Tag: softskills

Badinage means light, playful, or teasing conversation or banter. Option B is correct. Curse (A) and abuse (C) are opposites - badinage is friendly, not hostile. 'Bad image' (D) is a trap based on the word sounding like 'bad'.

Beguile can mean to deceive, mislead, or charm someone into doing something. 'Deceive' (A) is the primary meaning here. Encourage (B) is opposite - beguiling often involves trickery. Attract (C) is a secondary meaning but less direct than deceive. 'Feeling guilty' (D) is unrelated.

Baroque refers to an ornate, elaborate, and flamboyant style in art and architecture. 'Flamboyant' (D) best captures this meaning. Barred (A) is incorrect spelling trap. Unimportant (B) and dull (C) are opposites - baroque is anything but dull or simple.

Blasphemous means irreverent toward something sacred or holy. Iconoclastic (C) means attacking established beliefs or institutions, which overlaps with blasphemy. Trivial (A) means unimportant. Quarrelsome (B) means argumentative. 'Role model' (D) is unrelated. Note: Iconoclastic is closest but not perfect; 'sacrilegious' would be more accurate.

Beatitude means supreme blessedness or happiness, often used in religious contexts. 'Blessedness' (A) is the correct meaning. Beautiful (B) is unrelated. Attitude (C) is a spelling trap - beatitude is not 'a beatitude'. Magnitude (D) means greatness in size.

Collective nouns like 'team' take singular verbs when the group acts as one unit. 'Has' (A) is correct because 'team' is singular. 'Have' (B) is plural - wrong for a singular subject. 'Are' (C) and 'is' (D) are forms of 'to be', not 'to have'.

This is a duplicate of question 126770. Collective nouns like 'team' take singular verbs when the group acts as one unit. 'Has' (A) is correct. Same reasoning applies.

After prepositions like 'with', use the gerund (-ing) form. 'Travelling' (A) is the gerund and is correct. 'Travel' (B) is base form - wrong after preposition. 'To Travel' (C) is infinitive - wrong after 'with'. 'Travelled' (D) is past tense - wrong after 'with'.

With time words like 'today', 'yesterday', 'tomorrow' used as nouns, we use possessive 's' but without 'the'. 'Today's' (A) is correct. 'The today's' (B) is wrong - we don't use 'the' with these possessives. 'A today's' (C) is wrong - never use 'a'. 'This day's' (D) is incorrect form.

After the verb 'hear' in past tense ('I heard'), we use the bare infinitive (base form) without 'to' when the action is being performed. 'I heard you sing' (B) is grammatically correct. 'To sing' would use the infinitive marker incorrectly after 'heard'.