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Word Meaning Test

Description: Improving English Word Meaning -An Objective Type Test based upon the basic concepts to crack the competitive exams
Number of Questions: 25
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Directions: Find the correct meaning of the given word.

Disconsolate

  1. Bad

  2. Sad

  3. Pad

  4. None of these

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

 Disconsolate means the inability to be consoled and when someone needs to be consoled they are generally feeling sad.

Directions: Find the correct meaning of the given word.

Dissection

  1. Division

  2. Advert

  3. Action

  4. None of these

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

 When a biology student is asked to dissect a frog, the student is expected to divide the frog into its parts. Hence, the meaning is divide.

Directions: Find the correct meaning of the given word.

Disseminate

  1. Shatter

  2. Scatter

  3. Pedigree

  4. None of these

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Correct Option: B

Directions: Find the correct meaning of the given word.

Dissipate

  1. Dorsal

  2. Elusive

  3. Squander

  4. None of these

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Dissipate means to waste or squander. Hence option 3 is the correct answer.

Directions: Find the correct meaning of the given word.

Distaff

  1. Female

  2. Male

  3. Elderly

  4. None of these

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Correct Option: A

Directions: Find the correct meaning of the given word.

Disport

  1. Amuse

  2. Amide

  3. Upset

  4. None of these

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Correct Option: A

Directions: Find the correct meaning of the given word.

Distrait

  1. Upgrade

  2. Absentminded

  3. Page

  4. None of these

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Correct Option: B

Directions: Find the correct meaning of the given word.

Diversity

  1. Advice

  2. Variety

  3. Burden

  4. None of these

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Correct Option: B

Directions: Find the correct meaning of the given word.

Disjointed

  1. Disapprove

  2. Decree

  3. Disconnected

  4. None of these

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

 Disjointed implies things are not joined together; with this in mind, disconnected is the corrrect answer. 

Directions: Find the correct meaning of the given word.

Divulge

  1. Reveal

  2. Repeat

  3. Disregard

  4. None of these

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Correct Option: A

Directions: Find the correct meaning of the given word.

Diverse

  1. Sediment

  2. Waste

  3. Differing

  4. None of these

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

 Diverse means differing. "Among all of the diverse things in nature" or Among all of the different things in nature". Hence, differing is correct.

Directions: Find the correct meaning of the given word.

Dolorous

  1. Sorrowful

  2. Sullen

  3. Dross

  4. Navigation

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Correct Option: A

Directions: Find the correct meaning of the given word.

Dormant

  1. Rapture

  2. Sleeping

  3. Inactive

  4. None of these

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Correct Option: C

Directions: Find the correct meaning of the given word.

Stubborn

  1. Random

  2. Dour

  3. Acquire

  4. Rigid

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Correct Option: D

Directions: Find the correct meaning of the given word.

Senility

  1. Dotage

  2. Expand

  3. Sensitive

  4. None of these

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Correct Option: A

Directions: Find the correct meaning of the given word.

Disheveled

  1. Break

  2. Church

  3. Elision

  4. Untidy

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:

"Untidy"

Directions: Find the correct meaning of the given word.

Discount

  1. Disregard

  2. Develop

  3. Divine

  4. None of these

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

 To discount something means to play it down or show little value to it. Hence, disregard is synonymous.

Directions: Find the correct meaning of the given word.

Dowdy

  1. Vary

  2. Home

  3. Untidy

  4. None of these

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Correct Option: C

Directions: Find the correct meaning of the given word.

Dross

  1. Waste matter

  2. Waiter

  3. Blues

  4. None of these

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Correct Option: A

Directions: Find the correct meaning of the given word.

Duplicity

  1. Hypocrisy

  2. Happy

  3. Halogen

  4. None of these

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Correct Option: A

Directions: Find the correct meaning of the given word.

Efficient

  1. Advertise

  2. Arrange

  3. Effective

  4. None of these

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Correct Option: C

Directions: Find the correct meaning of the given word.

Discursive

  1. Rumor

  2. Sandiness

  3. Rambling

  4. None of these

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

 Discursive is synonymous to rambling. Something that is discursive is often rambling on and on.

Directions: Find the correct meaning of the given word.

Diva

  1. Merry

  2. Opera singer

  3. Emanate

  4. None of these

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Correct Option: B

Directions: Find the correct meaning of the given word.

Doggerel

  1. Rich person

  2. Mad

  3. Poor verse

  4. Draw

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Correct Option: C

Directions: Find the correct meaning of the given word.

Doddering

  1. Shadow

  2. Sepoy

  3. Shaky

  4. Brilliance

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Correct Option: C
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