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

Choose the set of words in which all are adjectives.

  1. Factious, factitious, facets, factions

  2. Avaricious, extirpate, halcyon, maudlin

  3. Refulgent, subliminal, irritable, pompous

  4. Testiness, irritability, vituperate, whittle

  5. Colander, cumbersome, diaphanous, transparent
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

All of these words are adjectives.

Multiple choice

Choose the set of words in which all are verbs.

  1. Penchant, inclination; predilection, rarefaction

  2. Repine, fret, stipulate, rarefy

  3. Habituated, recondite, feint, inured

  4. Diaphanous, transparent, mettlesome, damp

  5. Venal, maleficence, impede, gall
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B Correct answer
Explanation

All of these words are verbs.

Multiple choice

Choose the set of words in which all are nouns.

  1. Obscure, stygian, contiguous, adjacent

  2. Touting, virtuosity, contiguity, puissance

  3. Volubility, propriety, talkativeness, caret

  4. Ellipsis, extirpation, gaffe, hortatory

  5. Opprobrious, recumbent, ambidextrous, culpability
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C Correct answer
Explanation

All words in this cluster are nouns.

Multiple choice

Choose the cluster in which all the words are nouns.

  1. Analysis, paralysis, proximity, pertinent

  2. Egoistic, inculcate, impertinence, emergence

  3. Imaginary, cumulative, additive, exemplary

  4. Delegate, protestant, incumbent, proponent

  5. Empyrean, amendment, emendation, apparition
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
E Correct answer
Explanation

All the words in this group are nouns.

Multiple choice

Identify the cluster in which all words are verbs.

  1. Aphoristic, canonical, orthodox, commensurate

  2. Amalgamate, consolidate, exemplify, coerce

  3. Dissolute, prodigal, millinery, natty

  4. Dapper, Occluded, obscured, blocked

  5. Sidereal, avaricious, penance, stupidity
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

All words in this cluster are verbs.

Multiple choice

Identify the cluster in which all discourse markers show contrast or make a concession.

  1. In addition, in the same way, furthermore, moreover

  2. However, on the other hand, conversely, nevertheless

  3. To illustrate, generally speaking, in contrast, as a consequence

  4. Subsequently, regrettably, in other words, for the most part

  5. In fact, in addition, of course, therefore
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

All discourse markers in this group show contrast or make a concession.

Multiple choice

Choose the set of words in which all are nouns.

  1. Cardinal, deliberate, equivocal, feckless

  2. Equivocation, delicacy, initiative, imperturbability

  3. Imperturbable, tawdry, augury, equivocate

  4. Boycott, glib, slick, Incise

  5. Incisive, moralistic, ostracism, shunning
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B Correct answer
Explanation

All words in this cluster are nouns.

Multiple choice

Directions: The following item consists of a sentence followed by four words. Select the antonym of the word (occurring in the sentence in capital letters) as per the context.

The publisher told him that he needed to ABRIDGE some of the content of his novel, so as to make it under hundred pages.

  1. Lengthen

  2. Contract

  3. Stretch

  4. Reduce
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A Correct answer
Explanation

Here, lengthen is the correct option, as it implies to make the content greater in length. To contract is to decrease in size, stretch is to make something long or wider without tearing or breaking, and to reduce is to make something smaller or less in amount, degree or size.

Multiple choice

Directions: Choose the correct synonym for the word in bold.

Lethal

  1. unhealthy

  2. fatal

  3. beneficial

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

Here, fatal is the correct synonym of lethal as it implies something that causes death. Unhealthy implies something that is harmful to health, beneficial is something that has a positive effect and harmless is something not causing or incapable of causing harm.