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 softskills leadership

adorn

  1. false testimony while under oath

  2. long-lasting hatred

  3. decorate

  4. be violently disturbed
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To adorn is to 'decorate' or make more beautiful or attractive. 'False testimony' is perjury, and 'long-lasting hatred' is rancor.

Multiple choice softskills leadership

adroit

  1. that can be permeated

  2. without definite purpose, plan, or aim

  3. skillful (in using mind or hand)

  4. seine net
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Adroit means clever or 'skillful' in using the hands or mind. 'Can be permeated' is permeable, and 'without purpose' is aimless or haphazard.

Multiple choice softskills leadership

adulation

  1. allowing much freedom

  2. offensive in odor or flavor

  3. flattery

  4. pertaining to earthquakes
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Adulation is excessive admiration or 'flattery'. 'Allowing much freedom' is permissive, and 'pertaining to earthquakes' is seismic.

Multiple choice softskills leadership

adulterate

  1. very harmful

  2. irritate

  3. make impure or of poorer quality by adding inferior or tainted(contaminated) substances

  4. careful in choosing
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To adulterate is to 'make impure' by adding inferior substances. 'Very harmful' is pernicious, and 'careful in choosing' is selective or fastidious.

Multiple choice softskills leadership

Advent

  1. conclusion of an oration

  2. search thoroughly

  3. arrival

  4. excessive indulgence of one's own desire
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Advent refers to the 'arrival' of a notable person, thing, or event. 'Conclusion of an oration' is a peroration, and 'search thoroughly' is to ransack.

Multiple choice softskills leadership

adventitious

  1. commit an offense

  2. speak violently or excitedly

  3. accidental

  4. sure of one's own righteousness
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Adventitious means happening or carried on according to chance rather than design; 'accidental'. 'Commit an offense' is to perpetrate, and 'sure of righteousness' is self-righteous.

Multiple choice softskills leadership

adversary

  1. everlasting

  2. voracious

  3. opponent

  4. outward appearance
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An adversary is one's 'opponent' in a contest, conflict, or dispute. 'Voracious' means wanting great quantities of food, and 'outward appearance' is a semblance.

Multiple choice softskills leadership

acetic

  1. physician specializing in children's diseases

  2. deviate

  3. vinegary

  4. lash
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Acetic relates to or contains acetic acid, which gives vinegar its characteristic taste; thus 'vinegary'. 'Physician for children' is a pediatrician, and 'deviate' is to digress.

Multiple choice softskills leadership

acidulous

  1. ancestry

  2. drink greedily

  3. slightly sour (in taste or manner)

  4. frown angrily
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Acidulous means 'slightly sour' in taste or sharp in manner. 'Ancestry' is lineage, and 'drink greedily' is to quaff or guzzle.

Multiple choice softskills leadership

acme

  1. having no equal

  2. hit with a sweeping motion

  3. peak

  4. quarrelsome
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Acme is the point at which someone or something is best, perfect, or most successful; a 'peak'. 'Having no equal' is peerless, and 'quarrelsome' is fractious.

Multiple choice softskills leadership

acne

  1. bad-tempered

  2. lover of luxury

  3. skin disease (on the face)

  4. leftover food
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Acne is a common skin condition that causes pimples, blackheads, and blemishes, typically occurring on the face, back, and chest. It is not related to temperament, luxury, or food.

Multiple choice softskills leadership

acoustics

  1. (of a word or phrase) suggesting that someone is of little value

  2. servile flatterer

  3. science of sound

  4. unpleasant high sharp sound
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Acoustics is the branch of physics that deals with the study of sound, including its production, transmission, and effects. The other options describe unrelated concepts.

Multiple choice softskills leadership

acquiesce

  1. in confusion

  2. logical formula consisting of a major premise, a minor premise and a conclusion

  3. assent

  4. disorderly fight between two or more people
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Acquiesce means to accept or consent to something without protest, often reluctantly. It is synonymous with 'assent' or 'comply passively'. The other options are unrelated to this meaning.

Multiple choice softskills leadership

acrimonious

  1. self-imposed punishment for sin

  2. arrangement of parts so that balance is obtained

  3. stinging

  4. examine closely and critically
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Acrimonious means characterized by bitterness, anger, or harshness in speech, behavior, or relations. 'Stinging' captures this bitter, biting quality. The other options are unrelated.

Multiple choice softskills leadership

acrophobia

  1. strong inclination

  2. similarly timed

  3. fear of heights

  4. struggle confusedly
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Explanation

Acrophobia is an extreme or irrational fear of heights. The suffix '-phobia' indicates fear, and 'acro-' means high or summit. The other options are unrelated meanings.