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: Select the most appropriate eponym or toponym as per the description/ definition given in the question.

When you refuse to have anything to do with anyone

  1. Bowdlerize

  2. Boycott

  3. Proscribe

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

Charles Boycott was a retired English army captain who refused to lower rents to his farmer tenants after a few bad harvests and was accused of exploiting the poor. The locals harassed him, stealing his crops and refusing to sell his products in their stores, until he was hounded out of the country.

Multiple choice

Directions: Select the most appropriate eponym or toponym as per the description/ definition given in the question.

An unwitting source of many problems or great suffering

  1. Achilles’ tendon

  2. Pandora’s Box

  3. Caesar Cipher

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

Pandora’s Box - after Pandora – a woman in Greek mythology who was sent a box by Zeus and despite the latter’s warning, opened the box and released all the evils into the world.

Multiple choice

Directions: Select the most appropriate eponym or toponym as per the description/ definition given in the question.

Profile or shadow of a face

  1. Silhouette

  2. Statuette

  3. Lazaretto

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

Silhouette - Name of a French Finance Minister, characterized by his ineptness both in the ministry and in amateur portrait making a drawing consisting of the outline of something, especially a human profile, filled in with a solid color.