Verbal Ability ( Mixed )
Description: Sample questions for Bank PO, MCA and MBA English paper. Covers idioms, antonyms, synonyms and sentence completion tasks. | |
Number of Questions: 25 | |
Created by: Shiva Nambiar | |
Tags: Learn English English vocabulary Vocabulary Objective English Idiomatic and Phrasal Use Antonyms Synonyms/Meanings Synonyms |
Directions: In the following question, sentence with a blank has been given. Select the best alternative to fill up the blank so as to make the sentence most meaningful.
Transnational corporations and foreign firms have ________ keen interest in investing in India.
Directions: Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option.
We should be careful as cellular phone operation is one of the key industries ________ to frauds worldwide.
Directions: The given sentence contains an idiom/phrase. You are to select the alternative which best expresses the meaning of this idiom/phrase.
To be a good orator, you don’t have to play to the galleries.
Directions: The given sentence contains an idiom/phrase. You are to select the alternative which best expresses the meaning of this idiom/phrase.
He has the gift of the gab.
Directions: The given sentence contains an idiom/phrase. You are to select the alternative which best expresses the meaning of this idiom/phrase. Parental property has become a bone of contention between the two brothers.
Directions: The given sentence contains an idiom/phrase. You are to select the alternative which best expresses the meaning of this idiom/phrase. In the end, he had to eat the humble pie.
Directions: Choose the alternative that explains the given idiomatic expression.
To take someone to task
Directions: The given sentence contains an idiom/phrase. You are to select the alternative which best expresses the meaning of this idiom/phrase. Once in a blue moon, we meet each other.
Directions: The given sentence contains an idiom/phrase. You are to select the alternative which best expresses the meaning of this idiom/phrase. He has been jobless for several months and it is his wife who keeps the pot boiling.
Directions: Select the word opposite in meaning to the given word.
Latent
Directions: Select the word opposite in meaning to the given word. Gracious
Directions: Select the word opposite in meaning to the given word. Macabre
Directions: Select the word opposite in meaning to the given word. Impede
Directions: Select the word opposite in meaning to the given word. Novate
Directions: Select the word opposite in meaning to the given word. Solace
Directions: In the following questions, sentences with a blank have been given. Select the best alternative to fill up the blank so as to make the sentence most meaningful.
At the party, he met a young woman dressed _______ white and fell in love with her.
Directions: In the following questions, sentences with a blank have been given. Select the best alternative to fill up the blank so as to make the sentence most meaningful.
Normally in business, confidence level moves _______ line with the size of the firm.
Directions: In the following questions, sentences with a blank have been given. Select the best alternative to fill up the blank so as to make the sentence most meaningful.
The kind of language you speak, ________ my ears.
Directions: In the following questions, sentences with a blank have been given. Select the best alternative to fill up the blank so as to make the sentence most meaningful
First, the hardware must get _________ the ground.
Directions: In the following questions, choose the word from given alternatives which is most nearly the same in meaning to the word given in the question.
Paradigm
Directions: In the following questions, choose the word from given alternatives which is most nearly the same in meaning to the word given in the question.
Volition
Directions: In the following questions, choose the word from given alternatives which is most nearly the same in meaning to the word given in the question
Felicitous
Directions: In the following questions, choose the word from given alternatives which is most nearly the same in meaning to the word given in the question
Gourmet
Directions: In the following questions, choose the word from given alternatives which is most nearly the same in meaning to the word given in the question.
Icon
Directions: In the following questions, choose the word from given alternatives which is most nearly the same in meaning to the word given in the question
Perspicacity