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Today, in this English quiz we are providing 15 Previous Years Questions With Detailed Solutions. To make you learn English Grammar and vocabulary effectively is the motive behind the provided quiz. Attempt this quiz and prepare yourself flawlessly. We wish you good luck for the upcoming Exams.
Q1. PERVERSE
(a) Agreeable
(b) Nefarious
(c) Compliant
(d) Willing
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Q2. EXEMPTION
(a) Hostility
(b) Security
(c) Peculiarity
(d) Immunity
Ans.(b)
Sol. Perverse: showing a deliberate and obstinate desire to behave in a way that is unreasonable or unacceptable.
Nefarious: wicked or criminal.
Hence Perverse and Nefarious are synonyms to each other.
Sol. Perverse: showing a deliberate and obstinate desire to behave in a way that is unreasonable or unacceptable.
Nefarious: wicked or criminal.
Hence Perverse and Nefarious are synonyms to each other.
Q2. EXEMPTION
(a) Hostility
(b) Security
(c) Peculiarity
(d) Immunity
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Directions (3-4): In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the word opposite in meaning to the word given.
Q3. To Maneuver
(a) To proceed
(b) To manipulate
(c) To cease
(d) To machinate
Q4. To avert
(a) To deter
(b) To aid
(c) To forestall
(d) To preclude
Directions (5-6): In the following questions, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the idiom/phrase.
Q5. To go to somebody’s head.
(a) To have a huge ego
(b) To complain to the highest authority
(c) To make someone dizzy or slightly drunk
(d) To arrive at the central point of the topic
Ans.(d)
Sol. Exemption: the action of feeling or state of being free from an obligation or liability imposed on others.
Immunity: protection or exemption from something, especially an obligation or penalty.
Hence Exemption and Immunity are synonyms to each other.
Sol. Exemption: the action of feeling or state of being free from an obligation or liability imposed on others.
Immunity: protection or exemption from something, especially an obligation or penalty.
Hence Exemption and Immunity are synonyms to each other.
Directions (3-4): In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the word opposite in meaning to the word given.
Q3. To Maneuver
(a) To proceed
(b) To manipulate
(c) To cease
(d) To machinate
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Ans.(c)
Sol. To maneuver: to handle and move something carefully or with difficulty
To cease: to being something to an end.
Hence ‘To Maneuver’ and ‘To cease’ are antonyms to each other.
Sol. To maneuver: to handle and move something carefully or with difficulty
To cease: to being something to an end.
Hence ‘To Maneuver’ and ‘To cease’ are antonyms to each other.
Q4. To avert
(a) To deter
(b) To aid
(c) To forestall
(d) To preclude
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Ans.(b)
Sol. To avert: to keep from happening.
To aid: to give assistance.
Hence ‘To avert’ and ‘To aid’ are antonyms to each other.
Sol. To avert: to keep from happening.
To aid: to give assistance.
Hence ‘To avert’ and ‘To aid’ are antonyms to each other.
Directions (5-6): In the following questions, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the idiom/phrase.
Q5. To go to somebody’s head.
(a) To have a huge ego
(b) To complain to the highest authority
(c) To make someone dizzy or slightly drunk
(d) To arrive at the central point of the topic
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Ans.(c)
Sol. Option C is the correct meaning.
Sol. Option C is the correct meaning.
Q6. To put a spoke in one’s wheel.
(a) To be advantageous at the time of difficulty.
(b) To maintain under all circumstances.
(c) To blame the other party.
(d) To put a difficulty in the way of progress
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Ans.(d)
Sol. Option D is the correct meaning.
Sol. Option D is the correct meaning.
Directions (7-8): In the following question, the sentence given with blank to be filled in with an appropriate word, select the correct alternative out of the four and indicate it by selecting the appropriate option.
Q7. He __________ to the problem of air pollution in his speech.
(a) averted
(b) adverted
(c) exclaimed
(d) mentioned
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Ans.(b)
Sol. Advert is the correct intransitive verb to use here which means ‘to call attention in the course of speaking or writing and is used with preposition ‘to’.
Hence option B is the correct usage.
Sol. Advert is the correct intransitive verb to use here which means ‘to call attention in the course of speaking or writing and is used with preposition ‘to’.
Hence option B is the correct usage.
Q8. Rohan is so magnanimous that everyone is always ____________ to help him in his project.
(a) eager
(b) enthusiastic
(c) reluctant
(d) ignorant
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Ans.(a)
Sol. Magnanimous denotes a positive meaning which means generous or forgiving. Hence, using ‘eager’ is the right choice as Eager means keenly expectant or interested.
Hence option ‘A’ is the correct usage.
Sol. Magnanimous denotes a positive meaning which means generous or forgiving. Hence, using ‘eager’ is the right choice as Eager means keenly expectant or interested.
Hence option ‘A’ is the correct usage.
Directions (9-10): Improve the bracketed part of the sentence.
Q9. She is (the best and wisest) girl in the class.
(a) best and the wisest
(b) a best and a wisest
(c) the best and the wisest
(d) No Improvement
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Ans.(c)
Sol. Use article ‘the’ before the superlative degree of adjective in a sentence. As ‘best’ and ‘wisest’ both are the superlative degree of adjective.
Hence option ‘C’ improves the bracketed part of the sentence.
Sol. Use article ‘the’ before the superlative degree of adjective in a sentence. As ‘best’ and ‘wisest’ both are the superlative degree of adjective.
Hence option ‘C’ improves the bracketed part of the sentence.
Q10. The people of Japan are (wiser than America).
(a) wiser than that of America
(b) wiser than those of America
(c) wiser to that of America
(d) No Improvement
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Ans.(b)
Sol. First of all, comparison has been made between the people from two countries not between the countries.
Hence ‘than those of America’ is an apt choice as ‘those’ is used for living beings’
Option B is the correct usage.
Sol. First of all, comparison has been made between the people from two countries not between the countries.
Hence ‘than those of America’ is an apt choice as ‘those’ is used for living beings’
Option B is the correct usage.
Directions (11-13): In the following question, four words are given out of which one word is incorrectly spelt. Find the incorrectly spelt word.
Q11.
(a) Hygeine
(b) Fascist
(c) Career
(d) Apparel
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Ans.(a)
Sol. Correct spelling is ‘Hygiene’.
Sol. Correct spelling is ‘Hygiene’.
Q12.
(a) Reside
(b) Revise
(c) Advise
(d) Demice
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Ans.(d)
Sol. Correct spelling is ‘Demise’.
Sol. Correct spelling is ‘Demise’.
Q13.
(a) Anxiety
(b) Believe
(c) Height
(d) Peity
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Ans.(d)
Sol. Correct spelling is ‘Piety’.
Sol. Correct spelling is ‘Piety’.
Directions (14-15): In the following questions, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which is the best substitute of the phrase.
Q14. Fear of fire
(a) Arsonphobia
(b) Astraphobia
(c) Astrophobia
(d) Arrhenphobia
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Ans.(a)
Sol. Arsonphobia is the correct substitution.
Sol. Arsonphobia is the correct substitution.
Q15. One Skilled in telling stories.
(a) Ventral
(b) Fanatic
(c) Raconteur
(d) Tyro
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Ans.(c)
Sol. ‘Raconteur’ is the correct substitution.
Sol. ‘Raconteur’ is the correct substitution.
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