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 communication

Synonyms of optimistic

  1. hopeful

  2. reliable

  3. religious

  4. sanctimonious
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Explanation

Optimistic means hopeful and confident about the future. Hopeful is a direct synonym. Reliable, religious, and sanctimonious describe unrelated qualities - trustworthiness, faith, or fake piety.

Multiple choice softskills communication

Synonyms of pitiless

  1. sympathetic

  2. show kindness

  3. cruel

  4. without humour
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Explanation

Pitiless means showing no pity or compassion - cruel and merciless. Cruel is the correct synonym. Sympathetic and show kindness are antonyms. Without humour is unrelated.

Multiple choice softskills communication

Synonyms of ruddy

  1. repugnant

  2. colourless

  3. reddish in colour

  4. wrinkled
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Explanation

Ruddy means having a healthy red color, typically describing a complexion. Reddish in colour is the correct meaning. Repugnant means offensive, colourless means without color, and wrinkled describes texture.

Multiple choice softskills communication

Synonyms of authentic

  1. genuine

  2. honest

  3. false

  4. fabricated
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Authentic means genuine, real, or not fake - the original rather than a copy. Genuine is the correct synonym. Honest is related but different. False and fabricated are antonyms.

Multiple choice softskills communication

Make someone’s gorge rise

  1. To highly annoy someone

  2. To make someone’s mouth water

  3. To hurt someone on purpose

  4. To make someone feel jealous
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Explanation

Make someone's gorge rise means to cause someone to feel disgusted or nauseated - to highly offend or annoy them. It does not mean making someone's mouth water, hurting them, or making them jealous.

Multiple choice softskills communication

Synonyms of prone to

  1. tendency to be affected by something

  2. difficulty in solving something

  3. tendency to be aggressive

  4. difficulty in understanding new ideas
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Explanation

Prone to means having a tendency or inclination toward something - often something negative. Tendency to be affected by something correctly captures this meaning. The other options describe different concepts.

Multiple choice softskills leadership

ventral

  1. let down

  2. make greater

  3. abdominal

  4. abyss
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Explanation

Ventral refers to the belly or abdominal side of an animal or human body. In anatomical terms, it is the opposite of dorsal (back side).

Multiple choice softskills leadership

regent

  1. pertaining to the art of delineating

  2. urge on

  3. a person who governs in place of a ruler who is ill, absent, or still a child

  4. live in a monotonous way (without interests or activity)
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Explanation

A regent is a person appointed to govern a state or kingdom because the rightful ruler is a minor, absent, or incapacitated. Regents exercise ruling power temporarily in place of the monarch.

Multiple choice softskills leadership

renounce

  1. outward appearance

  2. fantastic

  3. abandon

  4. summit
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Explanation

To renounce means to formally give up, abandon, or reject a claim, right, or privilege. It involves a voluntary decision to leave something behind or declare that one no longer holds a particular belief or position.

Multiple choice softskills leadership

soluble

  1. small (often rural) community whose members share work and income

  2. accustom a baby not to nurse

  3. able to be dissolved in a liquid

  4. commemorate
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Explanation

Soluble means capable of being dissolved in a liquid, especially water. A substance is soluble if it can form a solution when mixed with a solvent.

Multiple choice softskills leadership

incarnation

  1. sticky

  2. branching out

  3. act of assuming a human body and human nature

  4. storehouse for grain
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Explanation

Incarnation refers to the act of assuming a human body and human nature, especially in religious contexts. It describes a spirit or deity taking on physical human form.

Multiple choice softskills leadership

mayhem

  1. let down

  2. vertebrate animal whose female suckles its young

  3. act of finding oneself in society

  4. injury to body
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Explanation

Mayhem refers to violent or damaging disorder and chaos. In a legal sense, it specifically refers to the crime of maliciously injuring a person's body. 'Injury to body' is the most relevant definition here.

Multiple choice softskills leadership

inimical

  1. easy to approach

  2. reparable

  3. (of someone) unfriendly

  4. someone who bears the blame for others
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Explanation

The word 'inimical' means tending to obstruct or harm, or being unfriendly and hostile. It describes someone or something that is antagonistic. The distractors define 'accessible', 'reparable', and 'scapegoat'.

Multiple choice softskills leadership

glaring

  1. top (as of a hill or wave)

  2. disloyal

  3. (of something bad) highly conspicuous

  4. poisonous
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Explanation

While 'glaring' can mean shining with a dazzling light, it is frequently used figuratively to describe something (usually a mistake or problem) that is highly conspicuous or obvious. The other options are definitions for 'crest', 'treacherous', and 'toxic'.