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
  1. Ardor

  2. Distress

  3. Fervor

  4. Passion

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Zeal means intense enthusiasm, as in working for a cause; ardent endeavor or devotion; ardor; fervor. Except 'distress' all the other options mean the same. Distress means to cause sorrow, misery, or suffering to; pain.

Multiple choice
  1. Ugly

  2. Discredit

  3. Order

  4. None of these

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

Revolting means causing disgust or strong distaste. Ugly is an approximate synonym in the sense that something revolting is visually or morally offensive, though more precise synonyms would be disgusting or repulsive. Discredit and Order are unrelated.

Multiple choice
  1. Insert

  2. Irritating

  3. Polymerization

  4. None of these

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Aggravating means causing irritation or annoyance, making irritating a direct synonym. Insert means to place something, and Polymerization is a chemical process - neither relates to the meaning of aggravating.

Multiple choice
  1. Emblem

  2. Embargo

  3. Concrete

  4. Settlement

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Disposition primarily means a person's inherent qualities or temperament. Settlement can be a synonym only in specific legal contexts (disposing of a case), but Emblem and Embargo are completely unrelated. This is a weak synonym match.

Multiple choice
  1. Missile

  2. Mislead

  3. Comer

  4. None of these

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Delude means to mislead or deceive someone, making mislead a direct synonym. Missile is a weapon, Comer is not related to deception, and None of these is incorrect since mislead is the correct answer.