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

Directions: Choose the nearest meaning to the word in bold.

Impulsive people often make mistakes as they tend to act on the spur of the moment.

  1. one who acts before thinking

  2. one who is rational

  3. one who is pessimistic

  4. one who is carefree
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Impulsive means acting suddenly without careful thought or planning. The phrase 'on the spur of the moment' reinforces this meaning - someone who acts before thinking through consequences.

Multiple choice

Directions: Choose the nearest meaning to the word in bold.

She is a career oriented spinster and still does not intend settling down.

  1. aged divorced woman

  2. unmarried middle aged woman

  3. a business minded woman

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

Historically, spinster referred to an unmarried woman, typically beyond the usual marrying age. While the term has acquired some negative connotations, in this context it means an unmarried middle-aged woman focused on her career.

Multiple choice

Directions: Find a word which substitutes the words underlined in the sentence.

He is well-known for his art of presenting speech in a dramatic and passionate way during school competitions.

  1. recitation

  2. declamation

  3. oration

  4. elocution

  5. rhetoric
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Declamation is the act of ‘uttering or delivering words in a rhetorical or impassioned way, as if to an audience’. Declamation is thus the apt word substitution for the underlined words - reciting in a dramatic and passionate way.

Multiple choice

Directions: Find a word which substitutes the words underlined in the sentence.

It is not unusual to find the public places in our city to be covered with unauthorised writings and drawings.

  1. billboard

  2. hoarding

  3. graffiti

  4. advertisement

  5. pamphlet
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

The word graffiti means - writing or drawings scribbled, scratched or sprayed illicitly on a wall or other surface in a public place. It is thus the apt word substitution.