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Directions: (1-15) Out of the four alternatives, choose the one which can be substituted for the given words/sentences.
Q1. To lift or haul something heavy with great effort.
(a) heave
(b) shrimp
(c) wimp
(d) runt
Q1. To lift or haul something heavy with great effort.
(a) heave
(b) shrimp
(c) wimp
(d) runt
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Q2. A political leader who seeks support by appealing to popular desires and prejudices rather than by using rational argument.
(a) rebel
(b) radical
(c) demagogue
(d) anarchistic
Ans.(a)
Sol. Option A is the correct substitution.
Sol. Option A is the correct substitution.
Q2. A political leader who seeks support by appealing to popular desires and prejudices rather than by using rational argument.
(a) rebel
(b) radical
(c) demagogue
(d) anarchistic
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Q3. The action of repeating something aloud from memory.
(a) paraphrase
(b) rendition
(c) erudition
(d) recitation
Q4. A trace or remnant of something that is disappearing or no longer exists.
(a) memento
(b) variable
(c) glimmer
(d) vestige
Q5. To disorder or disarrange (someone’s hair), typically by running one’s hands through it.
(a) to tangle
(b) to crumple
(c) to ruffle
(d) to crease
Ans.(c)
Sol. Option C is the correct substitution.
Sol. Option C is the correct substitution.
Q3. The action of repeating something aloud from memory.
(a) paraphrase
(b) rendition
(c) erudition
(d) recitation
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Ans.(d)
Sol. Option D is the correct substitution.
Sol. Option D is the correct substitution.
Q4. A trace or remnant of something that is disappearing or no longer exists.
(a) memento
(b) variable
(c) glimmer
(d) vestige
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Ans.(d)
Sol. Option D is the correct substitution.
Sol. Option D is the correct substitution.
Q5. To disorder or disarrange (someone’s hair), typically by running one’s hands through it.
(a) to tangle
(b) to crumple
(c) to ruffle
(d) to crease
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Ans.(c)
Sol. Option C is the correct substitution.
Sol. Option C is the correct substitution.
Q6. Courteousness and refinement of manner.
(a) plaudit
(b) adulation
(c) urbanity
(d) profanity
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Ans.(c)
Sol. Option C is the correct substitution.
Sol. Option C is the correct substitution.
Q7. Involving immoral or dishonorable actions and motives.
(a) redoubt
(b) scrupulous
(c) immaculate
(d) sordid
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Ans.(d)
Sol. Option D is the correct substitution.
Sol. Option D is the correct substitution.
Q8. The process by which air is circulated through, mixed with or dissolved in a liquid or substance.
(a) aeration
(b) miasma
(c) effluvium
(d) volatile
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Ans.(a)
Sol. Option A is the correct substitution.
Sol. Option A is the correct substitution.
Q9. To be deprived of a close relation or friend through their death.
(a) to divest
(b) to bereave
(c) to oust
(d) to dispossess
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Ans.(b)
Sol. Option B is the correct substitution.
Sol. Option B is the correct substitution.
Q10. A region of injured tissue or skin in which blood capillaries have been ruptured; a bruise.
(a) cyst
(b) knurl
(c) contusion
(d) tumour
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Ans.(c)
Sol. Option C is the correct substitution.
Sol. Option C is the correct substitution.
Q11. An outline representing or bounding the shape or form of something.
(a) tracery
(b) contour
(c) doodle
(d) pattern
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Ans.(b)
Sol. Option B is the correct substitution.
Sol. Option B is the correct substitution.
Q12. A person who is blamed for the wrong doings of others.
(a) bursar
(b) captor
(c) phlegmatic
(d) scapegoat
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Ans.(d)
Sol. Option D is the correct substitution.
Sol. Option D is the correct substitution.
Q13. Take away or alter the natural qualities of.
(a) denature
(b) unadulterated
(c) authentic
(d) limpid
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Ans.(a)
Sol. Option A is the correct substitution.
Sol. Option A is the correct substitution.
Q14. Not able to produce children.
(a) gravid
(b) hebetic
(c) fecund
(d) sterile
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Ans.(d)
Sol. Option D is the correct substitution.
Sol. Option D is the correct substitution.
Q15. Just punishment for wrong doing.
(a) dandy
(b) nemesis
(c) prodigy
(d) wagon
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Ans.(b)
Sol. Option B is the correct substitution.
Sol. Option B is the correct substitution.
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