women empowerment

Select an example of pressure from the family and society.

  1. Unfair teasing

  2. Appreciation

  3. Demands from adults

  4. Both A and C
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Pressure from the family and society points towards their negative influence on a person. Teasing or bullying is one such evil that refers to provoking an individual using unfair verbal or physics tactics. Demands made by elders, is also a form of pressure as it can manipulate the subject indirectly because of societal pressure. Both of these are forms of harassment.

Multiple choice replacing parts of speech transformation of sentences english

Rewrite the sentence by replacing the underlined word with a noun.

She is a very intelligent person.

  1. Her intelligence is great.

  2. She is an intelligent person.

  3. She is a person of great intelligence.

  4. None of the above.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Option A is incorrect since the sentence has been changed. Option B is incorrect since "intelligent" is an adjective in the sentence. The noun form of "intelligent" is "intelligence" which is present in option C. Therefore, C is correct while option D is wrong.

Multiple choice replacing parts of speech transformation of sentences english

Choose the appropriate noun form of the underlined adjective to fill the blank: 

The graceful dancer mesmerised the audience. 
The dancer's  _________ was mesmerising.

  1. gracure

  2. grase

  3. grace

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

The abstract noun form of the adjective, 'graceful' is 'grace'. It means: The ability to move in a way that seems to flow and looks easy. Hence, option C is the correct answer.

Options A, B and D are incorrect as there is no word such as 'gracure' or 'grase' or 'graceness' in English language. These words don't carry any meaning. 

Multiple choice replacing parts of speech transformation of sentences english

Identify the adjective form of the given word:
Flippancy 

  1. Flippancious

  2. Flippancous

  3. Flippanable

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

The noun is a name of a person, place or a thing. The adjective modifies or describes the noun. The word 'flippancy' is a noun. The adjective form of the given word can be formed by adding suffix - nt at the end of the word. Thus, the adjective form of the given word is 'flippant'. 

Eg: I think she just thought I was being flippant.
Hence, option D is the correct answer. Options A, B, and C are incorrect answers. 

Multiple choice replacing parts of speech transformation of sentences english

Identify the adjective form of the word in brackets to complete the sentence:
The ________ (erudition) woman was able to answer the trickiest questions. 

  1. eruditious

  2. eruditable

  3. erudite

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

The noun is a name of a person, place or a thing. The adjective modifies or describes the noun. The word 'erudition' is a noun. Some words can be changed into an adjective by adding suffix - 'e' at the end of the word. Thus, the adjective form of the given word is 'erudite'.

The word 'erudite' is modifying the noun 'woman' in the given sentence. 
Hence, option C is the correct answer. Options A, B, and D are incorrect answers. 

Multiple choice replacing parts of speech transformation of sentences english

Identify the adjective form of the given word in order to complete the sentence:
They must limit their _________ (altruism) activities to the weekends if they wish to do well in their studies next semester. 

  1. altruistic

  2. altruisable

  3. altruistous

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

The noun is a name of a person, place or a thing. The adjective modifies or describes the noun. The word 'altruism' is a noun. Some words can be changed into an adjective by adding suffix - 'ic' at the end of the word. Thus, the adjective form of the given word is 'altruistic'. 

The given sentence would be completed by using an adjective 'altruistic' which is modifying the noun 'activities'. 
Hence, option A is the correct answer. Options B, C, and D are incorrect answers. 

Multiple choice replacing parts of speech transformation of sentences english

Identify the adjective form of the word in the bracket to complete the sentence:
Her __________ (empathy) expression revealed that she did not want to punish them severely. 

  1. empathous

  2. empathetic

  3. empathic

  4. empathical
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

The noun is a name of a person, place or a thing. The adjective modifies or describes the noun. The word 'empathy' is a noun. Some words can be changed into an adjective by adding suffix - 'ic' at the end of the word and removing 'y' from the end. Thus, the adjective form of the given word is 'empathetic'.

The word 'empathetic' is modifying the noun 'expression' in the given sentence. 
Hence, option B is the correct answer. Options A, C, and D are incorrect answers.