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. Brassy

  2. Insubordinate

  3. Brazen

  4. Intrepid

  5. .

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

This is the correct option as an ‘intrepid’ is someone who is resolutely fearless and is courageous. Here, ‘audacious’ implies those soldiers who are invulnerable to fear or intimidation and are ready to face the enemy in any kind of a terrain.

Multiple choice
  1. Sociable

  2. Affable

  3. Surly

  4. Churlish

  5. .

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

This is the correct option as this is the synonym of ‘genial’. ‘Affable’ is someone who is easy and pleasant to speak to; someone who is gentle and gracious and ‘genial’ was Mother Teresa who had such a pleasant or friendly disposition or manner that everybody loved her.

Multiple choice
  1. Esurient

  2. Starve

  3. Robust

  4. Pale

  5. .

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

This is the correct option as to look ‘pale’ is to look feeble or weak and looking ‘haggard’ here is looking exhausted in appearance, as from prolonged suffering due to malaria.

Multiple choice
  1. Flawed

  2. Celestial

  3. Holy

  4. Perfect

  5. .

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D Correct answer
Explanation

This is the correct option as ‘perfect’ implies completely suited for a particular purpose or situation and ‘idyllic’ here implies a place that is excellent and delightful in all respects.

Multiple choice
  1. Bemoaned

  2. Repented

  3. Complained

  4. Rued

  5. .

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

This is the correct option as to ‘bemoan’ is to express grief over something and to ‘lament’ here is to epress grief over the death of their favourite Michael Jackson.

Multiple choice
  1. Shrivel

  2. Prosper

  3. Succeed

  4. Batten

  5. .

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B Correct answer
Explanation

This is the correct option as to prosper is to thrive or flourish in a healthy way and in this context, with the reduction in excise duty, the imported car dealers are expecting their sales to grow or develop more rapidly.

Multiple choice
  1. Elegant

  2. Boorish

  3. Awkward

  4. Gallant

  5. .

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

This is the correct option as ‘awkward’ is something that is lacking dexterity, proficiency, or skill; something that is clumsy and ‘gauche’ are the table manners that are lacking grace or social polish; manners that are awkward or tactless.

Multiple choice
  1. Assist

  2. Hardy

  3. Loving

  4. Like

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

The word 'Brave' means showing courage or fearlessness. 'Hardy' means capable of enduring difficult conditions or showing courage, which is the closest synonym among the options. 'Assist' means to help, 'Loving' means affectionate, and 'Like' is a preposition with different meanings.

Multiple choice
  1. Antonomous

  2. Juridical

  3. Voluntary

  4. Defect

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

'Discretionary' means something that is optional or available at one's discretion - it can be done or not done based on choice. 'Voluntary' means done by choice rather than obligation, which is the correct synonym. 'Antonomous' (misspelling of Autonomous) means self-governing, 'Juridical' means legal/judicial, and 'Defect' means a flaw.

Multiple choice
  1. Admit

  2. Grippe

  3. Disclaim

  4. Done

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A Correct answer
Explanation

'Concede' means to admit or acknowledge something is true, often reluctantly. 'Admit' means to acknowledge or confess, which is the correct synonym. 'Grippe' is an old term for influenza, 'Disclaim' means to deny or renounce, and 'Done' means completed.

Multiple choice
  1. Spelt

  2. Combat

  3. Instruction

  4. Certain

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C Correct answer
Explanation

'Injunction' means an authoritative warning, order, or court direction requiring someone to do or not do something. 'Instruction' means a direction or order, making it the correct synonym in this context. 'Spelt' is a type of grain or past tense of spell, 'Combat' means fighting, and 'Certain' means sure.

Multiple choice
  1. <font style="font-family:">Means</font>

  2. Verbal

  3. Sanity

  4. Face

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A Correct answer
Explanation

'Medium' in the context of means or method refers to an intervening agency or means. 'Means' refers to a method or way of doing something, which is the intended synonym here. 'Verbal' means spoken, 'Sanity' means mental soundness, and 'Face' is a body part or surface.

Multiple choice
  1. Pass by

  2. Plainness

  3. Supplementary

  4. Simple

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

'Additional' means something added or extra. 'Supplementary' means something added to complete or enhance something, which is the correct synonym. 'Pass by' means to go past, 'Plainness' means simplicity, and 'Simple' means not complex.

Multiple choice
  1. Acorn

  2. Biopic

  3. Organization

  4. Advance

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C Correct answer
Explanation

'Society' means an organized group of people with a shared purpose or community. 'Organization' means an organized body or group, which is the correct synonym. 'Acorn' is a seed, 'Biopic' is a film genre, and 'Advance' means forward movement.

Multiple choice
  1. Spoken

  2. Agency

  3. Sucker

  4. Sin

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

'Vocal' means relating to voice or produced by the voice. 'Spoken' means expressed orally through speech, which is the correct synonym. 'Agency' means action or intervention, 'Sucker' means a shoot or gullible person, and 'Sin' means wrongdoing.