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

jostle

  1. shove

  2. provide or use scantily

  3. friendship

  4. make liquids murky by stirring up sediment
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Jostle means to push, elbow, or bump against someone roughly, typically in a crowd. It implies forceful contact to make space. Option B means to provide minimally, option C is about friendship, and option D refers to stirring up sediment - none relate to physical pushing.

Multiple choice softskills leadership

jovial

  1. good-natured

  2. miser

  3. loss of memory

  4. (of land) rising and falling in long gentle slopes
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Jovial means friendly, cheerful, and good-natured in manner. It describes someone who is warm and pleasant in social interactions. Option B (miser) is the opposite - a stingy person, option C means amnesia (memory loss), and option D describes geographical terrain - none relate to a friendly personality.

Multiple choice softskills leadership

jubilation

  1. rejoicing

  2. minor fight

  3. pardon (allowed by government to political criminals)

  4. play or frolic boisterously
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Jubilation means a feeling of great happiness or triumph, specifically rejoicing. It expresses exuberant celebration at good news or success. Option B means a small conflict, option C refers to political pardons, and option D means energetic play - none capture the meaning of triumphant celebration.

Multiple choice softskills communication

deity

  1. a god

  2. , extravagantly romantic or idealistic

  3. highly impractical

  4. evenness of temper or mind
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

A deity is defined as a god or goddess. Option A correctly identifies the core meaning. The other options describe different concepts entirely - extravegantly romantic behavior, impracticality, and mental composure - none of which relate to the definition of "deity."

Multiple choice softskills communication

Perfect or highly accomplished

  1. impropriety

  2. sinister

  3. consummate

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

"Consummate" means complete or perfect, especially referring to skill or accomplishment. This matches the definition given. "Impropiety" means improper behavior, "sinister" means threatening or evil, and "slovenly" means messy or careless - none of which mean perfect or accomplished.

Multiple choice softskills communication

retrieve

  1. to make good; to recover

  2. sentimental to the point of tears

  3. entertaining

  4. inclined, through some whim or fancy change the mind, purpose, or actions suddenly
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

"Retrieve" means to recover or bring back something. Option A's definition "to make good; to recover" correctly captures this meaning. The other options describe being overly emotional, entertaining, or suddenly changing one's mind - none of which relate to retrieving.

Multiple choice softskills communication

to check or hinder

  1. inhibit

  2. delectable

  3. obdurate

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

"Inhibit" means to restrain, hold back, or hinder - exactly what the definition states. The other options are unrelated: "delectable" means delicious, "obdurate" means stubborn, and "obtrusive" means noticeable or intrusive.

Multiple choice softskills communication

potent

  1. brag, glory over

  2. a gentle wind, breeze

  3. having great power or physical strength

  4. moral corruption; badness
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

"Potent" means having great power, strength, or effect. Option C correctly defines it. The other options describe boasting, a gentle breeze, and moral corruption - none of which relate to power or strength.

Multiple choice softskills communication

mild; harmless

  1. dais

  2. ostensible

  3. furtive

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

"Benign" means gentle, harmless, or not dangerous - matching the definition given. The distractors are: "dais" (a platform), "ostensible" (apparent rather than actual), and "furtive" (secretive or sneaky) - none of which mean mild or harmless.

Multiple choice softskills communication

periodic; occasional

  1. impenitent

  2. intermittent

  3. curmudgeon

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

Intermittent means occurring at irregular intervals, not continuous or permanent. Impenitent means not showing regret. Curmudgeon is a bad-tempered person. Exhume means to dig out of the ground.

Multiple choice softskills communication

shabby in appearance

  1. dowdy

  2. saturate

  3. tribunal

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

Dowdy describes something unfashionable, shabby, or worn out in appearance. Saturate means to fill to capacity. Tribunal is a type of court. Abbreviate means to shorten.

Multiple choice softskills communication

opprobrium

  1. Disgrace arising from exceedingly shameful conduct; ignominy.

  2. A substance which draws tissue together, thus restricting the flow of blood.

  3. The formation of a powdery surface on crystals, as a hydrate is converted to anhydrous form by losing loosely bound water of crystallization to the atmosphere.

  4. A device for measuring time, such as a watch or clock
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Opprobrium means public disgrace or shame resulting from shameful conduct. Option A is the correct definition. Option B describes an astringent. Option C describes efflorescence. Option D describes a chronometer.

Multiple choice softskills communication

foresail

  1. an unimportant or insignificant person

  2. release from slavery, freedom, the act of manumitting

  3. The lowest (and usually the largest) square sail hung on the foremast

  4. That which shoots off or separates from a main stem, channel, family, race, etc.; as, the offshoots of a tree.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

A foresail is the lowest and usually largest square sail on the foremast of a sailing ship. Option A describes a nonentity. Option B describes manumission. Option D describes an offshoot.

Multiple choice softskills communication

turgid

  1. Having an odor or fragrance.

  2. Either descended from the same attested source lexeme of ancestor language, or held on the grounds of the methods of historical linguistics to be regular reflexes of the unattested, reconstructed form of proto-language.

  3. Distended beyond the natural state by some internal agent, especially fluid, or expansive force

  4. Native to a particular area or culture; originating where it occurs.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Turgid means swollen, distended, or bloated beyond the natural state by internal fluid or pressure. Option A describes fragrant. Option B describes cognate. Option D describes indigenous.