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

finicky

  1. too particular

  2. abstaining from sexual intercourse

  3. waver (in opinion)

  4. lending money at illegal high rates of interest
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Finicky means showing great attention to detail, being fussy, or too particular about small details. Option A correctly defines this term. The distractors are different concepts: celibate (abstaining from sex), vacillate (waver in opinion), and usurious (lending at illegal rates).

Multiple choice softskills leadership

finished

  1. properly made and complete

  2. (in ancient Rome) overseer of morals (also taking the census)

  3. wanderer (without a permanent home)

  4. excessively submissive or devoted to one's wife
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Finished means completed, properly made, or brought to a final state, which matches option A. The distractors represent other vocabulary words: censor (Roman moral overseer), vagrant (wanderer), and uxorious (devoted to wife).

Multiple choice softskills leadership

finite

  1. limited

  2. severely critical

  3. capricious happening

  4. waver (in opinion)
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Finite means having limits or bounds, not infinite. Option A correctly defines this term. The other options are unrelated words: captious (severely critical), caprice (capricious happening), and vacillate (waver in opinion).

Multiple choice softskills leadership

fissure

  1. crevice

  2. mythical figure, half man and half horse

  3. full of self-admiration

  4. wanderer (without a permanent home)
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A fissure is a long, narrow opening or line of breakage, such as a crack, crevice, or split. Option A correctly defines this term. The other options represent different concepts: centaur (mythical half-man, half-horse), conceited (full of self-admiration), and vagrant (wanderer).

Multiple choice softskills leadership

fit

  1. sudden outburst of an illness or feeling

  2. denoting a widely used temperature scale (basically same as Celsius)

  3. boastful

  4. capricious happening
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Multiple choice softskills leadership

flaccid

  1. flabby

  2. machine that separates substances by whirling them

  3. pertaining to farewell

  4. full of self-admiration
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Multiple choice softskills leadership

flail

  1. beat with or as if with a flail

  2. pertaining to the brain or intellect

  3. bravery

  4. pertaining to farewell
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Multiple choice softskills leadership

flagrant

  1. conspicuously wicked, bad, or offensive

  2. Roman army officer (commanding a company of about 100 soldiers)

  3. make valid

  4. saying farewell
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Multiple choice softskills leadership

foolhardy

  1. rash

  2. delicate

  3. appearance of truth

  4. green coating or patina on copper which has been exposed to the weather
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Multiple choice softskills leadership

foppish

  1. vain about dress and appearance

  2. group of people who sing together (esp. during religious services)

  3. being truly so

  4. border
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Multiple choice softskills leadership

fleet

  1. fast

  2. annoyance and disappointment

  3. in feudalism, one who held land of a superior lord

  4. change the appearance of (by marking with different colors)
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As an adjective, "fleet" means fast or swift (e.g., "fleet of foot"). The other options describe annoyance, a feudal vassal, or changing appearance, which do not define "fleet."