General Competition Exam - English Quiz

Directions (1–5) : Out of the four alternatives, choose the one which expresses the right meaning of the given word.

1.  INEVITABLE
(a) Unavoidable
(b) Probable
(c) Expected
(d) Fixed



2.  LAPIDARY
(a) High- sounding
(b) Abusive
(c) Dignified
(d) Harmful

3.  CONSOLIDATE
(a) Contrive
(b) Connive
(c) Unite
(d) Conspire

4.  AVARICIOUS
(a) Abundant
(b) Envious
(c) Greedy
(d) Unwilling

5.  PETTIFOGGING
(a) Lenient
(b) Unimportant
(c) Stable
(d) Strong

Directions (6 - 10): In the following questions four words have been written out of which three are correctly spelt and one is wrongly spelt. Find the wrongly spelt word out of the four responses.

6.
(a) efficient
(b) sufficient
(c) magnificient
(d) proficient

7.
(a) transferred
(b) referred
(c) suffered
(d) daferred

8.
(a) proceed
(b) exceed
(c) superseed
(d) succeed

9.
(a) admonish
(b) aborigin
(c) aberration
(d) agrarian

10.
(a) confidant
(b) confiscate
(c) conjecture
(d) conversent

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