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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

I'm a lyrical linguist, a verbal virtuoso, I'm like a walking dictionary, a thesaurus on the go.

  1. The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

  2. Miseducation

  3. The Miseducation of Lauryn
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A Correct answer
Explanation

This verse is from the song 'Doo Wop (That Thing)' by Lauryn Hill, featured on her debut solo album 'The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill'.

Multiple choice

Which of the following is an example of a negative social sanction?

  1. Criticism

  2. Ridicule

  3. Shunning

  4. Imprisonment
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Explanation

Negative social sanctions are punishments or expressions of disapproval that are given to individuals who deviate from social norms. Criticism, ridicule, shunning, and imprisonment are all examples of negative social sanctions.

Multiple choice

Which of the following is an example of an internalized norm?

  1. Feeling guilty after lying

  2. Saying 'please' and 'thank you'

  3. Wearing a seatbelt while driving

  4. Voting in elections
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Explanation

Internalized norms are personal beliefs and values that individuals have adopted as their own. Feeling guilty after lying is an example of an internalized norm, as it reflects an individual's personal belief that lying is wrong.

Multiple choice

What is the term for a limerick that is particularly bawdy or vulgar?

  1. A dirty limerick

  2. A blue limerick

  3. A naughty limerick

  4. All of the above
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D Correct answer
Explanation

All of the above terms can be used to refer to a limerick that is particularly bawdy or vulgar.

Multiple choice

Which of the following is an example of a rhetorical device commonly used in political incitement to create a sense of urgency and demand immediate action?

  1. Parallelism

  2. Anaphora

  3. Chiasmus

  4. Oxymoron
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B Correct answer
Explanation

Anaphora, which involves the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses or sentences, is often used in political incitement to create a sense of rhythm, emphasis, and unity among the audience.

Multiple choice

Which of the following is an example of a rhetorical device commonly used in political incitement to create a sense of urgency and demand immediate action?

  1. Parallelism

  2. Anaphora

  3. Chiasmus

  4. Oxymoron
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B Correct answer
Explanation

Anaphora, which involves the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses or sentences, is often used in political incitement to create a sense of rhythm, emphasis, and unity among the audience.

Multiple choice

What is the tone of the poem "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night" by Dylan Thomas?

  1. Mournful

  2. Angry

  3. Resigned

  4. Hopeful
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A Correct answer
Explanation

The poem "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night" is a mournful poem that expresses the speaker's grief over the death of his father.

Multiple choice

What is the term used to describe the excessive pride or arrogance that often leads to the downfall of the tragic hero?

  1. Hubris

  2. Anagnorisis

  3. Peripeteia

  4. Catharsis
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Explanation

Hubris refers to the excessive pride or arrogance that often leads to the downfall of the tragic hero.

Multiple choice

What is the term used to describe the tragic hero's realization of their own mortality and the futility of their struggle against fate?

  1. Catharsis

  2. Anagnorisis

  3. Peripeteia

  4. Hubris
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B Correct answer
Explanation

Anagnorisis refers to the tragic hero's realization of their own mortality and the futility of their struggle against fate.

Multiple choice

How does an elegy typically conclude?

  1. With a sense of acceptance and resolution

  2. With a call to action

  3. With a question

  4. With a prayer
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Explanation

Elegies often conclude with a sense of acceptance and resolution, as the speaker comes to terms with the loss and finds a way to move forward.

Multiple choice

Which of the following is NOT a synonym of Aparigraha?

  1. Non-greed

  2. Non-avarice

  3. Contentment

  4. Simplicity
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C Correct answer
Explanation

Contentment is not a synonym of Aparigraha. Aparigraha is the absence of attachment to material possessions and desires, while contentment is the state of being satisfied with what one has.

Multiple choice

What is the term for the illocutionary force of a speech act that expresses the speaker's emotions or attitudes?

  1. Directive

  2. Commissive

  3. Expressive

  4. Declarative
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C Correct answer
Explanation

The illocutionary force of a speech act that expresses the speaker's emotions or attitudes is expressive.

Multiple choice

Which of these is an example of an Epigrammatic Oxymoron?

  1. A bitter-sweet memory

  2. A deafening silence

  3. A cold-hearted person

  4. A loud whisper
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B Correct answer
Explanation

A deafening silence is an oxymoron because it combines two contradictory terms: deafening (very loud) and silence (absence of sound).

Multiple choice

In the line "The world is too much with us; late and soon, / Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers," which of these is the Epigrammatic Oxymoron?

  1. The world is too much with us

  2. Late and soon

  3. Getting and spending

  4. Lay waste our powers
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Explanation

The phrase "The world is too much with us" is an oxymoron because it combines the contradictory ideas of the world being both too present and too distant.

Multiple choice

Identify the Epigrammatic Oxymoron in the following line: "My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun."

  1. My mistress' eyes

  2. Are nothing like the sun

  3. My mistress' eyes are nothing

  4. Like the sun
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Correct answer
Explanation

The phrase "My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun" is an oxymoron because it combines the contradictory ideas of similarity (like) and difference (nothing like).