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Vocabulary

Description: Vocabulary
Number of Questions: 15
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Tags: Vocabulary Articles and Determiners Parts of Speech Adjectives and Adverbs (Word Usage)
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Directions: Fill in the blank with the appropriate word. I went to the theater; the music was and the scenery poor.

  1. articulate

  2. melodious

  3. execrable

  4. sedulous

  5. endearing


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Correct ;it means 'very poor quality' and it matches with the 'poor scenery'

Directions: Fill in the blank with the appropriate word. My uncle was an austere and saintly man who was reputed never to have sent away a troubled man without giving him ___

  1. scour

  2. succour

  3. adulation

  4. chimera

  5. shimmering


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Correct; it means 'help in distress ' and this is the required word

Directions: Fill in the blank with the appropriate word. The priest remarked that God has laid the ______ of some sin on his head.

  1. expropriate

  2. onus

  3. expiation

  4. abnegate

  5. scurry


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Correct; the word means ' to make amends for' which makes the sentence meaningful

Directions: Fill in the blank with the appropriate word. He suffers from rheumatism and his son acts as his____

  1. amanuensis

  2. dilettante

  3. skeptic

  4. servile

  5. egregious


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Correct; the word means 'one who takes dictation ' . As 'he' can't write , so his son takes dictation and writes for him.

Directions: Fill in the blank with the appropriate word. Overweight teenagers who were spoken to by their parents about their weight are likely to engage in ______ eating and use unhealthy weight control behaviours.

  1. austere

  2. binge

  3. passionate

  4. saturnine

  5. emollient


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Correct ; the word means ' bout of excessive eating or drinking ' . Such type of eating is ' unhealthy.....'

Directions: Fill in the blank with the appropriate word. A man who accuses everyone else besides himself of being mad and who is disposed to listen to a tale of graveyard can hardly be quite sane.

  1. blasphemous

  2. apparitions

  3. ribald

  4. peripatetic

  5. periphery


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Correct ;the word means ' travelling from place to place for relatively short periods ' and it is correct answer because the person who believes that graves travel can hardly be sane.

Directions: Fill in the blank with the appropriate word. As they still treated me with the same _______ attention as before, I was utterly at a loss how to account for their singular conduct.

  1. nebulous

  2. maladroit

  3. cumbrous

  4. sedulous

  5. scorching


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Correct; the word means ' diligent or persevering ' . This is a positive word which ' accounts for their ......'

Directions: Fill in the blank with the appropriate word. Politics is no longer the ______ of the classes but the property of the masses.

  1. prodigious

  2. parish

  3. monopoly

  4. visage

  5. alter


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Correct ; the word means 'exclusive possession of something', this.is what the sentence talks about. The conjunction 'but' suggests the opposite of 'property of masses'

Directions: Fill in the blank with the appropriate word. The best homage that can be paid to a hero is not to raise any memorial for him , for the only fit memorial is to follow _______ in the path he showed us.

  1. malicious

  2. reverently

  3. antipathy

  4. disdain

  5. desolate


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Correct ; the word means ' respectfully ' , it is a positive word that we need to pay them a homage

Directions: Fill in the blank with the appropriate word. They sent me their own ______ and drink, and took the government of the ship to themselves

  1. buccaneer

  2. camouflage

  3. musk

  4. victuals

  5. acrimony


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Correct; the word means ' food' and it is correct because it is in line with 'drink' ,i.e. ' food and drink' .

Directions: Fill in the blank with the appropriate word. Zeno told the Cardinal that he had become and such a person had no right to remain in office.

  1. discreet

  2. interment

  3. esoteric

  4. exoteric

  5. profane


Correct Option: E
Explanation:

Correct; the word means 'not sacred or biblical '. According. to the context of the sentence, an unholy person has no right to be a priest.

Directions: Fill in the blank with the appropriate word. Jam Sahib was a true cricketer; he was not a miser hoarding up runs but a millionaire spending them with a splendid yet judicious _____.

  1. economy

  2. extravagant

  3. prodigality

  4. perplexity

  5. prognosis


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Correct ; the word means ' extravagant ' ; it is noun in grammar that we need . 

Directions: Fill in the blank with the appropriate word. Thinking that I had seen enough about the land, full of _______ and aversion, I got up and pursued the beaten road.

  1. bliss

  2. apathy

  3. benediction

  4. contempt

  5. diversion


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Correct; the word means ' scornful disregard ' , matches ' aversion'

Directions: Fill in the blank with the appropriate word. Supposing you have to make a payment of Rs. 100. You can do so in rupee notes; but it would be ______ to pay in nickle or coppers coins because they can be heavy to carry.

  1. confounding

  2. cumbersome

  3. unpalatable

  4. obnoxious

  5. optimum


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Correct; the word means ' unwieldy or too heavy to be easily handled ', of course, paying in coins is difficult to handle

Directions: Fill in the blank with the appropriate word. In this world there are men who are entirely ______ but for an easily ruffled, quick tempered or touchy disposition.

  1. perfect

  2. appalling

  3. debauched

  4. contentious

  5. complacent


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Correct; we need a word opposite to 'ruffled-----------' because of the conjunction 'but' .Hence the right word

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