English Usage Test 48
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 | |
Tags: English Usage Test English Skills GRE Preparation GMAT TOEFL SAT English Verbal Ability English Speaking IELTS LAW Bank PO English Verbs Verbal Ability Verbal Idiomatic and Phrasal Use Vocabulary Letter C Synonyms Letter S Antonyms Letter D |
Directions: Choose the option that best replaces the underlined portion.In modern democratic societies lynch law seems to have become a common feature in almost all the spheres of life.
Directions: Choose the option that best replaces the underlined portion.
The trade unions's seemingly rightful demands are only a stalking horse to blackmail the management.
Directions: Select the word which most nearly means the same as the given word.
CRESTFALLEN
Directions: Select the word which is opposite in meaning to the given word.
SAUNTER
Directions: Select the word which is opposite in meaning to the given word.
DECIDUOUS
Directiond: Select the word which most nearly means the same as the given word.
CONCATENATE
Directions: Select the word which is opposite in meaning to the given word.
OPULENCE
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. The remedies appear to be legal, social and economic.
B. How do we protect these interests of women?
C. If males deny due rights to women in the family either because it is culturally approved, because the women themselves tolerate it and do not revolt, because no punishment is given to the violators of the social laws or because the advantages of denying rights outweigh the costs, how do we break this cycle of injustice on the part of males?
D. What programmes and policies will make males liberal and just?
Directions: In the following question, five 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. A variety of measures will have to be introduced to put the family planning campaign back on its feet.
B. For this, the programme has to look inwards and treat itself as a development input in its own right.
C. In fact, development is the best method of controlling population growth, though the reverse is also true that high population growth is a sure recipe for slow, if not negative development.
D. Family planning needs to be salvaged from the morass into which it has drifted.
E. Legal measures may help, but what is urgently required is social awareness and involvement to create responsible parenthood.
Directions: Choose the single word or phrase which means most nearly the same as the given idiomatic phrase.
Give a wide berth to means
Directions: Select a pair of words which has a similar relationship as between the given pair of words.
Quench : Thirst
Directions: For the following question, choose the option that fills up the blank most correctly.
Men imagine that they communicate their virtue or vice only by _________ actions, and donot see that virtue or vice emit a breath every moment.
Directions: Select a pair of words which has a similar relationship as between the given pair of words.
Desiccant : Dehydrates
Directions: The sentence given below is followed by 4 alternatives. Select the one which most logically complements the idea contained in the given sentence.
As in prospecting for gold, a scientist may dig with skill, courage, energy and intelligence just a few feet away from the rich vein-but always unsuccessfully.
Directions: For the following question, choose the option that fills up the blanks most correctly.
A man is to carry himself in the presence of all opposition as if everything were _________ and _________ but he.
Directiond: The sentence given below is followed by 4 alternatives. Select the one which most logically complements the idea contained in the given sentence.
Marketing activity involves taking something simple and obvious and sticking it in fancy packaging.
Directions: Select a pair of words which has a similar relationship as between the given pair of words.
Trilogy : Novel
Directions: Choose the single word or phrase which means most nearly the same as the given idiomatic phrase.
To talk billingsgate means
Directions: For the following question, choose the option that fills up the blank most correctly.
A foolish consistency is the _________ of little minds, adored by little statesman and philosophers and divines.