English Usage Test 25
Description: English Usage Test - Free english verbal ability test for entrance examinations like mba entrance, gre, sat, gmat, toefl preparation and practice tests | |
Number of Questions: 25 | |
Created by: Adhira Saini | |
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Directions: In the question below, a related pair of words is followed by four pairs of words. Choose the one pair that best expresses a relationship similar to that expressed in the original pair.
Verbose : Loquacious
Directions: In the question below, a related pair of words is followed by four pairs of words. Choose the one pair that best expresses a relationship similar to that expressed in the original pair.
Evanescent : Seasonal
Directions: In the question below, a related pair of words is followed by four pairs of words. Choose the one pair that best expresses a relationship similar to that expressed in the original pair.
Yeast : Fermentation
Directions: In the question below, a related pair of words is followed by four pairs of words. Choose the one pair that best expresses a relationship similar to that expressed in the original pair.
Rave : Anger
Directions: In the following question, four statements are provided. These statements form a coherent paragraph when properly arranged. Select the alternative representing the proper and logical sequencing of these statements.
A. Therefore, the world has had no need of being created.
B. There exists, therefore, a substratum consisting of matter or energy which is indestructible, and which has existed from all eternity.
C. We have no instance demonstrating that something can be created from nothing, and furthermore, we cannot even imagine how that could occur.
D. Our experiences show us that in the material world nothing is created without somethings giving birth to it, and that nothing is destroyed without giving birth to some other thing, whether matter or energy, in constant proportions.
Directions: In the question below, a related pair of words is followed by four pairs of words. Choose the one pair that best expresses a relationship similar to that expressed in the original pair.
Baldachin : Room
Directions: In the question below, a related pair of words is followed by four pairs of words. Choose the one pair that best expresses a relationship similar to that expressed in the original pair.
Satiate: Hunger
Directions: Read the following passage/information and answer the question that follows.
Only a receptive observer can perceive the concealed essence behind forms, though immutable words change their forms. A curious temple priest asked a child who was whispering audibly - ''My child what do you seek?'' The child replied, ''I seek nothing. I wonder how the Lord has transformed eternal sound into syllables, words and sentences, enabling creation of a vast storehouse of knowledge and wisdom''.
The child's answer does not indicate that ______.
Directions: The following question contains a paragraph with a sentence or phrase missing, indicated parenthetically. From the alternatives, select the sentence or phrase that best provides the missing link.
Antitrust laws are intended to maintain competition among business firms. A 'trust' consists of two or more companies that collude in order to control the supply or price of a product or service. (______). This forbade any business combination or practice that interfered with free competition or promoted monopoly.
Directions: Select the word or phrase that is most nearly opposite in meaning to the given word.
Approximate
Directions: Select the word or phrase that is most nearly opposite in meaning to the given word. Intermittent
Direction: Read the following passage/information and answer the question that follows.
Water resource management has linkages with the management of other resources as well. The large scale deforestation taking place in our mountains has serious implications for water supply in the mountains as well as the plains.
Which of the following statements, if true, would substantiate the above belief?
Directions: Select the word or phrase that is most nearly opposite in meaning to the given word. Crass
Directions: Choose the option that fills up the blank most correctly.
The Hubble Telescope should be ________ even if that means diverting the shuttle from other tasks and slowing plans to send astronauts to the Moon and Mars.
Directions: Read the following passage/information and answer the question that follows.
Maintaining mix-and-match information systems and an outdated application infrastructure can be expensive. Today's users, demand applications that enable publishing communication and collaboration, workflow and decision support, and transaction integrity. Information Technology managers, on the other hand, try to reduce system costs and complexity.
The author of the above believes that ________.
Directions: Choose the option that fills up the blanks most correctly.
Fascism and communism are the ________ of democracy.
Directions: Select the word or phrase that is most nearly opposite in meaning to the given word.Plebian
Directions: Choose the option that fills up the blanks most correctly.
Some of the early attempts to apply eugenics in the human realm were based more on ________ than on understanding.
Directions: Read the following passage/information and answer the question that follows.
The unfortunate thing about corporates falling sick is that they fail to heed the warning signals. And it's far too late before they take steps to stem the tide. That's where the turnaround strategy comes in. It helps companies to reverse the wrong moves they may have taken so that they can bounce back into the black.
The turnaround strategy ______.