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 correct meaning of the given word.

Carnage

  1. Excessive killing specially during epidemic

  2. Excessive killing specially in malaria

  3. Excessive killing specially in city

  4. Excessive killing specially in battle
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Carnage refers to the killing of a large number of people, especially in a violent or brutal manner. Option D correctly identifies this as excessive killing specially in battle, which accurately captures the context where carnage typically occurs.

Multiple choice

Directions: Select the correct meaning of the given word.

Charge

  1. Old

  2. Find

  3. Attack

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

In the context of meaning, 'charge' most commonly refers to a rush or attack against an enemy or position. While charge has other meanings like cost, fee, or electrical charge, 'Attack' is the best fit among the given options. 'Old', 'Find', and 'Dim' are not standard meanings of charge.

Multiple choice

Directions: Select the correct meaning of the given word.

Absolute

  1. The whole

  2. All

  3. Complete

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

Absolute means complete, total, or perfect - without any limits, conditions, or qualifications. Among the options, 'Complete' best captures this core meaning of being total and unconditional. 'The whole', 'All', and 'Full' are related but don't fully convey the sense of absolute being unconditional or unlimited.

Multiple choice

Directions: Select the correct meaning of the given word.

Ancient

  1. Modern

  2. Old

  3. Waste

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

Ancient means very old, belonging to the distant past, or dating from antiquity. 'Old' directly captures this meaning of something from long ago. 'Modern' is the opposite, while 'Waste' and 'Modest' are unrelated to the concept of age or antiquity.

Multiple choice

Which of the alternatives given below is the correct synonym of ‘constant’ as used in the passage?

Directions: Read the passage carefully and answer the following question.

The Pacific Ring of Fire is the name that is given to a horseshoe shaped area in the Pacific Ocean which extends from South America and North America to Eastern Asia, Australia and New Zealand. This area is famous for its constant seismic activity and because of the amount of active volcanoes that can be found here. 75% of dormant and active volcanoes are found in the Pacific Ring of Fire. Now it is known that the area is very close to several tectonic plates which may be what influences the violent activity in the area. It is believed that the Pacific Ring of Fire has a total of 452 volcanoes. Some of the world’s most active volcanoes are found here. The volcanoes can be very dangerous to the population nearby. The Pacific Ring of Fire is different today than it was thousands of years ago because of the changes caused by tectonic plates. The Pacific Plate will hit other plates nearby and that causes them to sink. The crust melts producing the magma that feeds the different volcanoes in the Pacific Ring of Fire or it will help produce new volcanoes. The tectonic plates are the reason for the many violent earthquakes in the entire area of the pacific.

  1. perpetual

  2. uninterrupted

  3. steady

  4. ephemeral

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

Perpetual indicates something that continues forever or lasts for an indefinite time. Something that occurs repeatedly and so frequently as to seem endless and uninterrupted is perpetual. The context indicates that some form of seismic activity keeps taking place at any given piont of time in the Pacific Ring of Fire.

Multiple choice

Choose the set of words in which all are adjectives.

  1. Dispatch, epistemology, stubborn, wayward

  2. Disobedient, supine, untoward, verisimilar

  3. Venal, maleficence, penance, porous

  4. Analysis, tertiary, incumbency, auditory

  5. Abate, abjure, renounce, blandishment
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

All words in this group are adjectives.

Multiple choice

Choose the set of words in which all are verbs.

  1. Discernment, perceptiveness, encomium, Inveigle

  2. Coax, cajole, wheedle, entice

  3. Runic, mysterious, irate, anachronistic

  4. Chronic, churlishness, demagogue, effrontery

  5. Prelate, precipitate, delegate, accretion
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

All words in this group are verbs.