English Language Challenge - Practice Set

SYNONYMS

1.  Perilous :

(a)    Hazardous

(b)    Rigorous

(c)    Resilient

(d)    Requisite

2.  Defect :

(a)    Loss

(b)    Harm

(c)    Shortcoming

(d)    Delicate

3.  Lurid :

(a)    Happy

(b)    Abundant

(c)    Bright

(d)    Shocking

ANTONYMS

4.  Flourish :

(a)    Perish

(b)    Degenerate

(c)    Decay

(d)    Dismiss

5.  Despair :

(a)    Sneer

(b)   Compliment

(c)   Irony

(d)   Hope

6.  Unnerved :

(a)    Confident

(b)    Nervous

(c)    Hopeful

(d)    Anxious

ONE WORD SUBSTITUTION

7.  Fear of height

(a)    Agoraphobia

(b)    Hydrophobia

(c)    Acrophobia

(d)    Pyro-phobia

8.  The highest point

(a)    Zenith

(b)    Height

(c)    Zeal

(d)    Ridge

9.  To struggle helplessly

(a)    Flounder

(b)    Founder

(c)    Fumble

(d)    Finger

ERROR CORRECTION

10.  Had the police not (a)/ reached here (b)/ on time, the traders would have robbed (c)/. 

11.  There will be no more supplies (a)/ unless all arrears of payment (b)/ were clearly by next Monday(c)/.

12.  The news of his father’s death (a)/ was not declared (b)/ so far (c)/.

IDIOMS & PHRASES

13.  To takes on one’s heel

(a)     To walk slowly

(b)    To run away

(c)    To March forward

(d)    To hop and jump

14.  To bite the dust

(a)    Eat voraciously

(b)    Have nothing to eat

(c)    Eat roots

(d)    To fail

15.  A bolt from the blue

(a)    A delayed event

(b)    An inexplicable to eat

(c)    An unexpected event

(d)    An unpleasant event

CORRECT SPELLING

16. (a)  Equinox                        (b)  Aquinox                 (c)    Iquenox               (d)  Equenox

17. (a)  Monoumania                 (b)  Monomonia            (c)   Monomania          (d)  Monoomania

SOLUTION

10.  (b) “would have” will be followed by ‘been’ 

11.  (b) Use ‘are’ in place of ‘were’ . Sentence is of Future Conditional. If two actions take place one after the other in future, the second depending on the first, the 1st action will be in simple Present Tense and 2nd action will be in Simple Future Tense. 

12.  (a) Change ‘was not declared’ into ‘has not been declared’. We do not use Simple Past Tense with ‘Yet’. Present Prefect Tense is preferred to Simple Past Tense. 

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