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

Find the odd one out.

  1. Rude

  2. Candid

  3. Blunt

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

(a) Rude is impertinent; others are straight forward.

Multiple choice

Directions: Pick the odd one out.

  1. Ponder

  2. Brood

  3. Contemplate

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

All the words except trauma mean thinking deeply about something. Trauma means shock/ injury.

Multiple choice

Directions: Pick the odd one out.

  1. Baffle

  2. Mystify

  3. Lucid

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

All the words except lucid are synonymous. Lucid means expressed clearly; easy to understand.

Multiple choice

Directions: Pick the odd one out.

  1. Prodigal

  2. Stingy

  3. Parsimonious

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

Options 2, 3 & 4 mean giving or spending grudgingly or only through necessity. Option 1 means exceedingly or recklessly wasteful.

 

Multiple choice

Directions: Pick the odd one out.

  1. Subservient

  2. Submissive

  3. Henpecked

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

Assertive is antonymous to all the other options here. It means having or showing a confident and forceful personality.

Multiple choice

Directions: Pick the odd one out.

  1. Surfeit

  2. Scanty

  3. Plethora

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

All the other words except scanty refer to excess of something. Scanty refers to small or insufficient in quantity or amount.

Multiple choice

Directions: Pick the odd one out.

  1. Jocular

  2. Jovial

  3. Loner

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

Options 1, 2 and 4. All are related to joking; humorous; full of fun. Option 3 refers to a person who prefers to be independent of others as by living or working alone.

 

Multiple choice

Directions: Pick the odd one out.

  1. Weak

  2. Lackadaisical

  3. Languid

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

Fresher refers to a first-year student. All the other options are related to being dull.

Multiple choice

Directions: Pick the odd one out.

  1. Eerie

  2. Uncanny

  3. Bizarre

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

Erudite refers to learned or scholarly whereas other options are related to strange or unknown.

Multiple choice

Directions: Pick the odd one out.

  1. Fop

  2. Quaint

  3. Dandy

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

Quaint refers to old-fashioned whereas other words are used to refer to someone (esp. male) who is too much concerned about his clothing.

Multiple choice

Directions: Pick the odd one out.

  1. Industrious

  2. Diligent

  3. Lenient

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

Industrious, diligent and alert describe someone who is very serious and clever at work. Lenient is usually associated with a soft approach.