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

expertise

  1. specialized knowledge (in a particular field)

  2. admit

  3. refuse to give

  4. bad-tempered
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Expertise means specialized knowledge or skill in a particular field or area. It's about being an expert. 'Admit' and 'refuse to give' are unrelated to expertise.

Multiple choice softskills leadership

expiate

  1. make amends for (a sin)

  2. vanity or self-love

  3. stand up against

  4. guess
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Expiate means to make amends for a wrong or sin, often through some form of atonement. It's about redressing guilt. 'Vanity' is excessive pride, unrelated to making amends.

Multiple choice softskills leadership

expletive

  1. meaningless word

  2. having a common center

  3. lacking intelligence or wit

  4. overcome
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An expletive is a meaningless word or phrase used to fill out a sentence or to express emotion. In grammar, it's also a word that fills a syntactic role without adding meaning. 'Concentric' means sharing the same center.

Multiple choice softskills leadership

expos\'e

  1. public revelation of something discreditable

  2. reconciling

  3. great sorrow

  4. close observation of a person (esp. one under suspicion)
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An exposé is a public revelation or disclosure of something discreditable, usually through media. It exposes hidden truths. 'Surveillance' is close but refers to the act of watching, not the revelation.

Multiple choice softskills leadership

expository

  1. explanatory

  2. brief and compact

  3. sad

  4. impressionable
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Expository means explanatory or intended to explain something. It describes writing or speech that's designed to inform or clarify. 'Brief and compact' would be 'concise', unrelated to explanation.

Multiple choice softskills leadership

exposure

  1. risk, particularly of being exposed to disease or to the elements

  2. decisive

  3. engrossed in matters of this earth

  4. state of being undecided
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Exposure refers to being subjected to something, often risk or harm. Option A correctly captures the sense of vulnerability, particularly to disease or weather. The other options define unrelated words.

Multiple choice softskills leadership

expound

  1. explain

  2. prepare by mixing or combining

  3. quarrel noisily

  4. suffer (harm or loss)
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Expound means to present or explain a theory or idea in detail. Option A correctly identifies this meaning. The other options represent completely different actions (prepare, quarrel, suffer).

Multiple choice softskills leadership

expurgate

  1. clean

  2. formal agreement

  3. twist

  4. walk or behave with an over-confident manner
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Expurgate means to remove objectionable material from a text or work. Option A captures this as clean in the sense of purification. The other options are unrelated (agreement, twist, walk confidently).

Multiple choice softskills leadership

exquisite

  1. delicate

  2. agree

  3. obtain by pulling violently

  4. wetland
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Exquisite describes something of beautiful quality or fine craftsmanship. Option A correctly identifies delicate as one key aspect, though the full meaning includes beauty and exceptional quality. The other options are unrelated.

Multiple choice softskills leadership

extant

  1. (of something written or painted) still in existence

  2. happening at the same time

  3. miserable person

  4. large group of insects moving in a mass
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Extant describes something that has survived, typically a manuscript or document from the past. Option A precisely captures this meaning of still in existence. The other options define unrelated words.

Multiple choice softskills leadership

extemporaneous

  1. not planned

  2. (derog.) bestow courtesies with a superior air

  3. twist (to extract liquid)

  4. (of a skin or complexion) dark
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Extemporaneous refers to speaking or performing without preparation. Option A correctly captures not planned as the core meaning. The other options define different concepts (condescending behavior, twisting, dark complexion).

Multiple choice softskills leadership

extenuate

  1. weaken

  2. adequate

  3. small ridge on a smooth surface (face or cloth)

  4. swath
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Extenuate means to reduce the strength or seriousness of something, especially a fault or offense. Option A captures this as weaken. The other options are unrelated concepts (adequate, ridge, swath).

Multiple choice softskills leadership

extraneous

  1. not essential

  2. aqueduct

  3. strong desire

  4. (of a person) suffer from oppressive heat
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Extraneous describes something irrelevant or not belonging to the matter at hand. Option A correctly identifies not essential as the core meaning. The other options define unrelated words (aqueduct, desire, sweltering).

Multiple choice softskills leadership

extrapolation

  1. projection

  2. trusted friend (to whom one tells one's secret)

  3. man or farmer owning small estate

  4. deviate
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Extrapolation refers to estimating or projecting data beyond known range using current trends. 'Projection' (A) is correct as it captures extending something based on existing patterns. 'Trusted friend' (B) refers to 'confidante', 'small estate owner' (C) is unrelated, and 'deviate' (D) means to stray from a path.

Multiple choice softskills leadership

extricate

  1. free from an entanglement or difficulty

  2. tell in confidence (to a person one trusts)

  3. amount produced

  4. drink greedily
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Extricate means to free someone or something from a difficult situation or entanglement. Option A correctly defines this. 'Tell in confidence' (B) is 'confide', 'amount produced' (C) is 'output' or 'yield', and 'drink greedily' (D) is 'gulp'.