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 softskills leadership

engaging

  1. charming

  2. art of representing dances in written symbols

  3. pertaining to spring

  4. condition of being squalid
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Engaging means charming, attractive, or delightful in a way that captures interest. It describes something or someone that holds your attention pleasantly.

Multiple choice softskills leadership

engender

  1. cause

  2. chuckle with delight

  3. having many talents

  4. waste
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Engender means to cause, give rise to, or create a feeling or situation. It typically refers to producing an emotion, reaction, or condition.

Multiple choice softskills leadership

engross

  1. occupy fully

  2. phrase repeated throughout a song or poem

  3. having a backbone or spinal column

  4. crush
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Engross means to occupy fully or absorb the complete attention of someone. When you're engrossed in something, you're totally focused on it to the exclusion of other things.

Multiple choice softskills leadership

engulf

  1. surround and swallow up

  2. long established as a disease

  3. summit

  4. short and thick
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Engulf means to surround and swallow up completely, often used for fire, water, or overwhelming forces. Something that is engulfed is completely covered or consumed.

Multiple choice softskills leadership

enigma

  1. puzzle

  2. laugh quietly

  3. enthusiasm (as in artistic performance or composition)

  4. produce a splashing sound (when stepping through mud)
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Enigma means a puzzle, mystery, or something that is difficult to understand or explain. It describes a person or situation that is mysterious or perplexing.

Multiple choice softskills leadership

enlist

  1. (cause to) join the armed forces

  2. having minute hairs

  3. vested power to reject a bill

  4. (of water) not flowing (often bad-smelling)
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To enlist means to voluntarily sign up or register for military service. Option A accurately defines this military term. Option B describes 'pubescent', C describes 'veto power', and D describes 'stagnant' water.

Multiple choice softskills leadership

emetic

  1. substance causing vomiting

  2. small church (in a prison, college, or hospital)

  3. seller

  4. without attention to comfort
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An emetic is a medicinal substance that induces vomiting, often used in poisoning emergencies or medical procedures. Option A is the medically accurate definition. Option B describes 'chapel', C describes 'vendor', and D describes 'spartan' or austere conditions.

Multiple choice softskills leadership

eminent

  1. rising above others

  2. older person who accompanies and supervises a young unmarried woman

  3. thin surface layer (of good quality wood, glued to a base of inferior material)

  4. fitful
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Eminent means distinguished, outstanding, or famous, standing above others in rank, reputation, or ability. Option A captures this sense of superiority. Option B describes 'chaperone', C describes 'veneer', and D describes 'spasmodic' behavior.

Multiple choice softskills leadership

enrapture

  1. please intensely

  2. indirect or roundabout expression (by using an uncecessarily large number of words esp. when trying to avoid answering a difficult question directly)

  3. parish priest

  4. speak with involuntarily pauses or repetitions
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To enrapture means to give intense pleasure or delight to someone, filling them with joy or fascination. Option A correctly identifies this meaning. Option B describes 'circumlocution', C describes 'parson', and D describes 'stammer' or stutter.

Multiple choice softskills leadership

ensconce

  1. settle comfortably

  2. limit

  3. experienced as if one were taking part in the experience of another

  4. step on heavily (so as to crush or extinguish)
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To ensconce means to establish or settle oneself in a comfortable, safe, or secure place. Option A captures this sense of comfortable settling. Option B describes 'confine', C describes 'empathize' or 'vicarious', and D describes 'trample'.

Multiple choice softskills leadership

ensue

  1. follow (as a result)

  2. prudent

  3. change (esp. from good to bad)

  4. sudden frenzied rush (of panic-stricken animals or people)
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To ensue means to happen or occur afterward or as a result. Option A correctly identifies this as a consequence that follows. Option B describes 'discreet', C describes 'deteriorate', and D describes 'stampede'.

Multiple choice softskills leadership

enthrall

  1. capture

  2. quote

  3. watchful

  4. move suddenly or involuntarily
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Enthrall means to captivate, hold spellbound, or fascinate someone completely. 'Capture' in this context means capturing attention or interest, which is the closest synonym among the options. The other options - quoting, being watchful, or jerking suddenly - are unrelated to the concept of holding someone fascinated.

Multiple choice softskills leadership

entity

  1. real being

  2. having foresight

  3. small drawing placed at the beginning or end of a chapter

  4. having no motion
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Entity means a thing with distinct and independent existence. A real being is something that exists in reality, which matches the core meaning of entity as something with actual existence. The other options are unrelated: foresight is the ability to predict, a small drawing at chapter boundaries is a vignette, and having no motion is being stationary.

Multiple choice softskills leadership

entourage

  1. group of attendants

  2. loud continous noise

  3. despicable

  4. created by statute or legislative action
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Entourage refers to a group of attendants, associates, or supporters who accompany someone important. The word comes from French and conveys the idea of a surrounding group. The other options don't match: loud continuous noise is din or cacophony, despicable means contemptible, and created by statute is legislative.