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

OBLIQUITY :

  1. praise

  2. straightforwardness

  3. conformity

  4. self-righteousness

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

Obliquity refers to indirectness, lack of straightforwardness, or deviation from what is proper. Straightforwardness means being direct, honest, and clear - the opposite quality. Praise, conformity, self-righteousness, and depreciation are not antonyms of obliquity.

Multiple choice

ENERVATE :

  1. narrate

  2. enrage

  3. accomplish

  4. invigorate

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

Enervate means to weaken, drain energy from, or cause someone to feel exhausted. Invigorate means to give strength or energy to - the direct opposite. Narrate means to tell, enrage means to anger, accomplish means to achieve, acquiesce means to accept reluctantly - none are opposites.

Multiple choice

APOTHEOSIS :

  1. departure from tradition

  2. impatience with stupidity

  3. demotion from glory

  4. surrender to impulse

  5. cause for grief
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Apotheosis refers to elevation to divine status or highest glory. The opposite is removing someone from a position of glory or elevation.

Multiple choice

HARBINGER :

  1. ascetic

  2. miser

  3. counselor

  4. follower

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

A harbinger is someone or something that comes before and announces the approach of another. The opposite is someone who comes after or follows.

Multiple choice

SPUR :

  1. embitter

  2. discourage

  3. impress

  4. mislead

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

To spur means to encourage or stimulate action. The opposite is to discourage or deter someone from action.

Multiple choice

MEALY MOUTHED :

  1. hungry

  2. indefinite

  3. tightlipped

  4. sincere

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

Mealy-mouthed refers to indirect, evasive speech that avoids plain speaking. Sincere speech is direct and honest.

Multiple choice

DESICCATE :

  1. lengthen

  2. hallow

  3. exonerate

  4. saturate

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

To desiccate is to thoroughly dry something out by removing all moisture. The opposite is to saturate or make thoroughly wet.

Multiple choice

PROTRUSION :

  1. deep recess

  2. strong dislike

  3. growing scarcity

  4. illusion

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

Protrusion refers to something that extends outward or projects beyond a surface. The opposite is a deep recess or indentation.

Multiple choice

ENTICE :

  1. repel

  2. authorize

  3. baffle

  4. misplace

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

To entice is to attract or tempt someone by offering pleasure or advantage. The opposite is to repel or drive away.

Multiple choice

Directions: Choose the word similar in meaning to the underlined word.

The football coach had a sympathetic presence, albeit a commanding one.

  1. although

  2. futher more

  3. because

  4. not only
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Albeit means 'although' or 'even though' - it introduces a concessive clause. The sentence means the coach had a sympathetic presence even though it was also commanding. 'Furthermore' adds information, 'because' introduces causation, and 'not only' starts a correlative construction.

Multiple choice

Directions: Pick out the synonym.

FIASCO

  1. retreat

  2. art of painting on fresh plaster

  3. explosion

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

Fiasco means a complete and humiliating failure, especially one that is embarrassing or ridiculous. Option D 'failure' is the correct synonym. The other options are incorrect: A) retreat means to withdraw, not fail; B) This incorrectly describes 'fresco' (art on fresh plaster), not fiasco; C) explosion is not the same as fiasco.