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: In the following question, out of the given alternatives choose the one which best expresses the meaning of the underlined part of the sentence.

Many people buy talismans because they think these will bring them luck.

  1. amulets

  2. tokens

  3. lucky cards

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

It is a stone, ring, or other object, engraved with figures or characters supposed to possess occult powers and worn as an amulet or charm.

Multiple choice

Directions: In the following question, out of the given alternatives choose the one which best expresses the meaning of the underlined part of the sentence.

Methods of spreading the family planning message have been as fecund as they have been abortive.

  1. Fruitful

  2. Failing

  3. Flailing

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

It means 'producing or capable of producing offspring, fruit, vegetation, etc., in abundance'; prolific; fruitful: fecund parents; fecund farmland.

Multiple choice
Directions: Find the statement where the given word hasn't been used correctly. POCKET

  1. The speaker asked the audience to put their hands into their pockets and support the charity.

  2. Pocket all the lines given to you.

  3. He pocketed his pride and apologized.

  4. Those two are always together and live in each other's pockets.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

For option (1), the expression of pocket implies to give money, especially generously. For option (3), the expression used is 'to conceal or hold back the feeling'. For option (4), the expression implied is 'to be too dependent on each other'. For option (2), 'pocket all the lines given to you' is grammatically correct but theoretically, we packet physical things like cash, money, etc. and not abstract quantities. Thus, option (2) is incorrect usage of term pocket.